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bakerdaniel91

Become better at Sight Reading with Practice Sight Reading.com - 0 views

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    This is a nice supplemental resource to give to students to aid them in sight-reading. It contains a number of musical exercises that inculcate the practice.
bnlynn

Music Education Blogs - 3 views

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    A source for links to music education blogs. Blogs are categorized -- elementary, middle school, high school, kodaly-inspired, orff-inspired, technology, choir, orchestra etc.  
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    A source for links to music education blogs. Blogs are categorized -- elementary, middle school, high school, kodaly-inspired, orff-inspired, technology, choir, orchestra etc.  
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    Some of the top music education blogs to provide instructional resources to music educators.
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    The title says it all. This is a collection of music education blogs, covering all kinds of topics.
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    The Music Education Blogs link contains links to blogs for all sorts of music educators.  The links are catered to specific school settings, teaching methodologies, ensembles, and free online services.  I enjoyed exploring several of the blogs because blogging is something I've just become acquainted to within my graduate studies with the University of Florida's Online Master of Music.  For example, I clicked on the "Elementary Blogs" tab to see what some of my elementary music educator colleagues have to say/share.  A handful of links to other teachers' blogs and websites were made available at a click of the mouse.  I clicked on the first link, "Mrs. Miracle's Music Room," and was able to read posts from "Mrs. Miracle" about her teaching strategies for classroom management when utilizing technology.  Her blog contained other features like a personal bio and links.  My blog for this course doesn't contain those things, and perhaps exploring the blogger.com website more would allow me to make similar changes to my Blog. Being able to share ideas within any online community, in this case a blogging community, could be so useful for any sort of educator.  Considering we are currently enrolled in an online Master of Music program, we are capable of sharing ideas from across the country and even across the globe.  This blog link just makes that possibility more accessible with more educators.
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    This blog is an organized data base of music educatin blogs categorized by topic.
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    Some of the top music education blogs to provide instructional resources to music educators.
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    For persons that enjoy reading blogs, this is the place for you.  Separated into pages from elementary to high school, Kodaly and Orff-inspired, choir or orchestra, there is something for everyone.
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    This website is a great home base for many music educator blogs. It's great to see shared ideas, lesson plans, and teaching strategies.
hubbardmusic

Music Tech Teacher - 8 views

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    A great resource for your last minute lesson plan needs!  There are plans, activities, and quizzes!
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    (a) The purpose of the resource is to provide students and educators with effective interactive music technology for instructional use.  Additionally, this teacher uses the resources in her own classroom. (b) The specific musical content addressed in this resource is note identification, reading music, composers, music history, and orchestra instrumentation.  (c) This site also includes quizzes and lesson plans.
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    A teacher create page for music teachers who want to use technology in their music instruction.
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    The Music Tech Teacher site includes quizzes, games, lessons, worksheets and other resources for teachers interested in using technology to enhance music education.
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    The Music Tech Teacher site includes quizzes, games, lessons, worksheets and other resources for teachers interested in using technology to enhance music education.
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    This site has resources for music tech teachers. It features student work samples, online quizzes, worksheets, games, and sample lesson plans.
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    Green Acres Middle School music tech curriculum. Equipped with technology lessons, quizzes, and online quizzes. Curriculm includes student work, veideos, phots and music compositions
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    A fun website with great review games that cover quality information and are fun to play. Simple lesson plans especially for the piano and technology. 
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    Website created and run by a music tech teacher in Alabama. The site contains a large selection of printable theory worksheets as well as interactive music games and quizzes. This is geared towards younger beginners
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    Website created and run by a music tech teacher in Alabama. The site contains a large selection of printable theory worksheets as well as interactive music games and quizzes. This is geared towards younger beginners
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    The Music Tech Teacher site is an online extension of Karen Garrett's band and music technology class. On the site, she provides lessons, quizzes, and artifacts of student work. One nice feature is the scrolling set of images with students modeling the activities that take place in the piano lab.
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    This is my favorite site for games that can be used as informal, formative assessments. There are many options under the "Quizzes/Pianos" tab. The games can be played as a class using the smartboard, or individually if you're lucky enough to get time in the computer lab.
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    This site is provided by the music technology teachers at Green Acres Middle School in Birmingham, Alabama. The site is a very useful resource for both music technology and general music teachers. The purpose of the site is to provide online lessons, quizzes, practice opportunities, and assistance with music theory. The site contains a variety of simple piano practice pieces such as "Jingle Bells," "All Through the Night," "Ode to Joy," and many others. 
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    This is a site created by a teacher about how she uses technology in her music classes. It includes lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes, and samples of student work from the website creator's classes.
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    This is a Music Technology classroom set up online. The teacher has been generous enough to post all of her lessons, quizzes, and other assignments on this website for anyone to use! If you are thinking about starting up a music technology class at your school this could be a great starting point.
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    Good source for tech information and music education awareness. Offering note-reading and theory-based quizzes.
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    This is an extension of a music technology classroom of a teacher in Birmingham, AL. It provides links, quizzes, resources, and information for teachers preparing to use technology in the classroom.
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    Online music educators resource for group or private lessons. Interactive games, quizzes and tests are created on various musical concepts and topics.
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    This site offers a plethora of resources for both beginning and advanced music tech teachers, as well as ways to blend technology into your everyday classroom. The site includes musical lesson plans, unit plans, quizzes, tests, and media demonstrating many uses of music tech in the classroom.
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    This website contains video games, quizzes, piano lessons, and worksheets suitable for upper-elementary to middle school students. Students learn different music concepts such as rhythm patterns, ear training, piano skills, music history, composers, music careers and so forth.
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    Resource for UF Masters in Music Education. I love this resource primarily for the fun and interactive nature that the games provide to my classroom. There are plenty of resources such as lessons, pre-made assessment, and videos. However, the games allow students to enjoy learning through assessment and interactive scenarios.
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    This website is a great resource for beginning to integrate technology into your classroom. There are ready-made lesson plans, as well as fun activities to do with your students. There are worksheets on theory, lessons on piano, and so much more.
nmiscannon

Free sheet music on 8notes.com - 0 views

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    This website offers free sheet music categorized by music styles, instruments, and artists. Orchestra scores are available (single parts also) as well as 46 music theory lessons including ear training. Subscription is $20 per year, a forum is accessible for open discussions and requests, and members may also post their original compositions.
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    This site has a lot of free sheet music and allows students to print it off and practice sight reading. This site also has a tuner, scales, and a metronome to allow students to practice properly. The purpose of this resource is to allow students to stay engaged and practice music of their choice when they get bored with the music for concerts. This helps them stay engaged and not get burned out.
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    Free Sheet Music!
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    8notes.com is full of music resources such as free sheet music and supplemental material for lessons. The sheet music includes categories such as classical, pop, jazz, film/TV, and traditional. Any music teacher knows how frequently students ask for specific tunes from television or movies. Even though they may not be played in class, students can greatly benefit from private practice on tunes they enjoy. 8notes.com also includes over forty theory lessons. These lessons begin with learning about lines and spaces on the staff and continue through many concepts all the way to the introduction of modes. In addition to the lessons, this website provides ear training exercises to accompany the theory lessons. 8notes.com is a great resource for all music teachers, not just instrumental or vocal. This site includes music and lessons for all instruments including banjo and ukulele, making it great for a general music classroom as well.
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    Wonderful website for students and teachers to use for free sheet music. Music is available for a plethora of instruments, including non-band instruments. Great for students to use for solo or small ensemble performances. Free and easy are always a plus!
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    This site provides free sheet music for all instruments. It is an excellent resource for new material for students as well as sight reading material for any instruments in most classrooms. 
cheyroseb

Kodaly Inspired Classroom - 0 views

  • but this actually took about 25 minutes with both of my classes.
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      Someone else's trial is my preparation
  • I said that we would be doing something kind of new in music the next few times we have class so I wanted to share with them about it today so that we could spend all of our time in centers the next two times. 
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      Builds anticipation :)
  • nstead of having all of the centers spread out around the perimeter of the room, which is where I put them when we were actually doing centers, I lined up all my centers at the front of the room under the board. 
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      Provides easy access
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  • I emailed the list to their teacher and asked their teacher to line them up in that order (so the four students in group 1 are first, followed by group 2 and so on....) the next time they came to music.
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      Very smart idea.
  • played" each center one or two turns
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      Good for preparation
  • On my computer, I had the zip file that contained all of the PDFs for each file pulled up so that as I was going through them with the whole group, if I wanted them to be able to see something better, I could show them the PDF version instead of the  tiny cards I was holding for some of the centers.
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      Helps reinforce expectations for each center
  • I had directions for each center posted at each center in case they forgot or were absent when we went over the centers, but there seemed to be no issues with students knowing what to do at each center.
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      An ounce of preparation is worth a pound of cure.
  • they were all in the right order.
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      If the classroom teacher is aware of expectations, they can help support and enforce them
  • Do you have other ideas that I haven't thought of? Share below!
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      It would be good to have centers for each grade, or kits within center stations for each grade-- color coded
  • This is a really fun practice game for upper elementary and middle school! I also love this game for older beginners because it is an easy way to take those easy ta and titi rhythms and really make a more challenging game.
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      We used to do a game like this for theatre. I would love to use this as a beginning of the year activity for assessment, or a way to practice certain parts for a concert.
  • This could be done as an ostinato pattern that is repeated, or you could rotate through a set of cards for the students to play.
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      I like the idea of using cue cards with simple rhythmic ostinatos to accompany a cd track. You could introduce the ostinatos before the activity and practice by switching between cards. Once the kids feel comfortable, play the song and use the cue cards.
  • Use rhythm flashcards to create a song that the students know well. Have the students clap and read the rhythms and see if they can figure out the mystery song.
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      Would be awesome to use with 4/5th grade and disney songs.
  • Then students work to find the flashcards they need to match the rhythms of that song.
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      Could have students work in teams for a prize.
  • I Have, Who Has game cards
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      I LOVE i have/who has. It's a great way to reinforce aural skills and ensure that your students are paying attention
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    This blog is written by Lindsay Jervis, a Kodaly trained elementary music teacher. She shares her classroom ideas, successes and failures, and so much more. Each blog post is also linked to her TeachersPayTeachers website so that you can purchase the resources needed for a very affordable price.
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    A website including lesson plan ideas, bulletin board suggestions, singing games, and songs to teach musical elements in a Kodaly-inspired sequence. The website also includes links to her Teachers Pay Teachers store that includes ready-made lesson plans, worksheets, assessments, and teacher tools.
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    Blog and resources focused around teaching through the Kodaly methodology. The author also has substantial resources available for purchase through teachers pay teachers.
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    A series of annotations on the home page of a Kodaly inspired blog. Features 2 articles.
lemason

Performance: Low Brass - SBO - 0 views

  • It’s important to step back and think about how educators have influenced you, because your teaching philosophy depends on it
  • in the first stage, everyone teaches exactly as they had been taught. In the second stage, instructors adjust their style based on other expert teachers they’ve borrowed ideas from
  • I realized the students’ ability to read music or not read music was ultimately the teacher’s fault
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  • the students’ enthusiasm fuels two purposes: bravado and attention-seeking behavior.
  • Left uncorrected, this rowdy behavior can be a pain in a band director’s side.
  • One example of the use of fear would be my weekly summer camp challenges
  • The challenge could occur in any section of any piece and this was a very effective tool at getting me to practice
  • Over experience and time, after attending numerous workshops, reading about this subject, and conducting research, I’ve come to the conclusion that students can be pushed to learn out of desire rather than fear
  • calm classroom rather than a happy classroom
  • A calm classroom has a lot of structure in place: the procedures are practiced and understood, there are rules and consequences for inappropriate behavior, and students are aware that learning is often a messy business.
  • The secret to developing a mature attitude comes from a love of sharing music and teaching patience.
  • Students need to be reminded why they’re doing what they’re doing.
  • When we develop our procedures and rules for the year, I make it a deliberate point to explain why the items were deemed important.
  • Treat your students as young adults. Another way to think of it would be to treat them as you’d like to be treated
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    This articles contains thoughts on developing rules and procedures in the beginning band classroom. It discusses possible tactics to get the most out of your beginning band students.
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    This articles contains thoughts on developing rules and procedures in the beginning band classroom. It discusses possible tactics to get the most out of your beginning band students.
veanda

Chris Russell: Inside a High Tech Choir Room « Choral Director Magazine - 0 views

  • The first thing I use is an app for iOS called Attendance2. Every kid is given a QR code, and when they walk into the room they scan in.
  • I like using SmartMusic, not only for projecting sight-reading exercises on the screen and running through them that way, but also for assessment of sight-reading skills.
  • In general, when you integrate technology you are trying to move into transformation, where you transform what you are doing to things you could never do before. The first entry level is substitution, where you are just substituting technology for something else. Then you augment your activities and improve on what you are doing.
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  • modification: that’s the whole new level of application where you can do something you never could do before.
  • he final step is when you have gone through those other levels and you are completely transformed with redefining: you are doing something you could have never possibly thought of before.
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    This interview makes an excellent argument for choosing iPads over Chromebooks, as well as addressing other district one-to-one directives. It also touches on some practical uses of technology in the choral classroom.
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    When integrating technology in the music classroom, teachers need to know exactly what having technology in music looks like. A representative from Choral Director Magazine conducts an interview describing how a teacher has integrated technology in his choir. He provides two examples such as SmartMusic to aid in sight-reading skills and Attendance 2 allowing students to take roll through QR codes as they walk in.
ulmjacob

Free sheet music on 8notes.com - 0 views

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    This website provides FREE sheet music for use in the classroom, private lessons, or ceremonial events. Students can sing or play with the built in playback features or print the music. Tempo and accompaniment can be adjusted and added. It would be perfect for sight-reading exercises or event use.
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    Cool database containing free sheet music and lessons for various popular instruments.
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    This website provides free sheet music and lessons for every instrument. This is a great resource for students and educators to find new music as sight-reading practice, solo and ensemble literature, or just for something new to practice.
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    This is a resource for free sheet music available for download. It is sorted by instrument and includes solo and ensemble literature in a variety of genres.
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    8notes.com is a website that has links to free sheet music for anyone wishing to enhance their playing or singing. It has links to free sheet music for all instruments as well as voice, piano, mixed groups, strings as well as voice, piano, mixed instrument groups. This also includes guitar and ukulele. All genres of music are also represented. This would be a great enhancement website for lessons as well.
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    This website provides free, printable music for students of various instruments. It is a great resource for sight reading materials.
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    8notes.com offers musicians a variety of music for free. Musicians can download as much music as they like for free, and use the website to help practice. There is a paid version of the website that allows musicians to have unlimited playback.
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    This is a great resource for free sheet music for students. It offers a variety of instrumental music of all kinds of genres. Students can also use this website to explore music on their own and develop sight-reading skills.
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    This website offers free sheet music for a variety of different instruments. Students can search for music based on instrument or song. The content for this website is sheet music.
kristineyang3

If You Think You're Giving Students of Color a Voice, Get Over Yourself - 0 views

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    This is an important read for any teacher that primarily teaches minorities. This article is not directly focused on music education but is important to me in my teaching setting. Reading this encourages continuous reflection on how students can be active participants in their music education. It is important to allow students to bring their own experiences, culture, and musical preferences to the music classroom. 
jcstoutufmme

PracticeSpot.com - moving to InsideMusicTeaching.com - 0 views

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    Practice Spot offers free downloads, tools, and also items for purchase. Some of the free downloads include manuscript paper and music note reading worksheets. There is also a rhythm generator within the website to help with sight-reading practice. The website also includes articles about practice and downloadable certificates for congratulating students who completed some of the programs available. This is an excellent resource for helping students in and out of class.
Kyle Naugle

Classical Music Podcasts : San Francisco Classical Voice - 0 views

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    This SFCV site is for the arts community to read articles, listen to podcast from other orchestras, and allow users to purchase tickets to concerts. Another purpose is to allow youth to explore new music that they might not know or understand yet. This website includes upcoming events in the San Francisco area, Critic Reviews, the ability to listen to music online, and other music resources such as biographies on composers and musicians of today, and from the past.
Stephen Hull

It's Not How Much; It's How: EBSCOhost - 1 views

  • Irrespective of the pedagogical implications of the more recent studies of practice behavior, making practice assignments in terms of time practiced instead of goals accomplished remains one of the most curious and stubbornly persistent traditions in music pedagogy
  • In fact, informal reviews of private teachers' instructions for practice reveal that teachers commonly assign only what to practice and how long to practice, with little attention given to specific proximal goals to be accomplished each day.
  • This is in stark contrast to assignments in many academic disciplines in school, where students are given sets of problems to solve, chapters to read, or essays to write, and the time devoted to homework is determined by the time required to complete the problems, read the chapters, or compose the essays. It seems readily accepted in other disciplines by teachers and students alike that all students will not devote the same amount of time to assignments, because individual learners work at different rates and different learners will not require the same amount of time to complete each assignment. How long one works depends on how long it takes to accomplish the assigned goals.
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  • This seems an indication that the nature of the practice defined in our observations was more determinative of retention test performance than was the amount of practice.
  • Our results show that, among our sample of performers, the strategies employed during practice were more determinative of their retention test performances than was how much or how long they practiced.
  • Thus, it seems that the actions taken subsequent to the discovery of errors were major determinants of the effectiveness of practice.
  • The most effective way that the participants corrected errors was by making judicious changes in performance speed that facilitated the maintenance of accuracy following the correction of a given error.
  • These results point to the importance of developing in young musicians effective approaches to correcting errors — procedures that preclude errors' persistence.
  • There is no doubt that most students have heard their teachers demonstrate good playing, but it is probably also true that few have observed their teachers encountering performance problems and advantageously addressing them.
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    Meeting of practice goals more important than just measuring time spent
scarlock

Cello Online - Cello Music, Cello Lessons and Cello Instruction for all Ages - 0 views

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    Cello Online is a website with specific help for cello students. The website contains sheet music for students to download and play. The sheet music also has accompaniment for students to play along with. The website also contains fingering charts for cellists, technique information, information on how to care for the cello, information on the history of the cello and a page for Christmas music.
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    Cello Online is a website with specific help for cello students. The website contains sheet music for students to download and play. The sheet music also has accompaniment for students to play along with. The website also contains fingering charts for cellists, technique information, information on how to care for the cello, information on the history of the cello and a page for Christmas music.
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    Cello Online is a website devoted to the cello. It includes information about cello basics, such as how to set up the cello and start playing the cello, cello fingering charts, cello care, cello practice tips, how to read music, and much more. It also has free sheet music for the cello and exercises specifically for the cello. Finally, it offers a string class that discusses string music throughout history. It is a similar structure to Viola Online, with slight variations in what is offered for the instrument. There is also a link to a store for all these websites for purchases for the instruments.
Jordan Keith

Arizona Choral Educators - 0 views

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    This is by far my most utilized music technology site. Arizona has a great history of producing wonderful all state choirs. Within this site you can access the past 20 years of sight reading materials. This includes both block and contrapuntal and sight reading lines. I use this site on a daily basis to prepare my students for these auditions.
artisstaton

Educator FAQ - Sight Reading Factory® - 0 views

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    The website sight-reading factory is a great resource for music educators. It helps to improve sight reading and can be used in a large group or individual setting. This page provides an overview of the website and its uses.
bnlynn

How to read music - Tim Hansen | TED-Ed - 0 views

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    This interactive TED lesson offers a fun video introduction to learning how to read music along with multiple choice questions, higher level questions, and discussion boards.
Matt Gramata

Jazz Transcriptions - 0 views

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    This Jazz Transcriptions site not only houses many jazz transcriptions for all instrument, but it provides links to other transcription sites for additional material.  Students can access these transcriptions to practice jazz, sight reading, and for analyzing jazz theory.  I use jazz when practicing sight reading due to the added difficulty of syncopated rhythms and accidentals.
crmtbear

Gordon Institute for Music Learning - 0 views

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    The Gordon Institute for Music Learning includes abundant information about Music Learning Theory, how it works, and the research behind it. There is information about aptitude, sequencing, and audiation.
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    The Gordon Institute for Music Learning includes abundant information about Music Learning Theory, how it works, and the research behind it. There is information about aptitude, sequencing, and audiation.
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    The Gordon Institute for Music Learning includes abundant information about Music Learning Theory, how it works, and the research behind it. There is information about aptitude, sequencing, and audiation.
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    The Gordon Institute for Music Learning website is a simple and easy-to-use website. You can find the schedule of upcoming seminars to attend around the United States, find a nearby chapter to join and read Gordon's Biography. The best information for music educators is under "Music Learning Theory." Here you can read about the Gordon method, audiation, musical aptitude, methodology, learning sequence, classroom activities, early childhood and instructional applications.
rknappmusic

Incredibox - Express your musicality! - 0 views

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    A fun and interactive source or beat mixing and music making. No account needed. Free options. Allows students to create, record, and download their compositions.
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    Incredibox is a simple but fantastic music making application. An app is also available to download on smartphones, allowing on-the-go music making. This can be a great resource for introducing students to music making and composition. It can also help them learn rhythm and melody, and to explore their own creativity.
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    Love this website for my first time DJs. Website is easy to navigate for my middle school students and super engaging.
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    Program that allows one to create and record their own composition. Program has pre-recorded loops.
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    Incredibox is an online and free music technology resource that has the user drag and drop icons to create different arrangements using various loops. The website also creates a game where the user must find the right combination of loops to make creative decisions that the program has pre-determined. This resource is a great tool to introduce students to the world of music technology while also teaching about form, the recording process, sharing of music, and how/why musicians makes creative decisions.
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    This composition website allows the composer to experiment with form, texture, harmony, and other elements of music without having to read standard notation. Instead of music notes, the music is represented by a cartoon boy in different outfits.
scarlock

String Bass Online - Bass Music, Double Bass Lessons and Bass Instruction for all Ages - 0 views

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    String Bass Online is a website designed specifically for bass players. There is a section with information about bass technique: how to hold the bass, bow holds, how to care for the bass, etc. There is also a section with free sheet music for students to download and play along with. There is another section with scales and etudes for the bass as well as a section of Christmas music for bass players to download and play.
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    String Bass Online is a website designed specifically for bass players. There is a section with information about bass technique: how to hold the bass, bow holds, how to care for the bass, etc. There is also a section with free sheet music for students to download and play along with. There is another section with scales and etudes for the bass as well as a section of Christmas music for bass players to download and play.
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    String Bass Online is a website devoted to the string bass. It includes information about string bass basics, such as how to set up the bass and start playing the bass, bass fingering charts, bass care, bass practice tips, how to read music, and much more. It also has free sheet music for the bass and exercises specifically for the bass. Finally, it offers a string class that discusses string music throughout history. These websites are great because they keep everything instrument specific rather than covering all the instruments together.
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