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jwhitt1982

Banddirector.com - The #1 Online Resource for Band Directors! - 0 views

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    This site contains helpful teaching tips and strategies for low brass. The tips were authored by Richard Murrow who is the principal tubist with the East Texas Symphony. The purpose of the resource is to provide a step by step process for teaching embouchure and the first tones for low brass beginners. Other tips are offered as well such as posture, how to hold the instrument, and tips about responsible teaching. The site does not contain musical content, but rather provides information that will prepare students to begin studying musical exercises. 
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. 
Camilo Leal

Web Audio - 1 views

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    This is a site with a collection of web experiments using audio api on the web browser. Here you can find lots of really interesting examples, instruments, and games.
bnlynn

Essential Elements Interactive - 0 views

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    This website is a supplement to the Essential Elements 1 & 2 method books. All students that own their own copy of the book can use the program. Teachers can set up assignments, grade recordings, and offer feedback to their students.
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    This website is a supplement to the Essential Elements 1 & 2 method books. All students that own their own copy of the book can use the program. Teachers can set up assignments, grade recordings, and offer feedback to their students.
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    This website is a supplement to the Essential Elements 1 & 2 method books. All students that own their own copy of the book can use the program. Teachers can set up assignments, grade recordings, and offer feedback to their students.
lemason

Microphones for School Ensembles - SBO - 0 views

  • microphones are the initial input source for sound in an audio system or recording
  • A bad microphone is like a bad reed, no matter how great the instrument or player is, if the initial input source is inadequate the entire sound is compromised
  • The Dynamic Microphone
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  • The Condenser Microphone
  • USB Microphones
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    The article discusses different microphones that all music teachers should be familiar with.
fdadams2

Simple Metronome - Android Apps on Google Play - 0 views

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    "This application is a simple metronome. It's simple but has a very stable tempo, unlike some of the other free metronome applications. And unlike nearly all free applications this metronome has NO ADS so your kids won't be solicited by dating sites whilst practicing their instrument."
William Bauer

Odogy.com - 0 views

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    Odogy.com is dedicated to providing some of the most creative music practice and performance applications around. From games to learning tools, the goal of these applications is to motivate musicians, young and old.
juliaw1

**Charms Office Assistant - 0 views

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    I use Charms for keeping my financial records.  Does anyone else use it for practice records or the recordings?  I just found the recordings section.  This has been a great program for me this year and made the record keeping so much easier!
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    VERY useful
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    CHARMS is a great management and communication program that places all styles of databases into one central location. Is a great way to manage funds, communicate with members and parents as well as store recordings and inventory. Charms has been used by band programs and other fine arts programs as an office assistant and is proven to be effective in the testimonials section of their website.
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    This website facilitates organization in a music program by providing inventory and student lists, groups, and budgeting programs on one website.
veanda

Inspiring Students through Creativity - NAfME - 0 views

  • learning repertoire and a musical vocabulary using our intuition and reason to create and improvise reflecting on our learning, and learning from exemplars.
  • develop improvisation and composition in a variety of musical styles include improvisation and composition as an integral part of teaching and learning, and assess student learning.
  • Classes and rehearsals can be planned to develop executive skills for singing and playing instruments while also scaffolding the rhythm, tonal, and harmonic understanding necessary for thoughtful improvisation and composition. Through interactive music making, participants confirmed that students need opportunities to think musical thoughts that provide pathways for developing higher-order thinking skills when making music.
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    This article discusses strategies that can be used to continue to encourage students' creativity in music through pedagogical techniques.
aheims

Jazz at Lincoln Center's JAZZ ACADEMY - YouTube - 0 views

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    A youtube channel that focuses on providing short lessons on jazz history/tradition, instrumental technique, and the jazz language.
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    A youtube channel that focuses on providing short lessons on jazz history/tradition, instrumental technique, and the jazz language.
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    This YouTube channel is a great resources for jazz educators in both a private and ensemble setting. The videos cover the whole jazz orchestra, providing videos of technique as well as ways to develop students' improvisational skills.
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    Jazz Academy is a YouTube library with free lessons on jazz for educators and students. Lessons range from the instrument specific techniques, jazz history, master classes with professional musicians, and lessons on different styles of music. From these videos, students receive important information from professional jazz musicians. As a jazz educator, there are also videos that improve my understanding of specific techniques and styles.
anonymous

A Passion for Jazz! Music History and Education - 0 views

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    This is a helpful website for students interested in jazz. Students can read more about the history of jazz, learn about specific artists, and get tips for improving their own playing.
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    This is a great resource that I plan to use with my Jazz Band students.
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    Great source that contains a good jazz history database as well as a lot of performance practice tips.
lcm09c

MusicLearningCommunity.com - Welcome - 0 views

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    Music Learning Community is a site for music educators and music students that includes a great deal of information on computer-based learning. Included are games and activities that teach theory and build aural skills. There is a free trial but the site requires a membership fee.
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    Free website that provides games and reinforcement activities for music theory, ear training, and other concepts.
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    This website offers hundreds of interactive games to teach students music theory, rhythms, ear-training, sight-reading, and notation analysis. Designed to make learning musical concepts and take-home assignments more fun and engaging, these games are broken down into various levels for students. Lower levels can be effective for early elementary students, and higher levels can be effective for students in high school. Games are colorful and entertaining, and they list certain scores that students should strive to achieve. Most games have a lesson version, a practice version, and a quiz version. Teachers can track scores and data of individual students to see strengths and weaknesses.
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    This website has many games that can be used to learn various musical concepts. Some games are free, but there are more games with the paid subscription. You can pay monthly or yearly and it can be used for 5 to 50 people.
ehmiller

Orchestra | TVOKids.com - 1 views

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    This website has games, videos, activities, and facts about instruments and instrument families. This would be great for elementary students learning about instruments of the orchestra.
crmusicstudio

Incredibox - Express your musicality! - 1 views

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      Used in 2017 w/ 6th 7th and 8th grade. end of year- intro to composition
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    This site gives students the ability to create satisfying compositions that explore texture using loops that are designed to fit in with each other. Perfectly suited for differentiation, students can create works that are simple or complex.
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    Incredibox is a great website to explore musical creation and entertainment. Incredibox invites you to become the conductor of a group of human beatbox. You can share your compositions with others from all over. It's a really fun website that even students will enjoy using.
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    Incredibox is a neat web-based app where seven loops at a time are available for students to use at a time. They may remove and add loops at any point, and there are unlocked special content available for certain combinations. This makes it seem like a game. Students can share their compositions, but unfortunately cannot download it without paying. Regardless, this is a fun activity where all the loops sound good-no matter what the combination.
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    Students can arrange an acapella mix using different beat boxers and vocals. 
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    I love this program.  Great for the kids on a snow day, or a day we cannot get in the band room, but can use the computer room.
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    This is a unique website which allows the user to create rhythm loops with characters in costume representing the individual loops. It is an easy-to-use program which allows the user to create endless combinations of rhythm patterns and sound effects. Selecting the correct combination of figures will unlock bonus features. The program is fun for all ages.
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    This is a website for students to compose beatbox-type songs. Students can combine melodies, rhythms, sound effects and voices to compose their piece.
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    This is user friendly, fun, loop-based software where users can mix their favorite loops and then record and easily share their creations with others. This program is free to use on a computer and can be purchased for an iphone or ipad.
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    I have LOVED this website so much. I use it in class on a regular basis for a variety of uses. It is used as meaningful sub plans, rewards, and to explore creativity and composition. I also use it to discuss beatboxing and form.
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    This is an excellent website that produces high levels of student engagement and buy-in. It allows students to "mix" their own music using pre-created beats, rhythms, and melodies.
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    This is the link for our incredibox software we used in class. Make sure you save to the email stacipendry@yahoo.com so I can see your pieces. Version one will not record
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    Music Improvisation Arranging Music
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    Incredibox is a web-based mixing tool, and its purpose is to create mixes with pre-set loops including, beats, effects, voices, and melodies. In each "dude", the user needs to select a "clothing piece" that contains a specific loops. The user begins creating their mixes, and can add and delete them as needed. Musically speaking, it is a teaching tool because the user learns how to mix loops ate certain points. It enhance several concepts such as rhtyhm and meter. It can be used by elementary and secondary-level students.
cindyjjenn

teoria : Music Theory Web - 1 views

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    This is an online music theory and aural site that has lessons and exercises to help students learn basic theory information.
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    This is an online music theory and aural site that has lessons and exercises to help students learn basic theory information.
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    This site has a lot of great ear training exercises. It inlcudes scale and mode identification, interval identification, and dictation exercises. There are non-flash versions of everything.
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    This site has a lot of great ear training exercises. It inlcudes scale and mode identification, interval identification, and dictation exercises. There are non-flash versions of everything.
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    This site includes music theory, ear training, musical terms glossary, articles of form and analysis and information about musical instruments.  I plan to reference this site with my students after reading about it in chapter 5 this week.
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    An online site for learning Music Theory. It can also be used on mobil devices.
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    This site is a deep resource for students and instructors looking for knowledge in music theory. It also has cross-platform access to mobile phone devices and tablets through the use of games and exercises to help with ear training, chord identification, interval identification and dictation, and more.
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    This site is a deep resource for students and instructors looking for knowledge in music theory. It also has cross-platform access to mobile phone devices and tablets through the use of games and exercises to help with ear training, chord identification, interval identification and dictation, and more.
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    This is a free site($20 fee to access offline) that contains tutorials and exercises that focus on intermediate music theory concepts. The site is available in English and Spanish dialect.
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    This website contains tutorials and online exercises for basic music theory concepts including harmonic function, form, intervals, chords, and note identification. Also includes a music dictionary and section of scholarly music articles.
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    This website contains tutorials and online exercises for basic music theory concepts including harmonic function, form, intervals, chords, and note identification. Also includes a music dictionary and section of scholarly music articles.
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    Teoria provides tutorials, theory and ear training exercises, articles, and theory references to fortify knowledge on the above skills. It also highlights events which took place historically with renowned composers, compositions, and artists.
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    This website provides tutorials and exercises in music theory.  There are also articles and other references for student and teacher use.  This is perfect for students continuing and practicing their theory at home.
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    This website is great for music theory. It has theory videos and customizable exercises. The website has a bonus reference section and articles of analysis.
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    Use this site to practice music theory skills. Ear training and notation tutorials are available. Access the articles for music research.
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    Music theory website which offers resources on: tutorials, references, exercises, and articles. Divided into ear training and music theory. Multiple levels are provided for each type of exercise. Great for group learning, or for students who want to discover more about music theory on their own.
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    This website helps students build their music theory skills. It offers tutorials, articles, and exercises for both ear training and written theory
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    This is one of the useful music theory website available for educators to use in class to assist in teaching basic music theory. The site includes articles, tutorials, and references for teaching music theory.
cindyjjenn

ClassWeb Tools -- Links - 1 views

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    Rubric builder designs a rubric for teachers using parameters that can be set. This is a great tool for busy teachers that need a quick rubric. Rubrics are necessary for students to understand what they are getting graded on and Rubric Builder makes the rubric making process easier.
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    This site contains a rubric builder. This is a valuable resource to help educators create an organized rubric for their classes.
todaysk0

(8) Instrument Demonstration for Beginning Band - YouTube - 0 views

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    This video is very informative. I have played portions of this video for my students and it has helped with explaining the instruments even more than I do.
cindyjjenn

Music Memory | Learning Games For Kids - 0 views

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    This site has games made to help build aural solfege skills. This is great for music students to practice ear training and build scales.
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