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This website offers many applications to help teach virtually anyone to play piano. These apps use the latest gaming software to help make learning the piano fun.

JoyTunes makes absolutely phenomenal piano learning apps, especially PianoMaestro, which I use with my second graders. They download the app on their iPads, and it guides them through the basics of piano playing, all the way through playing simple songs and melodies. It's definitely worth checking out!

This site introduces ear training and music theory to beginners. Educators can use this site in their music classes and beginner band classes to begin teaching students the basics of theory and ear training.

It can be cumbersome to put together worksheets with divergent notation, text, and the like. This website has a number of basic worksheets that can be easily incorporated into theory-based curricula.

This website is an in depth resource for woodwind fingerings, offering a comprehensive list of fingerings for instruments ranging from clarinet to sarrusophone!

This resource provides fingering charts for all woodwind instruments and would be a great resource for predominately brass music educators and private teachers 

The Woodwind Fingering Guide provides finger charts for all woodwind instruments. They even include fingering charts for rare instruments like the Sorrusophone and the Charanga Flute.

Resources for grades K-5, involving age-appropriate lessons and ideas. Ideas center around pitch, form, dynamics, rhythms, meter, performing, singing, tempo, meter, etc.

Carnegie Hall has a great resource for music educators who teach K-5th grade general music. They list the activities by grade, and even tell you what you can use each resource for (i.e. teaching rhythm, meter, singing, etc.).

The Carnegie Hall Education page for Educators provides teaching resources to teachers. They provide lesson plans, meeting certain standards, for grades K-5. These lesson plans cover everything from the basics to composition to improvisation with Brazilian Sama

Lessons, videos, etc. for bassoon players

This site was created to assist bassoon players in learning their instruments as well as a resource for educators. A student has access to 50 different units, covering pitches and basic techniques. Like a digital method book, the creator provides audio clips to perform along with as well as videos to introduce key techniques like key flicking.

This is a Pinterest page geared towards music teachers. It provides you with many ideas on how to decorate your classroom or hallway. You can also access seating charts, lesson plans, organizational skills as well as basic ideas for your classroom. This is a fun page where you can be creative and explore others creative ideas for your program or students. Pinterest is a great place to share your own ideas while exploring so many others!

This site has many lessons and exercises that can help young musicians learn the basic notes as well as help experienced musicians develop their listening and theory skills further.

This website offers worksheets, games, and tutorial videos for teachers to use with their younger piano students (K-6 to) to enhance student engagement and understanding. Some basic theory is taught in the form of colorful dittos for students, and other theory or technique is taught by game-based worksheets. There are a number of resources to accommodate major holidays and calendar events as well. There are many link that branch off into different other sites to facilitate the sharing of ideas with other educators. Videos are also included to demonstrate how various games and lessons should be structured for maximum efficiency.

These videos are created by Music Express magazine and each one deals with a different topic of music education. The videos have four main characters and are well-made and entertaining for students. The topics explored are basic general music concepts like steady beat, rests, high/middle/low and more. Each episode has a catchy song that students enjoy singing along to.

A great article showing how to take a well known tune and teach students how to compose their own melody. The article goes through the process of how to teach it. First you help students to write a base line, have them improvise a rhythm, then they can discover the notes of each chord, and write their own melody using chord tones.

This website contains lessons and online music theory quizzes such as note, interval, chord, and key signature identification, as well as ear training exercises. There is also an exercise customizer that allows teachers to create and customize quizzes to give students. These quizzes can be logged and results can be recorded.

This website contains lessons and online music theory quizzes such as note, interval, chord, and key signature identification, as well as ear training exercises. There is also an exercise customizer that allows teachers to create and customize quizzes to give students. These quizzes can be logged and results can be recorded.

This website is a valuable tool to help students enhance their music reading skills. It provides a series of exercises and lessons from basic theory to advanced theory and aural skills.

Noteflight is web-based music notation software which allows you to create, view, print, and hear musical scores. Noteflight works on computers, tablets, or smartphones. Noteflight has a basic (free) level, and higher tiers of subscription levels for more functionality.

This is a kids Jazz website. Learn a little bit about the history of jazz, where it comes from and the basic form that goes with it. Play games and watch videos to help internalize the jazz form.

So many wonderful resources for choral teachers. One stop shopping for basic materials for the classroom: lesson plans, sight-reading, and repertoire.

This site is something that most music educators today are familiar with; Finale. it provides a free download of Finale as well as blogs and training tutorials about how to use the program. The purpose of Finale is to all teachers (and students!) to create their own music. It can be anything from an original composition to an arrangement of a familiar song to a replica of something that has already been created. Not only does finale help build musical creativity, but it also teaches students about the basics of music notation. This site is a great source because it takes you step-by-step through downloading Finale, making it more user-friendly, especially for those that might not have as much experience with more recent music software.

On the Vic Firth website for percussion, there are many educational resources. This area focuses on hybrid rudiments. Hybrid rudiments are combinations of basic rudiments to create new ones. One example is putting a flam and a drag together to create a flam drag. Since new combinations are constantly made, there are always new possibilities being created. This is a loose list of current hybrid rudiments. They are shown through video examples.

This is a PDF file for clarinet fingerings. Along with showing the basic fingerings that are generally taught in beginning band, this PDF chart also shows the alternate fingerings that make clarinet playing more practical. This chart is particularly useful for teachers who may have a hard time remembering all of the alternate fingerings that would be useful for certain passages.

Another string specific music website. It is a wonderful resource for orchestra students of all levels and their educators. It covers the basics of how to hold an instrument as well as other specific advanced techniques.There are also resources to help with practicing and repertoire.

This is resource for any music educator teaching violin (or other stringed instrument) to a student. This excellent one page information sheet provides vital instructions to beginning players on violin basics such as care for and maintain the instrument and great tips and advise on renting or purchasing the instrument. This is a quick and valuable information sheet for educators to print and give to beginning students.

Care and maintenance of string instruments.