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This website contains blogs, newsletters, information on workshops, instrument-specific resources, and reviews regarding music and music education. The blog contains useful information for both teachers and students.

Music Matters is a blog that allows users/readers to utilize websites, information, and activities for students in music. There are sources for educators that include training, games, and blogs that help students grow as musicians and music learners. This website includes information for Music History, Music Theory, pedagogy for instruments, music organizations, and music education conferences. Each source includes guides, activities, and blogs for the reader to navigate to a certain website or community, and reflect on what has been read or what is happening in the world of music.

This website contains links to a large collection of articles, both new and old, written by professional music educators in the UK. Articles can be filtered by instrument, which is very handy.

This website is a tool to advocate music education and technology to a widespread group of people, and allow readers to write feedback on the website. As well as the feedback, this site is for the general musician audience to search for resources that will help with teaching in schools and responding to young musicians. This website includes articles about music technology and its benefits and uses, posts about music education, the advocacy of music and its importance to all students, and general posts about things such as copyright laws, orchestra and its instruments, apps for music, and planning education tools for teachers.

The purpose of this website is to provide individual drum lessons to young aspiring percussionists. This also would be useful for music educators whose primary instrument might not be percussion. The content features material and video on drum rudiments, purchasing options, showmanship, performance technique, musicality and world connections.

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This webpage provides a great visual and aural example of the harmonic series. Utilizing fractions and sound properties, this is a great tool to connect science, math, and musical concepts. Also on the site are programs that can be used to compose and explore with sound bars, directions for creating homemade instruments, and more.

Musicnotes is a sheet music downloading website that includes classical and popular titles in a variety of arrangements. Many titles can be transposed, allowing teachers to choose keys that fit their students' instruments, ranges and levels of development. 

This site allows you to organize and schedule music lessons. It also gives an opportunity for feedback to parents. If parents have questions, you can answer their questions between lessons through the use of this site. If you choose, you can also track a student's practice on their instrument.

This page has all sorts of wonderful things: games about instrument families, creative exercises, and music history. This website is extremely useful.

A comprehensive technique studies for brass instruments. It was created by Herbert Clarke in 1912. This is still widely used by music educators. 

Jazz lesson for all instruments.

This site provides a myriad of links to several music education resources such as Pedagogy resources, power point presentations, songs, lesson plans, instruments, listening, and assessment resources.

This site is great for finding flash cards for all of the string instruments. Front and back flash cards are able to be printed from a PDF format. The notes are big enough for students and also has the fingerings as well as the notes written on the back.

8notes.com provides an incredible variety of free and subscription based printable music for instrumentalists and vocalists. The site categorizes the music by instrument, composer, level of difficulty, etc. This is a great resource to share with students who are looking for solo or ensemble repertoire ideas, in addition to rock/pop, jazz, and world music selections for personal enrichment and entertainment purposes. 

This website will help students to understand this family of instruments by using interactive technology in a game form.

This website is amazing - many interesting music games to play to learn about instruments, compose music, learn rhythm. It even has a virtual xylophone and virtual panpipes to play! - lots to learn on this website

Designer and developer, Kyle Stetz, created this instrument for creating ascii beats. They might be useful for creating hiphop tracks - based on what you type into the input box. Use student names, school names, teams, projects and other text to create interesting beats.

This website deals with all things related to the saxophone. There are links on this page for many articles. Some information is geared towards beginners (such as reading notes and how to hold the instrument). Other information is geared toward more advanced players (such as improv and even changing pads/neck cork).

Kahn Academy provides free online instruction in a wide array of domains. Their music section contains information on basic music reading and terminology, examinations of orchestral works by Gerard Schwartz (former music director of the Seattle Symphony), and and introduction to the instruments of the orchestra. 

This site presents students with knowledge on famous composers, well-known literature, composing, instruments, timbre, beat patterns, and more in the form of Discover, Listen, Play, Perform, Conduct, and Compose.