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Clinician and Trumpet player Chris Clark discusses the challenges of creating a middle school lead trumpet player for Jazz Band. He includes strategies and exercises to help develop such a player

PodSnack is a music playlist maker that allows you to create custom players in three simple steps: add your songs, customize the player to your tastes and publish it. Once created, the Html mp3 players can be shared, embedded or downloaded for HTML websites.

PodSnack is a web application that allows you to create custom audio players for your website. You can create custom playlists very easily and share them with anybody you wish.

PodSnack is a web application that allows you to create custom audio players for your website. You can create custom playlists very easily and share them with anybody you wish.

This website offers resources for brass players, including: advice, news articles, etc. This is a place for all brass players regardless of age or level of experience to learn new techniques and find resources for becoming a better brass player.

This site is full of helpful resources for trumpet players.  It also features important dates for contests.  I use this site often for my trumpet players.  They like to read the links and articles. 

This is a podcast designed to help band directors who are not clarinet players, or clarinet players looking for resources. It dives in the solving clarinet problems including tone, hand position, tonguing, and much, much more.

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.

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.

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.

As a bassoon player I often have people approach me about how I can play such an impossible instrument and how do I recruit? This article is short but has many good thoughts on how to recruit and have success in starting a double reed student. The main sections is how to garner interest to get students to play the instrument, the personality of a double reed player, and how to help students be successful once they've started playing a double reed. There are very helpful links to reed care also.

Online interactive experience of Humperdinck's Opera Hansel and Gretel. Players can control interactive elements in every scene and watch the play unfold. Explore elements of orchestral and opera music through guided listening including set design, programming and costumes. Lesson plan, text and libretto for teaacher download. Interdisciplinary activities for the classroom available. Flash version 8 required.

Online interactive experience of Humperdinck's Opera Hansel and Gretel. Players can control interactive elements in every scene and watch the play unfold. Explore elements of orchestral and opera music through guided listening including set design, programming and costumes. Lesson plan, text and libretto for teaacher download. Interdisciplinary activities for the classroom available. Flash version 8 required.

The Violinist.com is a resource for music educators, specifically string and orchestra teachers. 

This is a site where all string players can discuss just about anything and everything from teaching, set-up, practicing and more. Besides articles, there are also blogs that are very helpful.

This is a site where all string players can discuss just about anything and everything from teaching, set-up, practicing and more. Besides articles, there are also blogs that are very helpful.

Online interactive experience of Humperdinck's Opera Hansel and Gretel. Players can control interactive elements in every scene and watch the play unfold. Explore elements of orchestral and opera music through guided listening including set design, programming and costumes. Lesson plan, text and libretto for teacher download. Interdisciplinary activities for the classroom available. Flash version 8 required.

Online interactive experience of Humperdinck's Opera Hansel and Gretel. Players can control interactive elements in every scene and watch the play unfold. Explore elements of orchestral and opera music through guided listening including set design, programming and costumes. Lesson plan, text and libretto for teacher download. Interdisciplinary activities for the classroom available. Flash version 8 required.

Learn Jazz Standards is an online jazz resource for musicians. We specialize in helping musicians learn jazz repertoire and become better jazz players. The Learn Jazz Standards website has two main components: the Blog and our Jazz Standards.

This is the hub for the Learn Jazz Standards podcasts and YouTube videos. This is a great resource for learning jazz theory, ear training and approaches to improvisation.

The Learn Jazz Standards website contains a comprehensive list of jazz standards, including lead sheets (in different transposing keys), essential and/or original recordings, and a recording of a rhythm section playing through the chord changes several times (a la Jamey Abersold). Often, these "jazz minus one" rhythm section recordings are offered in a few different keys. The site also includes a blog, podcast, and a list of articles on the topic of jazz. This resource is especially helpful for melodic instrument jazz players, giving them practice with chord changes, and I use this site frequently in my jazz classes.

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 online magazine is now available as an app for the iPad and iPhone. It contains technical advice, reviews of recordings, artist profiles, and general coverage of issues relevant to string players.

As a brass player it can sometimes be a challenge to remember woodwind fingerings.  This link can quickly locate them.

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).

Great advice on starting young clarinet players

On this PDF, there are many links that connect to music sites that students can use. All of the programs are "in the cloud". Students can access these from any computer, at home, school or on the road. All sites are included to facilitate musical creativity.

This is a document that is a resource for creativity and technology for music learning put together by Dr. William Bauer for the FETC in Orlando, Florida on January 31, 2014. Other headings include: technology to facilitate musical creativity and general cloud-based technologies useful for facilitating musical creativity. This page is an excellent resource to develop ideas for learning with technology in the classroom. Many of the programs are free, easy to use and applicable to many educational ideas.  

Musical Creativity in the Cloud is a Google Doc by Dr. William I. Bauer. It is a list of resources to integrate technology into the music classroom and encourage creative thinking. Each item on the list will facilitate organization, creativity, or music learning. Dr. Bauer comprised a list of fifty resources to integrate technology into the music classroom including notation software, cloud-based libraries, media players, and organizational tools.

All things clarinet!  This site has free music, midi files, recordings and videos!

All things clarinet!  This site has free music, midi files, recordings and videos!

This is a site that I use frequently. Not only does the site provide useful information regarding musical ensembles and private instructors for those who live within the institute's service region, but it also serves as a resource for videos and recordings of professional clarinet players students may use as models. Furthermore, the site contains a variety of sheet music for all band and orchestra instruments. Sheet music may be downloaded from the site, or entire libraries may be purchased on a CD containing pdf files. This site makes access to solo and other forms of music literature a breeze! 

This blog is a great resource for Jazz drum set.  The video in this entry is from Ed Soph from UNT. The series of videos are strong set of lessons for beginning Jazz drum set players.  Enjoy!

The article discusses insight on intonation and ways that teachers and students should approach intonation. The answer is, not with a tuner.