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This is a great website for teaching beginning composition!

This composition site through Classics for Kids gives two levels of composing- beginner and advanced. A great variety of notes to be used (there are dotted rhythms in the advanced level), and students can drag the notes/rests easily to where they'd like to on the staff. This site is great for teaching composition, beats, time signature, treble clef staff and notes.

Core subjects supplied with various interactive learning tools, games and assessments. Music category offers composition, virtual instruments and fun games. Suitable for elementary and secondary grade levels of beginner-intermediate levels. Works well with IWB, learning centers or homeschooling. 

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. 

This website provides lessons, exercises, and other tools pertaining to music theory. The exercises are especially useful for students to practice their music theory outside of the classroom/studio.

To teach music theory to the beginner or advanced students.  This could be used to teach beginners how to read music or advanced students to work on ear training or even identifying chords.  Very useful when teaching music theory and want to reinforce skills.

Basic music symbols, concepts and theory for persons on the go. ufmue

This is a companion website to a series on improvisation for students, ranging from beginner to advanced. Has anyone ever used this series? I'm considering buying it to see what it has to offer.

For those to whom the trombone is not a principal instrument, the question of slide positions can be a challenge when teaching beginner students. This website provides a helpful listing of slide position charts for a wide range of the trombone family.

This website has helped me organize my instrumentation for my beginners. Knowing retention rates and how to get a better ensemble sound has been very benifitial

This set of music books is completely free and in PDF format. In addition to that, there are videos that you can show in class or have your students view on their own at home. This is a great resource for a beginning band program that does not have a large budget. All resources are free to use, and it is based in solfege so it is easier to teach a whole room of beginners on different instruments.

A great resource for your last minute lesson plan needs!  There are plans, activities, and quizzes!

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.

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.

This blog is run by Angela Harman, who is an orchestra teacher in Utah. She has several great posts on starting beginner strings, recruitment, and even re-energizing rehearsals. She also has a book on shifting, which can be tricky to teach.

Auralia is a comprehensive LMS of 43 topics for ages beginners to advanced in music aural theory. Instruction and testing is sequential and logical with a nonthreatening, easy to use interface. The student and/or educator set the pace of learning. Feedback is formative and immediate with questions that keep the student focused on the concept and aware of progress. Learning reinforced through repeated emphasis on hearing, seeing and notating the aural theory concept, e.g., intervals, chords, progressions.

This resource provides piano teachers with tips about how to help students begin to improvise.

Sweetwater is a popular resource for purchasing music technology. This online store provides access to beginner and professional level music technology equipment. The website provides customer support, news, and updates.

Great website to use in a music theory class I enjoy the lessons, exercises, and tools, plus the information on their mobile apps.

This is a famous popular website and also app, that i use to teach my private students. This is a great way to practice reading music, ear training and knowing knowledge of different type of topics in music theory. This website and app has definitely made me a stronger musician through my undergraduate years. The purpose of this website is to provide practice of musical content, to help strength the mindset in many areas.

This is a website that offers free lessons, exercises and tools for the development of music theory knowledge and skill. 

For teachers with a SmartBoard, this website gives free music games for use in the classroom.  Most of these games are appropriate for K-5 and cover a variety of music topics.  Intervals, pitch discrimination, listening, and basic music theory are the topics covered in these games.

I'll definitely have to explore these games on my own before taking them into the classroom. So far, some of them seem pretty advanced for my students. I also am not sure about how to play many of the games because of lack of directions. 

A collection of SmartBoard apps for use in a general music classroom setting. Focus is on beginner music theory with such topics as pitch discrimination, basic scales and song structure. Files are Flash-based and can be used on a SmartBoard seamlessly.

Garageband Training, Classes, and Tutorials from Lynda.com. From these resources, you can learn how to record songs, use loops, create beats, create and publish podcasts and share MP3 files from Garageband. These online classes and tutorials provide step-by-step, easy to follow instructions for beginners.

Great free online resource to practice ear training exercises. I really like how it is broken down into different categories and has a beginner level. It is great having a specific section devoted to note location and perfect pitch.

This is a great site for teaching trumpet from beginning to advanced.

This web page gives Advice, Guidance and Help in Choosing, Buying, Purchasing, Renting a Student Saxophone.

This web page gives Advice, Guidance and Help in Choosing, Buying, Purchasing, Renting a Student Saxophone.

This web page gives Advice, Guidance and Help in Choosing, Buying, Purchasing, Renting a Student Saxophone.

This website provides a free 58-page music book for beginning instrumentalists. The website also provides backing tracks for songs from the tutor book. However, some of the information in the books may need to be tweaked. For example, quarter notes are referred to as the British "crotchets" here.