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This shareware/freeware site has ways of keeping your audio collection better organized. The scripts are easy to access and make a huge difference in iTunes' ability keep files together.

From re-stringing a french horn rotary valve to simply teaching your brass students how to properly breath when they are playing this website has it all. This website will be a huge help when starting out new brass students as well as teaching more advanced techniques.

NAfME website with links to choral journals, library archives, festival information, professional development, lesson plans, and more.

Use this virtual drum-set to explore rhythmic variations. Try and keep the steady beat with one hand while exploring more complex rhythms with the other.

This site is a collection and review of multiple music technology resources. There are also curriculum, rubric and assessments designs to help music educator develop instructional design.

This podcast discusses a myriad of topics that band directors face at some point. James Divine approaches the topics with good humor, a great education, practicality, and experience.

This website contains resources related to surviving as a middle school band director, including conducting, grading, band warmup, and jazz education. There are lots of tips to be found here!

This is a really great resource app for music educators and students. In class, I use the tuner, the metronome, and the tone generator functions. My students love it because it makes playing in tune a little more fun, and most importantly, it is very user friendly.

TonalEnergy is an app with tuning, analysis, and metronome capabilities. It features a variety of settings to customize its use to fit your needs.

This music theory website has some great tutorials and exercises to help develop ear training skills. Also available are articles and other reference materials to help with music study. This is a user friendly site and is very helpful.

Great tutorials for Music Theory. Perfect to use in class with students to practice basic music theory and ear training. Great free programing! 

Article containing large playlist of essential jazz pieces and links to historical and contemporary writing about jazz

This website provides a fast, easy template to create manuscript paper for treble, bass, alto, and tenor clefs. The manuscript can them be downloaded or printed.

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This is a great listening resource to use with our students. It includes playlists and collections of recordings, historical and biographical information on composers and classical music, and midi recordings of sheet music.

This is a subscription-based website (free to join) that contains over 30,000 classical music files by various composers in MIDI, MP3, or WMA streaming file formats. You can download up to 5 songs per day, and it also contains biographies and historical timelines.

A companion website to HyperHistory Online, this website contains recordings of classical pieces that can be easily accessed. It can be searched by time period or composer. A handy resource if covering a music history unit.

This is a great resource for the kids in Jazz Honor's Band.  Dealing with improvising, and soloing.

The web page for the Midwest Clinic, an International Band and Orchestra Conference that takes place annually in Chicago. A plethora of resources about music teaching can be found here as well as information about the conference itself.

The website for the "President's Own" United States Marine Band includes many educational resources. Along with high quality recordings by a phenomenal ensemble, the site offers many other educational aspects, including three volumes of the marches of John Philip Sousa. The marches may be downloaded in PDF format and used by any ensemble. They include the scores, parts, and detailed information on each march. This is great to use in order to teach students about marches and their forms.

US Marine Band educational page. Including lots of information on Sousa marches (Sousa March mania, a cool activity to do with students), recordings, etc.