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jheaver

About Us | Teachers Pay Teachers - 0 views

  • TpT is the go-to place for educators to find the resources, knowledge, and inspiration they need to teach at their best. We offer more than 3 million free and paid resources, created by educators who understand what works in the classroom. Our marketplace is growing every day to meet the evolving needs of the PreK-12 classroom. When educators get the resources and support they need, they're best equipped to inspire our next generation of learners.
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      Teachers Pay Teachers is a great marketplace for teachers from all over to share their technological teaching resources they have created and used with their students. Membership is free and many of the resources are free. The resources that aren't free are very budget friendly! There's no need to reinvent the wheel when we can share the resources that work! With the option to review products, you can review and make sure an item is good before purchasing.
  • TpT is the go-to place for educators to find the resources, knowledge, and inspiration they need to teach at their best. We offer more than 3 million free and paid resources, created by educators who understand what works in the classroom. Our marketplace is growing every day to meet the evolving needs of the PreK-12 classroom. When educators get the resources and support they need, they're best equipped to inspire our next generation of learners.
webstermegan

Perspectives - 0 views

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    The Army Field Band provides a free jazz resource to the public. It is called Perspectives: Resources for Jazz Education. They provide royalty free big band charts from grade 1 through 6. They also have posters and other multimedia resources that include videos, education reference recordings, and a video series on the history of the big band and the individual instruments roll in the band.
lzawodny

Pro Tools | First - Free Music Software - Avid - 0 views

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    Pro Tools is a professional level digital audio workstation. It is used in many professional recording studios and music production facilities. Pro Tools is often praised for its near-limitless capabilities, but its high cost and memory and processing requirements may make it difficult to use for teachers or hobbyists with lesser computer systems. Avid offers different versions of the software that ranges from the free, limited capability Pro Tools "First" to the full-featured Pro Tools Ultimate, which is designed for professional recording and processing. The free version, Pro Tools First is an excellent way for new users to try out professional DAW software without making a large financial commitment.
dluddy

Soundtrap - Make music online - 1 views

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    A cloud-based DAW, free and easy to use. It is very similar to GarageBand, and users with little music knowledge can easily create quality compositions by dragging and dropping loops. Users can compose music, record live instruments and voice tracks, use MIDI controllers, and export projects to many known file types.
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    Great free DAW to help give students a chance to explore loop software. This is a simple and easy access for students instead of needing them to use GarageBand or Mixcraft on a limited amount of computers. The possibility of having an account and working from anywhere is a big plus for using this DAW
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    Creating music using loops, but also using midi files and digital audio too. Long term type of project for students. Students have more creative freedom than other loop-based software.
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    Soundtrap is a browser-based DAW that allows users to create and collaborate compositions or podcasts. Soundtrap offers a paid subscription allowing teachers to setup a private classroom and monitor/grade/comment on their students work. This DAW can be used for a plethora of creative tasks in music. It's primary affordance is that it is browser-based and compositions are saved via cloud storage.
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    Soundtrap is a free, cloud-based DAW, with a library of looped sounds and the ability to enter new audio. Users can also easily collaborate with others, and the program can be accessed via computer, tablet, or cell phone. It provides a user-friendly experience that music students can work with to express creativity through composition.
todaysk0

Start Here - 0 views

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    This website has a lot of wonder free resources. Warm ups, exercises, and more! I have used this in my classroom along with some of my colleagues. Everything included is free and he even has options to buy other music.
tnpmusic

Interval Song Chart Generator - 1 views

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    A fun resource for use with any age group working on intervals. Allows you to generate a list of songs kids will already know for target interval listening.
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    The purpose of this resource is to help students with ear training for interval recognition using familiar tunes. The musical content is in the form of links to YouTube clips that demonstrate different intervals. This source is valuable for teachers because it builds on what students know (the familiar tunes) and provides immediate links for patterns of intervals both ascending and descending. It also allows you to select only the examples you want to use and print them out on their own chart. It also provides tutorials and music facts about theory and technology. Like many other software programs, it offers a free trial, making it more marketable and appealing to teachers and students alike.
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    This website will generate a list of intervals with related songs to learn the intervals. By picking the song of your choice, you can build a custom list to meet your students' interests. The list is printable and can be distributed to your students.
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    A helpful site for students who are working on learning and mastering their intervals. Provides a great list of songs that you can associate the intervals with to help remember them.
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    This website features free access to musical excerpts of famous songs and melodies to illustrate examples of musical intervals. Each excerpt is a link to a video on YouTube. You can create your own song chart of favorite pieces to use as an example of each interval in ascending or descending patterns. Music educators would find these examples very useful for classroom instruction. The Earmaster company also offers ear training materials for purchase including over 2000 exercises for musicians of all ability levels. Free trials are available and it is advertised that music schools and universities use these products.
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    Great resource for music teachers to teach intervals. It is a list of popular songs and pieces that utilize specific intervals, and includes links to the audio or youtube examples.
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    EarMaster organizes an ample amount of repertoire for learning specific intervals. The music examples are categorized by ascending and descending intervals of minor/major 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, perfect 4th, 5th, octaves, and tritones. The youtube examples will start immediately where the specified interval can be heard. Students can choose to memorize any examples listed to help them remember the sound of specific intervals.
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    This site offers a service that one wishes they had until they realize it exists. Essentially, if offers lists of songs that can be used to teach intervals. For many choirs - both middle and high school - the majority of students have not had proper ear training. A fun and effective way to do this remedially is to use familiar or easy to sing songs that students can reference to develop their ears. This site puts many song titles in one place to help facilitate that.
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    This website allows teachers to find songs that are associated with particular intervals. There is a free version but the paid (2.99/month) has more features. This software basically generates a chart with a list of songs for each interval and can be used as an excellent ear training activity!
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    This website provides browsers with a repertoire of songs that feature particular melodic intervals. Several of these songs are accompanied with links directing browsers to a YouTube recording of the corresponding song.
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    This website offers different musical examples for each musical interval. This instructional tool will help build students ear training skills.
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    This site is a fun way to get students to start listening for specific intervals! It is loaded with different song examples for each interval. This can help students develop their ear training skills.
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    Interval Song Chart Generator is a listing of intervals and includes various songs which represent the interval. Simply select a song for each descending and ascending interval. Videos accompany the example, however, you can easily make it into an aural example. Once you select your song choices, then you can generate your own list and print it out. You can even submit your own songs to the forum. This is a very useful resource for ear training and specifically helpful for choirs.
crmtbear

Practice Sight Reading and Sight Singing Exercises Online - Sight Reading Fac... - 0 views

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      The Free demo feature was really cool to explore.  I was able to access sight-reading exercises specific to the instrument I wished to practice on!
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    Sight Reading Factory is a subscription based website with the ability to generate unlimited sight reading examples. This is great for group sight reading in class, individual practice, or assessment purposes. Each exercise is fully customizable to suit your students needs.
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    A web-based sight-reading tool that general exercises that can be customized to meet the needs of your band program. You can create opportunities for individual sight-reading as well full ensemble. The assessment tool can track the progress and report the practice sessions. Teacher subscription is $34.99 per year and students can receive access for as low as $2 per year.
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    The Sight Reading Factory link is one of the best sight-reading websites I have come across to date.  Within the free demo, I was able to access sight reading exercises for a number of band, instrumental, and vocal practice lessons.  In my personal exploration of the demo, I first looked into locating sight reading exercises for piano.  I was able to edit the time signature and key signature before seeing the practice exercises.  This feature is GREAT for people who are learning to play/count in different meters or using accidentals in their piano playing.  The same can be said for people learning to utilize solfedge in their singing, utilize new fingerings in their instrumental playing, or simply challenge themselves.  The website offers multiple difficulty levels, making the use of this website in a secondary music school setting ideal.  Sight reading exercises and study are some of the major contributors to my development as a musician and educator.  Since the exercises are generated on command, the site provides unlimited sight reading exercises to its users, making its longevity a strong selling-point.  
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    Sight Reading Factory is a cloud-based program allowing students daily practice with newly generated exercises each time. Check out the demo; free trials are available for up to 20 exercises generated.
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    Sight Reading Factory provides unlimited number of exercises for sight reading/singing to students. This program provides exercises based on instrumentation and other needs/skill levels to accommodate all levels. It also works as a great assessment tool by tracking what and how the student sight reads in real time.
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    SightReadingFactory.com makes practicing the important skill of sight reading quick, easy, effective and fun! This cloud-based service allows you to customize and generate unlimited sight reading examples instantly, on-demand for students of all ages and abilities.
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    Sight Reading Factory is a great resource for all musicians looking to better their sigh treading ability. It develops a random sight reading exercise for all instruments and is something that can be worked on at an individual level or through a school subscription. Quick set-up and easy to use!
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    This site offers customize-able sight-reading examples that are composed in real time in a variety of combinations. It may be used by the music teacher in whole group setting in the classroom, or student accounts may be purchased for use with at-home practice and assessment. The annual fee is reasonable.
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    This is the best sightreading website I have encountered. A student is able to customize the exercises to his/her level of ability and it will create random sightreading excerpts. It is certainly a tool I always suggest to my students to invest in.
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    This is the best sightreading website I have encountered. A student is able to customize the exercises to his/her level of ability and it will create random sightreading excerpts. It is certainly a tool I always suggest to my students to invest in.
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    Sight Reading Factory offers teachers and students opportunities to practice sight reading using complete customization of exercises: time signatures, key signatures, difficulty level and more.
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    Sight Reading Factory is a comprehensive online sight reading tool which provides on-demand computer-generated music examples which are customizable by instrument, playing level, length, key, and time signature. The service provides pre-programmed levels or can be fully customized by the user. Sight Reading Factory covers all major instruments (including voices and piano) and ensembles. Rhythm-only examples are also available. Once configured, the service provides unlimited, computer-generated sight reading examples based on the settings. Although randomly generated, the algorithm delivers rather authentic, musical selections. The user has two choices for participation: timed review period or free play. Settings can also be adjusted to toggle metronome click and cursor, as well as making measures disappear before or after playing.
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    Unlimited sight reading exercises for every instrument and ensemble. Music teachers can customize exercises for the skill level of their students and print each exercise if needed.
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    Sight Reading Factory is a great technology music-education tool. The site offers a short free trial, but the annual fee is very inexpensive. The technical support is great, and can problem solve quickly. Build sight-reading skills with the entire class, or create individual sight-reading assignments for students. Educators can generate custom sight-reading examples by easy selection of criteria. This site is worth the money and can be beneficial for student achievement in learning to read and sing musical notation.
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    Sight Reading Factory is an excellent application and website that generates customizable sight reading exercise for a variety of instruments or using solfege. You can customize the exact rhythms or pitches you would like and the program generates unlimited, yet musical, sight reading examples.
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    This site can be used for practicing sight reading. The possibilities of combinations of notes, short songs, and everything can be found here. I have even found that state all-state bands have used it to create their sight reading pieces for all state band. It does cost, but the price can be worth it even if just a teacher subscription is bought.
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    The purpose of this resource is to provide students and teachers and alternative method for practicing sight reading. The site randomly generates examples based on level specifications about rhythm, time signature, key signature, and intervals as set by the instructor or students. The subscription is only $2 a student.
jeffsaunders

Free Music Games - 1 views

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    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.
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    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.
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    Free music games that can be used on a Smartboard in an elementary music classroom.
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    This is a website that teaches many musical concepts.  It can be used on computers and through Smartboards.  
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    Smart board music games that are useful for students of all levels. These are fun, interactive ways to check for understanding and even present new ideas. 
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    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. 
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    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.
Michael Dove

Music | Teaching Ideas - 0 views

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    This website is a great resource for classroom music teachers! It is a collection of posts about music teaching and resources. The resources are free and include items such as free manuscript paper to use in class, posters to print, game instructions, and lesson ideas. You can search with keyboards or filter the posts.
djrazzledazzle

ChoralWiki - 0 views

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    A significant resource for choral directors and music educators. Provides free sheet music for thousands of songs. The database is organized in categories that are easy to navigate.
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    This wiki is the home of the Choral Public Domain Library and as is a great resource in providing FREE choral/vocal scores, texts, translations and other useful information regarding choral and vocals music. Just under 26,000 choral/vocal works are currently available by over 2800 composers. New works are being added daily. Any musician seeking free, public domain choral or vocal music would benefit from the music, resources and information provided. A community portal, bulletin board and forums are available connect together those with similar interests.
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    Free choral music!
William Bauer

Free music samples: download loops, hits and multis | MusicRadar - 0 views

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    HUGE collection of free loops and samples (you may need to click "Skip Survey" to see the content on the page)
Preston Krauska

Web Metronome .com - a free online metronome - 0 views

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    This site is a free metronome that you can set to what ever speed you would like for practicing.
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    This site is a free metronome that you can set to what ever speed you would like for practicing.
Mary Witaszek

Free Sheet Music | MakingMusicFun.net - 0 views

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    This website provides free sheet music, lessons, and worksheets that are perfect for teachers looking for great ideas!
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    This website provides free sheet music, lessons, and worksheets that are perfect for teachers looking for great ideas!
Sara Bibee

Soundation - Make music online - 0 views

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    Soundation is a really cool program that allows the users to play with loops, midi files, wav files, and even creating your own music. This could be a really great way to get your students to compose their own music through technology!
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    Soundation is a really cool program that allows the users to play with loops, midi files, wav files, and even creating your own music. This could be a really great way to get your students to compose their own music through technology!
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    This is a web-based software which is free with the option to upgrade. It is similar to GarageBand, but is great because it doesn't require a specific type of computer to use. To use, one simply drags in the loops and MIDI tracks to create their own songs. The free version has its limitations, but can still create some amazing tracks for the classroom.
lizazumbrunnen

Free Games - Piano Teacher Resources - Pianimation.com - 0 views

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    This website is run by a personal friend of mine, Jennifer Fink. The website includes free teacher resources that are available to print and play with students. I especially like the Crazy Keys game to help students with notes on the piano.
Ruiel Doonkeen

Noteflight - Online Music Notation Software - 0 views

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    Noteflight is a free, online software for music composition using standard notation. Teachers can use it to input quick warm-ups or other music for practicing, then they can print it or send a link to their students, all for free!
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    This program allows students to create musical compositions and practice their theory skills learned. Great resource for allowing the students to be creative.
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    Free online based notation application
Chasity Smith

http://www.sfskids.org/index.html?f=play - 0 views

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    (a) The purpose of the resource is to have interactive activities for instructional use and possibly free-time in the music classroom.(b) The specific musical content the resource deals with Note identification, note reading (c) I would use this site for both instructional and free-time activities.
Adam Ardner

Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder - 0 views

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    Audacity is a free online, cross platform program that can be used for editing and recording. Educators can use this program to work with students on composition and sound recording technology. Also, educators can make good use of this program for preparing materials for the classroom It is easy to use and fun!
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    Free, downloadable software that can be used to edit and remix recordings.
Rachel Renick

Music Games: More than 3000 activities for IWB, Smart Boards and other Interactive whit... - 0 views

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    This website contains thousands of links to Smart Board games and activities for the music classroom. Some of the resources listed are free others can be used on a free trial based subscription or subscriptions are very low cost. 
Mark Weakley

Music and the Brain - Download free content from Library of Congress on iTunes - 0 views

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    Compiled by the Library of Congress, Music and the Brain is a Podcast that has lectures, conversations and symposia about the connection between neuroscience and music. Kay Redfield Jamison is the project chair compiles scholars, composers, performers, theorists, physicians, psychologists and other experts to discuss topics such as: the future of music; music and grief; the mind of the artist and others. There are 20 podcasts and they are all free!
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