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The purpose of this blog is to provide music educators with useful hints, tips and teaching strategies that can improve instruction. The content features articles on helping educators with problems that they might have encountered with software programs or with problems they are having with their students grasping musical concepts.

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Technology Apps for classroom music instruction.

YouTube is one of the many free resources on the internet to aid in technology-driven instruction. The students have access to videos and recordings.

(a) The purpose of the resource is to have provide a database of articles and interviews covering an array of musical subjects for use in and outside of the music classroom.(b) This resource covers EVERY national music standard! (c) I would use this site for instructional use in the classroom and outside of the classroom.

a) The purpose of the resource is to have provide a database of teacher materials including lesson plans and materials inside of the music classroom.(b) This resource covers most national music standards including note reading, pitch identification, and music vocabulary. (c) I would use this site for instructional use in the classroom and outside of the classroom.

For any of educators brave enough to tackle homeade instruments in class, this site is great for step-by-step instructions on how to do so. Here, you can find 8 homeade instruments to create with your music students. The istructions are fairy simple to follow. I attempted this once while making homeade maracas with foil paper and rice. The instruments were fun, but the project was very messy. Perhaps, I can give it a shot again using these simpler techniques!

This blog is notable for its excellent organization: it's indexed by category, including type of device (iPad, smartphone, SmartBoard), educational use (choral, band, elementary ed, collegiate, private instruction), free online resources, app reviews, and more. It has links to a number of music technology sites, and includes inspirational quotes as well! It's a handy go-to site for teachers looking for an all-inclusive music tech website.

This site provides instructional information and projects for anyone wishing to learn about sound mixing. There is a lot of good information and links to resources. This would be a good site for a recording technology class to visit.

This site offers useful instruction to students of jazz piano. For piano students beginning to explore jazz the Jazz 101 lesson is a good resource.

This would seem to combine the use of vernacular music with guitar instruction. This is something that I will look into for my guitar students.

Ideas and instruction for learning to play by ear.

A great site for music parents, this is a great site to direct parent to or to use as a resource for the instructor himself with many useful links connecting to ways to approach music students, parents, and administrations for both instructional and advocacy scenarios.

This is a blog created by a group of music educators that contains links to other blogs and and websites that aid music instruction in the classroom. Teachers can also have discussions and share ideas.

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. 

ACDA - focus on choral music teaching and art - guitar instruction included. To access articles from Choral Journal, check with your institutions library. Journal articles are available Jan 2006 to present.

Good, active discussion board on all things violin. Many of the threads have implications for private and group string instruction.

Developed by the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, this site provides educational programming and resources that support classroom instruction. It's main focus is on music and composers from the Baroque period through the 20th century.

This blog has in-depth descriptions of breathing and technique in singing. One on one vocal instruction can be arranged through the site with the author.

Tonal Energy provides individualized instruction and videos for band and orchestra students. Each instrument is listed and linked to a fingering chart, exercises, scales, instrument care, and videos of professional artists. The website also has a place for discussion between other musicians, teachers, and students. One of the best items about Tonal Energy is the tuner App. The TE Tuner provides a visual representation beyond the original needle and shows the students proper intonation through a smiley face and colored circles.

iPad resource

This site presents the 30 best iPad apps for music educators and their students to integrate into their classrooms. The apps range in appropriateness of students at the elementary age all the way to the high school levels of music instruction.