Group items tagged

MagicMusicTutor.com has some really good materials available for free. I have had particular success with the free song arrangements for boomwhackers. There are also tutorial videos, music theory worksheets, virtual instruments, classroom ideas, guitar tutorials, a MIDI song library, and the site admin accepts requests for new materials.

On demand Opera!  Do you wish your students could see "Madame Butterfly," "La Traviata," or "The Magic Flute?"  Guess what?  You can show them now!

This is a discussion by New York Times columnist, David Brooks, and Kathy Fletcher, and the director of Turnaround Arts Initiative about the important work that Turnaround Arts does through the strategic use of the arts. The discussion talks about how music facilitates brain development, why certain things in music leave people fascinated, and what magic music brings to emotion. The discussion also unfolds how the arts, and music education in particular opens the student's mind to memorisation. David Brooks says "Students understand better when topics are introduced through music". I agree with that because most students become more alert when a topic is introduced through song and it fosters the interest of students. Therefore we need arts to succeed in education. A lot of artists came from struggling backgrounds so when they talk to children that would like to succeed in the music world but are frightened that they'll never make it, they tell them "I know what you are going through but you can make it". This encourages those children to push on and excel in the arts. Kathy Fletcher says music boosts critical thinking and confidence which is ideal for students and they end up excelling in all other fields. The arts connect us all through music in a way that music created is shared all around the world. Partnerships are created to perform music and people come together to listen to music. This makes us one.

The purpose of this website is to find songs to use in the elementary music room with ukulele tabs. A ukulele is much easier to work with when dealing with young students and this website provides many song resources with the ukulele tab. The chords can also be transposed to make playing them easier. The current song that is linked is a favorite of my Kindergarten students.

This game goes through The Magic Flute, and gives students examples of instruments as they appear in the music.

This website offers one interactive game, using The Magic Flute, where students guess the instrument sound, as it appears in the music. I would definitely use this in my beginning band classes, so that students can remember instrument sounds in an interactive way.

Music teacher job search advice from the hiring table.

The purpose of this website is to provide information on some of the newest technology programs being created for music educators and musicians. The content ranges from new apps to create music, to new notation software, to discussions on the new music education standards that include technology. It also features useful tips for individual instruments.

This site contains blogs of reviews of music education based technology, as well as discussions of topics relevant to music education and technology.

Details Written by Chad Criswell In the same vein as other music note ID training apps NinGenius goes the extra mile to make the tedious task of learning to read music a whole lot more fun.

This website has resources for technology and teaching music in general. It includes Sheet Music, Tales From The Podium, and much much more.

Earl MacDonald, professor of jazz at the Univ. of Connecticut, has create this treasure trove of resources for teaching jazz improvisation, jazz theory, and jazz piano. It contains what is essentially a complete curriculum for teaching jazz improvisation that can used with singers as well as instrumentalists.

Activities and ideas for teaching young children to explore their vocal capacities.

We always need to make connections with what students already know before moving to new concepts. Sometimes it is helpful for us to challenge what they think they know. This interview by CBS is a fantastic look into the life of a very popular artist that has great implications for a variety of teaching scenarios.