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This is an interactive rhythm game. It teaches rhythms by having students play the rhythm they hear and see on the spacebar. 

Joel Katz is a singer and educator in Toronto, Canada, who teaches at the Glenn Gould School. He is a master voice teacher who has written very informative articles on vocal technique and pedagogy.

Daria World Music for Children is a colorful and vibrant website that teaches students about all aspects of world music. It has many multimedia resources from listening to the sound of an instrument to actually learning how to make one. Definitely a great resource!

So many wonderful resources for choral teachers. One stop shopping for basic materials for the classroom: lesson plans, sight-reading, and repertoire.

This is a blog that focuses on elementary music education, specifically songs and games that teach simple musical elements. The blog is very well organized and easy to access.

This is a great multi-track recording program. This program also lets you collaborate on your projects. Students can use this to record music.

Jazzednet.org is the site for the Jazz Education Network. It offers helpful articles about properly teaching students the elements of jazz education. This particular article, although listed for drum set performance tips, is applicable for the entire rhythm section of your jazz band. It gives helpful tips on how to make your rhythm section understand the feel and flow of the chart by providing a lead sheet so that they become familiar with the melody like the horn players.

The website provides helpful information for assessing and diagnosing common mistakes on the clarinet. The author of this website offers useful advice for educators who may not understand the intricacies of teaching beginning clarinetists. This information would be most relevant for band directors and private studio teachers. 

Great source of band-relate comics strips. A great way to ease the tension of performance preparation. Comics have tags so searching for specific topics and/or instruments are easy.

This is mostly just a fun website. I would use this to get some fun band related pictures and sayings to put on the Smart Board as the students are walking in the class and getting ready for rehearsal. This could be a good website to add some extra fun to the music class.

This an article that was found on the guardian arguing the importance of music education in today's society. The author compares learning music to learning coding. This a great read.

This conservatory trained bass player has a great modern take on jazz and performance. He goes out of his way to share his expertise in short videos that have a passionate delivery and lively editing. Many of his videos are about jazz theory and music theory, but he does Q&A sessions as well.

This website is the internet presence for WBGO, a jazz radio station out of Newark, NJ. Along with the ability to live-stream their broadcast, there is a wealth of articles on current performers and their albums, as well as jazz news from around the East Coast. I share new music with my students that I've found here often.

Amazing music listening resource for music teachers. The cool thing about this website is that it shows how music can unify and connect people all over the world. It contains videos of a common song being recorded by musicians all over the world on a variety of different world instruments. Great resource for world music drumming. Many videos are free, but some require a subscription now.

The user creates musical loops by clicking on a grid. The loops play continuously and you add and take out sounds. The user has more control than some similar programs. It offers control over speed, and the types of genre or sounds used.

I use this website for two different reasons! First of all, I teach my 4th and 5th graders ukulele. Some of these chord progressions are too difficult for them, but it is fun to flip through and find some they can play. Second of all, I use this in discussion of what chord progressions are in other classes. I can then play them on ukulele or piano for the class to hear.

I use the ukulele in class regularly. This website is easy to use and find songs both for my students and for myself to play. It also has easy to read and access chord charts for when I am accompanying my class on ukulele.

Descriptions of various fiddle styles from around the world: Irish, Scottish, Bluegrass - as well as lesser known ones, such as Irish, Balkan, Chinese. Useful to showing the violin being used in other countries, and other forms of music than only classical.

The Grid Book is an American series of education books geared towards modern marching battery percussion, as well as front ensemble. The site offers videos, sheet music and 1 on 1 lessons with the site owners, who are 2 of the most in-demand marching percussion gurus in the country.

Home to the percussion divisions of WGI (Winter Guard International). The site contains visual and audio media links and downloads, schedules, ticket information, and live webcast information for WGI "The Sport of the Arts." WGI is one of the fastest growing musical activities in the United States, comprised both student (scholastic) divisions and professional (independent) divisions. WGI has mission of providing the highest level of music education possible, constantly pushing and setting new musical standards.

A clinic handout from the Midwest Clinic on marches.