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An extremely useful site to peruse free music for download in various categories like orchestral and chamber music parts. I have frequently used this for myself and students when faced with auditions that I/they need an "original" part to.

This is a great resource for all band directors. It contains articles, background, and lesson strategies for many compositions in the wind band repertoire. It also contains articles relevant to other ensembles, such as chamber groups. This site helps band directors plan ahead for their selection of reputable works in the band world.

This is a great resource for all band directors. It contains articles, background, and lesson strategies for many compositions in the wind band repertoire. It also contains articles relevant to other ensembles, such as chamber groups. This site helps band directors plan ahead for their selection of reputable works in the band world.

This is absolutely ridiculous. If your instrument has elephant ivory, even the tiniest bit, and it was made after the 1976 agreement regarding import of elephant ivory, it is considered contraband - and the government can take it from you - when you travel. The silliest part is that many people are misinformed about the use of ivory in musical instruments. Piano keys - "those ivories" - those are made from seal ivory, not elephant ivory. I wonder how much ivory used in other instruments is elephant ivory.

Thanks for sharing this! I have to figure out how to travel to Bolivia in a couple weeks with my baroque bow, which has an ivory frog.

This explains why students who study piano for years quit and become 'the other 80%' when they reach puberty. Great ideas here for the piano teacher.

Well structured practice is the key to improvement

Recording students is an essential part of feedback, and is a great way to assess yourself as a teacher as well. Using this app, you don't have to buy expensive hardware and it can be used even for immediate feedback in class. This app is usually at a cost, but here it is free!

Here is a great video from CNN that highlights the benefits of being a part of a music program.  Many have done studies whether or not music affects a student's brain.  This is a great video to show students and parents along with administration to strengthen the program you already have.  Too many schools are doing away with the arts and it cannot happen!

Great website for band programs with limited instrumentation or for small chamber groups with nontraditional instrumentation.  Each band piece can be played as a solo or the full work.  The sheet music provides every instrument with the melody and the part for the band version.  New titles are added frequently!

This is part of a video series showing beginning instruction on each instrument. This is a great video to share with students (and parents) to help them out in the first few lessons. Some information needs to be explained more completely, but this provides good basic knowledge and helps students remember what was taught during lessons.

This could be good for small ensembles and combos. Creates a melody, harmony, and bass part customized to instrumentation needs. Also provides lyrics.

Part of the Resources for Early Childhood, the sound project is one of many resources for early childhood teaching and learning included in this website. The sound project was conduced by Ohio educators with 18 to 30 month children on sound exploration.

Free online recording device with unlimited recording time! Great cloud-based tool for recording practice sessions. After done recording students can easily submit a link to their recording as part of their practice logs.

This website is part of the School Band and Orchestra page. It contains links to concert band repertoire reviews. Reviews are posted by Frank Ticheli, however he does not necessarily write the reviews. This is a great resource when considering music for future concerts.

Another great website for teaching music. There are many interactive games, some great videos about composers in the time machine, and tools to help kids compose and improvise together.

Quaver's Marvelous World of Music is an interactive music education curriculum and program that integrates, what students love: technology and fun! The host of the video episodes, "Quaver" makes music learning fun and memorable. There are free parts of the program as well as extensive paid sections. If you teach in SC, this is a service paid for by the state. Contact Buz at Quaver Music for your log-in information.

Drum corp is something that many high school students dream of becoming a part of.  Many students in marching bands around the world dream to become a DCI champion.  Vic Firth teamed up with the Cadets and have made videos with the music from their 2015 production, "The Power of 10" featuring the selection "Waltz".  Students can play along whether they are in the front ensemble, snare line, bass line, or tenor line.

Choralia offers part rehearsal tracks for a wide selection of choral repertoire. Most of it is Baroque/Classical/Romantic era rep, but there is a good selection of newer works as well (Gjeilo, Lauridsen, Rutter). Sound quality is a little funky, but they do the job.

Resources for modern band. Parts are provided for different instruments and links to video and audio recordings are also available. Jam tracks and other practice tools are also available on the Little Kids Rock site

Noteflight provides music notation software from the ease of a web browser. The program is free to use, and although there is a premium version, the free version has all the tools needed for learning and creating notated music. All works are saved in the cloud and can be accessed at anytime from any device that can access the website, making music composition easier than ever.

Noteflight is a free browser-based music notation tool. The software has cloud storage allowing you to work on creative musical products from any computer with an internet connection. It also connects to MIDI instruments. Noteflight has a paid subscription which allows you to store unlimited compositions, full access to all sounds, transposition, and the ability to print individual parts. Student accounts can be purchased which you to create "closed" classrooms allowing for creative musical products and collaboration amongst peers.

MusicTheory.net is a great website to teach theory to students. It has lessons on a variety of topics, interactive exercises to support the theory topics, and tools that could be used in conjunction with other activities in the classroom. There are also apps available for devices. The best part is that the exercises can be customized (scroll down to the bottom of the exercise or tools pages) with a permanent link so that students can take quizzes or have additional practice for specifics without having to change the settings for themselves. For example, note identification can be customized to the clef and range of a specific instrument and sent to those students for practice or quizzes.

List of great TED talks for music educators.

This site offers a 10 part series of 75 interviews and over 500 pieces of music on the growth and development of jazz. Begins in the New Orleans and takes the viewer through to Lincoln Gardens, Southside Chicago.