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Youtube playlist of play-along tracks to jazz standards

Dr. Jill Reese is an amazing musician and teacher, and she is also the creator of a very useful YouTube page with tons of ukulele play-a-long videos. She pairs music with chord symbols and indicates when each chord should be played in time with the music.

A compilation of play-along music recordings for students to use Boomwhackers or other similar instruments. Musication provides several free videos for elementary and middle school music students to learn to play along with the melody or chord structure of a given song. New videos are added often and students definitely enjoy playing along.

Musication has play-a-long videos for boomwhackers, hand bells, and simple percussion instruments. The videos are color coded and often have varying levels of difficulty. It provides a visual for melodic direction, durations, and harmony that helps students to see, hear, and experience music in a variety of ways.