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Purpose of Resource: This website can be used to identify the chord progressions for many modern songs. The website can also be used to transpose chord progressions into various keys. Specific Musical Content: This webpage contains the chord progressions of over 5,000 songs. The original song can be played as well as just the chord progression on a piano. Each song can be transposed into different keys and modes while preserving sonic relationships. Theory Tab also can display the chords being played on a piano keyboard or a Guitar Fretboard. Other Information: This could be a great resource for any composition units, as well as for directors looking to incorporate popular music, or arrange popular tunes for their ensembles.

Children like games. They find it easy to play with toys, building blocks, and puppets. Children require an experience of creative play with music to enhance their understanding of musical concepts. This website's sketch pad and rhythm band games foster children's understanding of pitch, rhythm, and melody. Aural listening is a good tool for children to understand music. By listening, they get an experience of how an instrument sounds, what pitch sounds high or low, and how a melody sounds. This enhances their musicianship before they get into the details of these aspects of music.

This is an ear training game using a "matching card" format. It looks simple and almost boring, however, once a person starts playing the game it becomes very interesting, This is well suited for middle school as it does not appear to "babyish".

Note pair is an online music game designed to help children read music notes easily and quickly. This game helps children learn to read music notes step by step, at their own pace. A child listens to a note, and tries to match it to a similar note. This ear training computer game lets you learn music notes and their pitches. Students and pupils who play a musical instrument as a child have a better verbal memory than those with no music training. Aural listening skills enhance brain development and students who listen more to music are calm, critical thinkers, and confident. Introducing such a game as a lesson starter even for classes that are not learning music fosters concentration and interest of the learners. Their brain becomes alert and ready to take in any information.

This website offers a multitude of resources designed for music-making. This specific organization is devoted to offering musical programs to students who are in the 80% of the population that are not involved in performing ensembles. It offers curriculum, lesson plans, and interactive activities for guitar, piano, drums, bass, ukulele, composition, voice and more. There are free PDF songbooks and lesson plans that are connected to the program, that are extremely helpful towards teacher and student interest. The best part of the program is that the majority of the music is examples that students know already - a lot of pop, rock, and even hip-hop. It connects the bridge between traditional musical concepts with music of today.

Little Kids Rock has a multitude of resources for creating a modern band in your classroom. There are songs loaded on the website that include tab for ukulele, guitar, and bass. There are also drum set patterns included. This website serves to expose educators and students modern band and provides lesson plans to go along with the popular songs. Little Kids Rock also provides workshops on how to effectively teach a modern band program.

This website offers many lessons for instruments that students may be interested in playing (piano, guitar, songwriting, drums,etc). The website offers video lessons as well as current play-along songs for students to put their newly learned skills to work.

The Rhythm Trainer is a simple flash-based game that reinforces rhythm concepts. Students can either enter the rhythm that they hear, or choose the correct audio that matches the rhythm they see. Each example is four beats long, and there are a limited number of rhythms available. Students can select any or all of the 8 rhythms available to practice. Results can be emailed to the student's teacher.

The Rhythm trainer is another great source for helping students learn the principles of ear training. Teachers can load listening examples of varying rhythmic figures which students can respond to picking the examples they think best fit. Students can choose two modes of rhythm training which either provide them with choices for answers or require them build their answers based on the specific rhythms they are being trained on. The Rhythm Trainer does require the use Adobe Flash Player in order to play the examples but can be great for anyone teaching or learning the very basics developing good ear training skills.

This is a great tool to have to teach students rhythm. I use this to teach my private students to strengthen their ability to read rhythm. They find this website quite fun, and they enjoy all of the practices in which assign.

Apronus Piano is an online piano that works on both touchscreens and with piano keyboards. As opposed to some online keyboard that play C when you press the letter C, D when you press the letter D, it uses the keyboard as close to a piano as possible. The second row of keys corresponds to the white keys on the piano and the number row corresponds to the black keys as they occur (with one or two exceptions). The bottom two rows can be used to play chords. The range of the keyboard can be adjusted to hear different notes. This online piano can be used as extra practice for general music or piano students or as a substitution for a real piano if keyboards are not available but computers are available. It could also be used in conjunction with composition assignments or for choral students to practice vocal lines.

Allows you to watch performances from different angles in order to see the conductor and different instrumentalists. Allows for a unique view of an orchestra where you can be up close to the people playing in a way that the full view of an orchestra doesn't allow. The interactive nature of being able to change camera angles is also engaging, and would get students interested in seeing the different facets of a whole symphonic performance.

Carnegie Hall made an animated and interactive listening map for all four movements of Dvorak's "New World Symphony" and it's wonderful! I use this with my sixth graders during our music history unit!

This site has a listening map while Symphony No. 9 is playing. It helps tell a story while also showing themes and what instruments are playing.

The graphics on this website are amazing- any child would enjoy browsing through and learning about musical instruments, composition, and composers. Also very neat is the game where you can "play" different musical instruments. The numbers on the computer keypad become notes in a scale!

This is owned and operated by the San Francisco symphony. It requires Adobe flash so desktop computers are suggested for use.

This is a website that i have used with my students, more so free time. Allowing to practice their skill but also have fun doing it as it relates to games. The purpose of this would be for students to explore having fun with music!.

My 6th grade students ask every year if we can play the star spangled banner at the Veteran's day ceremonies. I now have a version that is possible for them to play!

This site has some great resources for ukulele and guitar learning in the classroom. These are free. The powerpoints are especially great because it is a step by step lesson to get students to play their instruments as quickly as possible (including little excerpts of songs in a different key). The rest of the site provides "easy" versions of popular songs for students to begin playing quickly. It was given to me in a conference session about using popular music to teach ukulele and guitar.

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.

The LSO Play website allows for exploration of the orchestra and instruments. There recordings available for few and camera angles may be changed throughout the recording. In addition, there are musician biographies as well as masterclass videos for all the instruments. This is a great tool to share with students in watching and interacting with music recordings and insight from performing musicians.

On this site, one can explore all knowledge needed to learn correct playing practices on the recorder. Along with fingering charts and sample music, one can find articles on overall playing technique, mechanics and instrument choice.

This google play music channel is a great station to share examples of the modern language of small group jazz with students. Cannonball Adderly, Art Blakey, Blue Mitchell, John Coltrane, and many more can be heard. A great resource for hard-to-find or expensive examples of small group jazz.

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.

Band in a Box is a program that will allow the user to plug in chords and it will create a recording for you to use as an accompaniment. This program is extremely helpful for music teachers who need recordings for their students to play or sing with!

Band in a Box is a program that will allow the user to plug in chords and it will create a recording for you to use as an accompaniment. This program is extremely helpful for music teachers who need recordings for their students to play or sing with!

This is a website that describes software for learning the recorder. It uses interdisciplinary aspects that seem to be interesting - and probably appealing to students.

Here is as software program review of Go for the Gold! I have never seen a software program for the Recorder. This program can be useful for elementary school music students that are beginning to play on song flutes.

Blog dedicated to musical learning strategies

This is a site where students can hear radio shows from the station of the same name as the site, hear instruments demonstrations, play musical games, and review terms from a musical dictionary. Teachers can also benefit from this site by taking advantage of its lesson plans and other teaching resources.

Great website for elementary music class. Easy to understand composer biographies, good music, fun games and a wonderful way to access classical music information.

Classics for Kids is a site that allows children to further learn about composers, music, play games that reinforce rhythms, note names, and improvisation.