hear the silence – every song starts from silence. Remind your choir. Ask them to stand in silence and focus on the sounds they can hear from outside the rehearsal room (wind, cars, children playing, dogs), then ask them to re-focus on the sounds from inside the rehearsal space (breathing, creaking floor, shuffling, throat clearing, doors banging).
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This is an online interactive and informative site. This page focuses on the Holidays Symphony and describes compositional techniques used by Charles Ives. It allows the user to "experiment" with sound.
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This is a great resource for making sure that you have assigned all of your percussion parts out to the percussionist. Plus, you can have the chart attached to the back wall of the band room and they will never have any excuse to not know what they are playing! -
This is a great website for randomly assigning drum parts to a concert band or symphonic orchestra. It will determine parts, generate lists of what each student needs, and keep percussion sections organized.
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Bobby McFerrin: Watch me play ... the audience! | TED Talk - 0 views
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This is a clip with Bobby McFerrin, using the audience to sing. Bobby McFerrin improvises over the top as he creates the baseline for the audience to sing. He also mentions that the pentatonic scale is understood by all of his audiences no matter where he goes. This can be an interesting way to introduce a pentatonic scale to students, or improvising in a pentatonic scale. This is part of a larger TED talk entitled "Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus" -
This TED Talk informs students about the natural connection humans have with music. Bobby McFerrin describes the nature of the pentatonic scale. This is a resource I like to introduce when first learning about the pentatonic scale. This shows students that music and nature are connected. I also use this for my students when I talk about the Fibonacci sequence with my math and music unit.
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From the front of the choir: 10 exercises guaranteed to get your singers listening more... - 0 views
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sing the same note and disappear – choose a note that everyone can sing comfortably in the same octave for quite some time. Get everyone to stand very close together facing different directions. Mix the usual parts up. Everyone starts to sing on an ‘aw’ as a sustained drone. Tell the singers that after they’ve taken a breath they need to gently ease back into the overall sound. Ask them to match the quality and volume of all those around them. Tell them that you want them to disappear into the sound so it’s not possible to tell who is singing what.
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stop conducting – one problem with a choir can be that the singers become so used to someone standing in front of them conducting that they stop taking responsibility for themselves and start to believe they can’t do it without that person guiding them. Without telling the choir, start a song off, gradually stop conducting, then walk off and listen. There will be an initial blip probably, but then they’ll manage fine and begin to listen more to each other. Repeat the exercise, but just give the starting notes and tell them they all have to begin together but without you bringing them in.
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Sometimes students have trouble with understanding what to listen for while singing or don't pay attention to anything other than their own individual part of the ensemble. This blog describes creative a ways to enhance how students listen within the choral ensemble.
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40 Essential Rudiments - Vic Firth - 1 views
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This is a great resource for any percussionist looking to improve or refine their rudiments. Vic Firth has put together a website that includes demonstration videos, play-along tracks at different tempi, and lessons for each rudiment. As a non-percussionist, this website helps my percussionists with rudiments more than I can. -
This link is the Vic Firth page over the 40 Essential Rudiments for snare drum. Vic Firth is a fantastic resource for anything percussion, but their rudiment page is my favorite because it breaks down each rudiment for the students and they demonstrate each rudiment open-closed-open. This is a great resource to to send with students so they are sure to practice rudiments correctly on their own.
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Jazz | Music 101 | Ken Burns - 0 views
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"Composition is slowed down improvisation," and both disciplines deal with the same challenge — how to organize and present ideas in a coherent fashion.
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One of the most common misconceptions about jazz is that it is spun out of the air in a totally impromptu manner. This notion exists because many small jazz groups do not read music when they play. The truth of the matter is that what those musicians are actually doing is spontaneously creating a very sophisticated form of theme and variations
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The framework is flexible so that the soloists may shorten or lengthen their improvisations depending on the inspiration of the moment. The other players, then, have a responsibility to react to what has preceded them
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Creativity in music research offers a great deal of insight on this idea in improvisation that can be applied to more idioms than jazz.
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To many, composed music and improvised music seem to be opposites, but in jazz, they merge in a unique fashion.
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But improvisation is not the be all and end all of jazz. Composers such as Duke Ellington and Eddie Sauter wrote, on occasion, jazz compositions practically devoid of improvisation. But the real challenge comes when a composer integrates improvisation into a
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SmartMusic Features | SmartMusic - 0 views
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Immediate feedback Students see which notes and rhythms they played correctly/incorrectly, receive a performance score, and hear their recording. Repertoire library Only SmartMusic includes 95+ method books, 5,400+ ensemble titles and thousands of solos from top publishers. Practice tools Vital tools – including a metronome, tuner, and the ability to loop sections – are built in and always close at hand. Communication loop Both teachers and students can see each others’ written comments on every assignment and student recording.
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Smart Music is used by school band programs all across the country, and now students can use it for free on their own! With Smart Music, teachers can use established literature, method books, and state scale lists to facilitate individual student practice and to assign paying tests for students to complete on their own time. Students can also search for literature on their own and practice along to a recording!
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It is best to introduce the sol-fa names by learning to recognise the intervals in familiar nursery songs.
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It is best to introduce the sol-fa names by learning to recognise the intervals in familiar nursery songs.
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Start by teaching your little one So-Mi, which in the scale of C is G and E and sounds like “cuckoo” or “see-saw.”
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m2 Jaws M2 Happy Birthday m3 Greensleeves M3 Kumbaya P4 here Comes the Bride TT Maria P5 Twinkle Twinkle m6 We are Young M6 NBC m7 Star Trek M7 Take me on P8 Somewhere Over the Rainbow
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When So and Mi are familiar, you can introduce La (A).
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Good to have a step-by-step (pun intended) for introducing little ones to solfedge.
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Next you can introduce both Dos, high Do and low Do or bottom C and top C.
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A very good song for teaching both Dos is The Balloon Song, which can be sung with real balloons and is always very popular!
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Fixed Do ( used in a lot of the European countries ) where they actually use the sol-fa note names to identify notes rather than letter names (C-D-E etc.) So this means the note names remain the same regardless of the key that is being played.
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An old professor told me fixed Do was helpful for producing musicians with perfect pitch, however that is not my goal when teaching solfege.
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Movable Do where Do is always the tonic. For example, in C major, C is do; in D major, D is do; in E-flat minor, E-flat is do, and so on. And the sol-fa syllables always stay the same when going from one key to the next regardless if there are sharps or flats.
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The moveable method gets too complex for younger children, so I tend to use the fixed Do method, but just wanted to clarify the difference here.
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Could put every song in the same key for a while before explaining moveable do.
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A helpful guide for integrating and teaching solfege in the elementary school music classroom.
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7 Effective Ways to Use Acka Backa in the Music Classroom - PRIMARILY MUSIC - 0 views
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I love elementary music for this reason-- lesson activities are themed and have fun games attached to them!
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ou definitely don’t want them just sitting down waiting for the game to end!
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This song is a perfect song to teach and reinforce those rhythms in the lower grades (K-2)
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Acka Backa is made up of so, la, and mi so if you are looking for a song to teach those pitches this is it!
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Whoever is out goes to the center of the circle and selects one of the four voices. Whatever voice he or she selects is how we will perform the song the next round.
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I like that this version keeps them involved in the game even after they get "out"
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Use Acka Backa to reinforce steady beat with your little ones. You can have them clap the beat, play rhythm sticks or pass around a ball or bean bag on the beat.
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I like the variety of options presented here-- some classes will be able to handle certain options better than others will.
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Because they have learned Acka Backa in Kindergarten it’s a great way to bring it back when you’re teaching meter and have them feel the beat. I teach Acka Backa in 2/4 meter but it can also be used to teach 4/4.
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I think it would be a great example to show older classes *why* it is in 2/4 compared to 4/4 (beat stresses, important words, etc.)
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Blog featuring different ways to utilize a circle game for music instruction.
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Tailor your philosophy of education to the specific job you're applying for-
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an elementary general music class vs a high school band job.
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This is particularly for general music teachers, as truly assessing all of the hundreds of students on all of the many areas general music covers can be a particular challenge.
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If you current/ former students were asked to describe your teaching style, what adjectives would they use?
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there needs to be some enthusiasm and energy to accompany your knowledge.
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I'm looking for a certain level of organization that is necessary for effective teaching. I'm looking for organization and thoughtfulness in your answers that shows me a certain deliberateness to organize/ plan/ reflect to go along with your passion and creativity.
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Ask good questions in the interview yourself!
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What are you looking for your music teacher to bring to the team? Is there a choir in place? Could it be arranged? How would you feel about having a mid-year musical/play?
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"Down, Down Baby" is from the Amidons. SO FUN! Apparently this is a favorite, because it's being sung on the bus!
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This would also be a fun circle game to play at the end of class if you find yourself with a little time left over.
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Mamalama: I learned this in Level 3, and we take it a bit faster than in this video, but it is SO FUN! I even had a student get the last part after just a few listenings. CRAZY!
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Play Kahoot! - Enter game PIN here - 0 views
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This application can be used to create quizzes for students to participate in. I use kahoot for students to plug in answers for review games in my music history classes. I also use it as an anonymous ways to get polls done by the band.
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I use this game with my students to help with note names. This makes naming notes a game and competitive. It also includes the alto clef and while many worksheets leave out the alto clef. - ...7 more comments...
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I use this game with my students to help with note names. This makes naming notes a game and competitive. It also includes the alto clef and while many worksheets leave out the alto clef.
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Music Racer is a music game students can use make learning note names, fingerings, and music terms fun! Students can pick the instrument they play or choose another instrument if learning and secondary instrument. -
Online game that helps students practice note identification, drill basic music terms and fingerings. One of the great features is that it can be set for a wide variety of instruments - each using appropriate clef. -
This is a website aimed at younger students where they can test their knowledge of instrument fingerings and techniques through a game. It is especially helpful for entry level instruments, such as beginning band and recorder classes. -
This is a website aimed at younger students where they can test their knowledge of instrument fingerings and techniques through a game. It is especially helpful for entry level instruments, such as beginning band and recorder classes.
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Purpose of this resource: This website can be used for practicing note identification, fingering recognition and music terminology. Students are given a score for each of their practice sessions (races) and results are posted on a worldwide leader board. Musical Content: This website generates quizzes on note names and fingerings based on instrument. There is also a quiz dedicated to identifying the meaning of musical terminology. Other information: This resource has instrument selections for band and orchestra instruments, piano and recorder. Vocalists and other instrumentalists should select the instrument that is closest to theirs. -
Music Racer is a website that uses games to help reinforce music reading concepts. The purpose of the website is to reinforce musical terms, note names, and fingerings through the use of speed based games. There are multiple levels of difficulty and students can choose their instrument to personalize their game. The games are not customizable and students with at least a half year of experience would benefit most from this website. There is a top 50 leader board for each level of the different games that is based on the speed in which the game is completed. Teachers can use this website as a fun way to continue to reinforce fundamental music reading concepts. -
This website is an excellent tool for reinforcing note reading and fluency. Students can progress through three levels of identifying notes on a staff specific to their instrument. They can work to get faster times and eventually reach the top 50 list. -
This site has 3 reinforcement games in it for band students. In order to start the games students select their instrument, it then takes them to the appropriate exercise for the students. The reinforcement games are note identification, fingering reinforcement and music terms.
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Anita Collins: How playing an instrument benefits your brain | TED Talk - 0 views
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a TED talk on how music benefits the brain. This is a well known video but a worthwhile one to have easy access to!
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Rubrics and Rubric Makers - 0 views
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This site helps build rubrics used for assessments. You can design your own rubrics for playing tests, performances and projects.
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This is a website that links to various rubric-creating formats, designed to save educators time and effort in making more visually-appealing assessment tools. There is a brief article that discusses the benefits of implementing a rubric in assessment, and there are multiple links to other articles that discuss the pros and cons of utilizing rubrics at various levels of education. Within the initial article are 25 different formats, some more topic-specific than others, to generate rubrics with pictures and descriptions. It is easy to use and much more efficient than creating a rubric from scratch.
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Free music composition and notation software | MuseScore - 0 views
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For teachers with a SmartBoard, this website gives free music games for use in the classroom. Most of these games are appropriate for K-5 and cover a variety of music topics. Intervals, pitch discrimination, listening, and basic music theory are the topics covered in these games. - ...4 more comments...
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For teachers with a SmartBoard, this website gives free music games for use in the classroom. Most of these games are appropriate for K-5 and cover a variety of music topics. Intervals, pitch discrimination, listening, and basic music theory are the topics covered in these games.
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Free music games that can be used on a Smartboard in an elementary music classroom. -
This is a website that teaches many musical concepts. It can be used on computers and through Smartboards. -
Smart board music games that are useful for students of all levels. These are fun, interactive ways to check for understanding and even present new ideas. -
I'll definitely have to explore these games on my own before taking them into the classroom. So far, some of them seem pretty advanced for my students. I also am not sure about how to play many of the games because of lack of directions. -
A collection of SmartBoard apps for use in a general music classroom setting. Focus is on beginner music theory with such topics as pitch discrimination, basic scales and song structure. Files are Flash-based and can be used on a SmartBoard seamlessly.
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Music library full of scores and recordings. This site allows teachers to obtain material to analyze in music theory classes and allows them to play recordings of the selected music. -
This could be a great music resource for any teacher or student. If you have an older score or piece that you are looking for, it is probably on this website. This could be a good resource for score study or advanced theory study.