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Cello Online is a website with specific help for cello students. The website contains sheet music for students to download and play. The sheet music also has accompaniment for students to play along with. The website also contains fingering charts for cellists, technique information, information on how to care for the cello, information on the history of the cello and a page for Christmas music.

Cello Online is a website with specific help for cello students. The website contains sheet music for students to download and play. The sheet music also has accompaniment for students to play along with. The website also contains fingering charts for cellists, technique information, information on how to care for the cello, information on the history of the cello and a page for Christmas music.

Cello Online is a website devoted to the cello. It includes information about cello basics, such as how to set up the cello and start playing the cello, cello fingering charts, cello care, cello practice tips, how to read music, and much more. It also has free sheet music for the cello and exercises specifically for the cello. Finally, it offers a string class that discusses string music throughout history. It is a similar structure to Viola Online, with slight variations in what is offered for the instrument. There is also a link to a store for all these websites for purchases for the instruments.

CadenzaStringsNC is a YouTube channel created by Kevin Yen, Violinist and Violist. He has recorded and created playlists of many books and repertoire lists, including several volumes of the Suzuki Violin and Viola series. Some of his videos are also with the accompaniment for the songs or have practice tracks recorded at a slower tempo. This is a helpful resource for anyone preparing this literature for solo and ensemble performances as students can have an accurate example of the music to listen to at home and follow along with the correct bowings.

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.

Being a first-year teacher is, as I'm sure we all know, daunting and overwhelming, especially for those of us who seek to be the best that we can be for our students. Nonetheless, educator Jim Matthews provides his audience with a concise list of eight habits exhibited by several highly effective band directors, which includes but is not limited to having ensembles play long tones, engage in breathing exercises, and participate in warm-up routines that are both effective and efficient. By adopting each of these eight habits, Matthews is certain that every year of teaching will be nothing short of productive and rewarding.

This site includes several music lessons followed by games and quizzes for practice. There are other resources available on the site for teachers, parents, and students. The site includes a blog and a contact page.

This website provides browsers with a wide array of ear training exercises of varying difficulty levels.

This site is a great program for students to practice ear training. It is a simple interface but will test your ear.

This is a timer for getting work done. You can schedule how often you get breaks. The implications for school include pacing rehearsals and practice sessions.

This metronome is a great free website and application that students can use to help their practice with tempo in music.

Freddie the Frog has great resources if for K-3 students, especially if you have to books to teach with. The site offers games, theory practice and coloring pages that goes along with the book series.

Not only does the Smart Music Blog offer tips for using Smart Music and its related repertoire, but it also includes practical teaching advice from music educators. These tips include information for new teachers, advice about communicating with parents, instrument technique, curriculum guidance, and more. Information is available for teachers of all grade levels.

The Music Educator Blog is sponsored by Smartmusic and is a place where music teachers can share real-world teaching tips and tricks and receive training. There is also a section spotlighting educators and repertoire. The articles, information and training available on this blog would greatly benefit music teachers as well as their students.

Blog with ideas and resources for you instrumental music classes. Of course has ideas on how to utilize SmartMusic, but also has many ideas on how to switch up rehearsals and keep students engaged.

Ear Training practice. Set up for easy use for both mobile devices and computers. Easy interface, and step by step progression in ear training. Simple for students to understand, utilize, and be successful.

This website has resources for beginning strings and band. All the pieces have easy music patterns that are suitable for beginning players but are arranged in styles that are exciting and motivating to practice. This would be a good place to look for music for a beginning group's first concert. 

A social networking site for Arts Teachers in NYC that supports and enhances best teaching practices.

A site that allows students to study, jam and practice with interactive modules.

This resource is a web-based tool to practice hearing and labelling musical intervals. This would be an excellent tool to supplement aural skills training in middle or high school students.

Project Based Learning is an excellent strategy for increasing motivation and excitement through instruction. This article details the steps for designing a PBL unit.

Great source for a wide range of quizzes. There are a lot of options ranging from learning different instruments, note identification, rhythm practice, musician quizzes and more. There are lots of fun games that kids really enjoy.

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 web is an excellent resource to study and practice music theory. Advanced students, college students and professional musicians can take tutorials in reading music, scales, harmonic functions, intervals, chords and musical forms. After taking the tutorials there are exercises available to practice. The annual membership is only $20. The web is available in english and spanish.

Great music theory resource including interactive tutorials, drills and exercises.

This website is a great resource for K-5 music.  There are jokes, games, and information regarding famous composers, including recordings of famous pieces of music.  This can be used by a classroom of kids in a computer lab, or by a teacher for lesson planning.

Classics for Kids is a resources for teachers, parents, and children. It provides lesson plans, music games and interactive links, a podcast, tips for parents, and information about composers, instruments, and music history. The lesson plans (written by my former music education professor, Dr. Kay Edwards) are standards-based and incorporate elements of Orff, Kodaly, and Dalcroze.

This website is for elementary/general music education. It is a resources for lesson plans on composers, music theory, and music listening.