This is good of course, in that it means that music can take flight easily in those who have an ear for it and they can move on quickly to the joy of music-making, both on their own and with others. But this same skill can become a disadvantage when those same students want to move into more complicated repertoire or advanced improvisational music-making. Here, their lack of foundation in the theoretical language of music will impede their progress, and it will be frustrating for already advanced players to stop and ‘go back to the beginning’ to pick up the language and basic theoretical concepts they need in order to move forward with their playing.
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JoyTunes Recorder Master (Beta) - 1 views
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Yousician - Your personal music teacher - 0 views
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Yousician is a great resource for learning the guitar, bass, ukelele, or piano. Students can watch video tutorials and move up when they pass levels while playing songs with fun background music. The program/app provides instant feedback on pitch and rhythm. Teachers can use Yousician with a class on a Smart Board. In a group setting, Yousician cannot provide feedback, but it does provide lesson plans and even has a SongCreator. It is free to use with time limits on feedback, or can be upgraded to premium for $9.99/person with unlimited feedback. Students can sign up for their own account and teachers can track their progress through a Teacher account. It is fun, engaging, and provides a well rounded education in these instruments. There are knowledge tracks for each instrument which cover music theory and ear training.
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Free podcasts available online, also on iTunes, to learn how to play jazz piano. There are a lot of episodes and it starts simple and easy before it gets a bit more advanced. There's an easy progression of increasing difficulty. These podcasts are a great resource for students and teachers for increasing their jazz piano abilities.
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"I don't get it!" Helping those who can't help themselves - musically. « Musi... - 0 views
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nd it’s also why it is so important to teach instrumentalists to sing the melodies they play as part of their learning process. This connects their physical response at the instrument and their technical understanding to their innately human ability to express themselves with their singing voice.
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never separate the look of something on the page or on the blackboard from the sound of something they already know how to do.
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After this happens, I then am very strict in applying the Second Principle of my Solfa choir workshops: ‘Stop While You Are Ahead’.
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Adding one more concept on top of this one – for example modulation to the relative minor, or even to the (!warning!) so-called ‘flat keys’ can immediately burst the delicate bubble of achievement and understanding.
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Third Principal: ‘Be Kind, but Apply the Second Principle’. While it can be difficult to curb my own enthusiasm for my subject and my happiness at having conveyed something that leads to interesting questions, I do try to restrict myself to giving only very brief answers to further theoretical questions before closing these conversations and moving on to something else that is practical and that I know my students can do.
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This blog discuss ways teachers can help students understand material that they man not comprehend during a lesson. This is extremely helpful when your are not getting the necessary feedback from students.
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An article that discusses finer points in the "Art" of teaching; when students don't grasp a concept. Is it always the teachers fault? Can the student be doing anything differently to help on their end? This article has possible solutions!
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The Ultimate List of Online Music Education Activities - Cornerstone Confessions - 0 views
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Creating Music Block Game–create a 3-note pattern and then listen to a variety of patterns to choose the one you created Creating Music Comparing Game–listen to two melodies and determine if they are the same or different Creating Music Block Game with Rhythm–list the block game above only with an 8-note melodic and rhythmic pattern Creating Music About Pitch–listen to classical music excerpts demonstrating rising and lowering pitch
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12 Steps–Select the sound heard to help Alice (in Wonderland) up the stairs Orchestra Game–listen and identify the instrument played
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BBC Seaside Activity—match sounds with descriptions BBC Mood Music—listen to music selections and match with a mood BBC Instrument Matchup—match sounds with instrument BBC Quiz—review of aural rhythm, style, and instrument recognition Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” –Interactive Listening Map
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PBS Toopy and Binoo Bubbles—musical memory game DJ Games Music Matching–imitate melodies played on a solfege ladder Sousa Palooza–an interactive music map of a famous Sousa march turned into an asteroid-like game Note Pair–aural concentration game
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Theta Music Trainer–many aural training games for everything from scales, intervals, chord progressions, rhythms, and more Music Memory–aural solfege training Music Teacher Games–many games for staff, piano key, rhythm, and aural recognition
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Melody Mayhem 1–recognize a melody Storm Chasers–recognize melodic direction Catch the Coconut–aural interval recognition Good Ear–ear training exercises for intervals, chords, scales, cadences and more Echo Time with Annie–aural concentration game
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Free Improvisation software tool for beginning to intermediate jazz musicians.
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The software has its occasional glitches (it is free after all) and does not allow for audio input like many paid doppelgangers, but this allows students to understand chord progressions, work out solo lines (and notate them using colorized notes for feedback), play along with auto-accompaniment and utilizes the brick chord layout for easy form understanding.
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Children's Music Workshop is a resource site for parents to help reinforce proper practices for beginning instrument players. It provides tips for putting the horn together and tips on how to help children progress on their instruments.
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This website is great for beginning musicians. It provides instructional videos for the flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, violin and cello. It provides suggestions for the parents of these beginning musicians. It is a great tool for music advocacy.
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Ear Training - 4 views
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Intervals: In this exercise, you will hear two notes in sequence. Your goal is to identify the interval between the two notes.
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Ear training website with exercises to help improve ear training. Various exercises and categories provide good opportunities for practice and developments.
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Ear training website with exercises to help improve ear training. Various exercises and categories provide good opportunities for practice and developments.
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Ear training website with exercises to help improve ear training. Various exercises and categories provide good opportunities for practice and developments.
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This is a simple, yet effective free online interactive software for ear training. It offers practice tools in: intervals, chords, scales, chord progressions, perfect pitch, scale degrees (functional), intervals in context, an melodic dictation.
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This website is perfect for listening exercises. The interval practice was very appropriate and the difficulty can even be adjusted based on the level of the student. I would like to use this site with my after-school chorus.
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This website is a game designed to introduce instruments to students (K-5) in a fun and interactive way. Benjamin Britten's composition "A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" is used as the basis for this adventure.
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This website is a game designed to introduce instruments to students (K-5) in a fun and interactive way. Benjamin Britten's composition "A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" is used as the basis for this adventure.
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Interactive program for my students to learn about the set up and instruments of the orchestra!
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Interactive program for my students to learn about the set up and instruments of the orchestra!
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This site is a great way to introduce the instruments of the orchestra. It can be used individually to play the games or with the whole class to introduce instruments.
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This is a great website to pair with the piece, "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" by Benjamin Britten. This interactive game describes all of the instruments in detail, offering relative outside information about each instrument. Students can play along either in a group setting or at home.
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A great resource for general music classes. Great guide to the orchestra for kids.
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This website is fantastic for students as individuals or as a full class activity! Step by step it takes them on a safari to learn about each instrument of the orchestra using Benjamin Britten's "A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra". It is kid-friendly and would be great for students in 2nd and 3rd grade. It tests their listening skills using games deciphering things like notes in a sequence, or high and low.
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Incredible multimedia, interactive version of Benjamin Britten's famous work. Produced by The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall. Students log in or free play a safari adventure to save an orchestra. Instrument families are explored in detail with listening examples in a leveled gaming experience. Interdisciplinary connections to safari excursion, story telling, sound properties, animals and travel. Teachers can create an account to track student progress and/or assessment. Works well with an IWB.
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I found this site while discovering music technology for Module 5. This is a great interactive game for elementary age children who are or have studied instruments, instrument families, and the orchestra. It teaches the player new information, assesses their understanding of that information, and has opportunities for further study.
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This is an interactive way to explore and discover instruments of the orchestra. Students will locate and learn about instruments on a "safari type" adventure. This is great for younger students.
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I use this composition to discuss instruments and instrument families with 3rd grade. Unfortunately, I haven't found something to really engage the students. I think this website might actually intrigue students into learning about the instrument.s
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I use this composition to discuss instruments and instrument families with 3rd grade. Unfortunately, I haven't found something to really engage the students. I think this website might actually intrigue students into learning about the instrument.s
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The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra allows students to learn all about the different instruments in the orchestra, as well as listening examples of classical pieces of music. The games provide a brief lesson, and then students can participate through interactive games. I find this site very informative and the kids love the story line that goes along with the game sequence. Great resource in preparation for our annual Young People's Concert at the Bob Carr in Orlando.
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Great site for teaching and learning about the instruments of the orchestra. It also has games students can interact with as a group or by themselves.
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This is a fun, interactive website that helps students get to know the instruments, the set up of a professional ensemble, different genres, and musical roles.
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This website is a game developed by Carnegie Hall that helps younger students learn the instruments of the orchestra. The game uses Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. This interactive game helps students understand the layout of an orchestra, the ranges of the individual instruments, and how they sound individually and together in an ensemble. This is an excellent tool for elementary music!
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Music Education Software | Music Prodigy - 0 views
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Music Prodigy Core makes practice and assessments easier. Instant red note/green note evaluation as students play A comprehensive solution for all voices, strings, percussion, winds, guitar, piano (patented polyphonic pitch recognition system) All student levels, general music through university No external microphone required Includes thousands of music titles No training required Teacher classroom dashboard with pre-formatted student progress reports iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, Windows PCs, Mac OS X, and Amazon Kindle Fire
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A program that is built from the teacher's perspective, Music Prodigy provides students with an area to practice, using a built-in metronome. Assessment is also available in this program. As its name implies, you will build musical prodigies.
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Music Delta | Admin - 3 views
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Music Delta comes with an ever growing collection of courses. Whether you want to learn about the music of Mozart or the different styles of jazz, there is courses for you. The courses contain articles, interactive applications, music examples and quizzes from the large content that is Music Delta. The students can take the courses the teacher has pinned to the class course list. The teacher can track the student's progress and score.
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Online Practice Record - a music resource for practicing music more effectively. - 1 views
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Online Practice Record is a fantastic tool to aide performers of all levels with keeping a record of their practice. The program is easy to use and tracks practice time, music practiced, and questions or comments the user might have to refer to later. The records can be printed or emailed to others, which is an important feature for teachers. The teacher even has the option of entering comments directly into a practice record.
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This site is great for teachers looking to motivate students to practice more consistently. Its purpose is to make practicing more interactive by providing a record of student practicing and the opportunity for teachers to view and comment on the student's practicing. The recourses include practice logs, comments by teachers, student-set goals, and the pieces practiced. This site is very student-directed in the sense that the students set their own practice goals and must be motivated to be more successful in their practicing in order to make progress in their record of practicing statistics. Although you do have to register to use this site, there is no charge and it allows teachers to provdie students with some guidance in their practicing.
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This is a website that students can use to track their daily practice habits. It tracks amount of time, what was practiced and all records can be printed off for students to analyze. The lesson teacher is also able to add comments on each post.
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Yousician | Learn to Play | Your Personal Music Teacher - 0 views
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Yousician is a great software resource that teaches students to play a number of instruments including: piano, guitar, bass, ukulele, and voice. The software is set-up in a creative, game-like structure that tracks student progress and ability level through playing assessments. It's a great tool to use during general music units that focus on performance practice of these different instruments. The free version is open to all for a full 20 minutes a day. Great tool for students of all ages.
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Yousician is another tool to build independent learners and musicians. Students with access to a computer or other device at home can build their instrumental playing skills on ukulele, guitar, bass, or piano with this self-guided program. Additionally, this resource can be used in the general music classroom to teach interval training, intonation, and rhythmic accuracy.
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Yousician is an app for Android and iOS devices that can aid you and your students in learning how to play guitar, bass, ukulele, and piano, while also providing guidance with voice development. The app includes a free and premium version. There are videos and lessons that you and your students can follow along to.
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SmartMusic has interactive, web-based editions of many popular instrumental, band, chorus, and orchestra method books, as well as a massive collection of sheet music. Students can listen, loop, record and submit pieces they are working on. A neat feature of SmartMusic is that students can click on a single note and hear how it is supposed to sound, and how to finger that note on their instrument. Students can adjust tempo, play with a metronome, use a tuner to check pitch, and more. A paid subscription allows teachers to create online classrooms for assigning and assessing work, and have access to the entire SmartMusic catalog.
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This is a program that can assist in students practice. For a price you can pull up, record, and have your performance assessed on one platform. Teachers can track progress as well.
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SmartMusic is a fantastic subscription based software that can be purchased by schools to assist with lesson book and repertoire study. I have used it with my students and our sight reading skills have been tremendously better. We have also performed better at adjudications due to the amount of sight reading exercises available.
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SmartMusic, one of the top music practice, accompaniment, and assessment programs available. SmartMusic has changed the face of the performing arts in schools for a very affordable cost.
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SmartMusic is music learning software for music teachers and students. It makes music learning easy and fun. Students can continue their learning outside school. Teachers can also assess students outside the school wall. Smart music is good for rehearsals because a student can rehearse at home when the teacher is listening in and correcting him/her from anywhere else. It is easy to access and a good resource for music classes.
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The purpose of the resource is for student and teacher practice/classroom tools. The content included in this source is a subscription to a web-based service that allows students and educators access to sight-reading material, repertoire accompaniments, and method books. Could be useful for encouraging student practice
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This is an online site for ear training. It has tests covering intervals, chords, scales, cadences etc.
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A basic platform with ear training exercises at various levels of difficulty, including jazz chords, intervals, scales, and cadences.
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For teachers who want to help their students improve their ear-training skills, Good-Ear is a great and easy-to-use website that focuses entirely on this topic. This resource has a simple layout and allows its users to train their aural skills on anything from intervals and chords to harmonic progressions. Teachers who are just beginning to introduce this skill to their students can also find use in the beginner level training exercises. Good-Ear is free and can easily be used by not only teachers, but also students who have access to an electronic device and internet source.
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This is great tool to develop an ear for music. It has all of the qualities and the features to be able to help the student become a stronger performer. Being able to hear is very important when it comes to music. What I love mostly about this training tool, it strengthens your ability to enhance perfect pitch.
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MusicTheory.net is a free resource that provides lessons and practice on music theory concepts. Lessons include musical concepts such as note names, meter, scales, key signatures, intervals, chords, chord progressions and more. Each lessons comes with exercises that provide an opportunity for students to gain confidence with the concept at hand. Exercises can be personalized to the students knowledge and ability.
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This website is great, and I use it every day in my classroom! There are lessons, exercises, tools, and even apps you can download on different devices. You could use this in a general or instrumental setting, and at any grade level.
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Musictheory.net is a free and powerful online resource for teachers who are looking lessons, student exercises or other learning tools. Teachers can browse various lessons that cover topics ranging from the basics of the staff to understanding complex time signatures. The lessons on this website can prove to be useful for all levels of music education.
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Musictheory.net is a great resource for students to learn about music theory and explore learning more on their own. The lessons and exercises are well-crafted and of great quality. The recent addition of apps for lessons and exercises provides a great low-cost option for students to continue learning on their own, but also allows for classrooms to be equipped with the apps for low costs, assuming that iPads are available.
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Sight Reading Factory is a subscription based website with the ability to generate unlimited sight reading examples. This is great for group sight reading in class, individual practice, or assessment purposes. Each exercise is fully customizable to suit your students needs.
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A web-based sight-reading tool that general exercises that can be customized to meet the needs of your band program. You can create opportunities for individual sight-reading as well full ensemble. The assessment tool can track the progress and report the practice sessions. Teacher subscription is $34.99 per year and students can receive access for as low as $2 per year.
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The Sight Reading Factory link is one of the best sight-reading websites I have come across to date. Within the free demo, I was able to access sight reading exercises for a number of band, instrumental, and vocal practice lessons. In my personal exploration of the demo, I first looked into locating sight reading exercises for piano. I was able to edit the time signature and key signature before seeing the practice exercises. This feature is GREAT for people who are learning to play/count in different meters or using accidentals in their piano playing. The same can be said for people learning to utilize solfedge in their singing, utilize new fingerings in their instrumental playing, or simply challenge themselves. The website offers multiple difficulty levels, making the use of this website in a secondary music school setting ideal. Sight reading exercises and study are some of the major contributors to my development as a musician and educator. Since the exercises are generated on command, the site provides unlimited sight reading exercises to its users, making its longevity a strong selling-point.
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Sight Reading Factory is a cloud-based program allowing students daily practice with newly generated exercises each time. Check out the demo; free trials are available for up to 20 exercises generated.
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Sight Reading Factory provides unlimited number of exercises for sight reading/singing to students. This program provides exercises based on instrumentation and other needs/skill levels to accommodate all levels. It also works as a great assessment tool by tracking what and how the student sight reads in real time.
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SightReadingFactory.com makes practicing the important skill of sight reading quick, easy, effective and fun! This cloud-based service allows you to customize and generate unlimited sight reading examples instantly, on-demand for students of all ages and abilities.
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Sight Reading Factory is a great resource for all musicians looking to better their sigh treading ability. It develops a random sight reading exercise for all instruments and is something that can be worked on at an individual level or through a school subscription. Quick set-up and easy to use!
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This site offers customize-able sight-reading examples that are composed in real time in a variety of combinations. It may be used by the music teacher in whole group setting in the classroom, or student accounts may be purchased for use with at-home practice and assessment. The annual fee is reasonable.
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This is the best sightreading website I have encountered. A student is able to customize the exercises to his/her level of ability and it will create random sightreading excerpts. It is certainly a tool I always suggest to my students to invest in.
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This is the best sightreading website I have encountered. A student is able to customize the exercises to his/her level of ability and it will create random sightreading excerpts. It is certainly a tool I always suggest to my students to invest in.
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Sight Reading Factory offers teachers and students opportunities to practice sight reading using complete customization of exercises: time signatures, key signatures, difficulty level and more.
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Sight Reading Factory is a comprehensive online sight reading tool which provides on-demand computer-generated music examples which are customizable by instrument, playing level, length, key, and time signature. The service provides pre-programmed levels or can be fully customized by the user. Sight Reading Factory covers all major instruments (including voices and piano) and ensembles. Rhythm-only examples are also available. Once configured, the service provides unlimited, computer-generated sight reading examples based on the settings. Although randomly generated, the algorithm delivers rather authentic, musical selections. The user has two choices for participation: timed review period or free play. Settings can also be adjusted to toggle metronome click and cursor, as well as making measures disappear before or after playing.
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Unlimited sight reading exercises for every instrument and ensemble. Music teachers can customize exercises for the skill level of their students and print each exercise if needed.
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Sight Reading Factory is a great technology music-education tool. The site offers a short free trial, but the annual fee is very inexpensive. The technical support is great, and can problem solve quickly. Build sight-reading skills with the entire class, or create individual sight-reading assignments for students. Educators can generate custom sight-reading examples by easy selection of criteria. This site is worth the money and can be beneficial for student achievement in learning to read and sing musical notation.
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Sight Reading Factory is an excellent application and website that generates customizable sight reading exercise for a variety of instruments or using solfege. You can customize the exact rhythms or pitches you would like and the program generates unlimited, yet musical, sight reading examples.
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This site can be used for practicing sight reading. The possibilities of combinations of notes, short songs, and everything can be found here. I have even found that state all-state bands have used it to create their sight reading pieces for all state band. It does cost, but the price can be worth it even if just a teacher subscription is bought.
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The purpose of this resource is to provide students and teachers and alternative method for practicing sight reading. The site randomly generates examples based on level specifications about rhythm, time signature, key signature, and intervals as set by the instructor or students. The subscription is only $2 a student.