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J.W. Pepper's online sheet music store is a great place to listen to and order new music. The music usually ships quickly from various locations around the United States. In addition, many of the pieces are available for electronic download. This feature can be important when you need sheet music immediately.

Choral teachers have access to countless public domain music, ranging from ancient classics to modern compositions released to the public domain by the composers.

This site has a lot of free sheet music and allows students to print it off and practice sight reading. This site also has a tuner, scales, and a metronome to allow students to practice properly. The purpose of this resource is to allow students to stay engaged and practice music of their choice when they get bored with the music for concerts. This helps them stay engaged and not get burned out.

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8notes.com is full of music resources such as free sheet music and supplemental material for lessons. The sheet music includes categories such as classical, pop, jazz, film/TV, and traditional. Any music teacher knows how frequently students ask for specific tunes from television or movies. Even though they may not be played in class, students can greatly benefit from private practice on tunes they enjoy. 8notes.com also includes over forty theory lessons. These lessons begin with learning about lines and spaces on the staff and continue through many concepts all the way to the introduction of modes. In addition to the lessons, this website provides ear training exercises to accompany the theory lessons. 8notes.com is a great resource for all music teachers, not just instrumental or vocal. This site includes music and lessons for all instruments including banjo and ukulele, making it great for a general music classroom as well.

Useful and mostly free teaching materials and other resources for: school orchestra directors, private studio teachers, future string teachers and college methods classes, string players of all ages for self-study.

The finger patterns have really helped my students play in tune in a variety of keys.

Gabriel Villasurda offers a number of free resources for string education. His finger patterns are invaluable for improving intonation in a variety of keys.

StringSkills.com is a place for teachers to be able to look up different finger patterns for all four instruments. There are sheets for shifting to help the student to become fluent and relaxed while shifting and playing in different positions. There are also rhythm, one to two octave scales and sight reading. Each of these have a free download of work sheets that teacher and students can access online to work on in class or practice at home.

StringSkills.com is a place for teachers to be able to look up different finger patterns for all four instruments. There are sheets for shifting to help the student to become fluent and relaxed while shifting and playing in different positions. There are also rhythm, one to two octave scales and sight reading. Each of these have a free download of work sheets that teacher and students can access online to work on in class or practice at home.

This site provides several pieces that focus on certain musical performance skills. The resources are in the form of downloadable sheetmusic. This is a great site for honing in on one specific skill being taght at a time. Most teachers use method books in lesson, which are of course very beneficial but may not put enough emphasis on a specific musical concept. This site has music in several categoires including finger patterns, shifting, and rhythm to name a few. Some of the categories have downloadable curricula as well, making it a great guide for novice teacher or even experienced teachers looking for new materials to work with.

StringSkills.com is an excellent free resource for string teaching materials. Compiled by Gabriel Villasurda, this site contains fingering charts/suggestions, rhythmic practices (and crazy tunes to help reinforce the learning) as well as bowing techniques, scales and shifting. There are even challenge pieces to be played on one string. Definitely worthwhile for string teachers.

This website has free, downloadable exercises that address many string techniques. There are exercises for bowings, finger patterns, scales of varying difficulties, shifting, rhythm, and key signatures. This could be a great resource to push students from a beginner/intermediate level to being able to play advanced repertoire that involve complex rhythms, articulations and key areas. I would like to use this for upper middle school students to prepare them for high school instrumental programs. 

This site contains a variety of teaching materials for violin, viola, cello, and bass. Topics include finger patterns, scales, shifting, bowings, and rhythm.

This website is a resource full of exercises and sheet music for string instruments. There are scales, shifting exercise, and simple songs for students to download and play. There are also piano accompaniments for students to play along with for many of the pieces.

This website is a resource full of exercises and sheet music for string instruments. There are scales, shifting exercise, and simple songs for students to download and play. There are also piano accompaniments for students to play along with for many of the pieces.

Great resource for string teachers! Includes free sheet music to teach specific skills.

Cool database containing free sheet music and lessons for various popular instruments.

This website provides free sheet music and lessons for every instrument. This is a great resource for students and educators to find new music as sight-reading practice, solo and ensemble literature, or just for something new to practice.

This is a resource for free sheet music available for download. It is sorted by instrument and includes solo and ensemble literature in a variety of genres.

8notes.com is a website that has links to free sheet music for anyone wishing to enhance their playing or singing. It has links to free sheet music for all instruments as well as voice, piano, mixed groups, strings as well as voice, piano, mixed instrument groups. This also includes guitar and ukulele. All genres of music are also represented. This would be a great enhancement website for lessons as well.

This website provides free, printable music for students of various instruments. It is a great resource for sight reading materials.

8notes.com offers musicians a variety of music for free. Musicians can download as much music as they like for free, and use the website to help practice. There is a paid version of the website that allows musicians to have unlimited playback.