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Interval Song Chart Generator - 1 views

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    A fun resource for use with any age group working on intervals. Allows you to generate a list of songs kids will already know for target interval listening.
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    The purpose of this resource is to help students with ear training for interval recognition using familiar tunes. The musical content is in the form of links to YouTube clips that demonstrate different intervals. This source is valuable for teachers because it builds on what students know (the familiar tunes) and provides immediate links for patterns of intervals both ascending and descending. It also allows you to select only the examples you want to use and print them out on their own chart. It also provides tutorials and music facts about theory and technology. Like many other software programs, it offers a free trial, making it more marketable and appealing to teachers and students alike.
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    This website will generate a list of intervals with related songs to learn the intervals. By picking the song of your choice, you can build a custom list to meet your students' interests. The list is printable and can be distributed to your students.
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    A helpful site for students who are working on learning and mastering their intervals. Provides a great list of songs that you can associate the intervals with to help remember them.
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    This website features free access to musical excerpts of famous songs and melodies to illustrate examples of musical intervals. Each excerpt is a link to a video on YouTube. You can create your own song chart of favorite pieces to use as an example of each interval in ascending or descending patterns. Music educators would find these examples very useful for classroom instruction. The Earmaster company also offers ear training materials for purchase including over 2000 exercises for musicians of all ability levels. Free trials are available and it is advertised that music schools and universities use these products.
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    Great resource for music teachers to teach intervals. It is a list of popular songs and pieces that utilize specific intervals, and includes links to the audio or youtube examples.
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    EarMaster organizes an ample amount of repertoire for learning specific intervals. The music examples are categorized by ascending and descending intervals of minor/major 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, perfect 4th, 5th, octaves, and tritones. The youtube examples will start immediately where the specified interval can be heard. Students can choose to memorize any examples listed to help them remember the sound of specific intervals.
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    This site offers a service that one wishes they had until they realize it exists. Essentially, if offers lists of songs that can be used to teach intervals. For many choirs - both middle and high school - the majority of students have not had proper ear training. A fun and effective way to do this remedially is to use familiar or easy to sing songs that students can reference to develop their ears. This site puts many song titles in one place to help facilitate that.
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    This website allows teachers to find songs that are associated with particular intervals. There is a free version but the paid (2.99/month) has more features. This software basically generates a chart with a list of songs for each interval and can be used as an excellent ear training activity!
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    This website provides browsers with a repertoire of songs that feature particular melodic intervals. Several of these songs are accompanied with links directing browsers to a YouTube recording of the corresponding song.
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    This website offers different musical examples for each musical interval. This instructional tool will help build students ear training skills.
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    This site is a fun way to get students to start listening for specific intervals! It is loaded with different song examples for each interval. This can help students develop their ear training skills.
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    Interval Song Chart Generator is a listing of intervals and includes various songs which represent the interval. Simply select a song for each descending and ascending interval. Videos accompany the example, however, you can easily make it into an aural example. Once you select your song choices, then you can generate your own list and print it out. You can even submit your own songs to the forum. This is a very useful resource for ear training and specifically helpful for choirs.
jeffsaunders

jam of the week - Facebook Search - 0 views

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    This nifty Facebook group asks its members to post a video of improvisation over any given tune. Many use backing tracks while others use rhythm sections or improv by themselves. The content usually ranges between jazz standards to contemporary pop artists. Comments and critiques are welcomed, but sometimes not requested.
mspinks

Orchestra Classroom Ideas - 0 views

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    This is the blog of an orchestra teacher. She gives advice for beginning and middle school orchestra programs. I have used this blog many times when looking for different resources. She has really great ideas!
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    This is a great blog for orchestra teachers to obtain useful ideas and information that they can utilize in their classroom. It comes with plenty of ideas, games, assessments, tuning techniques, and other strategies that could be helpful for a new and seasoned teacher.
jessicarisinger

Teaching Left-Handed Ukulele - Bernadette Teaches Music - 0 views

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    Many students are left-handed and in a Ukulele program, this may present a challenge for the teacher. In this blog post, Bernadette discusses strategies for teaching left-handed Ukulele students as well as tips for instrument stringing/tuning.
Michael Dove

Song Meanings at Songfacts - 0 views

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    This website is filled with information about every song you can imagine. It also includes information about artists as well as some fun games and trivia concerning musicians. A top ten list of songs is given with further explanation about the music.
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    This website is filled with information about every song you can imagine. It also includes information about artists as well as some fun games and trivia concerning musicians.
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    This site offers the explanation to a plethora of popular songs. It also includes different facts about the composers/artists, lyrical content, and creation of the selections. Visitors can join and take part in trivia with other members as well.
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    Users can choose almost any song and find information on each track. The information provides users insight into what the song is about as well as facts about the making of each song. Some of the information is user submitted.
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    Users can choose almost any song and find information on each track. The information provides users insight into what the song is about as well as facts about the making of each song. Some of the information is user submitted.
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    This is a great website to learn facts and information about popular music. This is also a great easy place to check for lyrics.
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    This is a great resource for lyrics analysis and songwriting. The blog and interviews are particularly interesting!
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    Many times students can perform music better if they can relate and truly understand the message in the music. Songfacts website is an efficient place to start to acquire such knowledge.
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    This site is a great resource to help students get into the minds of their favorite pop artists. Students often find it easier to connect to pop tunes than to classical music. This site provides a list of different pop tunes/artists along with descriptions about those pieces and artists. This helps students realize the thought behind creating music, which they can then transfer to their school music class. This site also includes blogs about songwriter interviews, quizzes, and song facts to name a few. The featured songs fall into the category "daily top ten" or "weekyl top ten," keeping the songs up-to-date and easy for young students to recognize/connect with.
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    This website is a great resource for discovering the stories behind popular songs. The list of songs seem to be extensive and include pieces that would be familiar to students. This resource could help create a relevant curriculum that speaks to the non-traditional music student's interests and their music experience.
msheathersmusic

Teaching and Assessing Basic Musicianship with Composition - National Association for M... - 0 views

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    A great article showing how to take a well known tune and teach students how to compose their own melody. The article goes through the process of how to teach it. First you help students to write a base line, have them improvise a rhythm, then they can discover the notes of each chord, and write their own melody using chord tones.
novenaphil

The 432 Player - Music The Natural Way - 0 views

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    This handy music converter introduces students to miniscule tunings and is a good lead-in to concepts like quarter notes. Plus, you can hear a difference in the sound of a song at 432 Hz!
ericmburgeson

Studio Jams - YouTube - 0 views

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    The Studio Jams youtube channel is a promo channel for the line of Studio Jams DVDS, but is filled with many modern covers of classic tunes, all played by professional musicians in a professional studio. A great resource for examples of jazz/fusion musicians really plying their craft.
lucymos

Kevin Olusola - YouTube - 0 views

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    Kevin Olusola is a cellist who also beatboxes while playing. He is also in the a capella group Pentatonix. His videos are entertaining and musically stimulating. He not only performs his own compositions, but he also creates mash-ups of pop tunes...often performed in a classical style. He bridges the gap between classical and pop music, demonstrating incredible instrumental technique and culturally relevant material...all while beatboxing!
slofgren57

Isle of Tune - 0 views

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    A Sim City-style online game (also available in a downloadable app) that is great for composition activities in the classroom. Warning: it's addictive for all ages!
chammer

Home | National Core Arts Standards - 0 views

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    I first became familiar with this resource while enrolled in the Creative Thinking course, and it has tremendously helped me fine tune my lessons and procedures. The National Core Arts Standards is a resource that every Music Educator should be familiar with. Educators can reference this resource often to make sure that their planning and activities align with these standards.
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    The purpose of this resource is to provide a detailed breakdown of the National Core Art Standards. Here you can find standards by subject and strand as well as model cornerstone assessments and student work. This is especially useful if your school district aligns to national standards.
cheyroseb

Kodaly Inspired Classroom: Getting Ready for the First Day of School {Music Rules} - 0 views

  • I am going into my fourth year teaching and my third year at my current school. I feel like each year I do a better job of starting the school year off the right way.
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      I started this year so underprepared I am hopeful that next year will be a million times better.
  • M- Make good choices U- Use kind words S- Show Respect (to classmates, teacher, and the music) I- Involve yourself C- Care for our room and instruments
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      LOVE THIS I am always telling my students to make good choices.
  • I think that will be interesting to talk with the kids about on the first day.
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      Not saying "this song is bad" but "I don't like this song because it's too slow/quiet, etc.)
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  • I came up with a song for each rule using the melody of a folk tune.
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      AWESOME
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    Establishing rules for a general music class in an elementary setting.
jshoener13

Elementary Band Warmups - 0 views

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    Mr. Dickson's website has great resources for band warm-ups and fundamentals, as well as "fun songs" for band. Each resources is divided by instrument for ease and convenience. Mr. Dickson also has a tuning app advertised on the site available for download.
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    This website has great warmups to do with your Elementary and 6th grade bands. I use these daily with my group and it gets them focused very easily!
ntatarka

OrchestraTeacher.net - Resources and ideas for the 21st century string/orchestra classr... - 1 views

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    This site contains a number of great ideas for tech integration in the orchestra classroom. The tuning automation idea is good way to use technology to streamline the start of class.
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    This is an excellent orchestra teacher website with lots of technology resources for the orchestra classroom. There are also many other teaching resources. It is a very well organized website and it is easy to find what you are looking for.
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    This website contains articles and ideas to help string teachers stay current with best pedagogy in string education. There are excellent ideas on how to incorporate technology as well as old "tricks of the trade" that teachers have been using for years.
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    This website contains articles and ideas to help string teachers stay current with best pedagogy in string education. There are excellent ideas on how to incorporate technology as well as old "tricks of the trade" that teachers have been using for years.
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    Blog with selection of articles, resources and tools about music pedagogy for working with young string musicians, youth orchestras, and ensembles. Useful to ideas with group class, as well as the articles about the use of technology within 21st century music teaching.
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    OrchestraTeacher.net is a great resource for string teachers looking to integrate technology into their classroom. This site has multiple tech application suggestions, as well as general pedagogy resources for all string instruments- even guitar!.
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    This website is a great resource for orchestra directors. It has various resources and suggestions for teaching materials. In addition, it is set up in a blog format which is easy to view the various posts.
dfontes

Guardian | On song, out of tune - 0 views

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    A great (old) article on how we view the arts. Asks the question: What value is the arts if they don't make money?
Josh Cockrell

Drum Set Performance Tips -"Understanding and Executing the Tune" | The Jazz Education ... - 0 views

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    Jazzednet.org is the site for the Jazz Education Network. It offers helpful articles about properly teaching students the elements of jazz education. This particular article, although listed for drum set performance tips, is applicable for the entire rhythm section of your jazz band. It gives helpful tips on how to make your rhythm section understand the feel and flow of the chart by providing a lead sheet so that they become familiar with the melody like the horn players.
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