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A youtube channel that focuses on providing short lessons on jazz history/tradition, instrumental technique, and the jazz language.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

This website offers different musical examples for each musical interval. This instructional tool will help build students ear training skills.