This website lists a large assortment of music education games that cover aural training, composers, compositions, instruments, notation, and symbols/vocabulary. "Ultimate List" is an accurate title! This looks like a compilation of several games from several websites all pulled into one. This is fantastic.
Carol Broos is a now retired music teacher who was also a technology coordinator. Her website includes many of the projects and presentations that she uses/used when teaching or presenting. There are several good ideas here, but a fun one is a video that she uploaded of a live version of Incredibox!
The San Francisco Symphony kids website is filled with Fun & Games with music. Children will be able to listen, play, perform, conduct, and compose. This is a friendly and interactive way to engage youth.
The All-Star Orchestra, which is made up of "All-Stars" from various orchestras, produced content for Khan Academy. There is a wide-range of videos to watch from notes and rhythms, music history, conducting lessons, instrument demonstrations. This is a fantastic series with top musicians.
MusicTech is music technology (music production) website that shows and details all new and reviewed music technologies. Besides articles and reviews, there is a great Tutorials page that includes DAW how-to and interviews.
The Music Tech Teacher website is interested and contains several menus including class lessons, quizzes, and examples of student work. The music tech lessons look great and seem pretty comprehensive on my quick review.
The GF Percussion website is a good website for percussion technique exercises. Some include Stick Control (an essential book for percussionists) and other pad and drum set exercises.
Percussive Arts Society (PAS) is a great source for all things percussion. While some items (articles, videos) at the website require PAS membership, there are several items that are available to all. Some useful items for everyone include the rudiments, "The PAS Educators' Companion," and "Essential Listening for Drum Set."
The Innovative Percussion, Inc. website identifies stick and mallet purchase options for middle and high school band directors. The website additionally includes several websites on various percussion related topics, such as "Reading on Keyboard Percussion," "Brazilian Percussion," "Developing Your Technical Skills," and others.
The Cleveland Orchestra's Education & Community website includes learning/teaching opportunities for families, educators, and adults, and has performance opportunities for youth. This is a well-developed webpage that engages youth to adults.
Steve Weiss is my go-to when buying percussion equipment. This page in particular is a guide to help music directors purchase high-quality percussion instruments if you don't know much or anything about percussion. The list also is split between elementary, middle school, and high school to ensure that you get appropriate instruments for the playing level and budget.
This is a website featuring fantastic percussionists in videos, audio, and articles focused on percussion education in various genres: concert percussion, marching, and drum set. This also includes foundation session to learn tambourine, crash cymbals, rudiments, and so much more.
Todd Meehan is a Associate Professor at Baylor University. His blog includes his many percussion video blogs (vlogs). Many of these are humorous videos for percussionists.
This website includes an incredible amount of information for music educators. There are interviews with top educators and conductors, live concert webcasts, and many videos and articles about the various instruments.
