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Saxophone.org is one of the most exhaustive saxophone sites on the internet. It includes the largest online museum of saxophones, mouthpieces, and vintage instrument publications. The forum on the site is one of the largest along with SaxontheWeb, and includes a buy/sell/trade section. Saxquest owns saxophone.org and I had the pleasure of working on the saxophone museum for a number of years.

Songfacts is a website that enables educators and students to learn the historical background of artists and their songs. There is a search engine that allows for an easy look-up of any artist, and accompanying this search is a timeline of major events, a brief history of the artist's life, and insight that the general public may not know about the artist. There is also research and insight about individual songs that the artist released or collaborated on. Songfacts can be a great resource to give more context about music that students are learning to in and out of class. It can engage students in listening to music more actively if they are intrigued about the artist's life, struggles, achievements, vision, and motivation for creation.

Classics for Kids is a website featuring high quality weekly radio shows/podcasts about classical composers and their music. The service is provided by Cincinnati Public Radio. Excellent biographical information along with quality excerpts of composers' works are included. There is an extensive catalog of previous shows available for listening which are child friendly and is a great resource for music educators. The website also includes games and a section under the "For Grownups" tab for educators featuring music lesson plans.

One Size Fits All Band Books is a collection of public domain music that is arranged for instrumental groups of any size or instrumentation. Each instrument is provided with the melody and one other part (harmony, bass line, or percussion). Selections are sorted by title, genre, and difficulty.

Another site containing FREE choral works in the public domain.

This is a website that provides free music graphics. This is a helpful tool for publications, projects, presentations, programs, and more.

Slidearea.com is the website for the principal trombonist of the New York Philharmonic, Joe Alessi. Within this site are resources that may be used to supplement lessons for trombone students. The tips that are listed are very practical and assist with developing tone, range, and technique. Within the website are also links to information regarding the Julliard School, recordings, mentor professors, Griego Mouthpieces, Smartmusic, Edwards Instruments, Aleesi Publications, and the Alessi Seminar.

The home of the Organization of American Kodaly Educators. OAKE members can log into the website for resources including lesson plans, choral repertoire, and discounts on OAKE publications. Members can also access information for auditioning singers for the National Conference Choirs and register to attend the annual conferences.

The home of IKS: this website includes overviews of Zoltan Kodaly's life and work as a composer, ethnomusicologist, and music educator. Members can receive publications and newsletters and connect to Kodaly music educators around the world.

A significant resource for choral directors and music educators. Provides free sheet music for thousands of songs. The database is organized in categories that are easy to navigate.

This wiki is the home of the Choral Public Domain Library and as is a great resource in providing FREE choral/vocal scores, texts, translations and other useful information regarding choral and vocals music. Just under 26,000 choral/vocal works are currently available by over 2800 composers. New works are being added daily. Any musician seeking free, public domain choral or vocal music would benefit from the music, resources and information provided. A community portal, bulletin board and forums are available connect together those with similar interests.

Free choral music!

Website for the Suzuki Association of the Americas. Describes Suzuki's philosophy and ways that public and private teachers can implement these methods.

Florida state standards for music. This allows me to quickly find the standards for the state of florida and helps to create my lessons.

This is a great site for finding music clip art to use for newsletters, flyers, or emails to parents. This clip art can be used in advertising and for programs like recitals as well.

This website presents a colorful presentation of music theory basics including notation, rhythm, key signatures, intervals, minor scales, part writing, seventh chords, and augmented chords. Each page can be printed.

Music Theory is a topic that can often be confusing when beginning to learn.  This website does a great job of breaking down the elements of music theory for anyone who is trying to gain deeper understanding of Music Theory.

This website is great for quick music theory handouts for students. It contains PDF worksheets to print and share with students. Excellent free resource!

This articles discusses myths of the saxophone being a jazz instrument rather than a classical instrument. It offers suggestions on instrument selection, mouthpieces, embouchure development and reed selection.

This articles discusses myths of the saxophone being a jazz instrument rather than a classical instrument. It offers suggestions on instrument selection, mouthpieces, embouchure development and reed selection.

Be Part of the Band is actually the recruitment tool that we use, along with a public performance and Jazz Band Tour. This website shows you real live musician that perform on their specific instruments as well as talk about their personal involvement with Music. 

Beapartoftheband.com is an awesome resource for beginning band teachers. Recruitment is such a huge part of the beginning of the school year and Scott Lang's resources are great! This website provides free resources for both recruitment and organization for bands. Individuals are able to make donations to the program, but no payment is required. Beapartoftheband.com not only provides demonstration videos for each instrument, the site also provides eighteen documents to assist with the recruitment process.

Band recruitment is the biggest event in the life of a band director.  This site features high quality tools to help make our lives easier. It also features famous people that have been band members.  Students need to relate to the bigger picture sometimes.  They need to see that big athletic stars can be in the band as well.  I am always looking for new perspective to recruitment.  

digitizing public domain sheet music

Music K8 is a publication company that provides resources (physical and digital) for elementary/general music teachers. Most of the musical content is organized and packaged around various themes, such as seasons or holidays. There is also a magazine (for teachers) that is published quarterly containing a variety of repertoire and high quality mp3 accompaniment tracks. Individual songs can also be previewed and purchased digitally.

This website is used to help me find new repertoire to work on with my students. Teaching concepts through pieces of music is important even at the younger level. This resource helps me find music for all ages in my school.

This website offers a multitude of resources designed for music-making. This specific organization is devoted to offering musical programs to students who are in the 80% of the population that are not involved in performing ensembles. It offers curriculum, lesson plans, and interactive activities for guitar, piano, drums, bass, ukulele, composition, voice and more. There are free PDF songbooks and lesson plans that are connected to the program, that are extremely helpful towards teacher and student interest. The best part of the program is that the majority of the music is examples that students know already - a lot of pop, rock, and even hip-hop. It connects the bridge between traditional musical concepts with music of today.

Little Kids Rock has a multitude of resources for creating a modern band in your classroom. There are songs loaded on the website that include tab for ukulele, guitar, and bass. There are also drum set patterns included. This website serves to expose educators and students modern band and provides lesson plans to go along with the popular songs. Little Kids Rock also provides workshops on how to effectively teach a modern band program.

This website offers many lessons for instruments that students may be interested in playing (piano, guitar, songwriting, drums,etc). The website offers video lessons as well as current play-along songs for students to put their newly learned skills to work.

All the information you need to know about Modern Band. Excellent resources for those who teach guitar, piano, bass, drums, ukulele and voice.

A website with resources for teaching and learning in a modern band ensemble. There are resources for teachers including lessons, professional development, videos, and songs. There are also resources for students including songs, practice videos, and lessons. Popular music is the main focus as well as song writing.