Digital Musicking

Make moments matter is a blog run by an elementary music teacher. His blog focuses on classroom ideas, decoration, and lesson ideas. This website could be a great resource for any music teacher. Novice teachers could benefit from having a range of ideas and helpful tips available to them. Also, veteran teachers could find some new ideas to incorporate into the classroom form lesson to decorations. The blog posts on the website are thoughtful and meant to be advice to those that chose to read them.

This website provides tips for starting an iPad ensemble at a school. This resource deals with finding ways to musically educate "the other 80%" of school students.

Audiotool is a wonderful resource that allows the modern musician to have an old-school audio studio at their fingertips. It even includes digital representations of classic synthesizers, as well as a number of tracks to use in mixing one's own creation. It can also be used with a MIDI keyboard. It might prove useful for contemporary, "other 80%"-style music courses.

For Bach aficionados like myself, this website literally has it all. You can find excerpts from all chorale motives utilized by Bach in his major works, cross-referenced and indexed. There's a list of the full church year and links to external recordings and files of his music. A must-visit site, which can be great for student music history projects!

This purpose of the website it to assist music educators with thriving inside and outside for the classroom and grant writing. The website is a unique resource because its focus in on how to the music educator performance is affected by self-care. Attention is on the music educator to develop into a better teacher without burning out in the process.

For those to whom the trombone is not a principal instrument, the question of slide positions can be a challenge when teaching beginner students. This website provides a helpful listing of slide position charts for a wide range of the trombone family.

This resources discusses pitch tendencies on the French horn, and how to mitigate them when playing. This resources deals with French horn intonation.

This article discusses many things but directly makes the point that the quality of music in schools has decreased. It disuses the fact that marching band is a key component of a musicians life. It also discusses the 'nuts and blots" of being a band director and the preparation that needs to take place.

This article discusses tips for jazz ensemble directors. It covers how the band could be set up and the importance of each section. It covers a key concept of having your students listen to jazz to understand it.

This YouTube documentary covers the history of swing. From Louis Armstrong to modern day artist like Michael Buble. It discusses how each era built on each other and the downfall of big bands was due to the cost to operate them.

It can be cumbersome to put together worksheets with divergent notation, text, and the like. This website has a number of basic worksheets that can be easily incorporated into theory-based curricula.

All things trumpet! This site has article and journals regarding trumpet. It also have event which include the International Trumpet Guild competition.

This website has a lot of wonder free resources. Warm ups, exercises, and more! I have used this in my classroom along with some of my colleagues. Everything included is free and he even has options to buy other music.

This podcast has multiple band directors that discuss all things marching band. They cover BOA, DCI, and your normal high school marching band. They usually bring on guest that discussion a specific item.

This site introduces ear training and music theory to beginners. Educators can use this site in their music classes and beginner band classes to begin teaching students the basics of theory and ear training.

This site lists all bugle calls. The site provides the sheet music while also describing what each call is for. This is essential for all trumpet players.

This is a resource i found and use on tuning instruments. It was presented at the 2006 midwest clinic and is very useful

This video is very informative. I have played portions of this video for my students and it has helped with explaining the instruments even more than I do.

Choralnet.org is a site specifically geared towards chorus directors and teachers of vocal music. The site contains blogposts, open discussion forums and links to various online resources such as teaching materials and concert repertoire. The purpose of the site is to serve as a platform for chorus directors to share ideas with one another or use it to seek advice or help from other experienced educators.

This site lists different activities that can be used to develop piano student's ears. These exercises develop the students' aural abilities.