Digital Musicking

Scale sheets and fingering charts for middle school band. From a band website.

This is a great website to use for free printable piano, vocal, guitar, fiddle and violin music.  There are varied levels for the piano music, which also has a wide range of repertoire.  Each song for piano also comes in different versions, either right hand only, chords added with the right hand, fingerings written in or the entire song.  

This website has a large database of public domain sheet music that is on a beginner student level. This website is a great resource for pulling repertoire for beginner students.

Great resource for music technology teachers and classes. Provides a wealth of knowledge on all things music technology!

A great resource to find similar music. Students enjoy seeing the wealth of connections inherent in music and can help with courses like rock history or general music. Very fun!

One of the most comprehensive, marching pageantry-specific collections online. Contains shows, news, scores, but also valuable teaching, writing, and equipment tutorials, suggestions, and information. Invaluable to those of us in this line of work.

A local (GA) resource for music technology teachers. Contains lesson plans, advocacy information, and equipment information. Very helpful!

Software used to help transcribe parts and develop arrangements. Incredibly useful!

A compilation of band-specific resources for music educators. Covers everything from recruiting to clarinet mouthpieces.

A database that helps band directors find pieces that fit their individual ensembles needs based on strengths and weaknesses. Very interactive and a potent tool for a young director!

This website has themed worksheet resources for music theory. These worksheets are geared toward elementary students. There are free resources available, but a subscription to the site will provide complete access to their entire catalog of worksheets.

This is a great website that provides free sheet music for various instruments as well as music theory lessons. For private piano lessons, I search for classical and popular sheet music. There is sheet music for levels ranging from 1 (easy) to 5 (most advanced). The score arrangements appear to be suitable for beginners. The arrangements also make it an easy transition for when students are ready to learn to original scores.

Mix magazine is a great resource for all of the latest news related to the audio technology world. There are articles discussing the latest technologies being released, as well deep dives into the recording studios of industry professionals who have worked on world renown albums.

This article discusses the positive and negative impact music can have on a person's emotional state. The article mentions and describes three of the seven categories that individuals use to regulate their mood. It also discusses how music can impact the brain and its functioning abilities.

This Ted Talk, given by Alan Harvey, explains the many ways that music affects the human body and brain. Harvey explained the history and use of music within our lives. In this lecture, Alan Harvey explained the ways in which music triggers signals in our brain. He demonstrated the impact of music on the brain through images of the brain, showing the alpha waves notated by an EEG, and by giving examples of a video with peaceful music and then again with a faster and darker melody. He spoke about how music impacts our viewpoint upon images.

This wiki page categorizes sacred music into holidays and holy days. It not only shows the piano and choral sheet music in a pdf format but also gives a description to each piece and why it is appropriate for a specific holy day.

This website provides free lesson plans and ideas for various grade levels and subject areas. There are filters that can be set to search for specific lesson plans within a certain subject and grade level. The website provides various lesson plans for grade levels PreK through 12th.

Here are some excellent ideas for introducing various tempo and rhythmic patters to students of grade levels K through 5. The examples go over steady beats, eighth not patterns, and dynamic changes of loud and soft. The first few examples do not specify grade levels but the later examples do. The grade levels are highlighted in yellow.

This short video explains how the brain reacts to practice and repetition of activities. It reviews the neural pathways and the process that the brain goes through when something is being learned. An interesting fact mentioned in this video is that a study proved that the performance level of mentally envisioning practicing an activity and actually performing the activity produces similar results.

This is a music theory learning website from the Sibelius Academy school in Finland. It includes a special focus on jazz theory and has audio and visual support to support the text.

This is a collection of authentic field recordings around the world. These recordings can be used to give teachers and students a deeper understanding of a folk song's musical and cultural context.