Digital Musicking

This website provides free sheet music, lessons, and worksheets that are perfect for teachers looking for great ideas!

This website provides free sheet music, lessons, and worksheets that are perfect for teachers looking for great ideas!

This website provided by the International Trumpet Guild has free resources for both trumpet teachers and trumpet students. The site includes reviews on solos, information on upcoming events such as masterclasses, summer camps, competitions, and also provides a link to "ask the teacher."

The purpose of this website is to provide an overview of tablet and smartphone apps that can be utilized by music educators and musicians. The content describes a list of apps that either provide programs to allow students or adults to create music with or without any musical training. There are also apps that allow easier accessibility for the operation of some web browsers.

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This site provides a specially selected list of tablet and smartphone apps for music education and creation resources. The content is divided into easy-to-read sections from paid to free versions.

This website provides an extensive collection of folk music from Britain, Ireland, and America. It provides free MIDIs of folk songs, lyrics, and information about each piece. This site is great for students to explore folk music.

Keeping up to date on popular music 

This website contains links to a large collection of articles, both new and old, written by professional music educators in the UK. Articles can be filtered by instrument, which is very handy.

Keeping up to date on top listed pop music.  

Keeping up to date on top listed pop music.  

The purpose of this website is to allow you to browse upcoming educational workshops and events scheduled to take place at the annual Midwest Clinic International Band, Orchestra, and Music Conference in December. The content focuses on the schedule of events which shows the most recent upcoming material on specific teaching strategies/pedagogies and how to implement these in the classroom. It allows you to sign up as an exhibitor, advertiser or attendee. It also allows you to sign up your performing ensembles to showcase their talent or to feature newly published music. Exhibits include workshops, musical equipment/instruments, and other material to help music educators and musicians.

This site is for the Midwest clinic. The Midwest clinic is an international clinic for music educators. I have been 4 times and every time it is so much ti take it and I have left with tangible and intangible thing that have increased my knowledge and made me a better teacher.

This website is the home page for the international band and orchestra conference. The page also offers professional development resources.

This website provides a free 58-page music book for beginning instrumentalists. The website also provides backing tracks for songs from the tutor book. However, some of the information in the books may need to be tweaked. For example, quarter notes are referred to as the British "crotchets" here.

Music Matters is a blog that allows users/readers to utilize websites, information, and activities for students in music. There are sources for educators that include training, games, and blogs that help students grow as musicians and music learners. This website includes information for Music History, Music Theory, pedagogy for instruments, music organizations, and music education conferences. Each source includes guides, activities, and blogs for the reader to navigate to a certain website or community, and reflect on what has been read or what is happening in the world of music.

This website contains blogs, newsletters, information on workshops, instrument-specific resources, and reviews regarding music and music education. The blog contains useful information for both teachers and students.

This is the music educators association for the state I teach in. The resources will help me to keep current with state happenings.

This is the professional organization for music educators in my home state of Virginia. This site offers information about conferences, meetings, honors groups, and general information of importance to music teachers in Virginia,

The purpose of this blog is to collaborate with other musicians about issues dealing with performance, creativity, developing ones career, and (most importantly) technology. There are blogs that allow readers to interact with each with the objective being to gain perspective on other musicians point of views. The blogs includes monthly newsletters, different tags for information such as performance anxiety and music career guidance, benefits on recording music, how to practice with a positive mental attitude, and how to talk to audiences as well as how to not talk to them. This information is for the public to view and gain insight on their goal towards becoming a better musician and educator.

Robert H. Woody, co-author of Psychology for Musicians, posts in this blog articles and personal writings regarding music, music education, and music psychology.

This is a great resource for teachers looking to incorporate folk songs from around the world.  The site provides audio files of the songs so that you can hear the proper pronunciation of the lyrics.  

This is a great elementary music resource for teachers looking to add folk music from around the world into their curriculum. Simple children's songs are sung in different languages

This website provides browsers with a database of songs for children from a wealth of different cultures and different languages. Recordings of songs are also provided.

This website has the purpose of gaining knowledge on saxophone musicians, and ways to practice, listen, and fine tune the sound one makes. It has articles and techniques that are meant to give saxophonists needed guidance on history, ways to improve performance, and how to perform with different styles. This site includes different genres or saxophone performance, such as classical, jazz, be bop, rock and blues, and regae. There are other links for purchasing music, mouthpieces, saxophones, and practice books.

This is an interesting website that provides interactive media of famous pieces along with a finale download of the corresponding score.  A great tool to show students specific areas in a score!

This is an interesting website that provides interactive media of famous pieces along with a finale download of the corresponding score.  A great tool to show students specific areas in a score!

This website is a great resource to supplement the teaching of Thematic classical pieces. The website is in German but it contains English translations of all materials.

This website is run by a personal friend of mine, Jennifer Fink. The website includes free teacher resources that are available to print and play with students. I especially like the Crazy Keys game to help students with notes on the piano.

This website provides lessons, exercises, and other tools pertaining to music theory. The exercises are especially useful for students to practice their music theory outside of the classroom/studio.

To teach music theory to the beginner or advanced students.  This could be used to teach beginners how to read music or advanced students to work on ear training or even identifying chords.  Very useful when teaching music theory and want to reinforce skills.

Basic music symbols, concepts and theory for persons on the go. ufmue

The purpose of this blog is to provide teaching materials and ideas to music educators to enhance instruction. The content focuses on musical teaching games and ideas as well as new technology that can be used in the classroom with students. It also features articles on music education advocacy.

This is a fantastic blog with internet and technology resources and instructional aids for all K-12 music classrooms.

This site covers blogs, lists concerts, provides ideas for educators to use in their classroom. Also includes podcasts!