Digital Musicking

Great website for puzzles, quizzes, composition activities, instrument families and a great introduction to the NY Philharmonic.  This would be excellent to use before attending a NY Philharmonic concert. 

This is a great website for students to review concepts learned in class. "Instrument Frenzy" is a high speed game that can be used to review instruments and categorize them by family. 

A great website for students to learn about the instruments, and people of the orchestra. They also learn about composers and compositions, and are able to make their own instrument, mingles, and minuets. A great website to use for elementary students who are learning about the orchestra.

Digital Trombone is an excellent resource for trombonists and teachers. The purpose of the site is to provide lessons, tips, recordings, and newsletters for trombonists as well as other brass instrumentalists. The site also contains a variety of recordings by trombone soloists, jazz bands, and trombone quartets. The site could serve as a resource for students seeking professional recordings as well as instructional information. 

Find information about Orff training and activities from the Atlanta, Georgia chapter.

Find information about Orff training and activities from the Atlanta, Georgia chapter.

Steve Weiss Music is a very good retail percussion website.  Educators can find their percussion needs here quickly and also receive them very quickly.  This company is great to consider for ordering repertoire, sticks and mallets, or large instruments.  Check them out!

Learn more about the types of programs that receive grants from The Fender Music Foundation. #UFMUE

Learn more about the types of programs that receive grants from The Fender Music Foundation. #UFMUE

This website offers resources for brass players, including: advice, news articles, etc. This is a place for all brass players regardless of age or level of experience to learn new techniques and find resources for becoming a better brass player.

This is said to be a free site that is a money management software for bands #UFMUE

Another document from Dr. William Bauer about making music with an iPad created by Dr. William Bauer for the International Society for Technology in Education on June 24, 2013. A tremendous resource for creating performing, understanding and responding to music with an iPad. Also, there are links for general administrative and productivity apps which are useful for other academic disciplines.  Additionally, there is a lot of information that is useful about hardware and connecting the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad. Great resource for using iPads in the music classroom, which is what is needed for me personally. 

This document comes from a Learning Station Session presented by Dr. William Bauer for the International Society for Technology in Education. The session centered around apps and tools that can be used on the iPad that match the music standards of creating, responding, and performing. The site contains a full list of apps and tools available for the iPad and they help make the iPad a music learning tool. 

Dr. Bauer provides a comprehensive list of programs and apps for the Ipad that can be used in the music classroom. These apps can provide ways to create music and transform the Ipad into an actual musical instrument. Dr. Bauer creates lists separated into apps that will create music, perform music, help with understanding music, ease administration, and other resources. This list cannot only help integrate technology into the classroom, but also show music in a different light.

This resource provides information for anyone who plays or teaches the french horn. You can subscribe to their publication - The Horn Call. This is a great resource for all teachers to learn more about the horn and for all horn students to be a member of.

All things clarinet!  This site has free music, midi files, recordings and videos!

All things clarinet!  This site has free music, midi files, recordings and videos!

This is a site that I use frequently. Not only does the site provide useful information regarding musical ensembles and private instructors for those who live within the institute's service region, but it also serves as a resource for videos and recordings of professional clarinet players students may use as models. Furthermore, the site contains a variety of sheet music for all band and orchestra instruments. Sheet music may be downloaded from the site, or entire libraries may be purchased on a CD containing pdf files. This site makes access to solo and other forms of music literature a breeze! 

This blog is a great resource for Jazz drum set.  The video in this entry is from Ed Soph from UNT. The series of videos are strong set of lessons for beginning Jazz drum set players.  Enjoy!

This site contains all upcoming information about the in-service conference for Georgia Music Educators in January 2016.

This site has all kinds of resources for band directors such as rhythm sheets and other worksheets. It's totally worth checking out. #UFMUE

This is the Journal of Research in Music Education. This website provides music education articles for all music educators regardless of discipline or age level. The website also offers links to music education podcasts.

Tonal Energy provides individualized instruction and videos for band and orchestra students. Each instrument is listed and linked to a fingering chart, exercises, scales, instrument care, and videos of professional artists. The website also has a place for discussion between other musicians, teachers, and students. One of the best items about Tonal Energy is the tuner App. The TE Tuner provides a visual representation beyond the original needle and shows the students proper intonation through a smiley face and colored circles.

This is an excellent website that students may use at home or in a computer lab to practice melodic interval identification. The purpose of the sight is to provide students with recordings of intervals and uses a multiple item response format. The musical content of the site is limited to recordings of melodic intervals. 

This website is specific for music educators in Massachusetts, like myself. It contains information on news and events happening in music education, in or near Massachusetts. It provides links and contact information for initiatives, such as advocacy, and mentorship. It also provides resources for various professional development opportunities, as well as lists music education job openings in the area.

DonorsChoose is a way for any teachers to request materials for their classrooms through specified vendors. Many celebrities participate in flash funding of certain projects and Title I schools are given top billing when the projects are listed. The smaller the projects, the easier is it to get them funded. I got $6,700 funded in one project by Stephen Colbert and countless other projects funded through the generosity of others.

This page was authored by Arthur Lehman who played euphonium in the President's Own U.S. Marine Band. The page discusses intonation issues facing wind bands. The purpose is to discuss causes of poor intonation and it also provides some diagnostic information. The page also contains links to professional recordings of euphonium players which could serve as a valuable resource to young low brass musicians. 

The National Band Association is a great resource for information about band literature of all grade levels and. Members have access to the NBA Recommend Repertoire Lists (Concert Literature & Marches), the NBA Journal, and a mentor program for young teachers.

The National Band Association is a great resource for information about band literature of all grade levels and. Members have access to the NBA Recommend Repertoire Lists (Concert Literature & Marches), the NBA Journal, and a mentor program for young teachers. 

This is the National Band Association. This website provides information for teaching band. You can subscribe to their publication, which publishes articles about band. This is a great resource for any band director teaching any grade level.