Digital Musicking

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 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.

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 popular music 

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.

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."

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 blog features thoughts and links provided by music psychologist Dr. Victoria Williamson. All her posts have to do with developments or interesting facts pertaining to music psychology.

Band in a Box is a program that will allow the user to plug in chords and it will create a recording for you to use as an accompaniment. This program is extremely helpful for music teachers who need recordings for their students to play or sing with!

Band in a Box is a program that will allow the user to plug in chords and it will create a recording for you to use as an accompaniment. This program is extremely helpful for music teachers who need recordings for their students to play or sing with!

This site contains lots of worksheets and games for younger students. Again you cannot beat the price tag!

This is a wonderful organization tool that I have been using for the past 5 years. I do not know what I would do without this site. It keeps track of all of my students and their practice time. It has a great calendar. It is like having a personal secretary for a private studio and the possibilities are endless. I especially love the billing feature.

This is by far my most utilized music technology site. Arizona has a great history of producing wonderful all state choirs. Within this site you can access the past 20 years of sight reading materials. This includes both block and contrapuntal and sight reading lines. I use this site on a daily basis to prepare my students for these auditions.

This is a great resource for all Music Ed questions. ASU has a wonderful reputation for musical education. I come here to learn from some of the finest teachers in my hometown state.

This is where I go when I needed the latest smash hit and it has not yet been arranged for SATB or choirs. I love this site because you can now get digital copies of the music and use it with iPad programs like FourScore to play off of in concerts. No more binders full of sheet music and papers flying everywhere! This site really is a music teacher's best friend!

This site assists students free of charge how to become better sight-readers There is a section over rhythm and another over melody. 

Broadway musical theater resource for showtimes, tickets, synopsis, theaters, etc..

Broadway musical theater resource for showtimes, tickets, synopsis, theaters, etc..

The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame website contains resources for education programs, jazz blogs, inductee biographies and much more concerning jazz.

The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame website contains resources for education programs, jazz blogs, inductee biographies and much more concerning jazz. 

This is a website owned by a married couple who teach and own their own music studio. There site contains blogs and everyday they share ideas from teachers around the world as well as give suggestions for current teachers. Their site includes printables which can be used for teaching. They also have an online store with the products they have written for teachers.

This YouTube video is a series of 18 recorder lessons which progress through the different pitches played on the recorder. There is a visual demonstration of each note as well as the notation on the staff. Background accompaniment is also a part of the video.

This website gives the user practice in note names,key signatures, intervals, and major and minor triads in root and inverted position. The website also gives you practice on note identification on the guitar.