Useful Music Links
This is a list of private lessons compiled from an internet search. The
following sites are not endorsed by Mrs. Horaczek.
Artist Pianos, Ltd.
Searchable Database for any instrument, any location
The Music Studio
Miss Peggy's Music Room
Music Teacher's National Association
Cady School of Music
Noteflight® is an online music writing application that lets you create, view,
print and hear music notation with professional quality, right in your web
browser. Work on a score from any computer on the Internet, share with other
users, or embed into your own pages. Sign up for a free account, or purchase a
subscription for more features.
Noteflight
A very basic octave keyboard with some chord functions and drum beats.
Virtual Piano
Create, record, and host podcasts all in one spot.
My Podcast
Tell Stories, Your Stories. (slidecast creator, multimedia slidecast, podcast
with slides, digital storytelling, storytelling, audio slides, slidecast
stories, photo slidecast, audio slideshow, photo blog, audio blog)
Show Beyond
Create and share short movies with just images and audio.
Animoto
The fastest way to search for sound effect mp3's.
Soungle
Personalized, online radio station.
Pandora
Great site for FREE music that you can use in podcasts, videos, etc where
copyright is not an issue
Freeplay music
Voisse has three core features at its heart - Record, keep and share.
Voisse allows users to record any audio (or sound) they choose in whatever way
they want - on-line using any modern browser, phone by calling a dedicated
number or uploading existing recordings.
The heart of Voisse is a personal store for all your Voisses, called My
Voisses. This area is private by default and provides users with a simple
method of cataloging and tagging their Voisses. These Voisses can then easily
be grouped together to create fantastic slideshows each with their personal
narrations, giving relevance and context and a rich user experience.
Slideshows can be viewed on-line through a custom built viewer or downloaded
to an iPod device so that they can always be with you and viewed whenever you
want. The portable slideshow is in technical terms a podcast. No-one else
gives the you the ability to easily create their very own podcasts.
A core reason people choose to record audio is to share. Voisse gives you this
ability, if you choose, via email or social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
Voisse
Create your own music online!
Jam Studio
Basic music theory tutorials, practice, and quizzes.
Music Theory Practice
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written
and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and
sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of
American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the
Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events,
people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public
as a resource for education and lifelong learning.
American Memory: Library of Congress
Free, printable staff paper. Add key signatures and time signatures.
Free Printable Staff Paper
Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music. We
want to give the world access to music without the legal hassles so common
today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost
no recordings of this music is in the public domain. We aim to record or
obtain recordings that have no copyrights so that our visitors may listen,
re-use, or in any way enjoy music. Put simply, our mission is to set music free.
MusOpen
Large bank of free sound effects, loops, music, and samples.
Soundresource
"The Songwriting Tools wiki is an idea base for songwriters, teachers, and
creative musicians. This little piece of the web is being developed because
many music students have an interest in writing songs, but the time demands on
music instructors in schools are simply overwhelming! Novice songwriters will
find help here, and overburdened teachers will now have a resource for their
creative students!"
Songwriting Tools
Incredibox is one of those websites that really have to be seen to be
believed. It encourages composition skills in students, but in a fun and
user-friendly way. Basically you create your own a cappella group song from a
list of chosen voice generated sound effects. It is incredibly addictive and
even has bonus bridge sections that can be earned from creating a worthwhile
composition. Everything is guaranteed to match musically so you can use this
with any age of elementary students and still get great results. Try it and
you will love it.
Incredibox
The MyBytes music mixer allows students to create a five track composition.
The interface is simple enough with a selection of loops that are dragged and
dropped on the player. Bass, drums, keyboards, guitars and more can be chosen
from the sound bank. You can adjust the volume for each one, fade to the left
or right speaker, and mute or attach a solo to each track. It is a little more
sophisticated than something like Incredibox, so it will definitely encourage
students to think about what actually sounds good.
MyBytes
There are four music games on Classics for Kids, and each of them are based on
solid musical theory. The Rockin' Rhythm Master encourages children to listen
to and repeat drum beat rhythms, while the Note Name game is all about naming
notes on a staff. The composer time machine offers musical samples from great
musicians, and a simple composer lets students create music as long as they
keep four beats to every bar.
Classics For Kids
Recreate the sounds of an award-winning DJ with this great Fat Boy Slim online
mixing game. Choose from a variety of well chosen samples and loops, and mix
them together to create a dance floor tune to be proud of. The clever thing
about this game is that success is measured by how many people you manage to
get dancing to your tunes.
Fatboy Slim
The emphasis here is more on games than music, but it was created by MTV so
you can be sure that there is still a strong musical element. The Sound
Factory starts as you join our hero on his way to work at the tire factory,
but it soon develops into a cacophony of industrial sounds that combine
effortlessly into a foot stomping melody. Sounds can be turned on and off as
required, especially when the boss checks up on you, but it is your job to
entertain the workers, so you need to try to please everyone with your musical
prowess.
MTV Sound Factory
Although they are grouped with the art games, Learning Games for Kids
definitely has some worthwhile elementary music games. Many link out to other
sites, but they are all student friendly and have content that is school
appropriate. Music Match 'em, for instance, has students match the sound of an
instrument with a picture of what they think made that sound. Boom Thang is a
fun and easy to use composer game, while Music Memory is a tone matching game
based on the doh ray me scale. All in all, there is a good mix of education
and fun, but that is exactly what we have come to expect from
LearningGamesforKids.com.
Learning Games for Kids
BBC's Maestro is a musical cueing game that puts your students in the shoes of
an orchestral conductor. They can choose between a film score and a classical
score, and their goal is to correctly cue up the different sections of the
orchestra at the right time, and at the right intensity. Color coded bars
scroll along the bottom of your screen in a Guitar Hero-like fashion, and
students then have to click the corresponding section of the orchestra to
produce their musical masterpiece. It takes a little bit of practice, but it
is good for building up an understanding of the complexity involved with being
a conductor.
BBC's maestro
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