Online orchestra will use the Canvas platform again this year! If you need stuff to play, please check the Sheet Music page. We'll also use Smart Music and Sightreading Factory again and all students will have accounts on both platforms for the entire year whether they are in orchestra that quarter or not.
I'm so glad you are here! This website is a work in progress, but currently has tuning help, sheet music, fun stuff, fingering charts and scales, interesting performances, a list of reputable music stores that are still shipping, links to some online music games and resources, technique resources and an about/contact page for Mrs. McCarrey (who can be reached via e-mail at mccarrey_alison@asdk12.org).
Please email if you need help or have suggestions about what else you'd like to see here! I'm happy to set up a Zoom session for tuning, write in a few fingerings and send music back to you, look up particular pieces or do whatever else I can to help keep you playing during school closures.
12/17/20 Added Blob Opera to "Fun Stuff."
12/10/20 Added "Christmas Music" to Sheet Music section.
9/28/20 Added Noobnotes to the sheet music page. Here's a little video about how to use it.
9/21/20 You might enjoy playing around with Google's Creatability suite in "Fun Stuff" or with some of the rhythm trainers I added to the Music Games link.
7/18/20 Please enjoy this cursed Rite of Spring/Teletubbies mashup. I also added a link to note-reading practice at the Music Racer site.
7/2/20 Added a ridiculously large source for video game music to the sheet music page.
5/7/20 Updated Reputable Music Stores, added some videos about key signatures and accidentals to the Theory/Technique page, and added the Birdsong Hero Spectragraph game to Fun Stuff, added a source for scale backing tracks and basic music to Scales/Sheet Music, added some more playalongs to the 6th grade sheet music session.
5/4/20 Please enjoy a cheesy Star Wars 8-bit playalong! Also added some more coloring book pages to the fun stuff link, a few more playalongs in the 6th grade sheet music session, and Superlooper to the Fun Stuff page.
4/24/20 Added some more livestream performance information to the great performances page.
4/20/20 Added a link for some more free duets, trios and quartets to the sheet music page. Try recording a duet with yourself! If you don't like what's there, ask me and I'll send you something.
4/16/20 🚨 YOU GUYS IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU KNOW THAT THE CHICKEN SCREAM APP WORKS WITH YOUR INSTRUMENT I LINKED TO IT ON THE "FUN STUFF PAGE" END OF MESSAGE. 🚨
4/15/20 Added an Incredibox link to the "Fun" page. Go forth and make beats!
4/13/20 Added some Bach chorales to the "Sheet Music" page. 8th graders- might be fun around to get some friends and play around with these in the Acapella app.
4/11/20 Added a nice hopeful song to the "Great Performances" page.
4/10/20 Some great basic bass technique stuff added to the Technique page.
4/9/20 Added some really fun mini-performances from the Pittsburgh Symphony to the Great Performances Page.
4/7/20 Added a link to the Rhythm Randomizer in "online music games." Added another huge fiddle tune resource in "sheet music." Added some classical links to the sheet music page (including some decent stuff for bass). Added a video link to the tuning session to help basses learn to tune with harmonics. Added a cello version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" to the performances page.
4/6/2020 Added Fiddleman Dan's page under "sheet music" even though there's no sheet music. He's teaching a new fiddle tune a day by rote. There's at least one cello tune, too. Added a new cello/piano version of the Hallelujah we played to the Performances page- it's from the Chicago Symphony.
4/3/20 Added Chrome Music Lab and Mario Paint Music Composer sound effect composition pages to "fun stuff" and a new online games page. You can send me completed "scores!" I'd love to hear them. Also added a technique page, a bunch of links to the Stringskills.com pages, and updated the Sheet Music page to include Fiddling with my Whistle, String Club and some compilations of YouTube resources.
4/2/20 Added an EXTREMELY unhelpful "How to Read Sheet Music" video to the fun stuff page; added 1 and 2 octave scale charts to the scale and fingering chart pages.
4/1/20 Added information about Smart Music course codes (and free music!) to the sheet music pages and to the front page.
4/1/20 Super news! Scientists have developed the world's first edible rosin! Look under "fun stuff." There's also a Yo-Yo Ma (cellist) and Sandra Boynton (cartoonist) collaboration there.
3/31/20 Need some joyful music in your life? Look under "Great Performances" for a fun all-woman mariachi Tiny Desk concert.
3/30/20 Added the West audition and recordings to the sheet music page. Great for anyone in the advanced orchestra class!
3/29/20 Added the JYS audition music and recordings to the sheet music page. Great for advanced 6th graders or regular 7th graders. 8th graders might want to work on the harder excerpt!
3/28/20 Added a lovely performance of Arvo Pärt's Spiegel Im Spiegel to the "Great Performances" category. If you wondered what the music in the series finale of The Good Place was- this is it!
3/27/20 Linked to a beautiful Tiny Desk Concert with composer Max Richter, under "Great Performances," added a fiddle resource in "Sheet Music."
3/26/20 Everything! Is! New! And! Shiny!