Resource: Chrome Music Lab
Description: Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments. Many teachers have been using Chrome Music Lab as a tool in their classrooms to explore music and its connections to science, math, art, and more. They’ve been combining it with dance and live instruments.
Cost: Free
Additional Information: No account needed. Just click the link and start learning!
Resource: Monster Musician Reader
Description: Practice your music reading/sight-reading skills with this awesome and innovative app! Available for Apple, coming soon for Android.
Cost: FREE
Additional Information: Android app coming soon.
Resource: Sight Reading Factory
Description: Practice your music reading/sight-reading skills with this awesome and innovative app! Build your own sight-reading lines by choosing pre-set parameters.
Cost: FREE trial, $34.99 yearly subscription
Additional Information: Available on web browser, Apple & Android
Resource: Music Play Online
Description: Another popular elementary music classroom resource, with over 1000 songs to choose from with lyric movies, notation movies, kids demos, song activities, lesson plans, interactive activities, printables, concept slides, and so much more!
Cost: Currently One Month Free
Additional Information: Sign up for one month free trial.
Resource: Musictheory.net
Description: Basic music theory knowledge and practice. Note naming, interval naming, some chordal naming. Identifying key signatures, goes into advanced music theory also
Cost: FREE
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Resource: Carnegie Hall Music
Description: Carnegie Hall music education games and lessons.
Cost: Free
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Resource: Music Tech Teacher
Description: 130+ elementary and middle school level quizzes, puzzles and games about music notes, rhythms, instruments, composers, and more.
Cost: Free
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Resource: Name that Note (app)
Description: This is a fun and user-friendly app that quizzes students on note names. It has different levels of difficulty.
Cost: Free
Additional Information: This app is only available for iPhone and iPad at this time. Do a simple search on the iTunes Store.
Resource: Breezin' Thru Music Theory or Composing
Description: Learn and practice music symbols, notation, and theory from the fundamentals to College Prep. 24 Chapters, Dozens of Lessons, Hundreds of Drills, Interactive Games for reinforcement. Learn the basics of composing
Cost: Under $10
Additional Information:
Sign up for plan on the website
May use laptop, tablet or phone
Beginners choose "Jr Performer Package" under School Programs
Experienced students choose "Performer Package" under School Programs
Resource: SmartMusic
Description: SmartMusic is a web-based suite of music education tools that support efficient practice, helping musicians to develop and grow.
Cost: FREE
Additional Information: Your teacher will be in communication with you about logging in and registration codes.
Resource: Staff Wars
Description: This is an app that reinforces note names and staff placement recognition in treble and bass clef.
Cost: Under $5
Additional Information: Need Adobe Flash Player or the App Version
Resource: Tonal Energy Tuner (App for iPhone/Android)
Description: Tonal Energy is a metronome/tuner/tone generator/waveform analysis app commonly used in all of our band classes!
Cost: $3.99
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Resource: Noteflight
Description: Online Music Composition and Theory
Cost: Free
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Resource: Audacity (Multi-Track Audio Editor/Recorder)
Description: Audacity is a free audio editor/recorder. This supports multi-track recording (perfect for playing duets, trios, etc.). Can upload practice tracks and play along!
Cost: Free
Additional Information Available for Windows/Mac platforms
Resource: The Rhythm Randomizer
Description: The Rhythm Randomizer is a web-based rhythm generator. It generates random rhythms based on your desired parameters. Great sight-reading practice!
Cost: Free
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