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SmartMusic Home Studio
This website provides information on how you can get SmartMusic Home Studio for yourself at home. Play with band method books, grade yourself, and send recordings to family members!
Finale NotePad
Free online music notation software. Download the software and you can compose music using whichever instruments you choose have it played back to you. Click "Try It" to check out the free version, or "Buy Now" to purchase and download it.
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Cool music font, tools for music classrooms
Music font, worksheets, transparencies, and other tools for the classroom are located for free on this website.
Music Theory Web Site
Music theory drills and concepts. This is recommended for all students, especially those interested in excelling in music, and possibly planning to study music in post-secondary school.
Hal Leonard Publishing
Music publisher with mp3 files of their pieces available for listening or downloading.
Alfred Publishing
Music publisher with mp3 files of their pieces available for listening or downloading.
Jazz Scales (direct link to the BLUES)
Listen to and get all the blues scales in any key you'd like. Also has links to major pentatonic, minor pentatonic, blues, major, and harmonic minor scales, and triad chords, 7th chord qualities, and scale-tone chords.
Woodwind Fingering Guide
Can't remember a fingering? Looking to extend your range? Look no further.
Free Online Metronome
Open the webpage and set the tempo. The metronome clicks should come through your computer's speakers.
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| Buy Music Stuff Here |
J.W. Pepper
Buy music online. Some pieces have audio clips so you can hear the music before you buy it. They have a store up in Minneapolis.
Wenger
Music stands, risers, acoustic shells, cabinets, etc.
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Music Racer
Fun, competitive note-naming game
Rhythm Trainer
Great program for learning and practicing rhythm
Fingering chart game
Play this game to test how quickly you identify the correct instrument fingerings!!
Joy2Learn
Check out Wynton Marsalis (trumpet) and Alan Gampel (piano) introduce their art, discuss its history and background, share personal insights, and demonstrate mastery through performance. This is a cool website!
Young Composer: Brittany Meier
This young woman has overcome many obstacles including blindness and autism, yet her musical abilities are astounding. See the video and audio clips of what she can and does do.
www.freeplaymusic.com
Explore original compositions organized by many styles, categories, and "feel" that you want to evoke. Also a good resource for examples of bossa nova, funk, dance, hip-hop, classical, R&B, etc. Good stuff.
Note-naming game
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