More Piano Apps woo hoo!

Here is a link to a quick summary of a new piano app for the iPhone and iPad. It is for younger students and looks to be easy to use.

http://colorinmypiano.com/2013/11/04/noteworks-app-giveaway-and-news-now-available-for-iphone-as-well-as-ipad/?utm_source=feedly

Holiday Cheer

I just can't help myself- here is the new Pentatonix holiday song "Little Drummer Boy"
I hope you all enjoy your holidays.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_MGWio-vc&feature=youtube_gdata

The AMA's

My students always enjoy discussing the current awards in both movies and music. These complete lists help to glance at, especially if you are not familiar with a specific artist or miss the event entirely.


http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1718017/american-music-awards-2013-winners-list.jhtml

Popular songs in a different style

This is my youtube find of the week. These two young women do acoustic covers of all different sorts of music genres and they do it well :) Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ3OLswKKAw&feature=youtube_gdata

Music Fonts

Always fun to find new ways to integrate music symbols into word docs!

http://www.musicedmagic.com/tales-from-the-podium/check-out-these-free-music-styled-text-and-image-fonts.html

And the Holidays cometh

Aren't we all a little stressed right now? No? You're lying! Here's some suggestions--

http://mustech.net/2013/11/top-ten-items-that-go-into-planning-an-elementary-general-music-holiday-concert/

Great example

This story really inspired me this week. So neat to see such a talented musician have a moment of despair and then feel the leadership of the conductor to get her through the performance

http://funmusicco.com/music-teaching-inspiration/a-lesson-in-leadership-from-conductor-riccardo-chailly/