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/

Doing pentatonic again!

I can't help myself.... this video is AMAZING!!! I think I have watched it 20 times already. They are also going on tour this coming spring so look for tickets to support this awesome group.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MteSlpxCpo&feature=youtube_gdata

Piano Help

Anyone who teaches piano is always looking for new ways to connect concepts with the music in a fun way. Here is a site that has some free printables that may be helpful with the littles.

http://colorinmypiano.com/2013/10/31/freebie-piano-finger-bling-worksheets/?utm_source=feedly

Tech in the classroom

Great article about how effective technology is if we do not keep up with the changes.

http://www.musicedmagic.com/tales-from-the-podium/social-media-and-communication-in-the-music-classroom.html

Bicycle built for two-noteflight

Here is my "A Bicycle Built for Two" score created on Noteflight. The program was relatively easy to use, and could easily be incorporated into the classroom.

http://www.noteflight.com/scores/view/6523e85397497c573a0ae5f10d3cc282b35421a7

If we all had iPads

This is such a neat idea for keeping students engaged when learning the recorder! Now to get us all a classroom set of iPads- haha

http://mustech.net/2013/10/recorder-lesson-with-book-creator-app/

My favorite group doing another evolution video

Pentatonix is easily my favorite a cappella group and my students ask to watch them on a daily basis- which is so exciting. Here is there new video, "The Evolution of Beyonce". What a great example of harmonies, styling, and arranging :)




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkR4asPMip4

music apps for the classroom and for fun!

Here is a link to a page that has a GREAT list of apps that can be used in the classroom, at home, by students, teachers, and as a class. They aren't all music apps, but even the non-music ones are teacher friendly. Check it out!

http://techinmusiced.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/ipad-app-bingo/

Capt. Broccoli explains diatonic triads

So my kids are learning to build triads and about their roman numeral labels for quality. It has been an interesting process, but I love this clip of captain broccoli trying to explain diatonic triads and roman numerals. :) We will be watching this in class for some much needed music theory fun!

All right- let's dive into the ups and downs of being a music teacher! This should be interesting :)