Online Music Resources

• General Music Resources
  • MusicPlay Online: Theme & Variations - If you would like our Student Code for this site, please e-mail me. I cannot publish it here on the website.
  • Music Tech Teacher - Games and Quizzes for various music topics
• Exploring Music and Sound
  • Chrome Music Lab
  • Groove Pizza
• Freeze Dance Videos

• Moving with Music and Poems
  • goNoodle Good Energy
  • Nutcracker March: The kids in Young 5s through 2nd grade have done this activity before (and possibly even 3rd grade). There are different sections of music. In the A section (the one you hear first), one group of kids acted like soldiers, marching around with cut-up pool noodles as beat swords, and during the B section, the other group of kids acted like fairies flitting around the room with scarves. After several times alternating between these, all of the kids turned into mice, skittering around the room (C section), and then turned back into soldiers and fairies after. While one group is moving, the other should be totally frozen. At home, kids could just keep switching between soldiers and fairies. :)

• Exploring Instruments
  • San Francisco Symphony for Kids (you must enable Flash for this to work)
  • Dallas Symphony Orchestra for Kids - Instruments of the Orchestra
  • Resources for Pianists
    • Article about wrist and hand positioning when playing piano
    • List of resources about piano technique
• Rhythm
  • "Hair Up" from Trolls - Rhythm Play-Along with Ti-Ti, Ta, and Ta rest:

• Letter Names of Notes
  
  • MusicTheory.net Customizable Note-Reading Exercises

• Playing Rhythms with Your Family! :) For these activities, you will need your family to help out. Each person should choose a symbol to follow. You can use things around your house as instruments for each of the symbols, or you can use body percussion (clapping, stomping, silly sounds, anything you can think of really). Have fun making music together! Please note that I cannot control the ads that show up with these Youtube videos. Please always monitor your children while they are online.
  • "In the Hall of the Mountain King" Rhythm Play-Along
  • "William Tell Overture" Rhythm Play-Along
  • "Trepak" Rhythm Play-Along
  • "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" Rhythm Play-Along
  • "Radetzky March" Rhythm Play-Along

• Music Videos
  • Kids can listen, dance, move, and play the steady beat and their own rhythms with these videos. Encourage appreciation of music of all kinds!
  • Please note that I cannot control the ads that show up with these Youtube videos. Please always monitor your children while they are online.