Are you ready to play with music? Below I'm attaching some of my favorite music links to play with- have a great time! Click on the titles of each activity and it will bring you to the website. I will continue to update this page, so continue to check this out. Newly added: a section for Teachers. (under Videos). Enjoy!
Play with music:The links below are just for having fun with music. Have a great time!
Creating Music: This is a sweet website where you can play with the basics of music. My favorite: "Hearing Music" gives you three options- pitch game, comparing game and pitch & rhythm game. You build music like legos. Recommended grades: K-2 Incredibox: this is a website where you drag musical sounds as t-shirts onto singers. They make a capella (no instruments, just voices) sounds that are beyond this world! Recommended grades: 3-5 PBS Kids: Lomax the Hound of Music: Lomax is a dog that searches for music! Listen to silly songs and play music games! Recommended grades: 1-2 Daria Music: World Music: Explore the sounds of world music. Listen to a cajon, watch videos about the didgeridoo here! Recommended grades: 1-5 Global Groovin': Learn about and create sounds with instruments from around the world! Press "Go Mix Music!" on the bottom right corner and drag and drop sounds from all over the world. Recommended grades: 1-5 Cave Sounds from Northern Ireland: Learn about sounds in caves, then create your own cave sound mix! Recommended grades: 1-3 Compose Your Own Music in 4/4 Time: Drag your choice of music notes onto the staff. This is great practice of the treble staff and rhythm values! Recommended grades: 3-5 PBS Cyberchase Pattern Player: Click on boxes as the time meter goes from left to right. This game isolates patterns that you choose and gives them pitches. This is a great way to see how math and music relate to each other! Recommended grades: 1-5 Button Bass: this is a dub-step remix site that allows you to create your own DubStep sounds. Recommended grades: 4-5 Soundation: Similar to Garage Band- make and remix songs! You can create a username and login, and all is free. Recommended grades: 4-5 Musication: Play along with favorite songs. Some videos are for clapping, patting and stamping. Others include classroom instruments. Just plain fun! Recommended grades: 1-5 Launchpad Website: Try this website to mix and match sounds. Click and hold down on a square to hear different combinations of sounds. Connects with the app "Launchpad." Recommended grades: 4-5 Fishinger Doodle: Create patterns with noises. Enjoy! Recommended grades: 1-5 |
Learn with music:The links below are to deepen your understanding of music elements. Have fun!
A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra: You will need to create a log-in name and password to play this game. In it, you will go on many adventures and explore the sounds and families of the instruments of the orchestra! Recommended grades: 3-5 Minnesota Public Radio's Class Notes: Video: This website leads you to many videos that MPR has created just for learning about music! Recommended grades: 1-5 San Fransisco Symphony Kids: This website has many opportunities to learn and have fun! There choices of games along the top bar: Discover, Listen, Play, Perform, Conduct and Compose. You can get lost for hours in this site! A computer/laptop with a mouse works best. Recommended grades: 1-5 New York Philharmonic Kids Zone: This website is like the San Francisco one- there are so many choices to learn and have fun! Recommended grades: 3-5 PBS Kids: Jazz and other styles: Learn about jazz with this goofy character Chuck Vanderchuck and his bandmates. They also teach about other types of music! Recommended grades: 4-5 From the Top: Watch videos and listen to children and young adults who have worked hard to become amazing musicians! Recommended grades: 4-5 Guess the Orchestra Instrument: Listen to the sound clip and guess the instrument. Fill in the entire orchestra! Recommended grades: 1-3 Learn about Pitch: Listen and learn about all of the pitches you can create in music, either through singing or playing instruments! Recommended grades: 3-5 Listen and play the rhythms: listen to the rhythms on the bongo drum and play it back with the space bar. Recommended grades: 1-2 Listen to the melody and play it back: Listen to the bubbles play a song and click on the same bubbles in order. Teaching listening skills. Recommended grades: 1-2 Millions of Musical Puzzles: Want to get lost for a few hours? Click on this link and create instrument jigsaw puzzles, solve musical riddles and more! This site can be dizzying! Recommended grades: 3-5 Learn About the Orchestra: On this website, learn about the instrument families in an orchestra and take quizzes. Recommended grades: 3-5 Practice the Treble Clef Note Names: Fourth graders especially, check your knowledge on the names of the notes on the treble clef staff as we prepare to learn about the recorder, which also uses the treble clef staff! Learn line and space notes and click on them to double-check your answer. Recommended grades: 4-5 Note Names on the Treble Clef Staff: More games to play about the note names on the treble clef staff. Fourth graders, be prepared, this may show up in class! Recommended grades: 4-5 Whack-A-Note: More games to play about notes on the treble clef staff. The hardest part about this game is to find where the keys are on your computer. Come find me if this proves to be a challenge. Recommended grades: 4-5 Quizlet: Test your knowledge of musical instruments! Go through this quizlet and check to see if you know all of the names of the instruments! Recommended grades: 1-5 Quizlet: Test your knowledge of treble clef note names! Fourth graders especially, test your knowledge of note names as we learn them in class. This will help your recorder skills! Recommended grades: 3-5 Musicplay online. This is a phenomenal website accessed through Mrs.Camozzi and class because there is a login. Games, videos and even an interactive xylophone await! Recommended grades: 1-5 Mad Minute Resource: Equally helpful for other teachers in our district (or elsewhere): These leveled mad minutes can be printed or used online, including more resources on the bottom of the page! Thanks to Mr. Howes and District 96! Chrome Music Lab: thanks to our fifth graders and Mr. O in computers, we now have access to Chrome Lab- a chromebook-friendly place to explore music. Enjoy! |
Videos:The links below lead to video clips of music. Have a blast!
Pentatonix: This fun a capella (they only use their voices, no instruments!) group explores many types of music and has a blast doing it! This is a youtube link, so there will be advertisements. Recommended grades: 4-5 Piano Guys: This performing group uses the piano, cello and other instruments to create favorite songs, such as "Let it Go" from Frozen and others. They bring the instruments to many places in the world- even airlifting a piano to a mountain!! This is a youtube link, so there may be advertisements. Recommended grades: 1-5 Jazz Academy at Lincoln Center: This website is from New York, founded by famous trumpeter, Wynton Marsalis. I like the "Video" section on this website that teaches you about jazz history! Recommended grades: 4-5 Blue Rock Island Videos: This music teacher has collected some inspiring music education clips for you to enjoy! Recommended grades: 4-5 Synthesia Watch videos of a synthesizer playing famous (and not-so famous) songs! Recommended grades: 1-5 NCS No Copyright Sounds is a group that creates catchy beats and rhythms. All very electronic, it is popular with BA fifth graders! Recommended grades: 1-5 One minute lesson: Bass clef We have spent the year really working hard on the treble clef, since many instruments in elementary school use it. What about the bass clef? Check out this little video about how to read bass clef notes, which is used for cello, bass, trombone, baritone, piano and many many more instruments! Watch Grace VanderWaal's journey: The fifth graders are beginning ukulele and we have enjoyed Grace VanderWaal as an inspiration. Watch her incredible story here! 2 Cellos: Watch these two cello players create their own versions of popular music. They are intensely in to their music! For Teachers:Mrs. Miracle's Room: Not only is Mrs. Miracle a lovely person and clinician, her website is full of inspiring ideas and useful tools. She also has plenty of great ideas on TPT as well!
The American Folksong Collection: Founded through Holy Names University's Kodály Center, this collection is the work of many dedicated students and teachers. Search songs for specific applications or just beautiful music. Many provide primary source information, recordings and game directions. Smithsonian Institute's Global Sounds: This resource houses over hundreds of recordings, videos and even lesson plans! Use the search option to look for a specific community or the "learn" button to browse accessible lesson plans. Association for Cultural Equity: Once only a dream in Alan Lomax's eyes, this website houses original field recordings complete with a unique system of organizing sounds. Lesson plans included in "for teachers". Music Advisor: This website is for band directors and parents alike, with helpful blogs and information about instruments and music studies. |