Essential Resources for Ensemble Programs
Students who participate in ensembles (or groups of musicians who play together) learn teamwork, self-awareness, and goal setting. They practice music theory, technique, and musicality when playing songs in a band, orchestra, choir, or any combination of instruments and voices. The music education resources below include a curated list of organizations and articles that feature ensemble sheet music, practice platforms, lessons, composers, and more. The resources are best served for teachers and directors who instruct grades 3 through college. Play on!
8notes
8notes.com offers free sheet music, lessons, and classroom tools for all ages. Explore free resources like audio tracks, digital metronome, chord charts, tuners, and more.
CHOIR WARM-UPS
Total Choir Resources is now Choir Warm-ups! Choral tips and free warm-up music tracks are available for the beginner, intermediate, and advanced choruses. Inspire your choir at the top of rehearsal with these resources.
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS INTERACTIVE
Essential Elements Interactive (EEi) offers an easy set of technology tools for online learning, teaching, assessment, and communication, ideal for teaching today’s band and string students. EEi is now accessible to all teachers for free, and you can unlock all content from your Essential Elements Methods Book.
INSTITUTE FOR COMPOSER DIVERSITY
The Institute for Composer Diversity is dedicated to celebrating, educating, and advocating music created by ensemble composers from historically underrepresented groups through online tools and research-based resources.
KHS AMERICA ACADEMIC ALLIANCE
KHS America is dedicated to enriching lives through music performance and education by providing high-quality musical instruments and resources designed to support musicians, educators, and our retail partners.
LATIN PERCUSSION
Explore a world of rhythm with Latin Percussion and its partners. Hone your percussion knowledge and techniques with the free collection of artist-instructed videos on LP Rhythmology; find an accessible curriculum of lessons, courses, and loops on CongaChops.com; and get to drumming by playing and learning from the best on Drum Channel.
MAKEMUSIC
MakeMusic, Inc. is an online platform that enhances music practice and provides user-friendly assessments for student musicians. The site brings together all the tools needed to teach, practice, perform, explore, and create music with MakeMusic Cloud (SmartMusic), and products like Finale and Garritan.
MUSIC WILL
Music Will (formerly Little Kids Rock) is a nonprofit music program serving schools across the country. Resources available include teacher courses at Music Will Academy and music lessons for students with videos and songs – learn a song, take a lesson, create your own music, and practice!
MUSICFIRST
MusicFirst offers music teachers and their students easy-to-use, affordable, cloud-based solutions that enable music learning, creation, assessment, sharing, and exploration on any device, any time, anywhere.
MUSICPROFESSOR
MusicProfessor is an online library that contains bite-sized applied lessons in tone and technique presented by world-class instructors. Whether teaching beginners or more advanced high school students, MusicProfessor can support student learning objectives in a fun and accessible environment.
NOTEFLIGHT LEARN
Noteflight Learn is an application that seamlessly combines music composition and performance assessment while directly integrating with your own learning management system. With Noteflight Learn, you can organize classes and easily create assignments with your students.
SOUND INNOVATIONS ONLINE
Published by Alfred Music, Sound Innovations instrumental method books are enriched by free, supplemental online content, providing differentiated instruction and assessment in your band and orchestra classroom.
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