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by Gareth Dylan Smith
69 Pages This is an eBook for digital download. This book is aimed at intermediate to more advanced drummers. Written by a seasoned professional drummer and drum educator from London, England, Sound Advice for Drummers provides tips and provocations about practising, performing, rehearsing, recording and creating music from behind the drums. It is an essential read for aspiring professional drummers. -
Creating an exciting atmosphere in your music classroom can be a daunting task! StickBOOM! Vol. 1 is your answer to a fun, engaging, and relevant music making experience. These four original songs arranged for rhythm sticks and Boomwhackers will have students of all ages playing, singing, and dancing along. Pick up your rhythm sticks, grab your Boomwhackers and get ready to jam with Swick and Franklin.
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by Sarah Gulish, Danielle Larrick, Rosie Wilson, Gabe Romero, Emma Rolecki, and Peyton Beebe
This is an eBook for digital download with editable student worksheets. This resource was created as a collaboration between F-flat Books and the podcast, Switched on Pop (SOP). Intended for secondary-level music classrooms, students explore elements of popular music and create original work based on specific themes. This resource includes a teaching guide and editable student worksheets. -
by Amelia Garbisch
(35 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. Teaching Music in the Virtual Classroom: Elementary Edition contains comprehensive lesson plans and teaching resources designed for distance learning in Elementary Music. Within its pages, you will find tips and strategies to help plan creative lessons using the "CEEMS" method of virtual teaching (collaborate, energize, engage, motivate, support). Activities include interactive music games, energizing and amusing short activities, and collaborative ideas to help motivate and engage your students. -
by Amy Walworth
( pages) This is an eBook for digital download. As many teachers find themselves having to teach on a cart due to current issues and limited space in schools, Teaching Music On a Cart will certainly be an essential resource for teachers who must learn to adapt or begin their teaching in a very limited capacity. This book will detail cart teaching logistics, tips and tricks for successful music teaching, lesson planning strategies, and even lesson plans. Offering HOPE in a non-ideal teaching environment, Teaching Music On a Cart will help teachers survive and thrive and perhaps even take their teaching to a whole new level! -
by Michelle Rose
( 82 pages + dozens of downloadable files) This is an eBook for digital download. When Michelle Rose first started teaching music online, she felt like she went straight back to her first year of teaching and there wasn’t much guidance available for K-12 music educators, especially in regards to performance ensembles. Teaching Music Online: A Comprehensive Guide for K-12 Music Educators is full of everything Michelle learned during her experience of teaching music at a full time virtual school. Her book is a balance of practical advice, innovative teaching strategies, and educational philosophy designed to help teachers transition into online music education. -
by Jessica Grant
(110 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. Use the code "tifortwo" at checkout and receive $5 off this journal when purchased with the accompanying Afternoon Ti Book. The Afternoon Ti Guide for Teaching Music Journal allows you to take your music education experience one step further as you apply what you learn in the book The Afternoon Ti Guide for Teaching Music. You'll spend time reflecting through journaling, writing personal insights, creating lessons, and looking at the things you love about teaching in a refreshing new light. -
by Jessica Grant
(177 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. Bundle and Save! Use the code "tifortwo" at checkout and receive $5 off the accompanying Afternoon Ti Guide to Teaching Music: Journal. Whether you are a first-year teacher or have been teaching for many years, The Afternoon Ti Guide for Teaching Music has practical applications you can use for your personal teaching situation. Jessica shares what she has learned as an elementary and middle school general music teacher and provides guidance on incorporating fresh ideas into your classroom. You’ll read about numerous areas pertaining to music education including music approaches, time management and organization tips, rehearsal and performance preparation ideas, using technology in the classroom, how to talk with your administration, and more. Lesson plan examples are included throughout the book. The purpose of this book is to allow you to learn about tried and true methods for teaching music, gather new ideas for you to try, and provide specific ways to implement those ideas into your classroom. The Afternoon Ti Guide for Teaching Music Journal (purchased separately) allows you to take your learning one step further through journaling, writing personal insights, creating lessons, and looking at the things you love about teaching in a refreshing new light. -
by Sarah Gulish
(47 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. The Comprehensive Beginning Guitar Curriculum is a must-read for any music educator tasked with teaching a modern guitar class. This detailed text provides philosophy, unit plans, and resources for the development and execution of a relevant and engaging guitar program. INCLUDES: • video examples • classroom handouts & assessments • a space for typing notes directly into the PDF -
by Sarah Gulish
(37 pages plus video tutorials and handouts) This is an eBook for digital download. The Comprehensive Beginning Guitar Curriculum is a must-read for any music educator tasked with teaching a modern guitar class. This detailed text provides philosophy, unit plans, and resources for the development and execution of a relevant and engaging guitar program. The second edition includes updated visuals and curricular extensions. -
by Marissa Guarriello, Sarah Gulish, and Matt Shaffer
(103 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. Want to engage your students in creative music-making but don't know where to start? This practical eBook takes you step-by-step through improvising, creating, arranging, and performing with your students. Written from the perspective of three string orchestra educators, these tried and true methods will transform your music classroom into a music laboratory. This interactive eBook includes links to videos, student project examples, editable google docs, and other supportive resources. The authors address topics such as "creativity in remote teaching" and "creativity as social justice," as well as rehearsal and lesson plan ideas that could be completed either in-person or remotely. -
This is an eBook for digital download (82 pages + editable resources) Reading, writing, and conducting research can feel overwhelming. But it can feel especially overwhelming if you’re brand new. This book is the jargon-free field guide, companion, and resource for music education research so that you don’t have to keep emailing your professors. -
by María del Carmen Andrade
(16 pages, Includes English & Spanish versions) This is an e-book for digital download. This story is a reminder for little ones and adults that we all have a golden seed inside of us. To find it, we must not give up and keep trying. We may cry when facing difficulties and challenges, but we must never abandon our dreams. Each purchase comes with PDF downloads and access to interactive flipbooks (in both English and Spanish) with music accompaniment tracks. Music tracks by Pedro Andrade, Fernando Muñoz (recording on page 12), and Kate Bright (final recording). -
by Jennifer Ristvedt-Hille
illustrations by Steffi Andrat Faria This is an interactive eBook for online access and digital download (62 pages)In The Joe Family from Grand Staff and the Common Sidewalk, Grandpa Joe introduces you to his funny family of music notes and invites you to walk and talk like them in a way that you are sure to remember. Walking and talking like the Joe Family may help you learn to read and play whole, half, quarter, eighth, triplet, and sixteenth notes. The text, while relatively simple, will help you understand the complex world of reading, understanding, and using music notation.
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by Alice Tsui
This is a digital resource for immediate download "The Moon Represents My Heart 月亮代表我的心” Teaching Guide and Sheet Music Arrangement by Alice Tsui is a bilingual Mandarin Chinese and English digital resource that shares the history of the song "The Moon Represents My Heart 月亮代表我的心,” the context of this popular song within Chinese culture, and its connections to cultural celebrations today. -
by S. Elias James
(102 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. The Music Tech Student is a compendium of information covering every major music technology topic. It’s a concise and unbiased look at the basics without leaving anything out. You’ll find it’s a fantastic trove of just the right answers to the most common questions from topics including careers, the nature of sound, acoustics, recording studios, DAWs, electronic music, audio processing, live sound, and marketing. -
by Zachary Himelhoch and Otto Gross
illustrations by Josie ClarkThe Night the Music Room Came Alive tells the story of a magical school music room that comes to life at night. This fun and exciting story follows the instruments as they come to life and transform the music room into a concert hall to create their own unique orchestra.
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by Zachary Himelhoch and Otto Gross
illustrations by Josie ClarkThe teaching guide for The Night the Music Room Came Alive aims to help parents and teachers connect with their young learners and to bring the music room beyond the page to create a holistic literary experience. This teaching guide is aimed at serving a wide range of students and can be easily adapted to be engaging for younger and older students simultaneously.
Bundle and Save! Buy this product with the book, The Night the Music Room Came Alive, and get both products for $25.00. Use the code "ALIVE" at checkout. -
Purchase this with "The Oz Ukulele Method" using the code "theozmethod" at checkout to receive $5 off! This is an eBook for digital download. This beginning method book teaches chords and strumming for accompanying popular music. The curriculum is based on research in motor skill learning and is accessible to anyone wanting to learn to strum popular songs. The book includes online video and audio companion. -
Purchase this with "The Oz Guitar Method" using the code "theozmethod" at checkout and receive $5 off! This is an eBook for digital download. This beginning method book teaches chords and strumming for accompanying popular music. The curriculum is based on research in motor skill learning and is accessible to anyone wanting to learn to strum popular songs. The book includes an online video and audio companion. -
This is an eBook for digital download (61 pages) The Producers of Pop is the perfect resource to provide educators with a blueprint for studying popular music through the lens of the music producer. This resource highlights the work of some of the greatest modern producers through lesson guides, worksheets, and ideas for classroom implementation. Great for any type of music class at the secondary level, this guide highlights an often underrepresented space in music education. -
Bilingual Interactive eBook in English and Spanish This is an eBook for digital download. Each purchase comes with a PDF version of the book and an interactive flipbook with sound.The Shy Little Monster is a silly, sweet, interactive Halloween book for kids ages 1-7. This book shows kids that it’s okay to be shy, it’s okay to ask for help and, most importantly, good friends are always there to offer some encouragement and help you find your voice. It is also a great book to explore voice volume and dynamics!Note: To access the interactive flipbook, you must check out with an account, not anonymously. -
by Naarah Callender
(43-page teacher guide with 100 student cards) This is an e-book for digital download. Purchase includes PDF and PowerPoint files. Target Practice is a completely self-paced and flexible learning system, allowing students to learn and retain music theory concepts in an engaging and organic way through activities, games, and exploration. Students work through learning targets at their own pace to level up and improve their ear-training, sight-reading, rhythmic, and melodic skills. This is perfect for any secondary level course! -
This is an eBook for digital download (60 pages + printable lesson templates) The Teaching Artist Toolkit is a comprehensive book, workbook, and lesson planner to help busy musicians optimize their teaching practice so they can level up their own artist careers. It includes an overview of how to structure lessons (and why), a workbook to get you clear on what, why, and who you teach, and a planner to simplify lesson preparation and help you set goals with your students. A bonus resource library is included in the back. -
by Thomas Velsor
(36 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. The purpose of this method is to provide a beginner double bass text that does not require shifting positions. By avoiding the need to shift, the student can spend their first lessons focusing on musicianship skills, and correct hand positions. This text would also be a good fit for any student performing in a concert band, as well as students who are not beginners but are new to the half position. -
This is an eBook for digital download The Teacher's Guide accompanies the interactive book, The Vietnamese Children's Songbook. This guide provides cultural context to each song, suggestions for teaching the song, and games or activities to accompany the song. A resource website, https://vietchildrenssongs.com, accompanies the book. A full playlist of the songs is available on streaming platforms. Bundle and save! Purchase this teaching guide with the interactive flipbook to receive $10 off using the code "SONGBOOK" at checkout. -
This is an interactive eBook for digital access The Vietnamese Children's Songbook is a collection of nine songs and Mid-Autumn Harvest Moon Festival activities for children aged 3-10 years. This illustrated songbook includes cultural background information, supplemental Vietnamese language guidance, and music recordings of each song. The songs and activities are sure to inspire teachers, parents, and children to begin a musical journey together. Bundle and save! Purchase the teaching guide with this interactive flipbook to receive $10 off using the code "SONGBOOK" at checkout. Sample Track: -
This is an interactive eBook for digital access“This Snowman” is a wonderful and whimsical collection of thirteen classic nursery rhyme tunes that we know and love with Christmas themes. Songs like “This Snowman”, “Ho Ho Santa”, “Little Man Sam”, and “Mary Had A Little Boy” will bring out the Christmas spirit in everyone and be a solid addition to any Christmas book collection. Each purchase includes access to the interactive flipbook (with video singalongs) and a PDF download with illustrations and lyrics. -
This is an eBook for digital download (90 pages) This book was written to share Danielle and Jessica's thoughts and experiences inside and outside of the classroom. They tell their stories and share ideas so you know you're not alone, to encourage you to find ways to take care of yourself, and to give two perspectives on navigating health and wellness as teachers. -
The provided spiritual collection was created for today’s contemporary classroom, with authentic gospel-style instrumentation perfect for a variety of occasions. Vocal arrangements were written for upper Elementary through Middle School voices with part singing options. The collection is fitting for black history programs, community sing-a-longs, festivals, productions and also community choir performances. Your purchase will include a gospel-style instrumental track with embellishments, as well as a simplified arrangement of sheet music for voice and piano accompaniment. An excellent teaching resource for the music classroom. I'm Gonna Sing Sample Track: Walk Together Children Sample Track: -
by David Getz (115 pages + Downloadable Presentations)
This is an eBook for digital download. Unlocking Student Creativity through Composition is the perfect book for any teacher or student who wants to begin their Music Composition journey. Written in practical terms with one too many pop culture references, Getz uses his student composition group, the Composers’ Guild, as an example of how student creativity can blossom through the development of this craft. Through the unity of intentional Education and exciting Experiences, you can find the Inspiration needed to unlock your creativity today! -
by Alice Tsui
In “We Are Golden 我们是金的”, an American born Chinese girl encounters racism in the music classroom. Through processing the emotions of this moment, the girl sees her pain transform into a powerful reflection of herself, her identity, and her community. Together with melody in music, we take a journey with the girl and the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community to shine brightly in our world. Bundle and save! Buy this resource and the accompanying teaching guide and save $5 at checkout with the code "GOLDEN" -
by Alice Tsui
This resource is a score, instrumental music, and lesson plan package that accompanies Alice Tsui's We are Golden 我们是金的 Flipbook! Bundle this resource with the Flipbook and use the code "GOLDEN" at checkout to receive $5 off. In "We Are Golden 我们是金的," an American born Chinese girl encounters racism in the music classroom. Through processing the emotions of this moment, the girl sees her pain transform into a powerful reflection of herself, her identity, and her community. Together with melody in music, we take a journey with the girl and the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community to shine brightly in our world. -
This song has been written and adapted to fit a variety of ensemble make-ups. From a unison elementary choir to a SATBB vocal ensemble with a full orchestra, this anthem of unity can be performed by all ages. Explore the pop version with Lead and Lyric sheets or fully notated arrangements for choral ensembles.
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This is an ebook available for digital download. We Are Nashville was written to inspire a sense of belonging, love, and unity in the communities of Nashville, TN. The lyrics and accompanying illustrations serve as a visual tour guide for one interested in learning more about America's Music City. Originally composed as a musical work commissioned for a local music festival (We Are Nashville Festival), many ensembles and organizations in Middle TN have performed this lyrical message, including the Nashville Symphony. Sing along with the text and enjoy the musical journey to Nashville's Music Row. Arrangement of "We Are Nashville" is available for flexible choral arrangements and with piano accompaniment or full orchestration here.
