Websites with games, activities, videos:
- Vic Firth Rudiments
https://vicfirth.zildjian.com/education/40-essential-rudiments.html - Paint Composer
https://danielx.net/composer/ - New York Philharmonic Kids
https://www.nyphilkids.org - Classics for Kids
www.classicsforkids.com - Chrome Music Lab Song Maker
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com - Incredibox
www.incredibox.com (There is an app but it isn’t free.) - Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall
https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/home - Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (Carnegie Hall)
https://listeningadventures.carnegiehall.org - Music Tech Teacher Games
http://www.musictechteacher.com/music_quizzes/music_quizzes.htm - PBS Kids Music
http://pbskids.org/games/music/ - Music K8 Fun Stuff
http://www.musick8kids.com/html/funstuff.php - DSO Kids (Dallas)
https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/ (Check out Listen and Learn or Activities.) - Interactive Orchestra
https://www.animatedscience.co.uk/animations/orchestra/orchestra.htm - Perfect Pitch (Baseball Music Game)
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/interactives/perfectpitch/ - 52 Instruments to Make at Home
https://feltmagnet.com/crafts/Music-Instruments-for-Kids-to-Make - Go Classical for Kids
http://classicalkusc.org/kids/ - Composers for Kids (Preschool-2)
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-b/music/load.htm? - Yamaha Music Games
http://www.playintimeadvantage.com/games/ - PBS Kids Pattern Maker
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/cyber-pattern-player/ - Isle of Tune (2nd up)
http://isleoftune.com - Tone Savvy
https://tonesavvy.com/music-practice-exercises/ - Julie’s Green Room (Julie Andrews!)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLkCY300Oya6g4QTIE_wO3A - Rhythm Trainer
http://www.therhythmtrainer.com - San Francisco Kids
http://www.sfskids.org - Brain Pop
https://www.brainpop.com/artsandmusic/ - Drum Machine
https://www.onemotion.com/drum-machine/ - Whack a Note
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/interactives/steprightup/whackanote/ - Arts Alive – National Arts Centre of Canada
http://artsalive.ca/en/mus/index.asp - Classical MPR For Kids
https://www.classicalmpr.org/topic/classical-kids-storytime - Global Jukebox (Need to create free login)
https://theglobaljukebox.org - Little Kids Rock
https://www.youtube.com/user/littlekidsrock - Staff Wars (Desktop versions are free, small fee for app) (3rd up)
http://www.themusicinteractive.com/downloads.html
Videos to move to – good for younger students
- Ants Go Marching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjw2A3QU8Qg&list=RDPjw2A3QU8Qg&start_radio=1 - Shake Your Sillies Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwT5oX_mqS0&list=RDPjw2A3QU8Qg&index=3 - Move it to the Sounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JvkWXBY2eY - Boom Chicka Boom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b6axyuaKcY - Shake Yo Foot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59_j0CjY75U - Maximo’s Hokey Pokey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVAnoqxKAAc - Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuqvGiZi0qg - If You’re Happy and You Know It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71hqRT9U0wg - Move & Freeze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=388Q44ReOWE - Freeze Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UcZWXvgMZE - 3 Songs to Move to (2 use scarves!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLwRr03nWPo - Do the Swim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0P2NdPKcAQ - Hand Jive Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHNeWSoLQZA - I am the Music Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22kqia2ibVU - Just Dance Videos
http://bit.ly/justdancekidsRR
Videos to Move To – Older Students
Great videos about music on Youtube
- Army Band Introduction to the Instruments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCTeSjpDsIs - Less Common Instruments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v62YjjV-Roo - Star Wars Throne Room – Live Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dydhnAi0A3E - Ted Yoder – Bach Cello Suite No 1 – Prelude – Hammered Dulcimer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om3OAVh34nk - Falling – Hammered Dulcimer and Cello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J606mBNlCL8 - Visuals of Classical Music Youtube Channel – animated renderings that show duration and pitch (2nd up)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2zb5cQbLabj3U9l3tke1pg - George Meets the Orchestra (Preschool-1st)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Jc4sP0BEE&fbclid=IwAR3C4sQifMexfJ3ggpt7szG8WcO3omcyfgnLYlwaKWEXxnrec2WOlhyD5Zc - From Clavicord to Modern Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uCCw_hmILA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IaE2i-DmA - 40 Fingers – Disney Medley (Guitar Quartet)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6hYcSvYQkA - 40 Fingers – Last of the Mohicans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VIH0QIrqdE - 40 Fingers – Star Wars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT6KYMBTD80 - Alma Deutscher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvECZ_ZXGqs - Making of a Steinway Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAInt7hIZlU - 1812 Overture – Full
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUpuAvQQrC0 - Harvard Thud – Boomwhacker Ensemble – Star Wars Medley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAliLg14Ks - History, Science, and Music of the Pipe Organ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzpZRV9Cmac - Wintergaten – Marble Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q - Flashmob 1 – Ode to Joy – Starts with recorder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a23945btJYw - Flashmob 2 – 1812 Overture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NJRCCgK_AM - Flashmob 3 – Bolero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsF53JpBMlk - Flashmob 4 Beethoven Symphony No 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lNaajK3Scc - Yamato – The Drummers of Japan – Taiko Drums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqTJoo-0dbw - The Okee Dokee Brothers (3rd up)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO5pH7E_A1M&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2q35JrDslj6q2RCSLOA9XJWGUwj29-httLmICu2oljLIGLyKpQTPui1tY - Taiko Drums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enywvYwj3M4 - Didgeridoo Meets Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLu9GmV2vF0 - Mary Jo Barron on Mr. Roger’s
https://www.misterrogers.org/episodes/a-visit-with-mary-jo-barron/
