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It is my goal to continually search for (and list them here as I find them) freely available music education resources, including music software programs, games, free sheet music, exercises & drills, free transcribed solos, free online fingering charts, free metronomes, free tuners, and other resources for the benefit of music students, private teachers, music educators, and anybody else who might find them useful. The list on my website is of course by no means a complete one - it is merely representative of SOME of the many resources I found out there which I thought were particularly good. I am always interested in listing music games for kids, good jazz education resources, and free sheet music resources, all of which I think makes learning music easier & more accessible for everyone.
PLEASE - if you see a website with freely available musical education resources which you think should be listed here, by all means send me an email to lessons@zacworld.com so I can check it out & possibly list it.
Thanks, & have fun!
Zac
 | Music Reading program by Wim Wijnen - highly recommended! |
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| Music Theory Basics is an EXCELLENT well-designed music education program written by Wim Wijnen, who is a music teacher and music software designer from Holland. This program contains many different modules (What is the name of the note?, Note writing, Yes or No, a rhythm trainer, a theory section, etc). Try it before you buy it! |
| Earplane.com - great online eartraining site! |
| Earplane.com |
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The web just keeps gettin' cooler! Here's a great ear training site created by Knut Lamvik I just found out about which includes
separate tests for harmonic intervals, melodic intervals, intonation, 4 note chords, rhythms, and many others! If you register it keeps track of how you score and, if you're really good, you might just make it on the top 10 list!
Mr. Lamvik has kindly offered this site for free usage to anyone who wishes to use it. He will accept donations from those who wish to support his continuing work - Donate to Earplane.com |
| Music Trainers & Utilities from Ricci Adams |
| Music Trainers Online |
| My favorite music training and skill building site - what a terrific job Ricci Adams has done! VERY VERY COOL. You can either do the trainers online, or you can download the Offline Edition. Unlike some other sites I used to link to, Ricci still generously provides all the programs and content on his website free of charge. If you wish to support his work, he accepts donations. |
| Online Music Games & Tutorials You Can Do Right From Your Browser! |
| Java Music Theory
FUN online music tutorials - check 'em out! |
Free Music Online Games
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| Metronimo's Online Music games
Games include Hangman, Word Search, Memorization, Quiz, and Puzzle. |
| Note Naming Programs |
| BeSharp Flashcard Trainer |
| Stand alone version |
| BeSharp is a simple java program which will test and time you on your ability to read notes. BeSharp's java programming was developed by one of my students (an adult computer programmer). Requires java to be enabled in your browser. |
| Note ID 3.0 |
| Note ID 3.0 |
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This Note ID program isn't nearly as user friendly as some of the others mentioned here. However, it is free, and I mention it here for those who want to learn a bit of piano along with note identification. The program plays a pitch and shows it on the grand staff, then you click the correct note on the onscreen piano or use your midi keyboard to play the note that way. It keeps track of your score and if you get the note wrong it keeps playing it until you get it right. Several configurable options, including putting the note names on the piano keys, seeing do-re-mi syllables during use, midi options, etc. For non-pianists I'd recommend sticking with B-Sharp or the Note Trainer utility at musictheory.net
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| Rhythm Tapping Programs |
| Earope For Windows | |
| This is a GREAT rhythm tapping program. The shareware has some limitations, but is still well worth the download. If you are one of my students, PLEASE download and use it! |
Free Fingering Charts | |
| Free saxophone fingering chart |
| Free clarinet fingering chart |
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| Free flute fingering chart |
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| Free oboe fingering chart |
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| Free bassoon fingering chart |
Music Dictionary Online | |
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A great online music dictionary with brief definitions of the most common musical terms. |
Metronomes--for free! | |
| AN ONLINE METRONOME! Just turn on your speakers, click this link and BOOM!!! - you have a metronome! |
| YGS Free Metronome A nice freeware metronome from Yellow Gold Software. This very basic metronome has tempos from 40 to 208 and is simple to install and operate. I like how this metronome has the appropriate musical terms next to the tempo numbers, which is good for students who are learning what the terms mean as they encounter it on their sheet music. On this metronome, for example, next to 40 it says Largo, 72 Adagio, 152 Allegro, and so forth. By all means this little metronome is a good one to have on your computer when you can't be online! |
| Metronome - light edition (downloadable) This is a downloadable shareware metronome that works really well. According to the documentation it will work for 30 minutes a day unless you purchase the full version (although it kept working for me past 30 minutes...but you didn't hear that from me! Shhhhh!). This metronome runs only on PC/Windows 98/Me/XP/2000/2003 systems with at least a 1.2 GHz CPU. |
Midi file players | |
| At this point, the Winjammer shareware midi player for PC is the only one I know of which plays, records, saves any new midi files you write (plus it lets you save any changes you make to pre-existing midi files), and displays music notation while playing back a midi file. It won't print (of course you could get around that by using a screen capture program - I'm not suggesting it, I'm just saying you could). I haven't yet seen a freeware program for PC that will do that much. I also don't know of any shareware or freeware programs which do this for the Mac (if you know of one please let me know so I can add it here). | |
| Winjammer shareware midi player for Windows 95, 98 and NT |
Notation software | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finale Notepad is a freeware notation program for Windows or Mac -- great for writing, editing, playing back, saving and printing your own sheet music. Although I prefer Sibelius over the full version of Finale, at this point I have not yet seen a FREE notation program which does all the things the Finale Notepad program does. It is simple to use. You have to register this product by becoming an online member at the Makemusic site (it's free), but I think it's worth the trouble. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finale Notepad |
| Here's one called Nightlite I found after searching the web for a Macintosh notation program. From it's description it sounds like it will let you edit, save, print and playback your own music files (and it is freeware!), but I've never tried it. If any of you in the Macworld (no relation to Zacworld) download this and try it, please let me know what you think. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NightLight for Mac |
Hey look - it's a free tuner! (Windows only) |
| AP Instrument Tuner |
Some more tuners from hitsquad.com |
| MANY MANY TUNERS at hitsquad.com |
| SAXONTHEWEB.NET
The most vast & comprehensive saxophone discussion group I have yet seen -- for beginners to the most advanced professionals, this website has forums & discussions going on concerning just about every saxophone-related thing you can think of. If you play sax and you have questions, go there & ask it. Everyone there is friendly & you'll learn a lot even if you just read what others have written! |
Newsgroups (also called discussion forums) | |
| alt.music.education |
| alt.flute |
| alt.music.clarinet |
| alt.music.saxophone |
| rec.music.makers.saxophone |
Free Sheet Music sites | |
| sheetmusicarchive.net - no need to hunt through page after page to try to find free music - at this site you can download it RIGHT NOW! |
| free-scores.com - MANY links to more free sheet music sites |
| Sibeliusmusic.comMany pages of sheet music you can see & play through your browser uploaded from users of Sibelius notation software. A lot of it is free, some of it you have to buy. In order to view these pages in your browser you will need to install the Scorch plug-in |
| The Sheet Music Archive (*CHALLENGING* - try the Mozart melody lines) |
| Werner Icking Music Archive - Lots of sheet music in PDF and GIF format |
| Ralph Patt's Jazz Web Page - basic chord changes for hundreds of jazz standards |
Other Music Interests Websites | |
| Ricci Adams' musictheory.net --- An excellent site for music education! |
| The Practice Spot --- A really well organized site for students and teachers. |
| Mel Martin's Jazz and Saxophone Website --- HIGHLY RECOMMENDED if you are one of my saxophone and/or jazz students |
| Jazz Handbook by Jamey Aebersold --- HIGHLY RECOMMENDED if you are one of my saxophone and/or jazz students |
| Great Composers -- biographies, works, etc. |
Why should I practice scales???I have provided the sheet music for the exercises in 2 file formats: PDF and GIF. PDF is a higher quality, clearer format which will print out at a higher resolution than the GIF format. In order to view and/or print PDF files, you will need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your machine. You can get the latest version of the Acrobat Reader free of charge from Adobe's Homepage.
If you are unable to use the Adobe Acrobat Reader, click on the files listed under the GIF format.
Major Scales
pdf gif Clarinet Clarinet Flute Flute Saxophone Saxophone
Tonguing
pdf gif Clarinet Clarinet Flute Flute Saxophone Saxophone
Fundamentals
pdf gif Clarinet Clarinet Flute Flute Saxophone Saxophone
Pentatonic Scales
pdf gif Clarinet Clarinet Flute Flute Saxophone Saxophone
Chromatic Scale
pdf gif Clarinet Clarinet Flute Flute Saxophone Saxophone
A Simple Flute
Octave Exercise
pdf gif Flute Flute
Hart Exercise
pdf gif All All
| Blank Music Writing Paper | |
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| 10 Staves | 12 Staves |
