Apps and Digital Resources for Recorder and More!

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1 Apps and igital Resoures for Reorder and More! Presented by enise agne, 2015 oin the Musiplay Teahers roup on Faebook! Ho to onnet ipad or iphone to Proetor - You an buy a onnetor at BestBuy for about $40 You an also onnet irelessly using a program on your omputer alled Refletor To use Refletor - go to refletorappom and donload and install the program on your omputer It s $1299 Open the Refletor program on your omputer, and hook your omputer up to a ireless netork o to your ipad and onnet your ipad to ireless With your iphone or ipad turned on, double lik on the bottom button and all your apps sho up Sroll to the left and you ll see your itunes play ontrols, brightness ontrol (on ipad) and volume (on ipad) If both omputer and ipad are onneted to ireless a ne button opens up that looks like a square ith an arro in it Turn mirroring on and your ipad onnets to your omputer Sounds ompliated, but after you ve done it a ouple of times it s easy and then you an alk around the lassroom ith your ipad in your hands If you have issues, me - I ve had to use an alternate method to onnet and an explain it if this doesn t ork for you ReadRhythm This app is probably most useful for middle or high shool instrumentalists, not for elementary musi lasses, but the easier exerises are very good for developing students rhythm reading abilities Sixteenth note exerises inlude tikatika and ti-tika I ould have preferred exerises ith ust tikatika in one level, and add ti-tika in a separate level Smart Rhythms for Fall and Smart Rhythms Vol 2 - by Linda Miller - outstanding olletion of interative ativities for teahing rhythm (don t need a Smartboard to use) - isk ontains more than 0 ativities, ith 4 levels: 1 qqrq 2 h qttt 4 qrt qtr - Eah set is $0 or both for $50 - exellent value for 200+ rhythm ativities AN digital flashards Linda Miller s seond olletion of rhythm ativities is the most omprehensive olletion of digital rhythm ativities available It inludes 10 levels of rhythms in 14 different ativities for reading, listening (ear training) and reating/omposing ith rhythms - you an use this publiation ith or ithout a SMARTBoard - donload interative vieer smarttehom to use on any Ma or PC ith omputer/proetor or IWB - this olletion inludes the flashards as graphis so you an build your on ativities (the graphis are opyright, so please don t share or publish files) This olletion is available to purhase in the displays or donload at musiplaya 20 different ativities for reading, listening (ear training) and reating/omposing ith rhythms Eah ativity is given at ten different rhythm levels: q qr h qtq h qttt qrt eq e qrr eeeeqq q;u /4 6/8 - inludes stik notes, relative note value ativities AN traks to play along! 2015 For Classroom Use Only musiplaya denisegagne1@gmailom

2 Piano Free ith Songs (free) is aesome! It has many ustomizable features, inluding the ability to resize the keyboard I like the keyboard the ay it is by default You an add note labels to the keyboard, and adust the volume It inludes a metronome and even a pedal It s a pretty amazing tool for a free app You an upgrade and get 500 songs that it teahes you ho to play Pro Metronome (free) is a great metronome tool The free version inludes the ability to ustomize the time signature, to virtually any time signature you an think of To set the tempo, you sroll around the heel, faster or sloer It s easy to set to the tempo that you ant (Not all the metronome apps are this easy to set the tempo) The free version only shos the tap hih is fine for me I haven t upgraded to the flash visual IBeat (free) I still like the old fashioned metronome - a real one ith a ooden ase that you have to ind up Hoever, I an t arry it around ith me all the time There are lots of apps that have the metronome visual The one that I like is Ibeat It s free, although it has ads and you an upgrade to no ads for 199 To start and stop, you tap anyhere on the page You sroll the eight up and don to set tempo, and it s easier to set the tempo you ant them some of the other metronome apps You have 2/4, /4, 4/4 time signatures or ust a steady beat To hange the time signatures you press the gear heel Flashnote erby 99 This is a good app for pratiing letter names There is enough game to be appealing, and enough ontent for it to be orth spending the time on You an set the number of questions: 10, 20, 0 and you an selet the rae speed: alk, trot, anter, gallop Note Squish for iphone only (not ipad) This is a another good app for pratiing letter names There is enough game to be appealing, and enough ontent for it to be orth spending the time on Treble Cat H $99 This is another fun app ith good ontent It s simpler than the first to It ould be good for younger students or students ith speial needs Note Name Math ame - itunes ouldn t let me all this app Note Name Memory, so in itunes it s Note Name Math ame There are 10 levels of play for both treble lef and bass lef Students play a memory game mathing the letter name to the note on the staff It starts ith ust spaes, then ust lines, then notes on the staff, then adds ledger lines In oogle Play it s alled Note Name Memory! $199 Websites to pratie note names online musitheorynet (I like the old site better than the ne) teahingideasouk lassisforkidsom musiplayonlineom This site ill inlude solfa naming ativities for all reading songs K-6 AN letter naming ativities for all reading songs r 2-6 Press play and you ll hear the song sung in solfa As you name the notes, the pith plays so there s instant feedbak If you have a lass set of ipads, have your students omplete the exerise on ipads, or demonstrate from your omputer/proetor or IWB The exerises self orret - a rong note isn t alloed! 2015 For Classroom Use Only musiplaya denisegagne1@gmailom

3 Learn and Play Reorder - by enise agne The Reorder Resoure Kit Student Book is an app!!! It inludes all the introdutory material: All About the Reorder, Ho to Care for the Reorder, interative note naming and note value pratie, Soprano Fingering harts AN all 8 songs in the olletion, ith full performane traks Students ho have iphone or ipad at home, an donload and use the app for pratie instead of taking home a printed book/c $99 Learn and Play Reorder Lite is available no in oogle Play and ill be available very shortly in itunes This FREE app lets students read all the introdutory materials and play the first 8 songs Learn and Play Reorder 2 inludes 24 songs for to soprano reorders ith full aompaniment You an also add an optional alto part (alto or transposed alto) using the full sore igital Resoure - Reorder Resoure Kit 1 and 2 The Reorder igital Resoure inludes everything that s in the app plus movies of the introdutory material, Mad Minute anser keys, Smart Notebook files of all songs and aompaniment traks The igital Resoure inludes Kids Notes PoerPoints hih are really helpful for your eak readers You an print from PoerPoints - an t print from an app Best value? Buy the Reorder Resoure Kit 1 (or 2) ith igital Resoures for $50 and you have 8 songs in both regular and kid notes formatted to make booklets, you have assessment materials, mad minutes, note name flashards, and aompaniment C Best value for students is the $10 reorder pakage - book/c, reorder If you order 10+ e pay the tax and the shipping Reorder Master - fun game Also available free online at oytunesom This game may be disontinued - the ompany is fousing on piano apps instead Voal Warm-ups for Singers or Choir - by Kerry Heisler The arm-ups in this olletion are organized into five sets Eah set inludes a physial arm-up, breath aareness, then five minutes of a variety of mid-range arm-ups There is a voal model to aompany the voalist(s) for the first exerises, then you or your group ontinue until the end of the exerise Rain Rain Story app - this is a story in hih hildren ill aompany a poem ith instruments and they ll sing the Rain Rain song At the end of the story hildren an play 4 different rhythm instruments hile they say the poem They then get some ear training - hih pattern did you hear? - using patterns from the song Finally, they get to try playing the song on a xylophone This is a great sound story - students an improvise melodies to the poem and aompany the song on Orff instruments as ell as playing all the rain sounds on non-pithed instruments 2015 For Classroom Use Only musiplaya denisegagne1@gmailom

4 10 This Little Light Reorder 2 igital Resoures 2 part soprano ith optional alto (transposed or not) - easy ay to get kids h playing g ensembles f or g d s Big B-A- Book for Reorder Book/C ith igital Resoures Big B-A- Book is a olletion of 24 piees that use ust BA It s a study in musial styles - tango, blues, ragtime, et This inludes piano or C aompaniments Featuring synopation in a minor key 2 C Cassils Soprano 1 Soprano Reorder Resoure Kit 1 Aompaniments - inludes Orff arrangements and piano aompaniments for all 8 songs in the Kit or the app Band of Angels Arranged C Cassils Reorder Fingering Flashards - post fingering harts on your all for There as one, there ere to, there ere three angels - Thereere students to refer to 85x11 size Soprano 1 Soprano 2 four, nine there ere five, Spirituals for Reorder Book/C ith igital Resoures (PF to proet) 12 duets ith piano or C a Easy- Medium diffiult This is a great resoure for Blak History Month! Band of Angels there ere There as six one, there ere to, there ere three angels - Thereere an - gels Thereere seven, there ere Arranged C Cassils eight, there ere four, nine there ere five, there ere six an - gels Thereere seven, there ere eight, an-gels, Ten lit - tle an-gels inthe band Was-n't that a there ere Sun - day morn - ing, Sun - day morn - ing, Sun - day morn - ing? Was-n't that a band Sun - day morn - ing, Sun - day morn - ing an-gels, 2015 Ten litfor - tle an Classroom -gels inthe band Use Only Was-n't that a musiplaya band denisegagne1@gmailom soon? band Fine

5 azz Cats Reorder Bonnie Rossa Brad Keller Book/C ith igital Resoures [Eighth notes are played as Sing eighths - triplet feel] Intro Reorder 5~65 A 9~ % Ó Sales for Improvisation Beginner sale: B A Advaned sale: E A B Keller/Rossa Ó Repeat first time and on S Ó 1~7 B Ó Blues Cats Reorder Bonnie Rossa Brad Keller Book/C ith igital Resoures 17~77 A Ó 21~81 Ó 2nd time to Coda fi (m 89) Ó 25~85 Ó 1~9~47 azz Solos: Beginner sale: B A Advaned sale: E A B Repeat times 55 fi Ó S al Coda (to m 65) 89 Coda Ó Ó azz Cats Reorder and Blues Cats reorder ere ritten to give beginning and intermediate reorder students the opportunity to play authenti azz and blues styes The piees have opportunities for students to improvise Holiday Song for Reorder - 14 holiday songs Inludes regular and Kids notes for 2 part soprano ol - ly old St Nih -o - las, Emin lean your ear this Bmin ay ar intro C on't you tell a sin - gle soul, hat I'm going to say Emin Bmin Musiplay K-6 igital Resoures pakage $ Christ inludes - mas eve is teaher s om - ing guides soon, no ith you performane/aompaniment dear old man Cs, Listening Resoure Kits and igital Resoures to proet or use on a Smartboard Musiplay Teaher s roup on Faebook is an ative forum to ask questions and share teahing ideas The Musiplay Nesletter is also a great soure of teahing ideas for the K-6 musi lassroom rants are available to help fund a purhase! Shools that purhase the digital pakage ill have free C aess to musiplayonlineom for 6-8 years 2015 For Classroom Use Only musiplaya denisegagne1@gmailom his - er hat you'll ring to me, tell me i you an

6 Toronto Musiplay Workshops 2015 ~ Help! I have to teah Musi! Toronto August 27 K- Ideas 10:00 - :0 $75 / $175 ith materials Rexdale Alliane August 28 r 4-6 Ideas 10:00 - :0 $75 / $175 ith materials Rexdale Alliane Loation: Rexdale Alliane, 2459 Islington Ave, Toronto, ON -inludes snaks, pizza lunh ay 1 - Fun Ideas for K- Musi Classes This day ill inlude ideas for - getting your students singing, keeping a beat, playing instruments and found sounds - lessons to teah the elements of musi: reading rhythms, learning about dynamis, tempo, form - lessons to get your students reating musi using ostinato, sound effets, storybooks - listening lessons to help develop ritial response to musi ay 2 - rade -6 Classroom Ideas, Choir Reading Session, Fun ith Ukuleles Fun ith Ukuleles: Have you ever anted to try out a ukulele? At this session, you ll learn to play songs, and ill even learn to play along ith some pop songs! You ll develop enough skills to be able to aompany your students or teah a ukulele unit Choral Musi Reading Session: W Pepper is providing reading pakages for this session You ll get to read through ne musi for elementary hoirs, and you ll get to keep the sample opies! Classroom Ideas: In this session, you ll get fun ideas for ays to get your students reading musi, using the elements of musi, omposing and reating, and ritial listening enise agné, liniian, has taught musi at all grade levels She has degrees in musi (B Musi University of Vitoria) and eduation, as ell as Level in Kodaly and Orff enise has authored many elementary musi publiations inluding Musiplay K-6 enise has been a orkshop presenter in every Canadian provine and territory, at more than 9 US state onferenes and Orff Chapters She has presented at national and international onferenes in Canada, the USA, Malaysia, Australia, Europe, Korea, and Singapore! Her orkshops are fun, pratial, and ativity based! enise is the author of Musiplay K-6, the most idely used elementary musi urriulum in Canada Name: Shool: Address: City: Postal Code: Shool istrit: istrit Arts Contat: Phone - ork: CELL: (ust in ase) Visa or M/C Expiry: City you ll be attending orkshop: Workshop Fee: 1 day $75 / $175 ith materials 2 days: $125 or $225 ith materials Payable by hek, visa or invoie shool: Invoie shool: PO Visa or Masterard MC or Visa expiry: With Materials inludes one grade of Musiplay teaher s guide or igital Resoures, OR $100 materials redit Materials an be hosen at the orkshop from any Themes Variations publiation: See musiplaya Complete if you are paying for materials: Musiplay Teaher s uide OR Musiplay igital rade (irle one) K OR $100 materials to hoose at orkshop 2015 For Classroom Use Only musiplaya denisegagne1@gmailom