FreeSound is an amazing audio clip repository that uses Creative Commons licenses so that you can freely use anything you find in your own projects. It is perfect for finding sound effects and more.

Shed the Music is a wonderful site for teaching students the fundamentals of music and music theory through engaging, authentic content and well produced videos.

This post has all of my session materials from the OMEA 2023 Conference, plus a little extra :)

Join me for a FREE 5-week online course titled Podcasting Across the Curriculum. You’ll learn everything necessary to integrate podcasting into your teaching.

Here is a FREE lesson plan and composition activity using Noteflight to help your students celebrate the 100th Day of School.

This is a project idea from my podcasting curriculum to help celebrate Black History Month this February.

This post has all of my session materials from the GMEA 2023 Conference in Athens, GA.

Focus On Sound is an amazing tool for all music educators. Part encyclopedia, part music curriculum, this amazing software is the perfect companion to your teaching library.

Learning Synths with Ableton is a fabulous curriculum that will teach you and your students everything you need to know about music synthesis.

Here are a bunch of online resources for you to help teach your students about the Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year celebrated this year on January 22. 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit. 新年好!

The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin should be required reading for all music educators.

Make Spotify playlists your go to resource for easily accessing and playing music during your music instruction.

Did you know that Stevie Wonder’s Happy Birthday song was one of the many reasons that Dr. King’s birthday is a national holiday? Check out this wonderful lesson plan from TeachRock.org.

This post is a quick recap of my time at the 2023 EMEA Winter Conference in Vicenza, Italy.

DrawBeats is a wonderful FREE pattern sequencer that runs in a browser, and you should definitely bookmark the site today and share it with your students!

Every year on January 1st, a new set of literary, music, film and art works fall into the public domain. Check out what is now available for free use in 2023.

Check out this incredible free website to explore the DNA of popular music, and find out - who sampled?

My reflections on being in the corporate world for 15 years - as many years as I taught in the public schools.

Welcome to the NEW MusicFirst.com!

Stephen Malinowsi, creator of the Music Animation Machine, has been posting hundreds of animated graphic scores of musical works for years on YouTube.