Fun Music Learning Links and Games

Here are several musical links for at home fun and practice. Check out the many free apps on your devices too!

Recorder
Recorder Master - Interactive recorder games - uses the recorder as the "controller". FUN!
http://www.joytunes.com/master/
Recorder Express - Goes along with our class assignments and reviews through interactive play.
http://www.joytunes.com/express.php?mode=reg


Piano
Piano Maestro - Learn to play piano and read notation - no instrument needed!
http://www.joytunes.com/piano/pianomaestro.php
Dust Buster - Another fun interactive piano and notation learning game.
http://www.joytunes.com/piano/index.php
Piano Summer Games - Learn to play over 40 different national anthems on piano. Great for GLOBE!           http://www.joytunes.com/summergames/index.php

General Music
Music Tech Teacher - Games for learning about anything musical. Fantastic resource.
www.musictechteacher.com

Performer-Based Websites

http://www.dariamusic.com/
World Music With DARIA is a website from this multiple award-winning educator and musician. The website was given a 2009 Parent's Choice Award for its family-friendly introduction of world music to young people and it's resources for teachers, parents and special education professionals. The instrument section allows children to color, hear and find pdf instructions on how to make world music instruments such as cajónes (box drums), didgeridoos, shekeres, pow-wow drums and guiros along with cultural background information.
http://www.fromthetop.com/
The From The Top website is designed for young classical musicians. This clever website has: The Green Room blog, information on both the radio and television program. Based in Boston, From the Top is an independent non-profit organization that celebrates the power of music in the hands of extraordinary young people, reaching more than one million people each year.
http://www.jazzkids.com/
JazzKids was created for children of all ages. The website offers teachers, parents and even the youngest students the opportunity to be introduced to jazz. The interactive audio, video and curriculum are not intended to replace a teacher!

Symphony-Based Websites

http://www.sfskids.org/
The new SFSKids presents an updated online experience entirely different from the original SFSKids. Some of brand-new features and content throughout SFSKids include: a fun and playful series of educational modules presented as immersive environments and using animal avatars as guides; the ability to explore various linkages between composers, instruments and music compositions; the use of some game-based techniques to motivate repeated listening and engagement; gesture-controlled simulation scenarios using the mouse and keyboard to provide “hands-on” experiences of playing instrument and conducting music; interactive online tutorials to learn about music basics; the opportunity for users to compose and notate their own original music; and much more.
http://www.nyphilkids.org/
Great graphics and fun games-like the clarinet scavenger hunt-make this New York Philharmonic website great, especially for instrumental students.

Music Game/Theory/History/Listening Websites

www.musiclearningcommunity.com
This website contains hundreds of learning games of varying levels, all carefully planned to gain mastery of the elements of music theory, ear training and rhythmic skills in an exciting, challenging environment.
http://pianoeducation.org/pnokids.html
This site is just for kids—to talk to other kids about piano, listen to the Taz-man, jump to other cool places, time travel to meet a famous composer or pianist, get a great tip to help withlessons, get help with writing piano or music reports or even ask aquestion!
www.yellowcatpublishing.com
The Yellow Cat piano program offers students the opportunity to excel at the piano. Its learning methods enable students to learn quickly and to achieve higher levels of success than the standard music program.
http://www.funbrain.com/
Funbrain offers games on composers, instruments, reading and vocabulary.
www.datadragon.com
Learning about and listening to different instruments, reading music, musical genres and links to additional sites are the features of this site.
http://www.teoria.com/
This is a great site for music theory.
http://www.uptoten.org/
This site is just what it says. You also can use this site to search for more related sites.
http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/
"Name That Tune," a link to the American Symphony Orchestra League, Instruments, lesson plans and games all can be found on this website.
www.boowakwala.com
This site offers ninety-nine additional sites for music and learning.
www.homeworkspot.com/theme/classicalmusic.htm
This site offers many links to quality classical music sites.
http://www.tritonemusic.com/
Features online, interactive piano lessons that can be used in conjunction with traditional piano lessons.
http://www.musictheory.net/
Includes quality theory tutorials, and interactive identification and ear training drills in note reading, key signatures, intervals and triads.
musictheory.halifax.ns.ca/lessons.html
This site contains 26 free music theory lessons (which include some audio examples) and printable quizzes.
www.quia.com/web
Students can test their music knowledge with quizzes, matches, concentration card games and other activities.
www.creatingmusic.com
Elementary-age students can enjoy exploring, creating and manipulating music.
pbskids.org/chuck/index.html#/jazz
Elementary students can enjoy playing with an interactive Improvisation Station.
www.anvilstudio.com
Enable students to compose from a MIDI keyboard and add voice-overs or other audio recorded through a microphone.
http://www.smartmusic.com/
Access online accompaniments that function as virtual accompanists.
http://www.easymusictheory.com/
This site is devoted to ear training and theory skills.
http://www.good-ear.com/
This site offers ear training and theory skills.
http://www.MakingMusicFun.net
This site contains lots of free music resources for elementary music classroom teachers, private music instructors and homeschool parents, for the purpose of building kids up in positive ways and enriching their lives with an appreciation for music and learning.
http://www.happynote.com/en/music-notes.html
Happy Note! music games (shareware and freeware) are both amusing and educational. They offer a way to learn to read music notes in treble clef and bass clef the fun way.
www.foriero.com
A music educational portal designed especially for kids and music beginners. Primarily focusing on the piano basics, they produce games to learn music easily with fun.
www.kidsclick.org
KidsClick! is a web search site designed for kids by librarians—with kid-friendly results! The site includes links to kid-friendly websites about music and music history.