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There are certain tools that I find indispensable as a music educator in 2022. Tools I simply can not imagine teaching without. Silly thing is that as much as things have changed they haven’t changed. I find that most of these tools are the same as ten years and even fifteen years ago but they have matured into tools that work in ways I could … Continue reading Essential Tools for the Music Educator
So if you have more than one iPad and you have ForScores iCloud sync turned on then you have magic in your hands! I can annotate on my one iPad and those annotations will show up on the other iPad! It is not real time but it is super fast! Never before possible. Think of the possibilities with students in a classroom. Or in an … Continue reading ForScore and iCloud Sync
NoteFlight, MatchMySound, and Hal Leonard have partnered up to bring the music world SoundCheck. I just got a sneak peek and boy is this exciting stuff! What is even more exciting is that SoundCheck is going to work seamlessly with Google Classroom! So what is SoundCheck? Well you know those Red and Green note programs that have been around for awhile? It takes that concept … Continue reading SoundCheck with NoteFlight Webinar Coming – SignUp So You Don’t Miss This!
NodeBeat just got updated with Ableton Link which makes it a perfect app for students to download and get to making music collaboratively! NodeBeat is one of those apps that gets us away from the constraints put on us by being too worried about those pesky black dots and lines that some call “music”. Start dragging Nodes around and tweaking their position and parameters all … Continue reading NodeBeat Gets Collaborative and FREE (For a moment – so hurry!)
In December there were three updates for apps that stand out as amazing presents for us music teachers. (It seems like I am forgetting another but I can not bring it to mind currently so I am going to stick with the number THREE) Each of these updates centered around an interface update alongside refining of the code to make the app more reliable and … Continue reading Christmas Presents for Teachers and Musicians with iPads (Updates for iDoceo, Cubasis, and KeyStage)
NinGenius Web Site – http://www.ningenius.net NinGenius Classic App for Class NinGenius Ultimate App How do we as music teachers (I am talking as a Band Director here) help inspire out students to study and become more proficient at naming notes, using the correct fingerings, understanding rhythms better and comprehending music theory? How do we show the students progress in their musical learning? You know, give … Continue reading Teaching at Nin-Genius Level – Inspire Students to Become Better, Make Your Data Driven Administrators Happy, and Keep Your Sanity As A Teacher!
So…. you are a music teacher and you just got a new iPad to help you run class and teach music…. What are the three apps that I think are the most important for you to purchase as a teacher to help you teach music? ForScore Notion iDoceo Just saying…. Hope your school district helps support your purchase of an amazing device for music teachers! … Continue reading Music Teacher with a New iPad?
Performing live with your iPad is quite an amazing journey these days as we now have a plethora of apps and hardware to choose from. There are no excuses accepted for NOT using your iOS device to perform with! From simply using it to display your sheet music to running AUM to control six different apps all connected to your MIDI keyboard to simply using … Continue reading Apps for an Amazing Live Performance Setup for iPad/iPhone (Some great prices on these currently as well!)
If you are even possibly considering performing, recording, creating or just simply playing around with making music on your iPad then this app has so much to offer you! SynthMaster One for iOS – $9.99 The best news is that it is on sale until December 1st for only $9.99! (70% off) Released in 2017 and heralded as one of the years best synths this … Continue reading SynthMaster One for iOS – Oh My!
So while working with OnSong and ForScore this past week it hit me how different each approaches navigation in your music. Not sure which is “right”. I’d like to see both apps be able to show portions of two pages as OnSong does when scrolling up and down. I’d like for both apps to have the ability to add hotspots as ForScore does to deal … Continue reading Navigation in OnSong and ForScore – Video
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