Music Tech Resources

Accessibility 

  • Airvox: Use your hands to make music—no keyboard, fretboard, or touchscreen needed. Video.
  • Bebot: An easy-to-play musical instrument with a touch control system, featuring a robot that performs your music. Video.
  • Thumbjam:  ThumbJam offers high-quality instruments and scales, enabling easy play for all skill levels. Video.

Audio Recording / Editing

  • Audacity: Free audio recording and editing tool, you can transpose songs, remove vocals, adjust tempo, cut tracks, create medleys, and apply fade-ins, fade-outs, and effects.
  • Ear Sketch: Learn to code and edit music through programming.
  • Online Sequencer: Online sequencer with a piano roll layout. You can add notes by clicking on the grid, using your computer keyboard keys, or   by importing MIDI files.
  • Mixxx:An open-source DJ software. It offers BPM and key detection, controller support, sound effects, vinyl control.
  • Sodaphonic: Online recording and editing tool with options like fade-in, fade-out, reverse, bleep, and silence.
  • Vocal Remover: A free online audio editor you can use to remove vocals for karaoke tracks, trim audio, adjust pitch and tempo, or merge multiple tracks. It also helps you identify key and BPM.
  • Soundtrap
  • Soundation
  • Bandlab
  • Dorico
 

Computational Media Musicianship

  • Scratch:  A free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.
  • Tone Craft: Lets you build music in 3D.
  • Incredibox: A music app that lets you create your own music with the help of a fun crew of beatboxers.
  • Jazz Computer: An interactive song.
  • Chrome Music Lab:  A website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments.
  • Patatap: A portable animation and sound kit. Create melodies infused with dynamic shapes at the touch of a finger.
  • Typatone: Online musical instrument, text to tone converter.
  • aQWERTYon: (QWERTY accordion) is designed to simplify the process for improvising, learning, and making music with your computer keyboard.
  • Groove Pizza:  A circular rhythm app for creative music making and learning.
  • Groove Pizzeria: Two customizable rhythm rings, to create polyrhythms and polymeters.
  • Snake Music: It’s a snake but when you eat the food it skips to a random part in the song.
  • Soundraw: AI music generator. 
  • Boomy: AI music generator. 
  • Soundful: AI music generator. 
  • Beatoven: AI music generator. 
  • Sounds Studio: AI music generator. 

Ear Training

  • 4four.io: Short exercises, and rhythm games to practice rhythm and musical notation.
  • Doctor Musik’s Virtual Percussions: Explore and play interactive online percussion instruments.
  • MusicTheory.net: Customize ear-training exercises, and create and share personalized exercises using the Exercise Customizer link.
  • Practice Solfege: Practice solfege through interactive exercises, improving your sight-singing and ear-training skills.
  • Rhythm dice: Use the dice to create different rhythms.
    SlapTrack: Set up an interactive body percussion activity with various movements, tempos, and improvisation opportunities.
  • Teoria Ear Training: Practice ear-training exercises. Sign in to save your progress.

Movement 

Music Theory

  • MusicTheory.net: Customizable and sharable lessons and interactive exercises.
  • Teoria: theory tutorials, exercises, references, and articles, with great control over exercise settings.

Notation

  • Blank Sheet Music: Free printable staff paper.
  • Composer by Toy Theater:  Fun online music game helps young composers create their own songs and melodies.
  • Dorico SE:  Free music notation software from Steinberg.
  • Flat.io: Create, compose, collaborate, play, and print your sheet music .
  • MuseScore: Free and open-source music notation program.
  • Noteflight:  Create, view, print and hear professional quality music notation.

Reading Notes on the Staff

  • Doctor Musik’s Aquarium: Drag and drop the fish labeled with note names onto their correct positions on the treble or bass clef before they swim away.
  • Doctor Musik’s Staff Dungeon: Explore different levels of a medieval dungeon by identifying notes on the staff.
  • Doctor Musik’s The Robot Factory: Build robots by matching notes on the staff to their correct pitches.
  • Music Race: Compete against the clock to identify notes and improve your reading skills in a race format.
  • Notesack: Helps you sharpen your note-reading skills through quick identification challenges.
  • Word Warrior: Use words spelled by the notes of the treble clef.  

Tangible Media Musicianship

Video-edited Musicianship

Mobile Apps

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Initial list from Technological Trends in Music Education: Designing Technologies and Experiences for Music, Fall 2013 Syllabus by S. Alex Ruthmann

Resources recommendations also from The Ethan Hein Blog and Midnight Music.