
Tip: YouTube Integration in Auralia & Musition
Check out one of the VERY cool new features in Auralia & Musition 7 - YouTube Integration!

Tool: Interactive Circle of Fifths
This super simple interactive Circle of Fifths tool makes learning music theory a whole lot easier.

Tool: Basic Pitch
Check out this brand new Audio-to-MIDI converter from the geniuses at Spotify.

AI meets Music Composition - Meet AIVA
In further exploration of AI this week, I stumbled onto Aiva - an AI program that can compose music of any length, in any key, in any genre.

Tool - Music Speed Changer for Chrome
This FREE Chrome Web Browser extension is a MUST for any musician who uses the web to listen to and practice their music.

Have you heard of Chat GPT? You will soon!
Have you heard of Chat GPT yet? You will! This amazing (and scary) new technology writes anything you want and it is VERY good at it. The implications for education are serious.

Tip - Hardware then Software - Always
This post covers one of the most essential parts of using hardware with software - the order in which you do things really matters!

Tool - Factile
If you’ve ever tried to create a Jeopardy-style game for use with your students for things like quiz and test review, meet Factile - your new best friend.

Resource: Creatability
Creatability - a collection of amazing free music making tools from the Experiments with Google project - is a great way to get students with disabilities (and those without) to create music.

Tool - Incredibox
If you’ve never heard of or used Incredibox with your students, you’ll thank me for this post - and your students will too!

Get Your Music Off the Page
In this extended blog post I cover all of the various methods of getting music from the printed page into your computer and the software you use.

Tool - Vocal Remover
The ultimate set of audio tools to use with your favorite DAWs. Bookmark this site now!

Technology in the Music Classroom: Finding the Balance
Attached you will find a PDF copy of my slide deck for a presentation that I did for the New Jersey Music Administrators Association meeting this past Friday.

Resource - Mr. G’s Boomwhacker Channel
Check out this INCREDIBLE YouTube channel that features hundreds of animated Boomwhacker play-along videos, and thank me later :)

Review - Experiencing Music Technology - 4th Edition
This is a review of the 4th edition of Experiencing Music Technology by David B. Williams and Peter Webster - two of my music technology heroes.

Upcoming Presentation - EMEA 2023 Winter Conference
I’m really looking forward to presenting at the European Music Educators Association 2023 Winter Conference in Vicenza, Italy.

Project Idea - Going Old School. Really Old.
Here is a project using Gregorian Chant, a couple of amazing websites, marker pens, funny Patin phrases, lemons, and an oven.


Tip - The Online Metronome
This is an incredible free resource to share with your students.

Tool - PracticeFirst
Practice Made Perfect. Check out all of the features of one of MusicFirst’s most popular software offerings.