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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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