Band Resources

Concert Band

CONCERT ETIQUETTE - Great page from MENC, a special message from Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser

Downloadable Manuscript Paper - Free downloadable manuscript paper for just about ANY performing ensemble, VERY COOL!

Young Band Repertoire Project - Grades 1 & 2 Music

Woodwind Fingering Chart - Includes Basic, Alternate, Quarter Tone, Trill, Tremolo, and other a few other fingering charts

Univ. of Illinois Band Resource Library - GREAT site for band resources!!

Wind Band Composer Index - Foothill College index of wind music composers

Midwest Clinic - The International Band & Orchestra Conference

The WindPlayer - Website with cool items for purchase, wind musician oriented

Concert Band Repertoire - Search for concert band music by grade level on J.W. Pepper

CBDA - California Band Directors Association

CMEA - California Music Educators Association

Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary - Musical terms dictionary

Blank Fingering Diagrams - These diagrams are blank and make a good "check for understanding" or quiz

CA State Music Standards - California Dept. of Education Visual and Performing Arts Standards

SoloChair - Register for CMEA Solo & Ensemble or CMEA Festivals

Boosey & Hawkes FREE Windependence Sampler CD - This is B&H's premiere series of wind music, varying difficulty from young groups

                up to strong collegiate and professional wind ensembles - series editor: Craig Kirchhoff (Univ. of Minnesota)

Conn-Selmer Fingering Charts - Fingering charts provided by the Conn-Selmer Co.

Teaching Music through Performance in Band (Vol. 1-6)  <--- HIGHLY Recommended

Jazz Band

Jazz In America - One of the most thorough jazz education sites out there.  Lesson plans, student handouts, audio examples, test banks

                with answer keys...GREAT SITE!!

What is Jazz? - A four part lecture series, recorded live at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in

                Washington, D.C. by Dr. Billy Taylor, noted jazz pianist, historian, and educator.

Smithsonian Jazz - A Great history of jazz with interactive pages

Virtual Metronome - Cant find your metronome...use this one!

Jazz - Ken Burns documentary

Jazz Lessons & Activities - These activities are designed for K-12 classes

Jazz Band Repertoire - Search for jazz band music by grade level on J.W. Pepper

Jamey Aebersold - Good stuff!  Some of the best books on how to improv

IAJE - International Association of Jazz Educators

Jazz Terminology and Lingo - A pdf document with basic jazz terms and lingo, great for jr. high and high school students

Bass Lessons - Free online bass lessons with audio and video examples, good site for the beginning jazz bassist

Latin Rhythms for Drumset - Latin Rhythms for Drumset

A-Z Lyrics - Find the lyrics to just about any song...pop, jazz, rock, alternative...ANY song.  This site has a 90% success rate

Tower of Power - a clip of TOP at the 2006 Montreux Jazz Festival, "Knock Yourself Out"

Music Software

Noteworthy Composer - Free music notation program

Finale Notepad - ITS FREE!!!

Finale - The full version of Finale Notepad (Academic price of $254!!! if you find it cheaper email the webmaster)

Sibelius - Sibelius 4.0, the latest version (Academic price of $240!!! if you find it cheaper email the webmaster)

Wavepad - Audio editing program

Mixpad - Free audio editing program

Midi2Wav Recorder - Audio format converting program

Sony Sound Forge 8 - Sony's industry-standard audio editing program (Academic price of $208!!! if you find it cheaper email the webmaster)

Guitar Resources

Chordsv1.1 - very cool FREE chord generating program

Guitar Chord & Tab Finder - very easy to use chord program, no downloading necessary