Making Music Fun

Music Teacher Resource Centre – This site has everything from lessons to vocal or instrumental rounds and links for world music!
Smartboardmusic Resources – All the links you will need to teach music from a Smartboard
Bobby McFerrin Composition Game – learn each layer of Don’t Worry Be Happy
LaTrobe Uni Medieval Music – for the medieval musician in all of us, or for notation studies
Play Music – Music from around the world on an interactive website
Muxicall – This is a Virtual Sound Scape Page that you have to try in front of a classroom
Qwerty Beats – Just that. Beats from the Qwerty keyboard
Boom Whackers – This is a Virtual Boom Whackers page just waiting for fun music teachers to explore
Virtual Keyboard – this is like having one of those Casio keyboards but on your computer!
Help Kids learn – A Music Making Game with a colour keyboard for the interactive whiteboard
Poisson Rouge - Music Making Games a plenty! There is an interactive four part round of Frere Jacque, Beautiful Melody Writing keyboard and more. This is a lovely site for K-12 music teachers to use in the classroom
Shaun The Sheep’s Bleat Box – This operates like a sampler, but with a visual ‘sheep’ piano – keyboard
Music Wizard – Online flash games for piano, guitar and more
Toy Theater – Music games from composition to notation
Online Drum Machine – Program each part in via a graphic interface
BBC Orchestras Play! – An interactive music games site by the BBC (make sure you have Shockwave installed)
Creating Music – An online musical environment with composing activities, games and puzzles
Thumb Piano Tunes – Play and record on a virtual Kalimba
Pianola Project – a bizarre but fun method for composition
Indian DJ – Indian Music sounds that can be triggered with a click
Virtual Piano – for chord theory, accompanist tracks and more
Step Sequencer – A blog that has various audio web apps from tuners to sequencers
Music Memory Game – A flash game for fun

More Advanced Tools
Audio Tool – A virtual recording studio online with samplers, mixers and more. Great for music technology classes as students have to patch the correct signals together with cables so that the units connect properly. Oh, there are also effects pedals and graphic step sequencers. Very Cool
Jam Studio – Make backing tracks, compose your own songs all to quality loops and with proper chord progressions and key changes
Aviary Tools Sound Editing – Garageband online + many many more audio features that have to be explored
Jam Studio – Make backing tracks, compose your own songs all to quality loops and with proper chord progressions and key changes
Drum Machine – In the style of te old recording studios + added games at the top of the page
Monkey Drum Machine – Another programmable drum machine