This post is dedicated to an excellent website of Music Educational Software that is fun to use and teach with…
The Music Interactive is a collection of Music Education Games which work wonders on Interactive Whiteboards. There are games for Notation on the treble or bass clefs, pitch & rhythm recognition or dictation, pattern & sequence manipulation, Latin Jazz or Piano lessons and most of them are for free!
“Seeing an increase of projection systems and interactive whiteboards (SmartBoard, Prometheus, etc,) in many classrooms including music, teachers Craig Gonci and Marc Jacoby, created The Music Interactive website as a vehicle to distribute music learning activities and games that cover a broad range of uses in both classroom and performance based environments (Music Interactive>About).”
When you navigate to the homepage look for the Microphone and Toolbox icons, Classroom and Performance Applications, then scroll through their pages. There are a selection of applications for free, or purchase, and you will note that they are available for both Mac and PC.
Here is an excellent product named Staff Wars. This is for note recognition on the Treble or Bass Clef and my students love using on our interactive whiteboard. Notice that the paid applications are quite reasonable in price.
Watch the video for a demonstration of Staff Wars Version 1 & 2
Then if you want to see how other programs operate such as the interactive Boom Wackers or Rhythmic Dictation Blocks or even the Latin Jazz performance app visit my Youtube Channel for more demonstrations. Just click on the image below and you can watch a six part series on using applications from The Music Interactive on an IWB.
I will finish with something a little more advanced from Ababasoft.com. It is an Interactive Flash Keyboard (meaning you need Flash Player to use it) for developing chord progressions in C Major. I integrated it with a video from iTunes by the group OK-GO. It uses a simple I-IV-V-IV chord progression and I use the Flash Keyboard to demonstrate this to my students.
On a personal note it is good to see my posts are traveling across the other side of the globe! This blog, Friday I’m in Love (which I would say is like Thank Goodness it’s Friday), was setup by Lars in Sweden, and with the use of Google Translator I can read his posts on Music Technology.
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