1. 3 Steps to Increase Your Level of Drumming
(Teacher Resources/Playing an Instrument)

There are many ways to increase the quality of your drumming and they can all be summarized into these 3 vital steps... There are many ways to increase the quality of your drumming and they can

2. Is It Possible To Download Music Legally Anymore?
(Teacher Resources/Audio Video)

Throughout the past few years downloading music on the internet has increased in popularity. At the same time though, it has become illegal through many companies to download music as musicians and ar

3. A Guide to Online Fundraising Success for Your School Band
(Teacher Resources/Fundraising)

...  An email campaign launched by North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics resulted in a 20% increase in the average donation.  Their overall efforts resulted in a 150% ROI. (www...

4. Music's Place In Our Schools: Schools Districts Work To Bring Back The Fine Arts
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

... of their students.  These forward thinking schools are trying very hard to find ways to bring back or increase the amount of music instruction in their schools.  This article examines a few...

5. MENC Offers Free Advocacy Webinar Registrations
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...cal to work with partners that are seeking similar goals. Partners bring a new perspective to your issue, increase the number of supporters, and widen your sphere of influence. In MENC’s upco...

6. The Importance of Fine Arts in the Classroom
(Teacher Resources/Advocacy)

...m of activity did not show a change of percentile (Swan-Hudkins, 2003). Though this may not seem like a big increase, at- risk students were able to use this style of learning to better understand the...

7. How to Optimize Your School Band's Website to Recruit Top Players: Part 1
(Archived/Teacher Resources/Band Web Sites)

This two part series is designed to give school bands an advantage by incorporating better Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for their websites. The article comes to MusicEdMagic courtesy of the g

8. Book Review- The Finale Projects
(Teacher Resources/Book Reviews)

...lone however.  The information and hints provided in the books many tutorials cover topics that will increase almost any Finale user's productivity.  Hundreds of Common Finale Questi...

9. The Best Commercial Karaoke Players
(Teacher Resources/Computers)

...ke power users, Unify can modify the KC system in many ways, from the amount of storage on the device to an increased amount of memory to speed up the system. Essentially, the KC-1000 will turn a casu...

10. Free Karaoke Software
(Teacher Resources/Computers)

With the rising popularity of Karaoke, the demand for quality Karaoke software has increased. While the best software solutions are expensive and aimed at commercial usages (bars, hotels, et ceter

11. Student Incentive Programs Revisited
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

... Linda hit on a sore spot in my own teaching, the area of whether or not to use physical incentives to increase student achievement or not. More to the point, how much to spend, how to spend it...

12. Student Incentives To Improve Practice
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...y interested in hearing comments from other music educators to know what they use for incentive programs to increase student practice.  Share your thoughts and ideas by leaving a comment below! ...

13. 7 Online Promotion Techniques to Boost Attendance at School Band Concerts
(Teacher Resources/Fundraising)

The guys at TicketPrinting.com have written an article on developing a great email marketing campaign will drive people to your band concerts by keeping them continually informed and interested in

14. ALL STUDENTS CAN LISTEN TO JAZZ AND TRANSCRIBE SOLOS!
(Teacher Resources/Curriculum)

...le two-note phrase. These simple phrases should be singled out and learned. The degree of difficulty can be increased as student progress warrants. Everyone starts somewhere.  Secondly, pla...

15. Top 20 Reasons Why Children Should Study Music
(Teacher Resources/Advocacy)

...aining utilize fractions, ratios, and proportions, which are all important in mathematical study. 3. Increases problem finding/solving, logic and thinking skills like analysis, evaluation and t...

16. Using Random Student Cards in Class
(Teacher Resources/Class Management)

...l of my students. This helps for learning their names quickly too. The random calling technique will increase your students' attention, since any one of them could be chosen at any time without...

17. So You Want To Teach As A Private Music Tutor?
(Teacher Resources/Curriculum)

...l you are worth per lesson/hour, as you have people desperately waiting for your time. If you didn't increase your price at this stage it would be foolish. You have developed a product (your tu...

18. 5 Reasons to Learn Music Theory
(Teacher Resources/Music in General)

... a succession of notes so pleasing to the ear it will bring a smile to your listeners faces. 4.It will increase your skill in improvising: Enough said. 5.Knowing music theory will help you re...

19. So You Want to be President? Learn to Play a Musical Instrument!
(Teacher Resources/Playing an Instrument)

...e at the University of California, Irvine on what has been called the “Mozart Effect” shows a increased IQ score of nine points. In another study the Bulgarian psychologist Geo...

20. FAQs on Non-Verbal Communication/Body Language
(Teacher Resources/Class Management)

... more self-aware of how you speak and the impact of your mode of dress and even the way you stand or sit. Increased self-awareness (without becoming self-conscious) and using non-verbal cues on pur...

21. The Benefits of Music Education
(Teacher Resources/Advocacy)

... of development and participation in society by fostering dedication and sensitivity Increase your child’s brain development, math abilities, and higher thinking skills ...

22. How to Optimize Your School Band's Website to Recruit Top Players: Part 2
(Archived/Teacher Resources/Band Web Sites)

How to Optimize Your School Band's Website to Recruit Top Players: Part 2 This two part series is designed to give school bands an advantage by incorporating better Search Engine Optimization

23. Improving Intonation
(Bookmarks:Music Ed Links / Teaching / Tuning and Intonation)

Recently, the intonation of bands and orchestras has been receiving increased attention and investigation. Intonation is often one of the standards by which judges rate a competition performance. Ta

24. The Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
(Bookmarks:Music Ed Links / Teaching / Research)

From The Smithsonian Folkways web site: Supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among peoples through the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound. This very nicely d