“Dear Burns, My daughter has been begging me to help her play some music website with beat boxers. Can you help me? She is really excited to make music with this!” – A Grade 2 Parent
cartoon characters are shirtless. Finally, it is flash-based and if your school is gearing away from anything flash- based, then the site might not work. However, check out the “Bonus” section below for how to place Android apps (which Incredibox has an Android version) on Chrome- books.
Alternatives: If you like the M&M version, you can
go to
bitesizebeats.com. However, I do this on my laptop and use the SMART Board for the students to interact and create music. Bitesizebeats requires you to input a birthday because I believe that it wants their user to be over 13 years old. It has the ability to share their music making via Twitter and Facebook. There is also the iOS incredibox app for iPads and iPhones and the Android app on Google Play. To take this up one more step, my students use
Soundtrap (
soundtrap.com) to record themselves and create musical accompaniments. They also can connect to other students from around the world to collaborate in music-making. In addition, my two favorite web-based notation apps
are Noteflight (
noteflight.com) and Flat (
flat.io). Both of these apps are free, but the paid versions do a lot more for the students. The students can compose and easily share their compositions with other students and place them in apps like Soundtrap to further their music making.
work), and perform some fun, recorder games. Though it is easier to use headphones in a 1:world classroom, this can also be used in a station or in a one-computer class- room projected onto a screen with the laptop connected to decent speakers (either hardwire or Bluetooth). The students then click on a picture on the map to enter a world of recorder games. The first world focuses on the note B. It encourages the students to memorize the fingerings and to blow quietly as their performance directs the airplane to stay in the sky without hitting any trees that are in the way. As they continue, they unlock more worlds, learn more fingerings, and eventually learn how to play a simple melody.
Alternatives: This website is flash-based, so to use it on an iOS device, you would need a flash-based web browser app like Photon Flash Player EDU or Puffin Web Browser. With some patience, both of these apps work well. In addition, they are both priced between $4- 6.
Joytunes Website for Recorder (
joytunes.com/master) A free website for your budding elementary recorder
players is Joytunes. When your students go to joytunes. com/master, they can click on the “One time pass”, then “Connect”, then “Allow” (so the internal microphone will
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Virtual Instruments (
virtualmusicalinstruments.com) All students should be able to experience mu- sic making in the music classroom. However, not all students have the ability to play an instrument in a traditional way. I find virtual instruments to be a great alternative. I am more of a fan of iOS virtual instruments because the students can hold and touch the screen to play the instrument. If the student has access to a Chromebook, then there are several virtual instrument websites that encourage active music making with the stroke of the Chromebook’s key- board, mouse, or touchpad.
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