Everything you need to know to create incredible Garageband projects on Mac and iOS, without boring you to tears with a ton of hard to understand technical jargon.

HUGE collection of free loops and samples (you may need to click "Skip Survey" to see the content on the page)

Learn Jazz Standards is an online jazz resource for musicians. We specialize in helping musicians learn jazz repertoire and become better jazz players. The Learn Jazz Standards website has two main components: the Blog and our Jazz Standards.

The aQWERTYon (QWERTY accordion) is designed to simplify the process for improvising, learning, and making music with your computer keyboard. Play along with your favorite YouTube videos, learn music theory through our Music Theory for Bedroom Producers course in collaboration with Soundfly, or take advantage of Web MIDI and us it to play and record into your favorite digital audio workstation, such as Soundtrap.com, GarageBand, Logic, or Ableton, or as input into music notation programs like Noteflight.

The official YouTube channel for Soundtrap - tutorials and more.

TwistedWave is a browser-based audio editor. You only need a web browser to access it, and you can use it to record or edit any audio file.All the audio is stored and processed on the server, so you don't need to download anything, or save your work when you are done. Close your browser window and your work is saved. Open TwistedWave somewhere else, and all your audio files, with the complete undo history, are still available.With a free account, you can edit mono files up to 5 minutes in length. Once you have an account, you can purchase a subscription to increase this limit.

Principles of Orchestration online course by Nikolay Rimsky Korsakov orchestration - Garritan Interactive

Introducing "Blues + YOU": play-along tracks available online--free of charge--so musicians can practice with mp3 downloads in a variety of configurations! Tailored to intermediate and advanced players, this unique product will become an invaluable resource for both college and high school jazz programs. The newest recording from The U.S. Army Blues, Something Old, Something New: Yours to Borrow From the Blues has tools to use and tunes to enjoy!

Until AM is the first full-fledged DJ tool tailored especially for the era of online digital music, allowing for a seamless blend of cloud-based music storage and local audio files.

Designer and developer, Kyle Stetz, created this instrument for creating ascii beats. They might be useful for creating hiphop tracks - based on what you type into the input box. Use student names, school names, teams, projects and other text to create interesting beats.

Splice is a cloud platform for music creation, collaboration, and sharing.

The website for the National Core Arts Standards (2014). It includes the standards for music, dance, visual arts, theater, and media arts. Standards are searchable by content area and grade level. Examples of standards-based assessments are included.

Hookpad is a free web app that simplifies songwriting by helping you choose chords that sound good together and guiding you to write a good melody. It's a musical sketchpad with music theory "built-in" to make it easier and more intuitive to find the sound you're looking for.

This compendium of improvisation games is primarily intended for medium sized groups (3-8) of instrumentalists but these activities can easily be adapted to larger and or vocal ensembles.

Websites with music available in XML format

A free online ear trainer to develop aural skills and beginning improvisational skills.

EarSketch teaches computer science through music composition and remixing! No prior knowledge of either computer science or music is needed. See “More About EarSketch” below to learn more about the software.

Isle of Tune is music sequencer where users build compositions visually using houses, roads, plants and cars. Can be used to reinforce a range of musical concepts.

We spend hours searching the Internet for great jazz videos so you don't have to. Jazz on the Tube provides three free services:(1) A searchable database of thousands of carefully hand picked and annotated jazz videos; (2) A free Video-of-the-Day service. Love jazz? We deliver a great jazz video to your mailbox every day; and (3) An up-to-date directory of jazz clubs, jazz festivals, and jazz organizations world-wide.