By+The+Standards

Welcome to the ESU#3 Music Collaborative Workshop Wiki!

Here are some suggested apps to download for our presentation: (Don't worry, they're all free!)
Percussive Free  < __ @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/percussive-free/id383777617?mt=8 __ > Ratatap Free  < __ @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ratatap-drums-free/id428149234?mt=8 __ > Djembe Free  < __ @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/djembe-free/id457088864?mt=8 __ > Rain Stick  < __ @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rain-stick/id287335465?mt=8 __ > Singing Fingers  < __ @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/singing-fingers/id381015280?mt=8 __ > Kids Bongo  < <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">__ @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kids-bongo-drum/id510364284?mt=8 __ <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">> Taiko <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">< <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">__ @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/taiko-drums-free/id454639327?mt=8 __ <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">> Bongos <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> < <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">__ @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bongos-dynamic-bongo-drums/id411722855?mt=8 __ <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">> Music Sparkles <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> < <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">__ @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/music-sparkles-all-in-one/id452584114?mt=8 __ <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">> PitchPipe <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> < <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">__ @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pitch-pipe-now/id441889991?mt=8 __ <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">> iNoteTeacherLite <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> < <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">__ @https://itunes.apple.com/app/id466150018?mt=8 __ <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">> Blob Chorus Ear Training <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> < <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">__ @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blob-chorus-ear-training/id484567131?mt=8 __ <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">> Master in a Minute <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> < <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">__ @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/master-in-minute-free-music/id490587593?mt=8 __ <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">> Canupa Band <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> < <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">__ @https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/canupa-band-deluxe/id350977804?mt=8 __ <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">>

Bonus Apps:
Dust Buster - Free Recorder Master - Free Pluto Piano - Free My Note Games - Free Show Me - Free iMovie - Free Tuner - Free Strings Tuner – 3.99 Metronome - Free Instruments in Reach - 2.99 Musician's Practice Journal - 4.99

By The MENC Standards


iPads in the Music Classroom

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">1. **Singing**, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. Songs For Kids - Free Do Re Mi Voice Training – 4.99 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/do-re-mi-voice-training/id456486477?mt=8 Singing Fingers - Free https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/singing-fingers-hd/id424724387?mt=8 Songify - $2.99 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/songify/id438735719?mt=8 AutoRap http://www.smule.com/autorap

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">2. **Performing** on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. Manhattan String Quartet iPad Church ThumbJam - 8.99 Garageband - 4.99 Drumline - .99 + 1.99 DrumJam - 7.99 Real Piano - Free/2.99 Ratatap - Free/1.99 Percussive - Free/1.99 Fingerstomp Light orphion https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/orphion/id495465097?mt=8

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">3. **Improvising** melodies, variations, and accompaniments. iRealb – 7.99 MadPad .99/2.99

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">4. **Composing** and arranging music within specified guidelines. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">For composition, an obvious choice is a loop-based music creation tool, akin to Apple’s Garageband, I’ve had the chance to play with one loop-based recorder on an iPad, [|Pianist Pro] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">. This app uses a piano keyboard, with several piano-organ sounds, and a simple drum machine. Students can record one part (such as a bass line) and then multi-track several more parts while listening to what has been recorded. Students could easily record a 4-part chorale or be given the pattern for a simple blues bass line, and then improvise a solo using the included pentatonic scale mode <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"> Pianist Pro Pentatonic Mode GarageBand - 4.99 Symphony Pro – 19.99 Scorio - 3.99

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">5. **Reading** and notating music. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">The App store already has quite a few apps which address this goal, although none I’ve seen that follow a step-by-step approach needed for comprehensive theory and ear training. <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Another music theory program that has a good track record on the iPhone/iPod Touch is [|Nota HD], for the iPad. Nota offers piano training, as well as quizzing on basic theory. The developers of Nota seem to be dilligent in upgrading the software frequently, and may be responsive to educators who wish to use the software in their classrooms. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> Notable - Free Treble Clef Kids – 1.99 Rhythm Sight Reading Trainer Free/2.99 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Dust Buster - Free Pluto Piano - Free My Note Games - Free iBach - Free <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">6. **Listening** to, analyzing, and describing music. YouTube - Free Pages - 9.99 Soundbeam - .99

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">7. **Evaluating** music and music performances. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Here’s another place I think the iPad can really shine as an instructional tool. An obvious use of the iPod software built into the iPad as a way for students to listen to recordings, and keeping a diary in a text editor like [|Pages]. Students could use headphones for a more enveloping experience of the music they’re evaluating, which could be served from a teacher computer’s iTunes library. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">In addition to analyzing existing recordings, I use the iPad to allow students to analyze their own performances, visually evaluating their pitch accuracy. Using software such as [|Pitch Primer] to record their own voices (using an iPhone headphone/mic headset) while singing with the choir, and then going back and listening to their own voices while studying the pitch information shown on the screen could provide valuable, concrete feedback about the pitch aspect of their performance. <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"> Pitch Primer YouTube - Free Skype - Free Polycom - Free

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">8. **Understanding** relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts. Discovr – 1.99 MadPad - 2.99

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">9. **Understanding** music in relation to history and culture. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Apps such as Brighthouse Labs’ “History of Music Study Guide” (I can’t find a direct link, so fire up iTunes to see this app) offers information on history, art, and culture, although it may be more useful as a college student’s companion to [|NAWM] than to the average middle school music student. Resources such as Wikipedia can be browsed with various apps rather than via Safari, or ebooks can be easily created with the ebook creator tool from Wikipedia <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> History of Jazz – 3.99 Instruments from other countries Djembe – Free/.99 Tiny Sitar Ex- Free Celtic Harp – Free/2.99 iSteelPan- Free iBach - Free Manhattan School of Music <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Polycom - Free