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    Monday
    Aug232010

    Karajan® Pro - Music and Ear Training Application for the Apple iPad

    Music & Ear Trainer

    Karajan® Pro provides lessons for learning to recognize intervals, chords, scales, pitch and tempo (bpm) with detailed statistics. Karajan® Pro is a great tool for music theory students, whether they are in junior high, high school, or college. It is also very useful for every hobby musician.

    Instead of solving the lessons by clicking the right answer, you can also use the Multi-Touch keyboard to play it.

    Features:

    Intervals 22
    Chords 23
    Scales 34
    Key Signatures 15
    Pitch 49
    Tempo (BPM) 37
    Built in multi
    sampled instruments
    4
    Predefined levels 3
    Individual levels 1
    Detailed statistics function yes
    Reverse play yes
    Different play modes 4
    Note names localized, international
    or Solfège (do, re, mi ...)
    Keyboard yes
    Fretboard yes
    Note view yes
    Price $9.99

         

     

    Thursday
    Aug192010

    Music Teaching Resources Make Better Music Education Programs

    Music teaching resources are fun, reliable and effective tools in motivating both the students and their teachers. These have been great ways to help us modify and take advantage of every innovation that we can use to take music teaching to a much higher level. Read on and realize how these amazing technologies can bring out the best in your music teaching strategies.

    Music is a part of every cultural system way, way back since the ancient times or even the prehistoric age. Early inhabitants produced sounds by stamping their feet and producing hums. The introduction of information age has paved way to the development of music with an accompaniment of instruments. Because of such progress, music became a well-known and unique human form of communication with well-developed styles, fashions, techniques, rules and constructions of words.

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    Tuesday
    Aug172010

    How 21st Century Online Collaborative Tools, Networks, and Skills are Re-invigorating the field of Music Education. 

    NOTE: "I am excited to announce that Dr. Joe Pisano has officially joined iSchoolBand as the director of our advisory board.  He will be working with several thought leaders in music education to make sure that iSchoolBand always stays relevant and powerful.  This article will give you some insight into his level of expertise and just why we chose him to lead up the board.  Dr. Pisano shares a similar vision for a simplified music education experience, and we are proud to have him on board!  Find out more about him and his contributions to music education at MusTech.Net.

    And now, without further delay...I am pleased to present Dr. Joe Pisano's fantastic article on the future of music education." - Chris Purifoy (President & Co-founder of iSchoolBand)
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    Many Music Educators are finding a new found energy for their field and a resurgence of energy for their own creativity by tapping into the wealth of Professional Development tools that are being utilized online and new colleagues to share ideas with via the Internet.    Music teachers, by their very nature, are creative people; however many of them are now viewing themselves as trapped within the “four walls” of their schools and “starving” for outside contact.  They are increasingly feeling the pressure of the changing school priorities and the educational environment.   These types of high-pressure situations and scenarios often, and unfortunately, lead to a premature draining of energies and creative drive for many of the music teachers...

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    Monday
    Aug162010

    Managing Groups & Instruments for Students & Parents.

    We have added a new feature to allow parents and groups to manage their own groups, bands, and instruments.  It is really simple to use.   We provided a quick walk through below.  Let us know is you have any questions.

    If you belong to the group you now have a link to "leave the group".
    You can now navigate to the "My School" page and under the groups tab you will see a new link called, "join group".  To join...click it!

    Students now see a delete icon next their instruments on their profile and a new link to add instruments which pops up a new new window.
     

    Tuesday
    Aug032010

    Sir Ken Robinson: Bring On the Learning Revolution!

    This is an inspiring video about the shift to personalized learning.  We thought it might be worth sharing.  Our vision for music education was inspired by thinking like this...enjoy!

    Saturday
    Jul172010

    A FULL iSchoolBand.com Video Tour


    Friday
    Jul162010

    BREAKING: New iSchoolBand Look Released.


    Hey everyone, we just pushed through a new look for the public pages on iSchoolBand.com!  It is still a bit buggy so bear with us as we get things ironed out.  I think you will like the changes, we added a new features page and a new login page, plus some new pages about some cool new promotions.  Wow...that's a lot of  'news'!  :)

    We are working on a new release for the website itself that will fix several of the issues you may have been running into recently.  It will also add a few new features that will help to make things easier and more intuitive.  Look for it by the end of next week!!!  We should get all the bugs ironed out on these new pages by the end of the day (definitely by the end of the weekend).  Stay tuned for more news!

    Sunday
    Jul112010

    How to Learn Music Properly By Michael D Griffin 

    I love talking to students about how they learn and how they practice music. Recently I've talked to students from different education systems from countries in Asia, Australasia, Europe and the Middle East, and found that students are fascinated with how learning occurs, and excited by the prospect of becoming better learners. Everyone likes learning (not necessarily school); the boost in self-esteem and self-growth are indeed one of life's great joys. We are born to learn. But I rarely observe a systematic approach within school music departments that address the 'how and why' of practice. Given that the majority of instrumental tuition is delivered by private providers, learning how to learn music it is often left to chance and the initiative of that individual. Students usually know that slow practice is prudent for example, but they don't always understand why. This article reviews some fundamentals of musical practice.

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    Friday
    Jul092010

    Improve Your Teaching Strategies With Innovative Music Teaching Resources By Earl Marsden 

    Music teaching resources are essential tools for an improved and advanced quality of music education - whether the music teacher wants to promote more interactive and innovative methods to effectively teach music among younger generation of students or opt to remain traditional yet efficient. In this post, you'll get the necessary ideas and techniques on useful resources on music teaching.

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    Tuesday
    Jul062010

    Career As a Music Teacher By Erik R Johnson 

    Today more young people and students in the United States are looking to enter in music field or make mark in which they can merge artistic or music talent and idealism in satisfying and meaningful ways. Teaching music to these young talents can provide you a better scope and career satisfaction. In recent times, this profession has gained enormous popularity and the ratio of people enrolling in music education course has also increased dramatically. In fact, today it is one of the few dynamic occupations that offer vast opportunities.

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