Favorite Music Education Technology for iPad

Composition Activities/Projects
• Soundtrap (cloud-based music production software)
• Noteflight (similar to Soundtrap)
• GarageBand (music production software)
• Loopy (especially good for group composition activities, with one loop per student)
• Bebot (beginner-friendly synthesizer, great for in-class ten-minute composition groups)
• Seaquence (multi-voice synthesizer)
• Incredibox

Practice Tools/Games
• ForScore (Students can read all of their music through the app, which stores thousands
of pieces at once. Teacher can use apple TV to project and mark up score in real time.)
• Tonal Energy (fun-to-use tuner with extra features such as audio recording and analysis)
• Bandmate (chromatic tuner that displays written instead of concert pitches)
• Tempo (metronome)
• iReal pro (customizable backing tracks for jazz improvisation practice)
• theDrumDictionary (extensive resource for learning rudiments and drum set beats)
• I Read Rhythm (rhythm sight-reading exercises)
• Sight Reading Factory (sight-reading exercises)
• BandBlast (instructional videos, rhythm and pitch games, recording, “mission mode”)
• NinGenius (competitive note naming/instrument fingering game)
• ChickenScream (use once, for beginning band dynamics lesson ☺ )

Music Theory and Ear-Training

• Tenuto
• StaffWars and StaffWars Live (games that drill note-reading in all clefs)

Non-Music Apps and Websites

• Flipgrid (good for playing tests, peer feedback, UDL based projects)
• Kahoot (class quiz game students participate in by inputting responses on their iPads)
• Google forms (quick assessments, especially when graded using Flubaroo)
• Seesaw (use to create portfolio of student progress)

Cross-Curricular Apps and Websites

• SoundRebound (compose music by arranging shapes to cause ricochets and bounces)
• Math Science Music (“free toolkit for teachers, bringing together the best resources in
math, science, and music,” links to a lot of iPad apps)
• Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (playlists, videos, and lesson plans corresponding to
different eras and events of history)
• Chrome Music Lab (website with many different music “experiments” designed to
explore music and its connections to other subject areas)