Freeware, Shareware and Product Demos:
Free Web Resources
by John Kuzmich, Jr.
May 3, 2005
Jazz Education
- Changes Improvisation Software. You must expose
your students to: <http://www.changes98.com>.
Then go to the free stuff for jazz chords and scales at: http://www.changes98.com/Old/page2.html,
http://www.changes98.com/Old/page3.html,
and http://www.changes98.com/Old/page4.html.
Its unbelievable what information you have here. You may never have to explain
scales and chords aimlessly again. It's all there!
- <http://www.berkleeshares.com/>.
Berklee Shares web site offers free music lessons that you can download, share
and trade with your friends and fellow musicians. They consist of individual
self-contained music lessons developed by Berklee faculty and alumni as a
library of MP3 audio, QuickTime movie, and PDF files. Subjects covered: arranging/songwriting,
producing music, brass, winds, guitar, keyboard, bass, drums, music education,
music improvisation, music business/careers. It provides a glimpse into the
educational opportunities provided by Berklee.
On-Line Music Lessons & Tutorials
- Ricci Adams' MusicTheory.net: <http://www.musictheory.net/>.
Ricci Adams first envisioned Musictheory.net during his senior year of high
school. Soon afterwards, he created his first lesson: The Staff, Clefs, and
Ledger Lines. The Interval Ear Trainer was developed a few weeks later and
the site officially launched on January 1, 2000. Since that date, he has authored
over thirty new lessons and several new trainers.
- http://www.artistpro.com - A super
on-line course in basic recording concepts and procedures. It is run by a
Artistpro publishing - check out their publications - they are all reputable
and solid: understand mixers I, understanding mixers II, essential EQ theory,
dynamic processors, expert effects processing, microphone technology, digital
audio, hard disk recording, synchronization, recording acoustic drums, recording
electric guitar, recording vocals, and understanding MIDI.
- http://www.electricbluesclub.co.uk/tutorials.html
Free music lessons and tutorials for beginners to advanced musicians, links
to online lessons and NEW music software viewlet tutorials for anyone venturing
into streaming media and recording. Industry personnel tutorials, tips, techniques
and advice from names in the biz are also available in our new Music Articles.
Read the latest from Classical Composers to Heavy Metal dudes like 'Slayer'
and more!! More Free Tabs are provided, the links on the right will jump you
to the relevant section. More Lessons? Browse the Online Music Lesson Sites.
On-Line Guitar Lessons
- GuitarNoise. Extensive web site for all levels of guitar
instruction: beginning, intermedia and advanced levels. Styles covered: acoustic,
banjo, Blues, classical, heavy metal, and jazz. Free lessons covering acoustic,
blues, chords, classical, guitar principles/heavy metal, jamming, jazz, scales,
teaching and more including a good free newsletter: http://www.guitarnoise.com
- Olav Torvund’s Guitar: insightful guitar lessons
at: http://www.torvund.net/guitar/.
Latest lessons include: open C tuning, Silent Night in open C tuning, minor
Blues, reading music, Lesson 3 with reading music - reading chords, Blues
turnarounds, a chord excercise - jazzy 7th chords, open chords plus a good
free newsletter providing more instruction.
- HoleNote: http://www.holenote.com/
features enough free guitar lessons to keep you busy foro years. Lessons
cover beginner, intermediate, advanced, rock, blues, metal, acoustic, jazz
and classical styles. Many of the lessons include MIDI sound examples, along
with tablature and chord explanations.
- RandyTab: http://www.afterzed.com/freeware/musicprogsfreeware2.html.
It is a guitar tablature authoring application. It includes a number of features
that make creating tablature very easy. These include full undo of up to one-hundred
actions, cut/copy/paste, and both keyboard and mouse selection. It also includes
a number of tablature symbols that allow the user to create a very wide variety
of tablature with minimal effort.
- FreeTune: http://www.afterzed.com/freeware/musicprogsfreeware1.html.
It is a Windows based Aural Guitar Tuner, that lets you tune your Acoustic
Guitar along to the sound of a correctly tuned String, now with hands free
Repeat function, covers both Standard and Dropped D Tuning. Installation /
Uninstallation Package.
- Windows based Aural Guitar Tuner: http://www.afterzed.com/freeware/musicprogsfreeware4.html.
It lets you tune your Acoustic Guitar along to the sound of a correctly tuned
String, now with hands free Repeat function, covers both Standard and Dropped
D Tuning.
On-Line Harmonica Lessons
On-Line Piano Lessons
- Free Piano Lessons: <http://www.pitt.edu/~deben/freebies.html>.
Download your free piano sheet music now! Just click and print! No fees, no
memberships, no passwords.
- Free On-Line Piano Lessons: <http://www.gopiano.com/>.
Learn to play the piano with online keyboard lesson and free piano instruction
online. Free piano lessons online from basic to advanced. Learn beginning
rhythmic patterns. Learn beginning playing patterns and techniques. Piano
lessons will have many sub-parts. After you complete the piano lessons, please
feel free to go back and review as often as you like! Piano lessons include
audio instructions.
- San Antonio Piano Lessons: Learn How to Play Piano: <http://users.wireweb.net/green/pianolessons.htm>.
These free piano lessons will teach you how to play piano by ear and feeling.
You will be able to improvise and create great melodies. The way you will
quickly acquire these skills is by learning chords, learning the simple mathematical
relationships between notes, and by learning chord patterns.
I will teach you how to use "color" chords that will transform
your playing from "ordinary" piano sounds to "exciting"
and colorful piano sounds. Ordinary chords are bland. However, chords that
use the 2nd, 6th, and 7th notes of the scale really make people take notice
of your piano playing. You will learn about this in the following lessons.
Once you learn how to "voice" a chord by spreading it out, you
can come up with some great sounds.
Comparison of the Acid Family of Sequeners
Bookmarks
- http://www.kuzmich.com/handouts/bookmarks.html.
A good resource of bookmarks for many prominent music education oriented web
sites that music educators need to peruse. Particularly strong in MIDI and
jazz links.
- <http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/staffpages/shirk/k12.music.html>.
Valuable resources for music educators and students of all areas and educational
levels. Regularly updated. For over ten years, the most visited and valued
music education resource website available internationally. Carefully researched
and commercial free Includes sites for band teachers, vocal/choral teachers/orcestra
teachers, classroom music teachers, valuable sites for all music educators,
commerical music resources, music research resources, beiographies, history
and works of the great composers, search engines, MIDI and music technology
resources, musi newsgropus, beatles forever and still more music links!