Musician Resources

This page has links for improving our musicianship.  Free downloads and games!

 * Smartmusic - Coming soon

 General

•    * Practice Metronome Online - Free Practice Metronome
•     * Finale Note Pad - Free software to write your own music
•     Music Theory.net - Music lessons and training
•     Earplane - Fun ear training games, try to get the high score!
•     inTune Online Music Magazine - Online magazine written exclusively for music making students
•     Musicians Health Online - Keep yourself playing for many years to come
•     Online Music Dictionary - Look up any musical words you need
•     Composers Listening/Biographies - Information about most composers
•     New York Philharmonic Kids Zone - Information and GAMES for kids
•     San Francisco Symphony Kids - Information and GAMES for kids

Instrument Fingering Charts/Rudiments

•     Band Fingering Charts
•     Woodwind Fingering Charts
•     Trumpet Fingering Charts
•     Band Instruments Fingering Charts
•     Percussion Rudiments

Music Stores - These are the three music stores we recommend you use when purchasing/renting a new instrument.

•     Flesher Hinton Music Store
•     Universal Music Store
•     Music and the Arts Center

Private Lessons   

• Local Private Instructors

Local Performing Arts

• City of Northglenn Performing Arts Calendar - See shows right here in Northglenn!
• Denver Center for the Performing Arts - See national shows in Denver!
• Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities - See shows in Arvada!

Choral

•     History and Information, Colorado Children's Chorale

Jazz

•    Pete Thomas Jazz Theory - Jazz improvising, lessons and warm-ups  
•     History and Information,
•     PBS Kids Jazz - Information and GAMES for kids

Music History

•     Wikipedia Music History

Instrument Web Sites

•     Instrument care tips - Taking care of your instrument
•     Flute - History and Information, Fluteland.com
•     Clarinet - History and Information
•     Oboe - History and Information
•     Saxophones - Pete Thomas Saxophone Lessons, History and Information  
•     Trumpet - History and Information
•     Trombone - History and Information
•     Tuba - History and Information
•     Piano - History and Information,   Piano Composers (Listening/Biographies)
•     Guitar - History and Information, Cyberfret Online Lessons, Guitar Tablature
•     Percussion - History and Information, Vic Firth.com

Home Recording and Live Sound

• ProsoundWeb - Learn from pros how they make bands in a studio
• Home Recording dot Com - Learn how to record at home
• Audacity Recording Software - Make your own Demos, Free Download!
• Sweetwater - Online store with great pro stuff

(If you find a good resource site that we should add to this list, please email the link)