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LESSON PLANS
Ashley McBryde Teaches Lesson Plan on Building the Major Scale
United Voices for Music Education Artist Ambassador, Ashley McBryde, takes student-musicians through a lesson that includes building a major scale, understanding good tone quality, using Solfege as instrumentalists, singing what you play, and recovering from minor mistakes.
Printable Lesson Plan
Scale Spell + B-Flat Worksheet
B-Flat Worksheet with Answer Key
Band Lesson Plans
Get your favorite song ready – because Dr. Earvin is teaching us how to take attendance in a fun and interactive way with music students! Kick off your music classes with this quick activity to get your students engaged and ready to learn.
To see Dr. Earvin’s attendance check lesson and other full-length lesson plan videos, click the link below!
Printable Attendance Check Lesson
BAND LESSON VIDEOSText + Video Band Lesson Plans
- Developing Characteristic Tone: Creating a Sound Library!
- Sight Reading with Sight Reading Factory
- Virtual Petting Zoo for Beginner Band
Text Band Lesson Plans
- Methods Class – A-Flat Major Scale Online/In-Person
- Scale and Rhythm Development – Building Technique
- Virtual Percussion Auditions
- Best Practices for Entering and Exiting the Band Room
- Music Theory Lesson for Beginning Band
- Sight-Reading
- Flipgrid Asynchronous
- First Days Lasting Ways for Beginner Band (1/4)
- First Days Lasting Ways for Beginner Band 2/4
- First Days Lasting Ways for Beginner Band (3/4)
- First Days Lasting Ways for Beginner Band (4/4)
- Develop Proper Flute Embochure
- Undergraduate Conducting
- Concert Bb Flat Scale
- Five Minute Drill – Legato Strokes and Dynamics
- Band Bingo
Choral Lesson Plans
Warm up those vocal chords by singing along with Dr. Fox! Will you sing your name for us in major chord or minor chord? Start by pressing play now!
To see Dr. Fox’s interval chord identification lesson and other full-length lesson plan videos, click the link below!
Printable Interval Chord Identification Lesson
CHORAL LESSON VIDEOSText + Video Choral Lesson Plans
Text Choral Lesson Plans
Elementary General Music Lesson Plans
Put your heart into creating music making lessons with those elementary students of yours by following along with Dr. Campbell! Your students will be feeling “pumped” and ready to learn more after this lesson!
To see Dr. Campbell’s Rhythm lesson and other full-length lesson plan videos, click the link below!
6-12 General Music Lesson Plans
If you could create a soundtrack to your life – what songs would you include? A song from the year you were born? Your guardian’s favorite tune? Something from your favorite movie? The possibilities are endless! Dr. Robinson walks us through creating a soundtrack for YOUR life.
To see Dr. Robinson’s “Soundtrack of your life” lesson and other full-length lesson plan videos, click the link below!
Text + Video General Lesson Plans
- Found Object Percussion
- Rollercoaster Vocal Exploration
- Creating a Movement Sequence
- Visual Representation to Reinforce Music Literacy
- A Virtual Museum of Black Composers
- Listen and Draw
Text General Lesson Plans
- Old Man Moses – Recognizing “Mi Re Do”
- Hello to All the Children of the World
- Rhythmic Patterns with Building Blocks
- Brass Instrument Family Puzzle
- Superhero Rhythm Puzzle
- Melody Puzzle Matching Songs to Tone Sets
- Kahoot Quizzes
- Soundtrack of Your Life
- “This Is How We Go to School”
- Move and Place Worksheet
- Melody Reading/Writing/Performing – Upward Scales
- Melody Reading/Writing/Performing – Downward Scales
- Drumming Choice Board for Emotional Well Being
- Rhythm Reading, Writing, and Performing with ELA
- Math With Reading, Writing and Performing Fruit Rhythms
- Science with Reading, Writing and Performing Fruit Rhythms
- Found Object Percussion Ensemble
- Perform Rhythmic and/or Melodic Ostinati Along with a Song from Latin America
- 3-5 Grade Asynchronous Lesson that Promotes Student Composition
- SEL Activity – Move and Place
- Exploring, Decoding and Sharing Simple Rhythmic Patterns
- “If You’re Happy and You Know It” SEL Actions
- Growth Mindset Affirmations with Solfege
- Basic Recorder Playing
- Music That Tells Your Story
- Improvisational Composition
- Body/Vocalwhat Percussion
- Demonstrate Texture of Instrumental Music
- Musical Affirmations
- Major Triad Fun
- Musical Sunshine Social Skills
- Assessing Music Fundamental Knowledge
Jazz Lesson Plans
Students will be feeling the rhythm after this fun and interactive lesson with Mr. Diaz! From instruments to arms – he will show you how to make this work from home or in the classroom those first few weeks of school.
To see Mr. Diaz’s 8th note articulation lesson and other full-length lesson plan videos, click the link below!
Printable 8th Note Articulation Lesson
JAZZ LESSON VIDEOSText + Video Jazz Lesson Plans
- Blues Form & Chord Building
- Ear Training: Learning the Melody of a Jazz Song by Listening
- Swing 8th Note Articulation
Text Jazz Lesson Plans
- Drum Square Lesson Concept
- Active Listening/Learning Standard Jazz Tune Virtually
- Critical Listening in Jazz
- Teaching/Conducting Jazz Ensemble During COVID-19
- Life Lessons through Jazz
- Jazz Syllables for the Big Band
- Application of Scale Modes When Soloing Over Chord Changes
- Instrumentalists Can Walk Bass Lines Too!
- Instrumentalists Can Walk Bass Lines and Highlight Chords Using Eighth Notes!
- Identify the Line and Spaces of a Music Staff
- Teaching the Blues
- Developing Rhythmic Independence
- Lesson on Introduction to Counting in Swing Style
- Lesson on Introduction to Jazz Language
- Interactive Online Performance with Jazz Head Tune Part I
- Interactive Online Performance with Jazz Head Tune Part II
- Jazz History 101: The Origins of Jazz
- Teaching Latin Combo
- Developing Rhythmic Independence Lesson 1
- Developing Rhythmic Independence Lesson 2
- Syncopation and the 2 and 4
- Beginning Ear Training Intervals
- “Wall of Fame”
- Melodic Lines in Jazz
- Interactive Online Performance with Jazz Head Tune
- Instructional Activity for Seventh Chord Qualities
Music Technology Lesson Plans
Did you know: music is just organized sounds? Think about the sounds you hear every day … pots clanging, birds chirping – what do you hear? Mr. Finney shows us how to build and plan out music from our every day sounds!
To see Mr. Finney’s Music and Technology 101 lesson and other full-length lesson plan videos, click the link below!
Printable Music and Technology 101 Lesson
MUSIC TECHNOLOGY LESSON VIDEOSText + Video Music Technology Lesson Plans
Text Music Technology Lesson Plans
- Intro to Digital Audio Workstation
- Brian Querry - Technology
- AudioSources – Connectors
- The Channel Strip – Basic
- The Master Section – Basics
- Music Creation Lesson
- Defining Technology and Music Technology
- Create and Record a Melody
- High School Music Technology Course – Lesson 2
- High School Music Technology Course – Lesson 3
- Production Platform Virtual Ensemble Recording
- “Backpack Composition”
- AudioSources & Playback
- Beethoven Instrumental Lesson
- Online Music Production
- Basic Lesson Teaching Rhythm Patterns Acquisition
- Music Recipes
- Student Choice Music Projects 5-12
- Tips and Ideas
- Current News and Music
- Peer Taught Music Lesson Collaboration Across Schools
- Virtual Museum for Black Composers
- Podcasting to Develop Literacy
LETTER OF SUPPORT
Share with those in your community why music education is important to you. By taking the time to write a personal letter to elected officials, school administrators, principals, etc. demonstrates that the issue is important to you and may be effective in influencing change, sparking conversation and maintaining crucial contact during this time.
Don’t forget to share specific information about why music education is critical to a well-rounded education for all students. We support you and your commitment to students through music. Feel free to share our letter of support alongside yours.
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