Online Music Resources

Optional videos, games and websites for practicing music skills at home.

Beginner Video Lessons

Free, short videos from Mr. Smith's YouTube channel (Alan Smith, a band teacher). Each playlist starts at the very beginning: putting the instrument together, holding it, making the first sounds and playing the first five notes, then a few easy songs. Pick your instrument to open its playlist, and come back any time you need a refresher.

• Flute

• Oboe

• Clarinet

• Saxophone (Alto)

• French Horn

• Trumpet

• Trombone

• Baritone

• Percussion

Ear Training

• Solati™: a listening game. The computer plays a pattern of notes, do through ti, and you press the colored bars to play it back in the same order. Pick Sequential, Random or Level Capped on the opening screen.

Note Reading

Note Identification from musictheory.net. A note appears on the staff and you click its letter name. Pick your instrument; each link opens the exercise already set up for that instrument's clef and note range.

• Flute and Oboe

• Clarinet

• Saxophone

• French Horn

• Trumpet

• Trombone and Baritone

Links go to outside websites, which can change or remove their pages at any time. Free sites may show ads.