Rashid Webliography
Rashid Webliography
Site : 8notes.com
URL: https://www.8notes.com/theory/
Description : This site provides students and educators with music theory exercises and lessons.
It is free of charge and has a pretty simple navigation set up. Each lesson provides students or
educators with visuals and sometimes audio examples of what is being taught. You get the best
of both worlds with this site. If you learn better by reading and writing, this side is for you. If
you learn better by watching and listening, this site is also for you. This URL can be utilized for a
theory class by the teacher either emailing students and instructions on which lessons to review
as homework.
Site: scottsbasslessons.com
URL: http://www.scottsbasslessons.com/courses/bass-101-anatomy-bass-getting-started
Description: Even though the site is NOT free of charge, educators can still utilize the material
of this site through a monthly subscription and display the material using a projector in the
classroom. I would use this URL for a bass lab, preferably one for beginners. The contents of the
lesson provided in this URL mainly discuss beginner techniques and information about the
instrument.
Site: drummerworld.com
URL: http://www.drummerworld.com/drummerchoice.html
Description: This URL provides background information, exercises, and audio examples of
hundreds of drummers from a variety of musical styles. I would use this site to give students of
a percussion or drum-set lab homework assignments. One assignment could be to write a
summary on the upbringing three drummers from a particular genre of music and learn one
groove from each.
Site: vicfirth.com
URL: http://vicfirth.com/40-essential-rudiments/
Description: This URL provides brief audio examples as well as the notation of the 40 essential
rudiments for drummers. I would use this site as a study guide for a snare drum technique
class. One assignment that could be generated from this information is to have students learn
two rudiments a week and compose an 8-16 bar drum solo incorporating those rudiments.
Site: jazzstandards.com
URL: http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions/
Description: This URL provides a list of jazz standards along with the composition dates and
YouTube videos of famous jazz musicians performing them. I could use this in a jazz piano
class/workshop and assign students to learn the melody and chords of a specific jazz standard
each week by ear. This would be assigned to intermediate jazz piano students.
Site: learnjazzstandards.com
URL: https://www.learnjazzstandards.com/blog/50-jazz-standards-you-need-to-know/
Description: This site provides a list of 50 well known jazz standards. Each standard has a link
that directs you to another page that displays a play-along/backing track to each standard as
well as several different renditions of them. This site could be used for an
intermediate/advanced jazz band ensemble. I would assign members of the ensemble to
transcribe a specific section of a jazz standard by ear which would then be performed in class.
Site: guitarlessons.com
URL: https://www.guitarlessons.com/guitar-lessons
Description: This site provides a vast amount of guitar lessons that covers aspects of guitar
performance, technique, and theory free of charge. I would use this URL for an intro to guitar
course. This could be used in class by displaying specific lessons using a projector for the class
to listen to and follow, or assigning specific lessons for students to watch and summarize before
each class.
Site: daviehighbands.weebly.com
URL: https://daviehighbands.weebly.com/fingering-charts.html
Description: This site provides PDFs of fingering charts for a variety of brass and woodwind
instruments such as trumpet, trombone, tuba, clarinet, alto sax etc. I would use this site as a
resource for beginner band students who are learning to play any woodwind or brass
instrument listed on this site. For example, I would give beginning students the assignment to
learn the chromatic scale from one particular note to another (based on the range of the
instrument they are playing).
Site: youtube.com
URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc4sOlYxxoXNba2CYCRQJGw
Description: In this YouTube channel, Jacobs Vocal academy provides several vocal warm up
exercises that contain instructions throughout the video along with piano playing to ensure the
accuracy of pitch while singing. I would incorporate one or two of these exercises into my warm
up for either choir rehearsal or private instruction.
Site: Travisjweller.com
URL: http://travisjweller.com/2010/04/07/choosing-repertoire-for-middle-school-band/
Description: This site provides some tips on choosing repertoire for middle school band as well
as some suggested compositions that the author has used in his 15+ years of teaching that
grade level of students. I would use this site as a resource for choosing pieces for middle school
band students as a band director/conductor.