Yamaha Offers Resources for Online Teaching

Below is an article originally published by Yamaha at www.yamahaeducatorsuite.com/online-teaching. It has been reprinted with permission.

During this trying and uncertain time, we want to do our part to help music educators as you explore options and search for resources to facilitate online teaching.

Since teaching face-to-face is not possible during this COVID-19 pandemic, our educational partners and other companies are offering resources and solutions, including free lesson plans and subscriptions, to help you navigate these unchartered waters to teach music in new and creative ways.

As always, the music education community is showing its strength and supportive nature — this time by tackling online teaching and online learning together.

To address this immediate need, the NAMM Foundation presented a webinar on March 18 on Bridging the Gap: Teaching and Learning Music Online. For private lesson teachers, the NAMM Foundation presented Making Music Online: How-Tos for Private and Group Lessons.

AmazingEducationalResources.com lists hundreds of sites that cover all subjects, including students’ social-emotional well-being. This list is updated regularly. Please be prudent and thoroughly research each company before signing up.

Below is a list of music-specific sites and sources. As more artists and educators post and create resources, Yamaha will update this list. Email Yamaha at educators@yamaha.com with questions or to submit a site to be included.

Save the Music has a similar list of online resources for teachers.

Resources from Yamaha Partners

• National Association for Music Educators (NAfME)
  • Music Teacher Resources for School Closures
  • COVID-19 Resources and News
  • Free NAfME Academy Webinars
• National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM)
  • Resources for Educators
  • COVID-19
  • subscribe to the NAMM Daily News newsletter
• American String Teachers Association (ASTA)
• Jazz Education Network (JEN)
  • How to teach instrumental lessons online
  • Online teaching for the non-online teacher
• Percussive Arts Society (PAS)
  • PAS Resource Library
  • 40 Percussive Arts Society International Drum Rudiments
  • Essential Listening for Drum Set
  • Percussion Compendiums
  • PAS Educators’ Companion
  • Rhythm Scene – The Official Blog of the Percussive Arts Society

Music Theory, Music Lessons, Games

• Acapella: Record, edit and share music videos
• Dorico (notation)
• Flat (notation)
• Noteflight (notation)
• Oxford University Press: “Teaching Music Appreciation Online”

 Percussion

• 4 Mallet Exercises without a Marimba – Justin Douté
• C. Alan Percussion Home Study Packet
• Matthew Black — What a Metronome Can’t Teach
• Vic Firth Snare Drum Rudiments
• Gary France Video Series (Snare Drum, Cymbals, Gongs, Keyboard)
• Steve Graves Play Along Videos
• Cory Hills’ Percussive Storytelling and live-stream videos
• Percussion Education Video Playlist – 28 Snare Drum Videos
• NYU Percussion Program Virtual Masterclass Series — Spring 2020
• Rhythm Randomizer

 Strings

• Tina Guo: Videos, Tutorials and Live-Stream Concerts via Patreon (subscription fees)
• Christian Howes’ Creative Strings
  • How to Flip your Classroom
  • Free Online Lessons for Orchestra and String Teachers — all levels
• Andy Reiner Fiddle/Violin Method
  • Andy Reiner: Music, Podcasts and Lessons via Patreon (subscription fees)
• Jacob Szekely’s Improvisor’s Guide to the Cello
• Tuning Your Instrument
• Violinist.com
  • How to Tune Your Violin (for kids and parents at home)
  • What Your Teacher Is Doing In Your Music Lesson, and How to Adapt Online
  • Practicalities of Online Lessons for Teachers, Students and Parents
  • The Learning Potential of Online Lessons

 Winds

• Amro Music — Sanitizing Your Instrument
• Tom Bough Music — Tuba
• Dan Gelok – Saxophone
• Danny Janklow — Saxophone
• Danielle Janos — Clarinet
• Jay Metcalf — Better Sax
• Nathan Nabb ‘s Saxophone Studio Class Online
• Daniel Pardo – Flute for middle and high school students
• Christopher Still’s Honesty Pill — online courses for musicians
• Harry Watters: Daily Social Distancing Warm-Up Series 
• Trombone 101

Piano

• Group Piano in the time of COVID-19 (Facebook group)
• Piano and Instrumental Teachers with Coronavirus Concerns (Facebook group)
• Piano Magazine: Free Daily Webinars on Teaching Piano During the COVID Crisis
• Teach Piano Online
• WikiHow: How to Practice the Piano without a Piano

Various

• Mariachi Resources from Music Education Consultants
• Snarky Puppy webinars(nominal fees)
• Rodolfo Gonzalez, a Texas music educator, is offering free sheet music for beginner ukulele, bajo sexto, first studies for mariachi, elementary mariachi, guitar solos, basic music theory and basic arranging for mariachi, beginner melody books for strings and classical guitar as well as free audio previes and sheet music samples.

Choral

• American Choral Directors Association (ACDA): Resources for Choral Professionals During the Pandemic
• Chorus Connection: Taking Your Choir Rehearsals Online
• Midnight Music: Please Stop Asking How To Create A Virtual Choir Video

Performance Videos

• 92nd Street Y Live Streams and Past Performances 
• Mindy Abair live-stream performances every Tuesday
• Berlin Philharmonic Virtual Concerts
• Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Performances
• Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Past Performances and Educational Concert Series
• London Symphony Orchestra Performances and Playlists
• The Metropolitan Opera
• The Philadelphia Orchestra
• The U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own”
• Vancouver Symphony’s Final Performance from BeethovenFest
• Wigmore Hall’s Past Live Streams
• Steven Feifke and Alexa Tarantino (nominal fees for each performance; 25% of ticket prices will be donated to various arts organizations)
• Live streams of concerts from around the world hosted by WKAR, a radio station in Michigan
• NPR Music: A List of Live Virtual Concerts to Watch During the Coronavirus Shutdown

Student Musicians with Special Needs

• If your program works with United Sound, check out these distance learning resources

Select TED talks for music educators

• How Brass Instruments Work
• The Physics of Playing Guitar
• Music and Math: The Genius of Beethoven

Social Media 

• Yamaha Music Educator Community
• Higher Ed Music Lessons in the Time of COVID-19
• Music Educators Creating Online Learning

Email educators@yamaha.com to submit a site