Kid Connections
Lessons, links and web tools for kids to try out!
Create
Central Park School--students at Birmingham, AL learn and compose music with technology
Composers' Gallery-- KidZone, New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Creating Music--have some fun playing with musical ideas
Learning To
Compose
Perform- Instruments
Guitar
Free Guitar Music--Learn to play with guitar music for beginning through fourth levels; includes sheet music and accompaniment files.
ChordFind-See the fingering for guitar chords
Free Piano Music--Learn to play the piano, beginner to level four and intermediate. Includes sheet music to read, midi files to hear, and videos to watch.
Piano Player--See how you do with piano notes.
KeyChord.com--See how to play chords.
KeyChord.com--see how to play chords
Perform- Reading/Notating
Learning the Staff--interactive apps for learning the staff
Staff Paper--create and print staff paper
Sing-a-long Songs --Lots of songs to sing with!
Connect- Listen, Analyze
Classics for Kids--Choose music by composer's name, historical period or timeline.
Composers and Instruments at the DSOKids.com (Dallas Symphony Orchestra)
Guess This Tune-- Try a guessing game of familiar songs. Do you recognize any?
Listening--Activities at the San Francisco Exploratorium
The
Virtual Museum of Music Inventions--photos
and videos of instruments other kids have made
Connect- History, Culture, Other Subjects
A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments--learn about, see and hear ancient instruments such as the lizard and serpent.
Kabuki Sounds-See and hear Japanese instruments
Science of Music
San Francisco Explorarium
Sounds from the Vault--see and hear some prehistoric instruments from the museum vault!