Internet Travels ‘Of Bits and Bytes’ is my weekly roundup of fascinating finds and ideas from the internet, published every Monday to recap the previous week. Learn21 is a proud sponsor of Eduk8me and the Of Bits and Bytes newsletter. Read more about their mission at Learn21. Apps There are some online games where you…
Source: How Kids Learned Classical Music From Old Cartoons Read on to see how much our classical music education was shaped by Looney Toons and Bugs Bunny. Be sure to check out all of the examples in the article, there are some great ones in there! Unfortunately, they missed one of the biggest, the Ride…
Source: Roland 808303.studio The 808 is a legendary drum machine that was a commercial failure yet it ended up being the most popular drum machine every produced. It is used on more songs than any other machine. The 808303 studio allows you to work on your wicked beats along with a bassline. Be sure to…
Source: Lo-Fi Player Here’s a fun little activity that students could play around with when they just need a second to chill. The Lo-Fi Player has several items you can click around with to create the chill beats that you need. And, when you are finished, you can share your production with a simple link.
Source: Citizen DJ / Homepage Citizen DJ is a project from the Library of Congress offering a way to take samples from th Library of Congress and remix them in to new songs. There is a browser based mixer to combine the beats. Once you have the selection the way you want, you can download…
Source: dig.ccMixter Home Trying to create multimedia without stepping on copyright issues can be difficult, but sites like digCCMixter make it easier. To get started, head on over to digCCMixter and start looking for music that you want to use. When you find a song you like, click on the orange download button. digCCMixter will…
AT GRAVITY SOUND, WE REGULARLY RELEASE FREE MUSIC AND SOUND EFFECTS UNDER CC BY 4.0 LICENSE.IT’S JUST ONE WAY THAT GRAVITY SOUND GIVES BACK TO THE INDIE COMMUNITY. Source: Free Music and Sound Effects — Gravity Sound The music and sound effects is released with a Creative Commons license, CC BY 4.0, which allows you…
Source: Unmixer Unmixer is a web app that takes a song and chops it up into smaller loops. This loops can then be mixed by the user. It’s pretty fun, I could see music classrooms playing around with this and students performing their best mix. To get started, you give Unmixer a song to chop…
Source: Get started | Learning Synths This article is for all of the music teachers out there. Ableton is a software and hardware company that creates products to be used in music production. Their website, Learning Synths, teaches the reader all about synthesizers with a series of interactive activities.
Source: The Music Lab The Department of Psychology at Harvard University has opened The Music Lab, an attempt at learning how humans use music. Right now there are four different tests you can take online. I took the tone-deafness test, and was better than 60% of the people who have taken the test. I’m a little disappointed…