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Five Reasons Why You Should Use Practice First with Your Ensembles
SBO Staff | March 30, 2024PracticeFirst, powered by the amazing assessment algorithm created by MatchMySound, is a music learning application that gives teachers and students the tools they need to improve their performance skills. It is perfect for ANY performance ensemble: band, chorus, orchestra, modern band, jazz ensemble, Mariachi band, and more. PracticeFirst uses AI to provide immediate and intuitive […] Read More... -
You’ll Not See Nothing Like The Mighty JamStik MIDI Guitar for the Classroom
Richard McCready | March 30, 2024It’s safe to say the invention of MIDI changed the way we perform music. By sending signals down a cable connecting two instruments, you can use one instrument to produce sounds on the other. As the first MIDI instruments were keyboards, this meant a keyboardist on stage could use the keys on his digital piano, […] Read More... -
Level Up! Intermediate Techniques for Soundtrap, Bandlab, and GarageBand Creation
Gillian Desmarais | March 30, 2024As beginner digital audio workstations (DAWs) start to mimic the look and feel of professional DAWs, and it’s both exciting and daunting to dive into all the new features. Thanks to the influence of viral social media, kids are highly motivated to produce professional mixes. Assuming your students have a basic knowledge of how to […] Read More... -
Flat for Education: The Classroom Assistant That Never Sleeps
SBO Staff | March 30, 2024With digital tools now a central part of the classroom experience, teachers want to make sure those tools are truly helping them rather than creating additional hassles. That’s why Flat for Education has been built as an intelligent, customizable assistant that can improve the music learning and teaching experience both inside and outside of the […] Read More... -
Music Education in the Digital Age: Harnessing Technology for Student Engagement
Donna Maurer | January 8, 2024Since the pandemic, online education and the use of technology have increased. Many music educators have embraced technology to ensure they continue to adapt their techniques, curriculums, and lessons to follow the digital expansion. Music teachers can develop new strategies to engage students more effectively and innovatively. Integrating technology for your teaching provides advantages when […] Read More... -
Notion Mobile 3.2 Free is Good
George Hess | August 20, 2023For ten years, Notion was the most full-featured notation app for iOS, but recently some competition appeared, notably entries from Dorico, Sibelius, and Flat. It had been some time since Notion had a significant update, but it was starting to feel somewhat dated. So it was with some anticipation that greeted the news of Notion […] Read More... -
Music Collaboration for an Engaged Classroom
SBO Staff | January 15, 2023The return to the classroom hasn’t meant a return to the pre-COVID world. The digital tools that facilitated remote teaching haven’t gone away with the return to the classroom; indeed, the best of them are proving to be a real resource that fits the expectations of teachers and students alike. In many ways, this trend […] Read More... -
Create, Perform, Respond, and Connect with SoundCheck
John Mlynczak | January 15, 2023The largest library of performance assessment and composition materials designed to engage students at all levels. Performance assessment technology should be less about assessment and more about student engagement. Hal Leonard’s SoundCheck, powered by MatchMySound, engages students by offering a library of over 83,000 titles with a mix of band, orchestra, and choir repertoire as […] Read More... -
Avid Unveils Sibelius Mobile App Placing Powerful Notation Tools at Music Creators’ Fingertips Everywhere They Go
SBO Staff | July 29, 2021Sibelius users gain new mobile workflows with iPad app to compose anywhere Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID) today announced the release of the Sibelius® for mobile iOS app, extending professional music notation workflows to iPad for the tens of thousands of composers, orchestrators and arrangers who have Sibelius subscriptions. Available immediately for download, Sibelius for mobile lets […] Read More... -
Steinberg Introduces Dorico for iPad
SBO Staff | July 28, 2021Steinberg’s next-generation music notation software, Dorico, is now available for the iPad for free, marking the beginning of its next great evolutionary leap. Steinberg today announces the immediate availability of the latest product in its family of music notation, composition and publishing software, Dorico for iPad, which can be downloaded now from the App Store, […] Read More... -
JackTrip Foundation’s Push for Realtime Online Performance
SBO Staff | November 30, 2020A look at the JackTrip Foundation's plans to solve the remote group preformance problem for music educators and musicians. Read More... -
JamKazam Just May Save Ensembles in a Virtual Teaching World By Mike Lawson
SBO Staff | October 21, 2020JamKazam founder David Wilson was a band kid growing up. Read More...
