A deep and powerful tool to create graphical sounds. A great way to blend coding and music creation!

So many ways to create music electronically. Everyone in your family will want to play!

If you are an Apple iPhone, iPad, or computer owner, you can explore this amazing composing App.  It is filled with instruments, pre-recorded loops, and a drum machine.  

Groove Pizza is a circular rhythm app for creating music making and learning! It's also a playful tool for creating grooves using math concepts like shapes, angles, and patterns. 

Students can create and build musical masterpieces through layering of multiple tracks including loops of a variety of musical instruments and voices. (CUSD students login through Office 365)

ToneCraft lets you build music in 3D. Go crazy and build your own song! 

This page allows students to explore sounds and timbres through a musical loop that produces a cool visual experience. 

A great resource for 4th graders thinking about joining band or orchestra next year.  This site gives information and videos of instruments you can play in 5th & 6th grade.

Discover the Orchestra and find instructions on how to make your own instruments at home.

In 5th Grade, you will have the option of joining Band (Brass, Woodwinds, & Percussion) or Orchestra (Strings).  Explore this site to learn about and hear the different instruments. 

Elementary Band = Clarinet, Flute, Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone, Baritone (small Tuba), & various Percussion. 

Elementary Orchestra = Violin, Viola, Cello, & Bass

Learn about the instruments of the orchestra, be a conductor or composer, and play games.

Learn about the instruments of the orchestra and hear examples

Online music games that cover various subjects, including musical concepts, musical instruments, creative expressions, and more. 

Start by choosing a category (e.g. Pop, Rock, Country, Metal, Latino, Dance, etc) then start listening to clips. The key is to beat the timer and come up with the correct name of the artist. 

Test your music knowledge with note and rhythm reading exercises as well as audio quizzes to practice identifying genres and instruments.

This site is jam packed with fun games, information on composers and instruments, and a section for parents who are home schooling.

Create music by building a road, adding some houses, trees, flowers, and lights. You can change the sound of each and set a car to drive your road and hear what your little city sounds like.  FYI - It takes a little while to load. 

A variety of music games staring your favorite PBS Kids characters.

Videos created by BSO Musicians that demonstrate instruments of the orchestra.

Sing along with Pete the Cat!

See how this composer creates music based on unusual animals. Think about how his music matches the characteristics of the animals as listen.

An interacive map to explore music from all over the world. Warning: Content may not all be kid appropriate.

Explore music from all over the globe. Warning: Not all content may be kid appropriate.

Test your musical knowledge with this page of over 130 quizzes.

Choose the rhythm symbols that you know and create the rhythm you hear or match it to the one you see.