Incredibox is the perfect tool for demonstrating musical texture in an engaging way. There are many different styles of music (all of them beatboxing), and each layer can be changed to any of the other loops to vary the performance. There is an app available for student performances from tablets or mobile devices.

The Level 1 certification covers the essential functions of Soundtrap and starts the conversation about integrating music and podcast creation into your curriculum.

In the course, you will learn about account setup & administration, how to create and share assignments, recording 101, podcasting skills and music creation skills.
Expect to spend about 2 hours to finish this course and try out some of the skills in Soundtrap.

We've all heard of Bitesize, and most of us have used it at some point. If you teach GCSE Music with AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, OCR or WJEC, it is a detailed and easy resource to use. It also includes support for composition and performance, with exam-board specific advice.

The Learning Centre provides hundreds of free Apple‑created resources — from guided tutorials to lesson ideas and hands‑on teaching materials. And with the Apple Teacher programme, you can earn rewards as you learn new skills and create more engaging lessons, all at your own pace. Another great CV booster!

Top quality, fully resourced schemes of lesson plans for KS1 to KS5 on creating opera performances. Choose from great operas including Carmen and The Flying Dutchman, available in two-, five-, or ten-lesson schemes of work.

You will receive curated professional development materials, information about virtual and in-person events, and the opportunity to connect with like-minded educators from around the world. To recognize your professional development you’ll earn badges for completing each level of the Adobe Creative Educator program. It's a great CV builder.

Classroom 200 celebrates the diverse musical worlds of folk, classical, jazz, world, rock, pop, musicals, film and TV. It’s about what links music together, not what sets it apart.

For each piece you’ll find a downloadable lesson plan, created by teachers for teachers, and giving clear learning outcomes for every age group. All the lesson plans include extension activities, next steps and links to additional resources, making them flexible enough to support different types of lesson and learner.

An extensive set of song learning resources to support music teachers and choir leaders in introducing high quality, contemporary song repertoire. Perfect for KS1, KS2, and KS3.

Superstring is a lyric video creator with a very user friendly interface. It is highly customisable, and the only disadvantages that come with the free version are that your exported video will feature a watermark and is limited to 360dp.
It is very useful for teaching students new songs, especially as an aid for non-specialist teachers. The only downside is that the software can be slow to load at first.
Suitable for Mac and Windows.

Fully resourced lesson plans focussing on landmark orchestral works for KS2 and KS3. Experience the LSO up close from 100s of new angles with HD video recordings of all pieces in the unit. Go to LSO Play and click the menu button in the top left-hand corner of each performance.
Follow the link to Explore Orchestra where you will find all associated free resources for schools, young people, students or those interested in finding out more. All resources are also available on TES at https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?authorId=7102682

The BBC have invested a huge amount of time and money into this amazing resource. There are resources suitable for EYFS to KS3, featuring a commission from Hans Zimmer, and videos by Christopher Eccleston, Claudia Winkleman and Dick and Dom to name a few.
The Ten Pieces scheme has been released four times to date, and each of the 40 pieces has lesson plans, schemes of work, audio recordings and video lessons.

The BBC has launched Bring The Noise, an educational campaign set to help teachers and parents inspire Early Years and Key Stage 1 children to become musicians and see the joys of music-making. There are also resources designed for SEN and BSL teaching, and teacher CPD to accompany them

Supporters of the campaign include iconic musician and producer Mark Ronson, Golden Globe nominated film composer Daniel Pemberton (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse), musicians Naturally 7, Gregory Porter, Lil Nas X and former JLS star JB Gill.

A huge collection of free, fun and practical templates for PowerPoint and Google Slides. Perfect to spice up your lessons and assemblies.

Helping teachers everywhere unlock the joy of singing, our videos include warm-ups and fun songs to learn. Even the pupils can lead singing sessions with the aid of this classroom toolkit!
Under the direction of Nigel Short, Tenebrae performs at major festivals and venues across the globe, earning international acclaim for its interpretations of choral music from the Renaissance through to contemporary masterpieces.
Alongside its performance schedule, the choir runs a thriving Learning & Connection programme encompassing partnerships with Music Centre London and London Youth Choirs, Tenebrae Effect workshops with amateur choirs, and regular classroom singing for local primary schools through its Singing Schools initiative. This is the newest educational project in Tenebrae's portfolio.

These tools are well worth exploring for homework, revision, and online learning. They are clear and simple, as well as very customisable.

The "Exercise Customizer" tool allows teachers to set the parameters of the task, and creates a custom URL. Challenge mode turns the task into a quiz with a limited number of questions.

After completing the task, students are asked to "Sign" their attempt, which then creates a code linked to their answers. This code allows the teacher to check student answers with the "Code Checker" teacher tool.

An online course of lessons focussing on songwriting. Broken down into drums, chords, and bass parts, this is a clear first step into songwriting with music technology.

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) are at the forefront of contemporary music performance and composition. While many composition lessons can consist of choosing specific notes, specific chords, and specific rhythms, BCMG takes out the prerequisite of playing an instrument. Instead, their lessons focus on creating sound and art by choosing the type of notes and musical "gestures". This lets students and teachers instantly create music without the need for years of specialist musical training.

Their performance lessons are similarly focussed on exploring sound, and successfully interpreting and performing real contemporary repertoire, rather than a simply recreating performances. This helps engagement levels significantly.

With a selection of different drum samples, and a more traditional sequencer look, it is far more suited to KS3 - KS4. It can be used as an exploratory composition tool, or for students to include custom drum loops in their performances. If students are struggling to understand, try showing them the Ableton Learning Music online course.

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The World Music Network is a world music music and book shop with a blog with lengthy entries on as many musical styles as you can imagine, with titles like "Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia: Beats Over Borders". Each entry also has multiple listening examples, and doesn't reduce cultures to lazy stereotypes.

Perfect for flipped learning and research projects, suitable for KS3+ due to reading age of the text.

It can also be used in conjunction with the world music playlists available at https://musicmap.global (see the Music Maps post for more info).

In 2019, the Queensland Kodàly Choir sang their last notes together as a group as the institution was disbanded in 2020. However, the choir was keen to continue to share their passion for singing and music-making with others in the community and so the QKC Legacy Project was created. This project aims to build a legacy of Australian choral music and reflect the unique philosophy, diversity, and musical backgrounds of QKC. Eminent Australian composers – Astrid Jorgensen OAM, Sandra Milliken, and Fay White – who have worked with the choir were commissioned to create songs and recordings for use by the wider community.
The final publication of the QKC Legacy Project was released in January 2024. All publications including songbooks, scores, audio recordings and rehearsal tracks can be found here.

An online course focussing on synthesis and the science of music creation. Ideal first introduction to Music Technology at GCSE or A-level.

An easy-to-use online xylophone, which can be played using number keys on your computer keyboard. Perfect for classrooms which are short of instruments, homework, and remote learning.

This is a website detailing all the awareness days worldwide, from Pride Month to National Garden Wildlife Week. While it may not always directly relevant to music teaching, these awareness days can easily be used to influence your students' musical listening and music assemblies.
For a fee, you can also get the link to add Awareness Days to your Google/Apple/Microsoft calendar, as well as information resources.

Groove Pizza is a colourful visual representation of a drum sequencer, which allows users to spot patterns in drum grooves. A great introduction to Music Tech or for rappers to create basic loops for performances.

It's not strictly a music resource, but it's a very useful way to add an element of fun into lesson PowerPoints or display boards. Just get the app, design the avatar to look like you, then chose your images!

Top tip: if you're struggling to find Bitmojis in simple standing positions, try searching "pose"

Blob Opera is a machine learning experiment by David Li in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture.

Google developed a machine learning model trained on the voices of four opera singers in order to create an interactive experiment anyone can enjoy, regardless of musical skills.
Tenor, Christian Joel, bass Frederick Tong, mezzo-soprano Joanna Gamble and soprano Olivia Doutney recorded 16 hours of singing. In the experiment you don’t hear their voices, but the machine learning model’s understanding of what opera singing sounds like, based on what it learnt from them.

Drag the blobs up and down to change pitch, or forwards and backwards for different vowel sounds. The blobs respond to and harmonise your input in real time.

Oak National Academy was created in April 2020 as a rapid response to the coronavirus outbreak. Teachers and colleagues from leading education organisations came together to support schools’ efforts to keep children learning.

Since then, they’ve developed 40,000 resources with the support of 550 teachers and delivered over 130 million lessons in their online classroom.