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Ch. 12 - Making the Band
Making the Band
Facilitator Resources & Repertoire
Practice Tools
Yousician
(iOS, Android, MacOS, Windows) provides video instruction, iconic notation-based skill-builders, challenges, and popular songs for keyboard, ukulele, guitar, bass, and vocals. Using a game-style format, the program assesses the accuracy of pitch and rhythm and provides a sequenced pathway of instruction.
FourChords
(iOS, Android) provides simplified and advanced chord options for a variety of popular songs on guitar along with video tutorials and adjustable backing tracks.
Ultimate Guitar: Chords & Tabs
(iOS, Android, Website) boasts the world’s largest catalogue of popular music, notated in tablature for guitar.
Synthesia
(iOS, Android, MacOS, Windows) uses falling notation (similar to Guitar Hero) to teach students how to perform popular songs on the keyboard.
Smule
(iOS, Android, Apple TV, tvOS) is a Karaoke app that provides iconic notation and lyrics to popular songs. The program provides feedback about the accuracy of the singer’s pitch and note duration.
