Practicing Musician - Online Platform Guidance
Overview
This resource provides information about the Practicing Musician platform. The Practicing Musician site provides multi-media resources and methods that help K-12 educators flip their classrooms, personalize instruction within ensemble programs, and facilitate mastery learning for all students. Their mission is to empower and collaborate with music educators and artists to create a free world-class music education that meets the needs of all K-12 students.
Overview
Practicing Musician Platform for Online Concert Band and Strings Methods
Purpose of Website
K-12 music educators create content for Practicing Musician’s growing library of 3,500+ video tutorials, sheet music, assignments, and assessments. The content is organized along a similar scope and sequence to currently available method books.
Each 1-3 minute tutorial covers a single topic with instrument-specific techniques modeled by instrument specialists. Individual tutorials are customized for each of the 16 primary concert band and string instruments so you can personalize each student’s learning. In addition, all tutorials are sequentially ordered into their Fundamentals of Music Mastery Online Methods so you can assign instrument-specific tutorials to entire ensembles.
Professional Learning
View sessions from Practicing Musician's 2021 Symposium for Concert Band and Orchestra Teachers
Comments
Though not openly licensed, content is available for free online access and many resources may be downloaded for offline use.
Downloadable resources like sheeet music are either in the public domain or are original compositions by musician educators that are used with permission.
In order to use the online platform, educators must create a free educator account. Educators then create student accounts and personalize assignments.
The platform is supported in part by sales from their online store (shirts, mugs, other Practicing Musician branded swag,
Attribution and License
Attribution
- Practicing Musician logo and Purpose of Website text by Practicing Musician. Used pursuant to fair use.
License
Except where otherwise noted, this online platform guidance document by Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. All logos and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Sections used under fair use doctrine (17 U.S.C. § 107) are marked.
This resource contain links to websites operated by third parties. These links are provided for your convenience only and do not constitute or imply any endorsement or monitoring by OSPI. Please confirm the license status of any third-party resources and understand their terms before use.