Our first concert in the fall is scheduled for Wednesday, November 16 at 7:00pm. Students should arrive by 6:15pm and 5th grade songs can be downloaded here.

Practice Records are available here. (This is the DMS version that asks for 100 minutes/week, Hahn students only need to get to 60 minutes per week)

Listen to or play along with some concert songs:
Fancy Fiddles - Eureka - American Gaelic

Visit the Music Animation Machine website for a free copy of the program Mr. Marttila uses to animate music. The site also has free midi files you can use to animate or you can explore other free midi files to animate. This YouTube account (smalin) has many high quality animations using live musicians rather than just midi files. The YouTube user WizardWalk also has many fine animations.

Mr. Marttila spent some time this summer finding other great free music software that we will be using at school and you can also use on a home computer:

MuseScore is a free and easy to use notation program, similar to Finale Notepad, that allows you to write music and print it out.

Kristal Audio Engine is a multi-track recorder that will allow you to record yourself practicing. Listening to yourself can be be painful the first time, but it is the best way to clearly hear what you need to improve your playing.

• If you need help reading notes, then use the Clef Reading exercises.
  (Be sure to click on your clef, and the "Note Names" button before you start)
• If you want to try your hand at dictating rhythms, then try the Rhythmic Dictation exercises.
• If you need help identifying key signatures then try the Key Signature Identification exercises.