Music Technology Tips for Teachers

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A growing group of videos to help you make effective resources for your classroom.

Originally published June 4, 2022
Latest Update August 10, 2026

Explore top music technology tips for teachers, featuring lesson plans & tutorials for Google’s Paint with Music, Eduaide AI, Noteflight, and iMovie.

How can you use technology to differentiate instruction?

  • Differentiate by manipulating text and images through
    • highlighting
    • enlarging
    • separating
    • colorizing
    • bordering inside shapes

This helps ALL students stay focused but especially helps those with challenges.

Great Websites’ Music Technology Tips

Using AI Artificial Intelligence

Eduaide.Ai is worth a look!

4Four (Rhythm Learning)

Wow, what a site! It’s unassuming but offers rhythm practice in many different methodologies. You do not need to log in to use it but here are some terms of use and interesting info you might want to read.

Here’s one game.

Paint With Music

I didn’t think I could love something more than Chrome Music Lab but this Google Arts and Culture feature, Paint With Music, is FANTASTIC. Here’s my tutorial and how you can teach melodic direction, rhythm, tone color, harmony, vocal exploration, texture, and so much more!

iMovie

Syncing Lyrics With Audio for Beginners

PowerPoint

Adding Custom Instrument Visuals

Check It Out!
🎯 This easy-to-use digital tool lets you design and download barred instrument visuals for your elementary music classroom. FREE!

Custom Line Spacing

Change Cursor/Pointer Size & Color

Finding Folders Faster (on a Mac) with Add to Sidebar

Noteflight

Getting Started, Input of Notes, Rhythm, Melody, Key, Meter, Lyrics.

Instrumentation, Formatting & Mixing Panels, pdf/mp3 Downloading, Organization Tips

Chrome Music Lab

Song Maker’s Microphone Function for Vocal Exploration

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