For the past few years, I have counted down to the new year with a top ten list. I begin on 12/23 and end on 1/1. The list is comprised of 10 tech tools or tips for elementary and middle school general music. This top ten list will have a tech tool or tip featured each day in a short video and blog post. When we reach number one, I will follow it with a video of all ten tools and tips. Therefore, you can follow me daily, or come back on New Year’s Day and catch all ten at once.
WHO AM I?
If you are new to this YouTube channel or my website or my buymeacoffee site, my name is Amy M. Burns and I have been teaching and integrating technology into the elementary music classroom for over 25 years at Far Hills Country Day School, a preschool through grade 8 private school in NJ. For the past two years, I have also worked for Katie Wardrobe in her Midnight Music Community as the Community Coordinator answering questions and giving out tech tips to the community. Finally, I am an author and clinician with four publications. My recent publication titled Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches is published by Oxford University Press and can be purchased from OUP or Amazon today.
Each week on this website and my YouTube channel I post a play-along video, resource video, or a webisode about integrating technology into the music classroom. Please subscribe and click like to the video so that you can get weekly notifications about resources you can immediately use in your classroom. I am also working on my Teachers Pay Teachers page, but currently, it holds many free items. I hope to get that going more in 2023. If you like my resources, please consider buying me a coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/elmusedtech
#7 Vocal Remover
Many of my favorite music educators from Katie Wardrobe to Jim Frankel have spoken highly of the free website, https://vocalremover.org/ created by Melnik Dmitry. This site can do so many things that you need for your music classroom, and it can do it for free on various devices because it is web-based. You are not required to login to use this, but if you become a patron, you will be able to use the website often.
Remove Vocals
Truly amazing! You can remove vocals in these easy steps:
Click on “Browse my files”
Find your file
I used a Swiftie song and it worked.
When finished, you can save it and it will download to your device (or you can probably save it to your drive).
One tip: If you are not a patron, and you use this too much at one time, you will get a warning that reads “Too many requests from your IP address. Please try again later or become a patron.”
Splitter
The splitter splits music into separated parts with AI-Powered algorithms.
Click on “Browse my files”
Find your file
I used an American Authors’s song to take out the guitar track so that a student could play along with the other tracks. It worked well.
When finished, you can save it and it will download to your device (or you can probably save it to your drive).
Other items:
Pitcher - Changes pitch and tempo of the song by adjusting musical key and bpm sliders
Cutter - Free editor to trim and cut any audio file online
Joiner - Join multiple audio tracks into one. Choose the audio files you want to merge
Recorder - Record yourself and download the recording.
Karaoke - Sing and record, tune voice, and save the complete song. Choose a karaoke track you want to sing with.
Key BPM Finder - Analyzes music and finds Key, Scale, and BPM for any song
Amazing free site! However, it will limit you greatly unless you become a monthly patron. I did give a one time donation since this site is so helpful.
COME BACK TOMORROW FOR TECH TOOL OR TIP #6!
Check back tomorrow for tech tool or tip #6!