Free Materials for Teaching Improvisation in the Orchestra

Click HERE to download free music, exercises, patterns, and a backup track to use right away with your middle school, junior high, or high school orchestra. You can get them excited about improvising and help them develop the skills to amp up your concerts with  great improvised solos using very little class time. 

Free Fingering Charts

Get free, innovative fingering charts for almost every band and orchestra instrument. These charts correlate with the StepWise Fingering Flashcards and help your students understand their instrument fast and simple!

Free Music Worksheets

These worksheets will help you drill and assess the most essential elements of music theory - pitch, rhythm, accidentals, key signatures, etc. You can pass them out for use with a pencil, or put them in plastic sheet protectors to use over and over with dry erase markers.

Free Posters

Decorate your music classroom with these high-quality posters. The files are large enough to print at 3' x 3' without losing clarity. Currently I have free Circle of Fourths posters as well as Sound Pyramid posters for band and orchestra, based on the balance concepts of Frances McBeth.

Free Flashcards for Band Instruments

The FULL set of band instrument flashcards costs less than $40, but this Printable Set for beginning Flute, Clarinet, Trumpet, Trombone, and Percussion (Mallets) is FREE. Give it a try and see if your band students would benefit from the full set.