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Here are some awesome sites to play music games!
San Fransisco Kids ~ Great site for K-4, to simply play with music! Learn all about notes, rhythm, and even write a simple song!

New York Philharmonic Orchestra ~ Great for 3-6! Includes information on every instrument, tons of games, and even includes a Music Quest that sends you on a scavenger hunt to find clues to learn how to play an instrument! Awesome site!

Virtual Keyboard Playground ~ Digital versions of vintage beat and keyboard synthesizers

Music Quizes and Piano Lessons ~ This site has a flash piano, on which you can learn simple songs, and play right on your computer! It also has games and quizes on music notes, dynamics, and theory!

Shark Note Game ~ Catch the correct music notes as they drop! This site has resources on composers and music in general!

Soundation Studio ~ Fantastic looping site for older students! Very easy to use, and makes great sounding beats. Here is a couple samples that Mrs. Holkup created on Soundation: media type="custom" key="8039440""Uppity" media type="custom" key="8039466" "Last Attempt"

You can create a free account to save your compositions on, or pay a small membership fee to be able to publish your files for everyone to hear!

Aviary Compositions Site ~ Create simple or complex beats with this beat machine

JamStudio ~ Create a song with chords: guitar, piano, drums, bass, vocals, etc. can be added to create backgrounds to a song you wrote, or just great a beat to jam to! A limited membership is free, and allows you to save your compositions. Check out videos that other musicians have made! 

Moodstream ~ Mood Machine that modifies the style/feel of music, pictures, and video, based on what mood you set the dial on. This site started out as a research experiment, and has become a big deal!

Drum-Machine ~ Create simple beats with the virtual beat creator!

[]​ ~ F<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; overflow: hidden;">ree Music Notation Program called Musescore. It has some kinks to it, and is not as complex as some of the more expensive notation programs, but older students should be able to navigate and write their own original compositions. You can write for one instrument, or many! You can also write vocal music, and type in the lyrics. When printed, this looks like professionally printed music. I would not recommend this program for elementary students.

This is a little turntable site for aspiring DJs. You can upload any mp3 from your computer to "spin" with. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; overflow: hidden;">media type="custom" key="8044766"