Apps to Support the Integrated Nature of Learning Music

Using Digital Learning Technologies in Junior Cycle Music

Creating & Exploring Participating & Music Making Appraising & Responding

Students perform as a method of demonstrating Develops students’ understanding of how music is Develops students’ aural skills of analysis, comparison their understanding of music through created through experimenting, improvising, and evaluation of music through critiquing, communicating fluency, technical control, understanding and searching reproducing, justifying opinions, informing decisions, rehearsing, revising, refining and interpreting expressing feelings and refining performance

Loopy HD iReal Pro Interactive, play along chord charts Clapping A game that improves your rhythm Create music by recording, looping with changeable styles, Music by challenging you to play Steve and layering inputted tracks transposition, practise loops Reich’s Clapping Music (iOS) Practise with accompaniment (iOS) (iOS/Android) Music Memos Smule Social karaoke singing app which Sound Capture song ideas by recording Produce beat patterns through enables a cappella, solo or group Rebound voice or instrument using iPhone or colour and sound by orchestrating singing in a gamified recording external microphone bumps and bounces and ricochets studio (iOS) (iOS) (iOS/Android) Clapping NomadPlay Young Persons Create rhythms inspired by the Play along with an orchestra! Engage with Benjamin Britten’s Music Guide to the game challenging them to play Choose your instrument, adjust the work through illustrations, games, Orchestra Steve Reich’s Clapping Music rhythm, loop, annotate sheet music quizzes, score, narration and more (iOS) (Android/iOS) (iPad only)

GrooveMaker Acapella Staff Wars A game that helps students to Create music by recording, looping Students can record, synchronise, practise and identify the note and layering inputted tracks collaborate and share songs names of the treble, alto and bass (iOS/Android) (iOS) clefs (iOS/Android)

www.jct.ie @JctMusicEdu Incredibox Anytune Students can learn, transcribe and Capo Touch Analyses songs from audio files (key, Create music by dragging and practise by slowing down the time signature & and creates chord dropping icons into the avatars tempo, adjusting the pitch and tabs). A great tool for ear training (iOS/Android) repeating loops (iOS/Android) (iOS/Android) LaunchPad Amazing Slow Students can learn new songs and Spotify A digital music, podcast, and video Create a piece of music by remixing Downer Lite techniques by slowing down the streaming service that gives access samples song, changing the key and setting to artists worldwide (iOS) up loops to play along to (iOS/Android) (iOS/Android) Loopseque Ultimate Chord resource for PlayIrish Create music by moving quickly Lite Guitar guitar/bass/piano thar has tutorials A radio player aimed at giving Irish between patterns and arrange embedded for how to play the music more airplay compositions chords/strum patterns. (iOS/Android) (iOS) (iOS/Android) Real Superpads Edpuzzle Edpuzzle allows you to engage every Percussion Create music and experience student, one video at a time. The Create and perform to beats percussion instruments process is simple - find a video, add (iOS/Android) (iOS/Android) questions and assign it to your class (iOS/Android) Tenuto Metronaut Tailor-made musical Flipgrid Allows for video discussion. Pose Tenuto is a collection of 20 highly accompaniment app for classical questions called "topics", and customisable exercises designed to musicians. Control the tempo and students post responses using any enhance your musicality transpose pieces to suit all levels camera-enabled device (iOS) (iOS) (iOS/Android) GroovePad Add Music to Air Conductor Become the conductor of an Beat-making app to explore and Record voice and this app allows Voice orchestra with this app which turns create in almost any genre from you to select and add backing music your phone into a virtual dubstep to hip hop to the recording conductor’s baton (Android) (Android) (iOS/Android) Groovebox ChoirPlayer Hundreds of ready-to-use choir MSO Learn Discover orchestral families with the Music studio app with synth and arrangements, adjust each voice Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s drum machines and backing track part, slow down MSO Learn app (iOS) songs, cycle and loop sections (iOS/Android) (iOS /Android)