Student Resources
Welcome to the student resources page. I created this page to house numerous apps, worksheets and other online tools & resources. I found and still find many of these resources helpful in my own music studies, practicing & work. I’m sharing them here simply as a means to potentially aid you in your work with me or your own music journey. Take a look at what I’ve organized on this page and please let me know if there’s something you’d like me to develop or anything you think that might be useful for others to use. Thanks and I wish you all the best in your musical journey! Enjoy!
Music Practice / Study Apps
These are my favorite go-to apps for iPhone (and I believe they can be downloaded for other platforms) for practicing sight-reading training, reading chord charts or simply keeping a tempo or taping one out. I’ve also included a tuner app for guitarists or other instruments to tune to.
iReal Pro
Great app for following chord charts to many Jazz and Pop songs. You can create your own or you can download lots of music from online forums. I have a wealth of songs written in chord progression form with this app. It’s also great for playing along to for practicing soloing. It’s a little pricy as apps go at $13.99, but it’s well worth it when you’re using it on gigs. I used to carry so much physical sheet music…now I only carry this to gigs!
Notes Trainer
I use this app almost every day to continue my practicing of Treble Clef & Bass Clef note recognition. If you can’t practice reading music with pieces in front of you, this handy app works like string of flashcards helping you improve your note recognition speed and accuracy. I like it a lot and it has lessons in the app to go through. Oh and I almost forgot…IT’S FREE!!! Kind of a no-brainer for anyone needing to practice sight-reading regularly.
Tempo
This is a very handy app for playing to a metronome click at whatever tempo you set. It also allows you to save playlists of different tempos and tap to find a tempo to a song. I use this a lot for trying to find the BPM (tempo) of songs I’m listening to. It costs $2.99 for the app, but I think it’s well worth it for the capability it offers.
Cleartune
I like this particular app for tuning my Acoustic Guitar, Ukulele, etc. It’s super easy to use and very handy to have in your list of apps. This app is $3.99, but I think it’s a pretty solid app and worth the money for the clean interface and everything it does.
Ps. I’m not getting any commissions by recommending these apps. These are just really handy tools I’ve really utilized over the past number of years. I’m just one musician trying to help out another fellow musician!
Worksheets
Below are some of the essential worksheets I give all my students. This is going to be a sort of “catch-all” place for me to send people to get the basic PDF’s to various things we’ll work on with regard to scales, music theory, chords/harmony, progressions and the like. I’ll do my best to organize these in intuitive categories here, but don’t hesitate to contact me directly if you have questions about any of the worksheets or don’t see what you’re looking for. I’m continually adding and updating these elements for clarity and accessibility to make practicing and studying this information better and better. Thanks for your help in helping me create stellar elements that I hope to one day create a book or online course out of!
Scales
[Materials Coming Soon]
Piano Scale Encyclopedia (fingers & diagrams)
Online Piano Scale Generator (doesn’t show fingerings though)
Chords/Harmony
[Materials Coming Soon]
Chord Progressions
[Materials Coming Soon]
Note Names & Gen. Theory
[Materials Coming Soon]
Improvisation
[Materials Coming Soon]
Other Resources
[Materials Coming Soon]
Circle of 5ths
Major Cosmic Sheet
Minor Cosmic Sheet