Some of the more useful musical places on the internet (please see our notice below)

Children - Always get permission before downloading anything from the

internet or installing on to a home computer

	Mann's Music of Colchester - for over 150 years Mann's Music has been supplying Colchester's musicians.  This is the link to their extensive online store.
	Mann's Music education supply website - this site only supplies  bona fide educational establishments.  They have supplied all our musical equipment and come highly recommended both in terms of price and service!
	Essex Music Services provide a wealth of musical opportunities around the country, including our tutors!
	Tony Winn - local singer/songwriter and very fine musician.  Tony has worked with several schools in the area providing an exciting songwriting showcase to inspire your children to write their own songs.  Entertaining, great value for money and highly recommended for Upper Key Stage 2.
	Fantastic free audio editing software - no need to spend hundreds of pounds on fancy audio software when Audacity does a great job for free!
	Live Midi Keyboard is a free downloadable midi sound module.  If you have a midi keyboard attached to your computer it transforms it into a fully functioning synthesiser.  We use this for our group keyboard lessons at North.
	The Jazz midi sequencer is another free resource.  A highly flexible midi sequencer.  We use Jazz for our group music technology lessons.
	Music Robot is a great way of finding midi files on the internet.  Please note that Music Robot links to many external sites and we cannot accept any responsibility for the content of these external sites.
	Jack in Year 6 learns to play to the drums at the Back 2 the Beat Drum Academy in Colchester - click here to find out more..
	We use Finale NotePad to notate our compositions.  This is a free download - but you do need to register on their website before downloads are allowed.
	Weapons of Sound!  Weapons of sound is a thriving and successful entertainment act, with a hard working team of professional workshop leaders and polished junk percussionists...  And they came to North on the 17th April for a fantastic day of music making.  Find our more by visiting their website or go to the Year 5/6 page of this website to find out about our continuing adventures in the world of junk music!

Notice:

All the links to external sites from pages northmusic.org.uk have been placed in good faith. Due to the constantly changing nature of the Internet, it is possible that the content of those sites may have changed since they were last checked. This is also true for any links from pages on those sites. Whilst North Primary School has made every effort to ensure the links it recommends are suitable for children, it cannot be held responsible for the content of external sites.