Yesterday, I had the pleasure of sitting through a demo of Music First. Robin Hudson, one of the founders/developers of this system, showed us this web/cloud based system of resources, applications and tools to teach music to students in K-12 age groups. I could see it being of interest not only for a school system but also for private music teachers who want to give their students opportunites to practice more effectively and to create music.
https://www.musicfirst.com/ was discussed by Hudson as a learning management system for Music teachers. His claim that it is better than other learning management systems may be true for the functions it currently holds: repositories of musical content (the umbrella company, Music Sales Group, owns rights to a lot of music), practice videos, the ability to record your own practices right on the web site for review, comments and grades, including a red note green note system, a grade book, and multiple web-based applications that help children explore the world of music.
Some of these applications are Groovy Music for exploration and composing through visual elements, Morton Subotnick's Music Academy for music composition based on hand movement or drawing, and O-Generator for older children composing music.
The company is not quite one year old -- it is going to be interesting what this international collection of music production experts will bring together.
One point Hudson reminded us of was that traditional jobs in music are scarce but that the future is going to bring thousands of jobs in Music production and technology that we do not even know exist yet -- so for us to stay committed to a traditional approach of studying music may make it for students more difficult to explore unconventional music options.
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