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SessionUp

Exodus Music is proud to provide SessionUp as our all-in-one teaching and learning-management platform.

Whether you’re teaching in person or remotely, SessionUp makes it easy to manage schedules, share learning materials, create assignments, communicate with students and families, and deliver an engaging, organized experience.

Features:

  • Central web-based instructor portal
  • Lesson scheduling, rescheduling, banking, and make-up requests
  • Attendance and session-status tracking
  • Virtual-lesson links and structured courses
  • Learning Library for videos, links, documents, images, and practice materials
  • Assignments with due dates, attachments, completion tracking, reminders, and notifications
  • Student and parent/guardian account access with alerts
  • Direct and broadcast communication by email and SMS

Instructor access to particular tools may vary according to assigned permissions.

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Logic Pro X in Music Education

Discover how music educators use Logic Pro for notation, practice tracks, composition, assessment, and hybrid learning tools.

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IMEA PD Sessions

Download materials and explore resources from our Idaho Music Educators Association professional development sessions and jazz education workshops.

PD Materials

Music Education Tools

This is a curated master list of tools, links, and media for music educators of all levels. This list will continue to grow and may be broken into categories over time - check out the student resource page for even more tools! 

🎯 Essential Tools

🎷 Instrument Petting Zoo (New to Band?)

 Explore beginner instruments

📖 Habits of a Successful Beginner Band Musician

 Access GIA Media Hub for play-along videos and recordings

🧾 Fingering Charts (Coming Soon!)

  • Violin
  • Viola
  • Cello
  • Bass
  • Flute
  • Oboe
  • Bassoon
  • Bb Clarinet
  • Bass Clarinet
  • Alto, Tenor, Bari Saxophone
  • Bb Trumpet
  • French Horn – Single & Double
  • Trombone
  • Euphonium/Baritone BC & TC
  • Bb, Eb Tuba (BC/TC)
  • Electric Bass
  • Mallet Percussion
  • Snare & Accessory Percussion
  • Transposing Instrument Chart

🥁 Percussion Resources

📘 Music Theory & Ear Training

🎼 Notation & Composition Tools

🎧 Play-Along & Practice Tools

📚 Additional Software & Platforms

  • Concert Bb (A#) ≈ 233 Hz
  • Concert F ≈ 349 Hz
  • Concert A ≈ 440 Hz
  • Brass: Concert Bb and F
  • Woodwinds: Concert A
  • Strings: Concert A


  • Larghissimo-Grave (Under ~40 BPM): extremely slow, weighty, and solemn
  • Largo-Larghetto-Lento (~40–66 BPM): slow, broad, and sustained
  • Adagissimo-Adagio-Adagietto (~46–80 BPM): very slow to expressive and flowing
  • Andante-Andantino-Andante Moderato (~56–108 BPM): walking pace to moderately flowing
  • Moderato-Marcia Moderato (~66–120 BPM): moderate, steady, and controlled
  • Allegretto-Allegro Moderato-Allegro-Molto Allegro (~112–156 BPM): moderately fast to bright and energetic
  • Vivace-Vivacissimo-Allegrissimo (~156–176 BPM): lively, brilliant, and very fast
  • Presto-Prestissimo (168+ BPM): extremely fast to fastest possible
  • Molto - very, much
  • Meno - less
  • Più - more
  • Assai - very, quite, considerably
  • Non Troppo - not excessively
  • -etto / -ietto - slightly less or somewhat smaller version of the term
  • -issimo - extremely or intensely
  • Mosso - motion or movement
  • Maestoso - majestic, stately
  • Cantabile - singing, lyrical style
  • Con Moto - with motion
  • Animato - animated, spirited
  • Sostenuto -sustained, supported


Try learning your first "open" chords in this order:
E Major, A Minor, C Major, G7, F Major, D7

C7, C9, C13 and similar are often interchangeable (9 and 13 are color tones often used on Dominant 7th Chords)

Hunt these down in the widget for 6th and 5th String Rooted Voicings:

  • C7(add13) - Voicing 5
  • C9 - Voicing 2