Resources for Music Students

OCC Music social media sites:

• Instagram
• Facebook (OCC music official page)
• OCC Pi Rho Sigma on Facebook (music honor society; send request to join group)​

Popular transfer universities:

• CSU Fullerton School of Music
• CSU Long Beach Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
• San Jose State University School of Music
• CSU East Bay Department of Music
• CSU Northridge Department of Music
• CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Music
• UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts/Music
• UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
• USC Thornton School of Music

Free sheet music and scores:

• IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library (orchestral, instrumental, choral scores)
• Choral Public Domain Library (choral scores free to reproduce and perform)
• World Free Sheet Music
• Mutopia (public-domain music in many genres)
• MusOpen (royalty-free music in many genres)

School and career advice for musicians:

• Preparing to Be a Music Major: 6 Things You Should Expect
• Musicians' Way (lots of useful links for aspiring musicians)
• 5 Essentials of Music Career Success
• Careers in Music
• How to Practice: 5 Essential Habits (PDF)
• Majoring in Music (information on choosing a path, finding programs, scholarships, etc.)
• Jason Haaheim's blog (articles on the mental aspect of a career in music)
• The Savvy Musician
• Ending the "All or Nothing" Approach to a Music Career
• How to Deal When There's Too Much on Your Plate
• Orange County Gig Finder

Help with music theory and musicianship:

• Lightnote (interactive theory lessons)
• Teoria (information, tutorials, exercises)
• Flashnote Derby (app for learning basic music fundamentals)
• SonicFit (theory and ear-training lessons)
• MusicTheory.net

Instrument/discipline-specific sites:

• Singing Voice Success (website of OCC voice instructor Nadia Smelser)
• Vocapedia (resources from the National Association of Teachers of Singing)
• SingTrue (app to help youlearn to sing in tune)
• California Association of Professional Music Teachers (offers student memberships)
• Music Teachers Association of California (offers student memberships)
• The Collaborative Piano Blog
• California Choral Directors' Association (offers student memberships)

Other sites that are interesting or just fun:

• Seeing Music (super-cool site that creates animations from the sounds you make)
• Voice Spinner (create loops of sound....hard to describe, but fun to play with!)
• Composers Doing Normal Sh*t (fabulous photos of composers as you've never seen them)
• Gnoosic (tell it what music you like or hate, and it will suggest new music for you to try)
• Wolfgang's ($3.99/month to stream live concert recordings spanning many decades)
• NPR Music (tons of archived stories and recordings about all kinds of music)

MuseScore (free music notation software)