Amy M. Burns

Elementary Music Technology and Integration

Amy M. Burns has taught PreK-grade 4 general music for over 25 years at Far Hills Country Day School (FH) (https://www.fhcds.org/). She also teaches grade 5 instrumental class, directs the FH Modern Band, is the Performing Arts Department Manager, and teaches privately in the after-school conservatory, having served as director for over 20 years. She has authored four books and numerous articles on integrating technology into the elementary music classroom. She has presented many sessions on the topic, including four keynote addresses in TX, IN, St. Maarten, and AU. She is the recipient of the 2005 Technology in Music Education (TI:ME) Teacher of the Year, the 2016 New Jersey Music Educators Association (NJMEA) Master Music Teacher, the 2016 Governor’s Leader in Arts Education, the 2017 NJ Nonpublic School Teacher of the Year, and the 2026 NJMEA Distinguished Service Awards. Her most recent publication, Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches (2020), is available from Oxford University Press (OUP) and Amazon. Burns is also the Community Coordinator for Midnight Music (MMC) at https://midnightmusic.com/, the General Music Chair for NJMEA Board of Directors, and the Elementary Music Consultant for MusicFirst (https://www.musicfirst.com/), a company built by music educators for music educators, dedicated to helping music teachers and their students make the most of technology in the classroom.

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#techtiptuesday Transpose | Pitch Shifter - Browser Extension

July 30, 2024  /  Amy M. Burns

Have you ever been on YouTube and wished you could change not only the speed of the video but the pitch as well so that the song could play in a key that fits your students’ voices or instruments better? If the answer is yes, then look no further than the Transpose | Pitch Shifter - Browser Extension (Transpose ▲▼ pitch ▹ speed ▹ loop).

This extension can do the following:

  • Transpose the key of the video so you can have the song played in a key that is more appropriate for your students.

  • Change the pitch so that if you are working with beginner saxophonists, you can detune the video so that it will sound like it is tuned to your beginner instrumentalists.

  • Alter the tempo.

  • Set markers to loop certain sections for students to practice.

Need to download the new key and tempo so you can use it without internet access?

It does not have that function. However, a screen recording tool would allow you to screen record it with the new tempo and key, and allow you to save it to your hard drive.

Coming Soon!


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