David Getz Creative
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Morton, Illinois, United States
About the store
-Creative Director at Youth Music Illinois (2025-present)
-Conductor of the Central Illinois Youth Symphony (2024-present)
-Orchestra Director at Morton High School (2012-present)
-Founder and Director of the Composers' Guild (2012-present)
-Composer of "Ruth: The Musical" (www.theruthmusical.com)
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Major Scale Warm-Ups (Dynamic Google Sheet)
In this interactive, visually-engaging warmup, you can select any key and it will display the major scale and all of the triads built off of each scale degree. This works great for daily warm-ups and allows for any teacher to personalize it to their specific classroom setting.
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Instrumental Music, Music
Classroom Trivia Game - FULLY CUSTOM MADE Google Sheet (Automatic Scoring)
Need a fun classroom activity that is educational, visually entertaining, and 100% custom made just for you?? All you have to do is download the file, fill out the form (takes 2 minutes!), and I will generate you a fully customized Classroom Trivia Game on a Google Sheet that will automatically keep score, update the leaderboard, and track student answers in real time. The design is simple and easy to operate, and your students will love the challenge of getting all the right answers and scor
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String Fingering Chart (Dynamic Google Sheet)
In this highly interactive, dynamic Google Sheet, you can show your beginning string players how to place their fingers in any key in any position. This Sheet is a tremendous resource for warm-ups and breakout sectionals or practice sessions.
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Instrumental Music, Music
The Tonal Solar System - A Dynamic Google Sheet
Did you know that, in music, harmony functions a lot like the planets in our solar system? Believe it or not, music has gravity, and certain sounds and chords tend to pull your expectations in different ways. In this dynamic Google Sheet, you can see choose the Tonic Pitch and then see how the triads will function in every diatonic key, both major and minor! With images of the planets serving as your guide, you will soon learn all the patterns that exist in our Tonal Solar System. This is a
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Music, Music Composition, Other (Performing Arts)
Animated GIFs - Finger Patterns for C, G, and D Major (Violin/Viola/Cello/Bass)
Are you an Orchestra teacher about to introduce students to key signatures? Use this highly engaging visual GIFs that show the fingers changing on the fingerboard between the basic keys of C, G, and D. This is a perfect resource to post at the beginning of a lesson, or simply to have running in the background during rehearsal. Buy enough licenses so each student can have their own to have as a resource at home!
1st - 8th
Performing Arts
Finger Position Charts - 1st Position - All Strings
These charts will enable the teacher to test their students' ability to: -Identify key signatures -Write scales -Identify finger patterns I use these charts regularly in my classroom. Whenever we are learning a new piece, I hand out these charts and make sure my students know their finger patterns prior to sightreading the music. I also regularly cast these charts onto my SmartBoard and fill in the chart myself to aid the visual learners in my classroom.
4th - 12th
Instrumental Music, Music
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About the store
Experience
-Creative Director at Youth Music Illinois (2025-present)
-Conductor of the Central Illinois Youth Symphony (2024-present)
-Orchestra Director at Morton High School (2012-present)
-Founder and Director of the Composers' Guild (2012-present)
-Composer of "Ruth: The Musical" (www.theruthmusical.com)
Teaching style
My personality is highly creative, so I strive to let my creativity flow into my classroom, and I try to use that to my advantage when it comes to inspiring students. I begin every semester with a performance of something I created/composed/wrote over the break, and I constantly try to push my students to be the most creative individuals they can possibly be. Dostoevsky wrote in his classic novel, The Idiot, that "beauty can save the world," and I believe that the beauty of music, combined with education, can accomplish that goal.
My own education history
High School - Graduated from Morton High School in 2008
College- Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2012 with a degree in Music Education
Graduate - Masters in Music Education (2021) - Illinois State University
Additional biographical information
I am an avid composer. I have premiered five of my pieces with the various orchestras I conduct since 2012, and in 2018 I premiered my first large-scale composition, "Ruth: The Musical," in Morton, IL.
In 2023, I began my personal consulting business where I began helping teachers improve their classroom efficiency with advanced-level Google Slides, Forms, and Sheets methods.
Please check out my website at www.davidgetzcreative.com
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