Sight Singing Your Way to Musical Literacy
How many online sight-singing lessons have you found? The ones that are there usually try the subject logic approach or they are talking about playing an instrument such as a piano. Did you know that we all should start to sight sing before we pick up an instrument?
What we need is for someone not just to tell us how but instead, we need someone who is going to teach us how by doing it with us. We need someone who can break each step down into small achievable goals. If we could hear examples and sing with the example then we could learn.
Do you know how to sing the melody? What about a harmony part like alto, tenor or bass? Good vocal training is training that helps us to be able to read the music so we can sing a part other than the melody. Amazingly enough, in order for one to sing intervals accurately, one must hear harmonically, but this does not mean that we need to practice dry interval dictation. Interval learning can be fun!
Sectionals will go much smoother or be eliminated altogether if choir members could sight sing, Just think how much time that would save, when we the choir members can actually sight sing our parts without having to have it played for us on the piano.
Even if the choir director would sing it for the choir, it would save time by not needing sectionals and by not needing the piano for support. The Voice is better support for the voice than a piano. In one sense, the piano is quicker but in reality, it is much slower than if everyone knew how to sing on sight because leaning on the piano continues to perpetrate the incompetence of the choir members.
If we are going to learn, then we have to set aside a time each day to discover something new about music and to review previous musical elements. What we need is someone that teaches in the lesson and not one that says, "Take it home and learn it." Each lesson should build on the preceding one.
When we need to learn new elements, we can revisit some of the familiar songs that we learned earlier or we can learn new songs. Everyone can learn to sing in the same way that we learned to talk. The whole process in a capsule is to hear first, then sing, then understand, then read, then write and finally create!
Have you ever met someone who was told that they could not sing? Because it just is not true. I hope your teacher or choir leader has never asked you, not to sing. How could they know more than God, who commands us to sing! It really is just a matter of learning to control our own voice. If one can talk then one can sing.
Singing is for everyone, even the instrumentalist, the blind and the deaf! Online sight singing lessons are possible and anybody can learn to sing over the internet. All you need to do is participate! How vital is music to you? If you are a teacher who wants to teach music successfully - you can! If you are a student who wants to learn to sight sing music, be musically literate and sing beautifully - you can. - 18780
What we need is for someone not just to tell us how but instead, we need someone who is going to teach us how by doing it with us. We need someone who can break each step down into small achievable goals. If we could hear examples and sing with the example then we could learn.
Do you know how to sing the melody? What about a harmony part like alto, tenor or bass? Good vocal training is training that helps us to be able to read the music so we can sing a part other than the melody. Amazingly enough, in order for one to sing intervals accurately, one must hear harmonically, but this does not mean that we need to practice dry interval dictation. Interval learning can be fun!
Sectionals will go much smoother or be eliminated altogether if choir members could sight sing, Just think how much time that would save, when we the choir members can actually sight sing our parts without having to have it played for us on the piano.
Even if the choir director would sing it for the choir, it would save time by not needing sectionals and by not needing the piano for support. The Voice is better support for the voice than a piano. In one sense, the piano is quicker but in reality, it is much slower than if everyone knew how to sing on sight because leaning on the piano continues to perpetrate the incompetence of the choir members.
If we are going to learn, then we have to set aside a time each day to discover something new about music and to review previous musical elements. What we need is someone that teaches in the lesson and not one that says, "Take it home and learn it." Each lesson should build on the preceding one.
When we need to learn new elements, we can revisit some of the familiar songs that we learned earlier or we can learn new songs. Everyone can learn to sing in the same way that we learned to talk. The whole process in a capsule is to hear first, then sing, then understand, then read, then write and finally create!
Have you ever met someone who was told that they could not sing? Because it just is not true. I hope your teacher or choir leader has never asked you, not to sing. How could they know more than God, who commands us to sing! It really is just a matter of learning to control our own voice. If one can talk then one can sing.
Singing is for everyone, even the instrumentalist, the blind and the deaf! Online sight singing lessons are possible and anybody can learn to sing over the internet. All you need to do is participate! How vital is music to you? If you are a teacher who wants to teach music successfully - you can! If you are a student who wants to learn to sight sing music, be musically literate and sing beautifully - you can. - 18780
About the Author:
Victor King is an expert at teaching sight singing . Victor has a B.Mus. from Philadelphia College of Bible and is now offering his expertise to help you improve your sight singing and inner musicianship. For a FREE six part mini course on musical literacy go to sight singing instructions.
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