Beginning Sight-Singing HCNW – Session 1 Taught by Harry Buerer [email protected]503-380-1551 based on material online at www.MrSightSinging.com What is sight-singing? Basically, it's looking at music notation on the printed page, and producing with your voice a representation of that music. It's taking the visual and transferring it to the aural. As such, we need to be familiar with both the visual and aural aspects of it. We'll begin by focusing on the sounds. The major scale is made up of 7 distinct notes (note 8 is the same as note 1, only an octave higher). They can be repeated in different octaves as you go higher or lower. Note #1 is almost always the note that a song ends on, as it conveys a sense of rest and stability. It is also the note that is commonly sounded on a pitch-pipe at the beginning of a song. Let's begin by learning how the notes around it sound. (Sing notes 7, 1, 2, 3, pointed out at random.) Good! Now sing the following sequence in a steady rhythm. Note #1 is here: 1 7 1 2 3 1 2 7 1 3 7 2 1 7 3 2 7 1 Now sing it again with note #1 here. Next we learn to transfer these skills to reading from a music staff. Skills: match pitch, staff, quarter/half notes 1
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503-380-1551based on material online atwww.MrSightSinging.com
What is sight-singing? Basically, it's looking at music notation on the printed page,and producing with your voice a representation of that music. It's taking the visual and transferring it to the aural. As such, we need to be familiar with both the visualand aural aspects of it.
We'll begin by focusing on the sounds. The major scale is made up of 7 distinct notes (note 8 is the same as note 1, only an octave higher). They can be repeated indifferent octaves as you go higher or lower. Note #1 is almost always the note that a song ends on, as it conveys a sense of rest and stability. It is also the note that is commonly sounded on a pitch-pipe at the beginning of a song. Let's begin by learning how the notes around it sound.
(Sing notes 7, 1, 2, 3, pointed out at random.)
Good! Now sing the following sequence in a steady rhythm. Note #1 is here:
1 7 1 2 3 1 2 7 1 3 7 2 1 7 3 2 7 1
Now sing it again with note #1 here.
Next we learn to transfer these skills to reading from a music staff. Skills: match pitch, staff, quarter/half notes