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The
public school was offering free instruments and free band lessons to go
along
with it, thus started my music education in fouth grade. Let me say right
here and
now that they never once though about teaching me sight singing as a
separate
skill. I loved to listen to music. We had a little record
player with
45 rpm records. Sleeping Beauty was one of my favorites along
with a
gospel quartet singing Heavenly Sun Shine! Then there was the
choir at
church, I loved to hear them sing, but when I joined... the
instructions
were... "When the notes go up just sing higher and when they go
down
just sing lower and listen to the person next to you and sing what they
sing!" Quite the unusual sight singing tip huh? Very mystical
if you ask me. Back then I don't know if any other chuch had a graded choir program but ours didn't. Needless
to say this "mystical" approach didn't really work all that
well. So on to college where traditional teaching didn't do much
better. The "Here's the music take it home and learn it, play it
on
the piano." Method didn't help. Have you ever been told to
play the first note on the piano then sing it and the next one then
check
yourself to see if you got it right? It did't work did it?
I am
embarrassed to say that when I finished college I didn't really know
how to
sight sing. Going to the piano, playing the note, and trying to
sing the
next one then checking to see if it was right just did not cut the
mustard. "God help me to teach these children to sing or I am going to quit!" Miraculously I was introduced to the Kodály Method of teaching. This brings up two important points about this teaching. 1.
The
teaching method took very incrementally
small yet intense steps which
allowed
the student to be successful with every effort. 2.
The
musical elements were learned from songs, not some exercise!
Exercises do come later but they are planned,
developmental and sequential.
How about you, are you responsible for the music education of others? Are you a Choir Director, a Choir Member, a Teacher or a Student? How are you doing? Are you stumped as to how to help others improve their abilities? Let’s
work together on it. Do
you
have a plan? Every leader, Choir
Director, Teacher, Student should have a systematic plan so they know
where
they have been and where they need to go. With our
interactive "Sight
Singing Instructions" website
If you go to
the sign up page by clicking "Ok, Victor I am ready to start" you will
be given four choices.
In my first year of teaching when it came time for
my
first
concert, I was
physically ill because I knew the children were not
as
good as they
could
be. The complements were polite, “The choir did well, and they sounded good.” “You did a good job with the choir.” But I knew the truth, there was something missing, they could be better. The school had been using a curriculum which required crayons, scissors, glue and more. The students spent more time chasing the crayons that rolled off the slanted desks then they did singing! The fifth grade students had been taught back in the lower grades about a “whole note,” a “half note,” a “dirty faced quarter note,” (he fell into the smoke stack of a choo, choo train) and a “baby eighth note.” So I placed a whole note on the board and asked: · Question: “What is it?” · Answer: It is a whole note. · Question: How many counts does it get? · Answer: What do you mean? · Question: How many beats does it get? · Answer: huh? · Question: Can anyone sing a whole note for me? · Answer: No! Can you see the dilemma? Ok so get the picture, this is a private school and
most of
the students had
attended since first grade. But there
was one student who transferred in. So
one day while talking about the different voices we have like, fry,
chest,
head, falsetto and whistle, this student raises her hand and says... I
knew that was not an ordinary lay, volunteer teacher saying
this so I did
some research. Now it
is
time for me to
pass on what I learned that took my choirs to first place in
the state
finals each year from then on! If you go to the sign up page by clicking
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One day for $8.00 Five days for $25.00 One month for $47.00 Three months for $97.00 (best Value) After signing up once you may sign up again by returning here. There will be no automatic renewals. With our
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Singing Instructions" website
you can grow in your musicianship starting now!
Now it is your turn to do
your
research and join us in
learning how to sight
sing!
One obstacle that I though was in my way was my lack of the ability to play the piano. I had never learned to play the piano well enough to do it in public I am a trombonest. I was never able to accompany a choir. So seemingly this made rehearsal more difficult especially for the students who were use to having the music played for them. So I had to explain to the students how important it is for the choir, an ensemble or an individual doing a solo to be strong and not to be depending on a piano. What if the pianist made a mistake? Would you then loose your place and not be able to continue without stopping and starting over? What if the piano was out of tune?
If
we practice a cappella we will be stronger and able to know for sure
that we
are doing it right, and that is what we did. ·
You
don’t need a piano ·
Confidence comes when you
know you
are right ·
Let the piano be an
accompaniment
not a crutch · We enjoy music more when we understand it better and are able to perform with excellence But Things Began To Change When... So one of the most amazing things that happened was I got hold of this amazingly incremental choral method. One book had over 300 exercises in it. By using what I knew to be accurate I sang through 100 of these sight singing exercises each night. When I finished in three days, I knew I could sight sing and I knew I had one tool that would help my students. I took these sight singing exercises to the students, we
sang them together
and this
helped them to be able to sight sing their choir songs.
In
fact it came to the point where I let them look at the music for
several weeks while I did something else in class. Some music
they took home but some they only saw in class. They were
instructed for home use not to use an instrument except to get the
first note.
When we did finally get to sing these songs for the first time, they
were almost
perfect! As the students began to sing and realized that they
could
sound like the If you go to
the sign up page by clicking "Sight Singing Instructions" you will be
given four choices.
Then
the compliments became, “You’re a perfectionist; the
choir sounds like the Vienna Boys’ Choir.”One day for $8.00 Five days for $25.00 One month for $47.00 Three months for $97.00 (best Value) After signing up once you may sign up again by returning here. There will be no automatic renewals.
So why not help others? We are not trying to make super stars here. We only want to understand music a little better so we can bless others with the best quality music we love.
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Successfully used tools from your website for my first lesson with K
-2. I was amazed at how the kids responded. I look forward to using them
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tools! These Sight
Singing
Lessons are Designed with the Goal
of Helping Singers Become the Best Musicians They Can Be... We do this to improve our musicianship... This will save time in rehearsals because choir members will not need to lean on the piano to play it for them... Learning to sight sing takes the "Mysteriousness" or the "Nebulousness" out of singing.... Once you reach a certain level you will have the confidence to help others... Imagine how you will feel (no fear) when you go back to
music
class or choir
and can actually ask an intelligent question or you are able to answer
your
leader’s questions accurately! What Can This Information Do For You? Putting together a product of this magnitude requires a huge commitment, as you might have guessed. But we believe this course will give you the solution to reading music! You will:
And I know this information will SAVE you in many ways…
By now I hope you understand the power of what this information can mean for you and your choirs. But there are definitely some people who should NOT buy this course...
The Bottom Line... I have looked all over the Internet and there are really no other courses that contain the kind of information that you will be getting here. There is nothing comparable out there on the net. Yes there are sight singing courses but they are geared for the advanced student or they are heavy into subject logic traditional methods. If you had to find this information on your own it could cost you thousands of dollars for tuition fees, registration fees, travel, and room and board. Colleges are expensive. If you had to find this information on your own you probably would not be able to find it without going to college. If you had to find this information on your own you could spend years looking and never find it because you wouldn’t know what to look for... What is the difference between traditional, subject logic and developmental sequential learning? But you don't have to worry, because we are bringing it to you in incrementally small and successful size step so that you can succeed. So, I want to make this information affordable, because it represents a way to worship God. It represents a way that you and your students can take more control over the rehearsals So,
we are offering a rather
outrageous So now you have heard my story…but not the last part. This interactive website is a work in progress. You will have our support via, free upgrades, free webinars and a low cost member’s area for continuing support. It was most embarrassing when as a new college graduate I stood before a choir and could not answer the question, “Why should we learn Solfege?” Especially since I was unable to sight sing very well myself! Now that I have found this non-traditional method of learning and teaching I am not only prepared to give an answer but I am also able to make sure that my choir members or students are able to improve their inner musicianship and to walk away inspired by their own achievements. Don’t get the wrong impression; I am not a
super star. I am only
a farm boy who found out that music is not as nebulous as it first
seems to be.
Music is a precise art and can be learned by anyone willing
to put
in the time.
Our teaching will involve a developmental sequence. Children, while playing will walk and run so we start with walking quarter notes and running eighth notes. Children all over the world have a common melodic phrase in which they use the un-tuned minor third. Have you ever heard Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, Billy has a girl friend? Can you hear the music too? Can you write down the music? Or how about , "Johnny is a sissy"? Or how about "I am bigger than you are"? Can you write down the music? This is where sight singing instructions will come in handy. Music lessons plans will include games where the children can walk the beat or run around the circle. Every children's church choir discipline plan should include having fun with games! At singing instructions you will be able to learn the song by listening. With our listening to music lesson plans we don't just give you an excerpt from some famous piece in musical notation form and expect you to sing it because you know the note names and the matching keys on the piano. After teaching by singing for you five or six songs with the new musical element in them we will show you what it looks like on paper and then give you a piece to perform without us singing it first. By the time you get this new piece you should be familiar with every musical element in the piece so that you are able to hear it in your inner hearing and then sing it yourself without someone else singing it for you.
We really must
give up the traditional 'Take
it home and learn it' way of thinking.
One of
the rules for choir
rehearsal should be
that you learn the song in rehearsals and practice it at
home. Actually,
learning during the lesson so you can practice at home what you learned
in the
lesson is the best way to learn. When learning our mother tongue
we first
listened as we were spoken to by our parents, siblings and
others. So at
singing instruction you can listen as often as you can press the replay
button. Then after adequate preparation you will be able to take
on the
completely new piece and hear and sing it like as if you have known it
for
years. So what do you actually study when you
take the course?
1.
We divide the teaching
between rhythm and pitch a.
With rhythm, we start with
demonstrating and controlling the
beat. b.
With pitch, we start with
distinguishing between high and
low. 2.
Once we have learned some
songs we use the first phrases of the songs to derive the rhythm
patterns. a.
First learning to say the rhythm
duration syllables then
learning to write the rhythm with musical short hand. 3.
At the same time after
learning some songs, we begin to derive the pitches. a.
First, we write them in solfege
then we learn how to write
the pitches and the rhythm on the staff. 4.
At first, the songs are
only two note songs – Sol and Mi songs. a.
This means we are learning the
interval of a minor third 5.
Then we move to three note
songs so the intervals increase from the minor third to the major
second and
the perfect fourth. a.
This introduces us to the
trichord within the pentatonic
scale. b.
We begin to use this to practice
singing and naming intervals
tonally and atonally. c.
Using solfege and absolute letter
name
i.
Using absolute letter names is
much like using fixed “Do” d.
In addition, as we are putting
the notes on the staff we are
moving from the key of C major to the key of F Major. 6.
Also we are moving to ad
songs with “Do” a.
So now, we move from the trichord
to the tetrachord. (four notes) 7.
Next we ad the fifth note
and use the entire pentatonic scale. 8.
From there it is on to the
diatonic scales, two part-singing and dictation etc.
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Warmly, Victor King P.S. - Everything You Need To Learn About
Sight Singing Is Here!...What Are You P.S.S.S. You will also need to have Larry Ford and J. D. Sumner
Robert Shaw Choral singing the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah St. Thomas Boys Choir (Thomanerchor) St. Thomas Choir (Thomanerchor) singing Matthäuspassion King's Singers Down To The River To Pray Handel: And the glory of the Lord (Messiah, HWV 56) Mozart, Symphony No. 40 in G minor, first movement Bach, Contrapunctus 9, Art of Fugue (Kunst der Fuge) Bach, Air on the G string (Air on a G string, string orchestra) Beethoven - Für Elise (fur Elise, piano solo) Händel: For unto us a child is born Händel: Why do the nations so furiously rage together (Messiah, HWV 56) Stille Nacht (Silent Night ) |
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