Blossom asked:


i have a question about the following.

I have an Choir audition coming up in the next two or three weeks and I was wondering what these elements are.

first sight sing- i know it has to do with notes and the different pitches. i have just discovered them like two days ago and don’t know if im suppose to memories them and during the audition (if hes going to play a note and i just tell him? or am i really so post to sing it or do hand signals? and if its singing do i say do ra mi or c d e? and i any tips on how to better my voice would help too.

tone memory- i really don’t know what this is, but I’m guessing that you Just memorize a tone but of what? a song im going to sing or a note?

completely clueless on this.

this is my first time i am trying out for choir in three years. please help me. this is for high school so what scale should i urn to better prepare myself? and i wish to get in a high choir to be with my friends. (i know sound selfish huh? but a girl can dream XD)

Learning to Sight Read Music

Miss Simple asked:


Hi,
Our festival concert* is coming up,
if you have ever been in choir, you would know what sight reading/singing* is.

I am in honors choir, in the 8th grade.
Lately, our teacher has been very tough on the site reading and stuff, and we always seem to mess up, and then she gets frustrated with us.

i find it very difficult…i know how to, but i have to use my pencil to count…i can’t just look at it and know what it is.

Are there any website guides or anything that can help me? thanks so much
(2nd)* – sight singing/reading, is taking measures of notes, and singing them by the pitch number, whether it be a flat or a sharp. its hard because the lines are so small.

(1st) * – Festival is where you sing 3 pieces in front of judges, who give you a score 1-5 … the lower the number, the better. The second part of festival is where they give the whole choir a piece of music they have never seen before, give you 3 minutes to rehurse it, and then you sing it…and again they judge you.

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J. asked:


Do you think I could get decent enough to play piano/keyboards in the band I’m in. Right now I’m rhythm guitarist, but our drummer really wants to play guitar on some songs so I’d jut play piano on those. I had about 3 months lessons at a conservatory, can read music (not well, mostly just read to learn melodies and key signatures, can’t really sight read and forget bass clef.

Our style is rock/progressive rock/funk/ anything we feel like, so I’m not talking anything complex like jazz improv or classical recitations, just decent enough to play in a band. I know how to form some chords already and can play half of the major scales in the circle of 5ths. Do you think I could be decent enough by september, when we’re all gonna be rooming in the same house at college together? Thanks
Yes, I do know the fingerings and can play two octaves at a time hands together, understand how to form major chords, etc. Yes I do know the difference between major and minor. Don’t ask questions with assumptions built into them to feed your own musical ego
I’ve been playing guitar 10 years, obviously I would pick most of that up.

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♪♫♪♫ asked:


I have about 2 weeks or so to get better at sight singing. I’m not completely horrible because I once played the piano, which helped me learn — but I’m trying to get into the good choir at school so I’m trying to improve. Does anyone have any tips/videos/websites that I could visit and practice?? Thanks in advance!

Learning to Sight Read Music

sesameseed77 asked:

More note reading practice. Check out my book “The Secrets of Sight Reading Piano Music” at Patternpiano.com

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