expertvillage asked:

Learn How to sight sing using handsigns in scales in this free voice lesson video from our sight singing expert and award-winning choir singer. Expert: Ashley Charlton Bio: Ashley Charlton loves the holiday season, and shopping and preparing gifts for friends and family is a large part of her holiday experience. Filmmaker: kyle saylors

Sight Reading Secrets Revealed

musicdavidl asked:

David Livianu was born and educated in Bucharest, Romania; he received his Masters in Music degree from the Juilliard School in New York City in 1982. He studied composition under Professor Milton Babbitt, with a full scholarship. He specializes in ear-training and sight-singing with an emphasis on the development of absolute and relative pitch, commonly known as perfect pitch. Currently he lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York. The exercises offered can be used by anyone that has an interest in developing a musical ear; by listening and singing along you will be able in a short period of time to start distinguishing between the various notes and also the distances between the notes. The exercises start from the rudimentary steps of learning the 7 notes to complex combinatorial patterns of intervals, 3, 4, 5, and 6 note chords, encompassing the Major and minor scales from no sharps and no flats, to 7 sharps and 7 flats. The key to success is daily practice and personal participation. If you would like a list of all the exercises + a printed copy of the sheet music for this and other exercises, send an e-mail to david@livianu.com

sight singing

Edward asked:


I’m considering taking ‘Fundamentals of Music’ next semester because I have to satisfy a requirement but at the same time, I want to learn how to read sheet music.

The description of this course:

Introduces the elements of music and musical notations; includes music reading and sight-singing; scales and intervals.

So again, what is sight-singing? Thanks

sight singing

initialxd asked:


I’ve been playing piano for a year but every time i try to learn a new song, I’d have to write the letters over the notes on the sheet music.

it takes about 2 days to learn a page. But since i practice the song so much, I end up memorizing the page. So if someone were to put sheet music in front of me, I’d be very slow at reading it.

What’s the best way to improve on this and get faster?

SpeedyMusicReading.com

Jake E asked:


How do I sight-read music for singing? What things could I do to practice? I’m very bad at sight-reading for piano and trumpet, so I don’t have much experience.

Learning to Sight Read Music