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Sight Singing

In order to improve musicianship, you must be able to quickly learn a piece at sight.  This is particularly important for our trip to the All-State Choir Festival.  We will have one score of three based solely on sight reading.  This will include both Sight singing, and rhythmic sight reading.  Good sight singing skills allow you to focus more energy on adding feeling to your delivery, because you are able to quickly learn the notes. This will help you become better at sight reading and also it will help you if you have an interest in performing in the music industry.  As a professional musician it is assumed that you are proficient at sight reading.

Sight Singing - the act of singing something unfamiliar for the first time on solfege syllables, a vowel sound, numbers or the actual words. 

To improve you sight singing skills, you need to regularly practice.  To practice sight singing, find a piece you do not know.  Choose something that is pretty easy for you.  Give yourself the first note, and then try to sing through on the solfege syllables. 

Here are some examples of Sight Singing:

Go to this web page for practice:  http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/pc/sightsingtrainer.html

Rhythmic Sight Reading

Rhythmic Sight Reading - an integral part of Sight Singing.  It is the part of sight singing that determines the length of a note.  Each note is assigned a specific length based on it's shape.  by reading these rhythms properly, musicians are able to stay together!

An example of rhythmic sight reading is: