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How to do Sight Recognition Studies:
These are Movable Do exercises, meaning that whatever key you are in, the tonic is Do. If you are in the key of F Major, F is Do. If you are in the key of C minor, C is Do etc. Put the metronome on to a goal pulse of 72. (Remember to pick a tempo that is not too slow so you don’t get distracted, but also not too fast, because your focus will be on keeping up rather than hearing and allowing your mind and ears to make the necessary connections). Do NOT sing the exercises. Only say the syllables that correspond to the notes. The goal here is to make a visual connection from what you see on the page (notes on staff) to what the corresponding syllables are. Also by doing this exercise, the eye gets trained to see the visual space (intervallic distance) between the syllables. Do exercises in all keys and in both treble and bass clefs.
Sight Singing:
This consists of conducting, solfège and singing. If problems occur, the examples can be broken down into rhythm exercises (Ta-ing the example), Sol-Fa or Sight Recognition drills. Once problem areas are addressed, all the elements can then come together for complete sight singing.
Sight Recognition Key of C Major Metronome setting= 72
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SOL-‐FA Studies
1 Do Re Fa Mi Sol Do “ (Do) Re Mi Sol Fa La Sol “ (Do) Sol La Fa Re Mi Sol “ Do Ti La Ti Do Sol 2 Do Re Mi Sol La Fa “ (Do) Ti Sol Mi Fa Re Do “ Do Fa Mi Sol La Re “ (Do) La Re Fa Ti Do Mi 3 (Do) Mi Fa Re Sol Ti Mi “ Do Sol Mi Re La Do “ (Do) Ti Sol Fa La Mi Re “ Do Mi Ti La Fa Sol 4 (Do) La Sol Ti Mi Re Do “ Do Mi Do Sol Fa La “ Do La Sol Re Fa Mi “ (Do) Fa Ti Do Sol La Ti
How to do Sol-‐Fa Studies: Any Note/Key can represent Do. Each day these exercises should be tried in different keys Always sing a Do reference before singing each syllable. If the individual “cells” (between the pause tracks) do not begin on Do, I provided Do as a reminder in ( ) so that you sing it to yourself to establish an internalized tonal center. Sing Do to the next note and swing back and forth between the syllables until you have a secure inner sense of the pitch. Then sing Do and move to the next note in the line. Again moving back and forth between Do and the Solfege syllable and pitch. Once that note is established sing BACK DOWN the line towards Do, then go directly UP to the next note etc. Note however that just because you are singing the syllables back down the line in that order, you can still sing them in different ranges. Your choices do not have to be strictly within a 1 octave scale. So in Example 1, it would flow like this: Do Re Do Re Do Re etc. Do Fa Do Fa Do Fa Re Do, Do Mi Do Mi Do Mi Fa Re Do, Do Sol Do Sol Do Sol Mi Fa Re Do, Do to Do (^up 8va) Do to Do (^up 8va) Do to Do (^up 8va) Sol Mi Fa Re Do… then take a pause at the “ marking. Once you commit to a pitch in the line in a certain octave, you must keep that range for the entire cell. However you do have the freedom to choose different intervals each time you do the exercises. As your ears get trained and
you get more tonally secure, your ears will lead and reach beyond the basic tight range of a one octave scale. This in turn will expand your melodic contours for improvisation and increase your overall hearing. For example instead of singing up a Major 6th you could sing down a minor 3rd. It would be the same syllable and pitch BUT you would be expanding your aural awareness and relying on your muscular memory in different ways to achieve the particular interval. This serves to develop the relationship between your inner hearing and your muscular memory. Both work together to fuse pitch with syllable. Once you have drilled the exercises as explained above, you can then set your metronome to 72 (or a pulse which is challenging but not too difficult where you are unable to internalize what you are hearing). Read the lines straight thru from left to right taking a 1 beat pause at the “ marking and hitting the last note you sing at the end of each cell on the piano to check. Then keep going to the next cell, check ONLY the last note, go to the next cell etc and when you get to then end check again that last note. Hopefully you will be on pitch. NEVER sing with the piano. The piano is only used to check after you have sung the note first.