Did you ever sing in a choir? What was your initial experience like? Have you ever had someone say to you sing up when the notes go up and sing down when the notes go down?

Have you ever had someone tell you that if you want to learn the intervals all you need to do is match the interval with the opening notes of a familiar song? If you can answer yes to any of these questions I have one more question for you, “Did any of it work?”

If you want to learn how to sing well, you need to recognize that music is not vague. When the notes go up one needs to know how far to go up and that is where “knowing intervals” is very imperative.

Intervals are very clear-cut. You must be able to perceive sound and sing intervals. Singing music is poles apart from just singing one interval at a time. Especially when sight-singing, one must be able to sing each interval after another without stopping. How could anyone do sight singing exercises if one has to be constantly thinking about the first phrase of a song?

Sight singing practice should be done just like language. Initially, you hear the words or the music, after that you say the words or sing the song! The way that you learned your mother tongue was to speak first and then read and then write.

Music is the same way. First you listen, then you sing, then you are taught what the music “looks like” that you have been singing. That is the first step to reading. Then you can write the music and then you can start to go back and “sight read” or “sight sing” that which is already familiar to you!

Now as long as the sight singing lessons are designed to your level and as long as they progress sequentially you can learn how to sing better. Usually in a singing voice lesson, one does not get sequential sight singing practice. Sometimes a singing teacher may suggest certain sight singing books, but how can one hear what one is looking at unless they have first been taught? That would be like saying to a Mexican, here is a French book, go and read it.

Did anyone ever tell to get your first note from the piano then sing the next note before playing it on the piano to make sure you sang the right note? In reality, do you know of anyone who would honestly say that this plot worked for them?

Do you know that some people make a living by sight singing? That means they do not have much time to study the music. It also can be assumed that they have in all probability, experienced the sight reading and sight sing of similar music beforehand.

So is it possible to get sight reading lessons? Is it possible to get sight singing lessons online? Just consider how much it costs to take private lessons. Thirty dollars for a half hour lesson is probably a normal price. If you were to take a lesson once a week for thirty nine weeks, (one school year) that would cost you $1,170.00. Would you like to be earning that much per student? Just imagine if you had forty, fifty or sixty students!

How would you like to have your teacher available seven days a week twenty-four hours a day so you could have a lesson every day? What if you wished to repeat a lesson? You can if you take lessons online. What if your teacher says he was only going to charge you forty seven dollars for the whole semester? Would you take him up on the offer? You would be unwise not to!

Not only could you save travel time, but also you could take several lessons in one day! The tempo is up to you! How soon could you become the teacher and be making sixty bucks an hour?

Victor King has a B.Mus. from Philadelphia College of Bible. Mr. King has taught all ages from Kindergarten to college and is now offering his expertise to help you improve your inner musicianship. Click here for your free mini course.

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