Wow, my first reaction is amazing, I am now going to try it out it practice. I have my Grade 6 ABRSM singing next week so we will see. But so far impressed! Thanks
@lorraine123SERENDIPI really, use note integer names and "fudge" the syllables. so oh, un, too, thee, foh, fah, sih, sev, ei, nah, teh, lev, o. those are the syllables. use a clock to reference the intervals. draw the numbers on your fingers to gain a tactile sense. i also have body positions for each note a. la rudolf steiner + my developments. yes, practice whatever method you are being taught, layer this method in properly and you will start seriously amazing yourself and others!
Very interesting comment. I do slide around a bit, and as a choral conductor, I've started to investigate how that happens. Now, I certainly tune better when I have something to tune to, and I think that goes for everyone. Just singing a melodic line blind, without other pitches around is a real challenge.
So, next is to deal with accuracy. I did float around a bit, I was never a half step flat, and I didn't "stay" flat when I did go flat. At 1:10-1:14, all I had done was the octave up and down...which ain't exactly on, but it sure ain't a half step flat :-) The first time I sing the scale, when I sing "sev," I'm off. You have good ears, good for you. Sev is "G," the 5th of C major. 1:19 Starts C major off a bit low, 1:24 a "quite flat" G, which I recover with a decent leading tone
of "B," which in my system is "lev." When I get back to "oh," I'm a bit low. Now, I have a tendency to go into "just intonation" when I sing, and I literally can't stand it when people sing "piano thirds" in my choir. It's awful. It is very important for people to sing real intervals tuned to each other...not immitating the piano. Also, in this lesson, I did wander around a bit, and it deserves investigation and thought as to where that comes from and how that applies to musicianship.
I sounded like a jerk in my original comment; it had been all day in a practice room. My apologies.
Im pretty sure anyhow that the the pitch discrepancy was just an audiation thing. After singing your C and before orally/auraly establishing tonality, you spoke briefly about your system, when you began singing again, you heard it a little lower
The important thing is maintaining tonality throughout the exercise, which you did.
eh...i did slip...so good ear on that. this system rocks though...really does...i'm going to get a group together and teach them to be "sight singing superstars." Can't wait...
Thanks gary, surprises me at least as much as it seems to surprise you. Ha!
Regardless of whether you want to research the solid science behind urine therapy or not, my note-integer sight singing system can open anyone who uses it to a whole new level of sight-singing proficiency.
By the way, you certainly don't have to do BOTH to improve your sight singing. Ha ha!
oh, and I also drink beer...but the most awesome, organic, delicious beer you could ever imagine!
You don' really need to "feel" the points on the fingers, you just have to relate the pitches to the correct "numbers" on the "clock." What I'm presenting is a modern alternative to the Guidonian Hand. It's really a blast.
Wow, my first reaction is amazing, I am now going to try it out it practice. I have my Grade 6 ABRSM singing next week so we will see. But so far impressed! Thanks
lorraine123SERENDIPI 7 months ago
@lorraine123SERENDIPI really, use note integer names and "fudge" the syllables. so oh, un, too, thee, foh, fah, sih, sev, ei, nah, teh, lev, o. those are the syllables. use a clock to reference the intervals. draw the numbers on your fingers to gain a tactile sense. i also have body positions for each note a. la rudolf steiner + my developments. yes, practice whatever method you are being taught, layer this method in properly and you will start seriously amazing yourself and others!
dainismichel 7 months ago
hi. could you please help me i completly blank out in sight singing and i have my grade 5 in march.
please please could you help me i have tried so many things and i just dont get it.
oh by the way I am only 12.
Thanks
Keely
lilsaprano123 2 years ago
drops a half step by 1:10
DrumsAndMisc 2 years ago
Very interesting comment. I do slide around a bit, and as a choral conductor, I've started to investigate how that happens. Now, I certainly tune better when I have something to tune to, and I think that goes for everyone. Just singing a melodic line blind, without other pitches around is a real challenge.
dainismichel 2 years ago
So, next is to deal with accuracy. I did float around a bit, I was never a half step flat, and I didn't "stay" flat when I did go flat. At 1:10-1:14, all I had done was the octave up and down...which ain't exactly on, but it sure ain't a half step flat :-) The first time I sing the scale, when I sing "sev," I'm off. You have good ears, good for you. Sev is "G," the 5th of C major. 1:19 Starts C major off a bit low, 1:24 a "quite flat" G, which I recover with a decent leading tone
dainismichel 2 years ago
of "B," which in my system is "lev." When I get back to "oh," I'm a bit low. Now, I have a tendency to go into "just intonation" when I sing, and I literally can't stand it when people sing "piano thirds" in my choir. It's awful. It is very important for people to sing real intervals tuned to each other...not immitating the piano. Also, in this lesson, I did wander around a bit, and it deserves investigation and thought as to where that comes from and how that applies to musicianship.
dainismichel 2 years ago
I would love it, if you would comment back and let me know your thoughts...
dainismichel 2 years ago
I sounded like a jerk in my original comment; it had been all day in a practice room. My apologies.
Im pretty sure anyhow that the the pitch discrepancy was just an audiation thing. After singing your C and before orally/auraly establishing tonality, you spoke briefly about your system, when you began singing again, you heard it a little lower
The important thing is maintaining tonality throughout the exercise, which you did.
DrumsAndMisc 2 years ago
eh...i did slip...so good ear on that. this system rocks though...really does...i'm going to get a group together and teach them to be "sight singing superstars." Can't wait...
dainismichel 2 years ago
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DrumsAndMisc 2 years ago
Way too complicated and confusing.
Lisspratt 2 years ago
Hmm...do tell me more...what could I do to make this "simple" and "straightforward?"
dainismichel 2 years ago
thank you so much! maybe i'll be better at sight singing now! :D
celestialstar47 2 years ago
very confusing!
CKSedg 2 years ago
what's confusing, maybe i can clear things up in a follow up video.
dainismichel 2 years ago
Thanks gary, surprises me at least as much as it seems to surprise you. Ha!
Regardless of whether you want to research the solid science behind urine therapy or not, my note-integer sight singing system can open anyone who uses it to a whole new level of sight-singing proficiency.
By the way, you certainly don't have to do BOTH to improve your sight singing. Ha ha!
oh, and I also drink beer...but the most awesome, organic, delicious beer you could ever imagine!
Cheers!
Dainis
dainismichel 3 years ago
omg that is so awesome lol i had a nyssma audition! and it helped!!! yay o yea nyssma if you dont know is a New York Music festival!
jackasscrap 3 years ago
You don' really need to "feel" the points on the fingers, you just have to relate the pitches to the correct "numbers" on the "clock." What I'm presenting is a modern alternative to the Guidonian Hand. It's really a blast.
dainismichel 3 years ago
damn, i have callouses on some my fingers! i cant feel anything on them.
shelleycorbin 3 years ago
dude u r good...thanks 4 da lesson..it help me alot in my aural skills class
kamil014 4 years ago