Sight-Singing Free Lesson 01

Dainis W. Michel teaches a free lesson on sight-singing.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• singing
• sight-singing
• aural skills
• music theory

[lorraine123SERENDIPI]

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

[dainismichel]

@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!

[DrumsAndMisc]

drops a half step by 1:10

[dainismichel]

I would love it, if you would comment back and let me know your thoughts...

[DrumsAndMisc]

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.

[dainismichel]

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...

[lilsaprano123]

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

[dainismichel]

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]

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]

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.