| Have you ever sung in a choir where they told | | | | then, a singing teacher may suggest certain sight |
| you to sing up when the notes go up and sing | | | | singing volumes, but how can one hear what one |
| down when the notes go down? If you would like | | | | is looking at unless they have first been trained? |
| to learn how to sing well, you need to understand | | | | That would be like saying to a Mexican, here is a |
| that music is not nebulous. When the notes go up | | | | Chinese book, go and read it. |
| one needs to know how far to go up and that is | | | | Have you ever been told to get your first note |
| where "knowing intervals" is very significant. | | | | from the piano then sing the next note before |
| Did you ever have someone tell you that if you | | | | playing it on the piano to confirm it? In fact, do |
| want to learn the intervals all you need to do is | | | | you know of anybody who could say that |
| match the interval with the opening notes of a | | | | worked for them? |
| well-known song? If you can respond yes to any | | | | Do you know that some people make a living by |
| of these questions, I have one more for you, "Do | | | | sight singing? That means they do not have much |
| any of these things work?" | | | | time to study the music. It also can be assumed |
| Intervals are very clear-cut. You must be able to | | | | that they have in all probability, experienced the |
| perceive sound and sing intervals. Singing music is | | | | sight reading and sight sing of similar music |
| poles apart from just singing one interval at a | | | | beforehand. |
| time. Especially when sight-singing, one must be | | | | So is it possible to get sight reading lessons? Is it |
| able to sing each interval after another without | | | | possible to get sight singing lessons online? Just |
| stopping. How could anyone execute sight singing | | | | consider how much it costs to take private |
| exercises if one has to be constantly thinking | | | | lessons. Thirty dollars for a half hour lesson is |
| about the first phrase of a song? | | | | probably a normal price. If you were to take a |
| Sight singing practice should be done just like | | | | lesson once a week for thirty nine weeks, (one |
| language. Originally, you hear the words or the | | | | school year) that would cost you $1,170.00. Would |
| music, and afterward you say the words or sing | | | | you like to be earning that much per student? |
| the song! The way that you learned language was | | | | Just imagine if you had forty, fifty or sixty |
| to speak first and then read and then to put it in | | | | students! |
| writing. | | | | Would you enjoy having your teacher available 24 |
| Music is the same way. Initially, you listen, then | | | | 7 so you could have a lesson every day? What if |
| you sing, then you are educated as to what the | | | | you wanted to repeat a lesson? You could if you |
| music "looks like" that you have been singing. That | | | | took lessons online. What if your teacher tells you |
| is the first step to reading. Then you can write | | | | she was only going to charge you forty seven |
| the tune and then you can begin to go back and | | | | dollars for the whole semester? Would you take |
| "sight read" or "sight sing" that which is already | | | | her up on the offer? You would be foolish not to! |
| known to you! | | | | Not only could you save travel time, but also you |
| Now, as long as the music lessons are designed | | | | could take quite a lot of lessons in one day! The |
| for your level and as long as they progress in | | | | speed is up to you! How soon could you turn out |
| sequence, you can easily learn how to sing better. | | | | to be the coach and be making sixty bucks per |
| Usually in a vocal music lesson, one does not get | | | | hour? |
| sequential sight singing practice. Every now and | | | | |