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Written by Victor King   
Have you ever sung in a choir? What was your first experience like? Have you ever had someone tell you to sing up when the notes go up and sing down when the notes go down?
by VictorKing


Have you ever sung in a choir? What was your first experience like? Have you ever had someone tell you to 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 to sing intervals all you needed to do is match the interval with the opening notes of a known song? If you can say yes to any of these questions I have one more question for you, "Did any of it work?"

If you would like to learn how to sing well, you need to realize that music is not nebulous. When the notes go up one needs to know how far to go up and that is where "knowing intervals" is very important.

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 execute 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. Initially, you listen, then you sing, then you are educated as to what the music "looks like" that you have been singing. That is the first step to reading. Then you can write the tune and then you can begin to go back and "sight read" or "sight sing" that which is already known to you!

Now, as long as the music lessons are designed for your level and as long as they progress in sequence, you can easily learn how to sing better. Usually in a vocal music lesson, one does not get sequential sight singing practice. Every now and then, a singing teacher may suggest certain sight singing volumes, but how can one hear what one is looking at unless they have first been trained? That would be like saying to a Mexican, here is a Chinese book, go and read it.

Have you ever been told to get your first note from the piano then sing the next note before playing it on the piano to check it? Actually, do you know of anyone who would say that worked for them?

Do you know that some people make their livelihood by sight singing? That means that they do not have much time to study the music. It also means that they have most likely experienced the sight reading and sight sing of similar music earlier.

So is it possible to get sight reading instructions? Is it possible to get sight singing instructions online? Now think how much it costs to take private instructions. Thirty dollars for a half hour lesson is most likely an average 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 receiving that much per student? Just suppose if you had forty, fifty or sixty students!

Would you enjoy having your teacher available 24/7 so you could have a lesson every day? What if you wanted to repeat a lesson? You could if you took lessons online. What if your teacher tells you she was only going to charge you forty seven dollars for the whole semester? Would you take her up on the offer? You would be foolish 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?

About the Author:

Victor King is an outstanding music teacher, who taught elementary music for many years and took his choirs to the state level to gain first place for years several in a row. 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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