LA Sightsinger Music: Our Universal Language

Is this where you should be to learn to sight read music? If you know all of your key signatures and the basics of music, then this is for you. We will start with the altered intervals and then move to the minor scales. Muscle memory will be addressed as well. Or if you want to review, this will help you as well.

What makes this program successful is working with the practice videos and audio in the Practice Exercises links. Underneath each video in the first two levels is an instruction of which practice video to use. These instruction videos are basic, but are the important links to application.

Although not required, it is recommended that you purchase Book 2, either a physical copy or a PDF download before you start this series. Here is the link for this purchase. This will help in that most video screens are small and you'll have your own copy to see clearly.

So let's get started. To open, click on the red title starting with the first video below.

Best of luck!!

Intro To Book 2: Book 2 will put into practice what you've learned in book 1 and will introduce minor scales and muscle memory.

Muscle Memory: We learn by training our muscle to remember positions created by singing the intervals in the scale. This is an explanation of how this works and why.

Another Look At Key Signatures: Key Signatures are the "KEY" to reading music and being able to understand how the notes relate to each other. Here is another look at how to recognize keys and the accidentals present.

Altered Intervals: There are 5 intervals outside of the 7 intervals in the major scale which are the altered intervals. They give us the remaining intervals that make up the 12 musical steps between the octave.

All 12 Intervals: Learn how all intervals are used when reading from note to note on the staff. Begin to hear the characteristics of each interval as you put the sound with title.

Inverted Intervals: Take a look at how interval inversion affects the way the singer hears the pitches.

Intervals On Paper: The ability to recognize intervals quickly on paper will enable the singer to apply what they've learned audibly and put the two together.

Minor Scales: There are 3 minor scales that we use. The natural minor, harmonic minor and the melodic minor scales are introduced here.

Adjusting Scale Placement: The numbers we sing in the 8 note scale can be applied to any scale, major or minor. Adjusting the scale placement puts the singer in a different tonal center to hear the new scale, still singing 1-8.

Note Number Recognition: Learn where the notes fall within in the scale and quickly identify them.

Recognizing Rhythm Patterns: Memorize groups of notes instead of counting. Allow this process to speed up your ability to access patterns and increase the speed of sight reading.