Sightsinging is a valuable tool used to train your ears for singing. As a singer, you use your ears just as much as your voice. So, it’s important to train your ears to hear the right thing. In sightsinging, we use special singing syllables called Solfege. You might recognize these syllables as Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti. Or if you have ever watched The Sound of Music, you might remember the song “do a deer, a female deer; re a drop of golden sun…” Even Julie Andrews began teaching the children to sing using these syllables!
Figuring out the relative sound of each of these syllables and how they fit together, is essential to being able to hear the correct note. Then, if you can hear the correct sound, you’ll be better able to sing the correct sound.
With my students, depending on their age and level of singing, I use a couple different books. One is called Sightsinging by The Musicians Institute and the other is a series of books called The Full Voice Workbook. The Full Voice series is helpful for beginners and teaches a little bit of music reading and theory as well as solfege singing. Check out some of my solfege resources below!
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