Summer Sight-Singing Seminar

Week Three-Daily Routine
Lesson Archive
1. Warm-up:
  • Sing up and down the scale on solfege syllables. Try it with handsigns. (Your folder has both on the back cover.)
  • Choose a pitch for do, then sing the tonic-establishing pattern--  d m s f r t, d s, d . Try each exercise with 2 or 3 different tonics, establishing the new do each time
  • Sing the two exercises below. Memorize.
3rds by step
3rds by leap
  • add #2 and #3 on the Warm-up canon page in your binder. Begin slow and reading and progress to fast and memorized.
  • if this is easy, use the same pattern of intervals(sequence), but begin and end on la instead of do.
2. Prepare the Steps to Harmony exercises 3 (review) and 4(s-m)(click to download). Do a 3-part exercise each day. Be ready to sing them in class on Thursday.
Use the steps we've discussed before singing the melody.
  • Look at the piece, noticing the form and structure and any obvious places which might be tricky.
  • Look for patterns--repetition, leaps, step-wise stretches, turns
  • Read(tap) through the rhythm
  • Write in syllables as necessary, remembering that C is "do".
  • Sing the melody
  • Notice relationships between the parts and repeat with the other two lines.
3. Work on the assigned drills at tonesavvy.com
4. Work on the Intervals section of musicca.com continue with the Rhythm and Notes sections.
5. Try the daily challenge. If you get stuck, let me know and I'll send a clue.
* in the UK, half notes are called minims, and quarter notes are called crotchets.