Sight-Reading for Singers

Course Overview

Sight-reading is a skill often overlooked when learning to sing. However, it is particularly important. Singers are likely to dismiss the skill of reading music as something that is dated or non-essential to their craft. Nevertheless, reading music is simply understanding the language of musicians and it is essential to achieve a musical understanding of any given piece. While knowledge of vocal technique, colour, agility and note accuracy is extremely important, being able to sing music upon sight is a valuable skill to any singer, no matter what genre, range or environment. Sight-singing allows the user to improve their ear while also bettering their theoretical knowledge and musical understanding. Sight-singing allows the singer to communicate musical ideas (either their own or of others) without hesitation and with supreme accuracy. Whether the student is a confident lead vocalist or someone who prefers to sing in choirs or in the background, this course will provide the skills to learn music by ear and also to read music, making the learning process much more efficient and enjoyable! This course is also useful for any musician or music student looking to improve their musical ear and music reading skills, which in turn means practice and performance preparation will be notably enhanced and easier to achieve. The skills learnt on this course can be transferred across to any tuned instrument and the ability to read pitch and rhythm can translate to vocal sound. These are skills every musician or student can benefit from.