Sight-Sing Any Melody Instantly
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(Instructional). Many voice students are incorrectly taught to sight-sing by memorizing the sounds of intervals. This book is for you if you'd like to be able to look at any melody and instantly know how it sounds. It will show you how to memorize the sound of each scale degree in both major and minor keys, sing chromatic tones, and much more. Packed with tips and tricks, this new book is essential for every vocalist.
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Sight-singing and ear training per se are different though complementary skills. What I really enjoy about this book is the way they're effectively combined.I studied classical sight-singing years ago in college: Pasquale Bona's Rhythmic Articulation, melodies from sightsinging anthologies. I felt little connection with that music at the time and the only thing that's stayed with me is the warmup drill the class recited: "do-mi-sol-mi, do-fa-la-fa" (Thank you Mrs. Rapp).Later on I worked through the first level of David Burge's Relative Pitch course but found drilling intervals abstracted from real music to be exhausting and not relevent enough to my musical experience.In "Sight-Sing Any Melody Instantly" you build a sense of intervals within a musical context using well-known tunes many people probably know from childhood. This is a fundamental difference from Burge's approach: he regards using reference tunes to identify intervals as a crutch to be discarded as soon as possible.I bought into that for many years but now see the value in drawing from the vast memory of music we all possess. That bank of music contains what excites us about all music and incorporating it into the learning experience is, in my opinion, an effective and satisfying way to go.By definition a book on sight-singing is notation-based and there are no recorded examples; you have to read music in order to make sense of it.I found myself with a new appreciation for 'tired' melodies such as "Deck the Halls" and "Swanee River" once I got inside of them intervallically. The material progresses through diatonic major and minor, gradually introducing chromatic intervals.The pacing is relaxed and you're encouraged to seek out your own examples, which is the real value of the book and where the sight-singing and ear training come together. Once you get the hang of recognizing intervals within melodies, you can use any music that interests you in whatever genre and whatever level of complexity. It's a real blast to rediscover melodic twists and turns in rock and jazz tunes I've listened to and played for decades.Without hesitation I would say I've improved my ability to both hear music on the written page (I'm an instrumentalist, not a singer), as well as to take imagined phrases out of my head and notate them.While not as rigorous as a college-level classical sight-singing course, I would recommend 'Sight-Sing Any Melody Instantly' wholeheartedly to musicians of all genres with reading skills who are interested in improving their aural skills.