Sight Singing – Making any money yet?

Have you ever sung in a choir where they told you to sing up when the notes go up and sing down when the notes go down?

Have you ever had someone tell you that if you want to learn to sing intervals all you needed to do is match the interval with the opening notes of a known song? If you can say yes to any of these questions I have one more question for you, "Did any of it work?"

If you would like to learn how to sing well, you need to recognize that music is not vague. When the notes go up one needs to know how far to go up and that is where "knowing intervals" is very imperative.

Intervals are very clear-cut. You must be able to perceive sound and sing intervals. Singing music is poles apart from just singing one interval at a time. Especially when sight-singing, one must be able to sing each interval after another without stopping. How could anyone execute sight singing exercises if one has to be constantly thinking about the first phrase of a song?

Sight singing practice should be done just like language. Originally, you hear the words or the music, and afterward you say the words or sing the song! The way that you learned language was to speak first and then read and then to put it in writing.

Music is the same way. First you listen, then you sing, then you are taught what the music "looks like" that you have been singing. That is the first step to reading. Then you can write the music and then you can begin to go back and "sight read" or "sight sing" that which is already familiar to you!

Now, as long as the music lessons are designed for your level and as long as they progress in sequence, you can easily learn how to sing better. Usually in a vocal music lesson, one does not get sequential sight singing practice. Every now and then, a singing teacher may suggest certain sight singing volumes, but how can one hear what one is looking at unless they have first been trained? That would be like saying to a Mexican, here is a Chinese book, go and read it.

Have you ever been told to get your first note from the piano then sing the next note before playing it on the piano to confirm it? In fact, do you know of anybody who could say that worked for them?

Do you know that some people make a living by sight singing? That means that they do not have much time to study the music. It also means that they have probably experienced the sight reading and sight sing of similar music previously.

So is it possible to get sight reading lessons? Is it possible to get sight singing lessons online? Just consider how much it costs to take private lessons. Thirty dollars for a half hour lesson is probably a normal price. If you were to take a lesson once a week for thirty nine weeks, (one school year) that would cost you $1,170.00. Would you like to be earning that much per student? Just imagine if you had forty, fifty or sixty students!

Would you like to have your teacher available so you could have a lesson any time or any day? What if you wanted to repeat a lesson? You could if you took lessons online. What if your teacher told you he was only going to charge you forty seven dollars for the whole semester? Would you take him up on the offer? You would be crazy not to!

Not only can you save travel time, but also you could take a number of lessons in one day! The pace is up to you! How soon could you turn into the instructor and be making sixty dollars an hour?

Victor King is an outstanding music teacher, who taught elementary music for many years and took his choirs to the state level to gain first place for years several in a row. Mr. King has taught all ages from Kindergarten to college and is now offering his expertise to help you improve your inner musicianship. Click here for your free mini course.

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