How to Sight Sing

How to sight sing? Wikihow tells you how.

Learning how to sight read is important for musicians. Just by looking at the notes on a sheet of music, they can play it immediately. It is just like reading letters, but in notes. Singers can do the same, and it is called Sight Singing. They might read the sheet music, and hum the tune quietly to themselves, and then able to perform or sing it immediately.

STEPS!

1.  Learning how to sight sing starts with learning the musical notes and knowing how to sight read them. You have to hear them with your ears, so that you can duplicate them by singing, or by your voice. A piano or keyboard is necessary so that you can hear and play, and learn the scales, and how different they sound when played as a sharp or a flat.
2.  Practice playing each note, and concentrate on how it sounds. Continue to play, ending up by closing your eyes, so that your ears can hear them so the tone can be concentrating on them without sight.
3. Constant practicing will train the brain to reproduce what the ears hear. It is similiar to learning how to type. By not looking at the keyboard, we teach our brain to lead our fingers to each individual key. Therefore, it is our brain that is learning, while our ears hear.
4. Realize that many voice students who only study singing intervals, can lead to them not being able to use proper intonation. it is important to also be able to look at any melody,and immediately be able to hearinwardly how it sounds.
5. Studying only the notes of the scales is not enough to learn to be able to become a good vocalist. It is very important to learn the scale in both major and minor, learn to hear the rhythm or beat. For a student who wants to learn at home, there are many good books that can teach. It is very helpful to own a keyboard or piano to practice with.

Learning to sight sing takes patience and practice, and it takes the right kind of practice. Be careful to choose a system that that will grow with you and won’t restrict you to simple tonal music. (: