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Practice Video-7 Rests

Practice recognizing and identifying the 7 rests.

Notes On The Staff

Learn where the notes belong on the music staff and how to quickly recognize these positions.

The Music Staff

The grid with which we place the notes and rhythms to make music. Learn how it functions and how to navigate around it.

Recognizing Intervals On Paper Treble Clef

A more in depth look into how intervals are quickly indentified and different methods to use to do so.

Intervals On Paper-Bass Clef

Learn to quickly recognize intervals or distances between notes in the bass clef.

Why We Get Confused

This is an explanation about why males and females hear intervals differently, and how the direction of the intervals changes the way we process it.

Intervals On Paper – Adv

Intervals are part of the process of reading after you’ve learned where the notes are located in the scale structure.

Rhythm Patterns – Adv

Notice the importance of being able to see groups of rhythms at a time instead of counting and subdividing.

Key Signatures-Major

State how many accidentals are in the following keys.

Key Signatures – Adv

Key signatures are to be accessed quickly and the singer should know all scale degrees of every key. Here is another look at the “KEY” to sight reading.

Recognizing Rhythm Patterns

Memorize groups of notes instead of counting. Allow this process to speed up your ability to access patterns and increase the speed of sight reading.

Adjusting Scale Placement

The numbers we sing in the 8 note scale can be applied to any scale, major or minor. Adjusting the scale placement puts the singer in a different tonal center to hear the new scale, still singing 1-8.