
Sight-singing – the Most Important Skill for Choral Singers
Sight-singing or what most people think of as “reading music” is the most important skill a choral singer can possess. Sight-singing is best learned and practiced using Solfeggio or Solfege (soul fedge), with movable Do (dough) — also known as “Do-Re-Mi, etc.” This...

Should You Force Your Child To Take Music Lessons?
By Kathi Kerr, https://melodymusicstudios.com And the answer is . . . (wait for it…) YES! As parents (myself included), don’t we “force” our child(ren) to go to school, brush their teeth, and go to bed at a certain time? If our child said “I don’t want to go to...

Sight-singing – the Most Important Skill for Choral Singers
For composers, solfege is indispensable; it allows one to write down a melody without having an external instrument at hand . . . only the mind’s ear, pencil & paper are necessary!