Teach sight singing with success!
The Bruce Phelps Sight Reading Manual contains over 800 exercises at various levels of difficulty written by a highly successful school choral educator with 34 years of teaching experience! A one time purchase of this manual allows you to reproduce any and all pages for use in your classroom thus making it affordable for your music instruction budget.
As a high school choral director for 34 years, I know the value of sight singing for your students. I looked high and low for methods and found many good ones but most were too costly for my limited music instruction budget. So, I wrote my own and used it religiously for over 16 years. My colleagues saw it and encouraged me to market it. What a difference it made for my students! Others who use it love it. It has worked for them and it can for you to.
Sight reading should be a part of all music curriculum. Providing singers with the tools to better read music gives you as the conductor more time to teach more of what the music has to offer. Five minutes a day will make your students better singers, prepare them for honor choir and college auditions, and build their confidence and self esteem as a choral musician.
Over 1000 manuals have been sold to schools and churches in over 35 states. Directors appreciate the fact they have a one time purchase and can reproduce any and all of the pages according to their needs. Whether you use sol-feg, hand signals, or a numbering system, this manual contains over 800 exercises that easily adapt to your method of teaching. From unison to four parts, in bass and treble clefs, written in all key signatures and major and minor modes, the exercises are singable and fun to read through. The exercises range in length from four to eight measures thus making it easier for the students to stay focused while developing their skills.
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We, as music educators, must continue to strive to give our students more than performance opportunities. We must do more than teach for the concert. These days, more emphasis is placed on what students actually learn. It is time that we broaden our classroom efforts to encompass those skills and bits of knowledge that will help our singers become comprehensive musicians.
SIGHT READING IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE:
Sight reading allows the students to be more indepenent in the learning process.
Sight reading prepares the students for groups beyond their high school ensembles.
Sight reading helps students prepare for All State, Honor Choirs, Scholarship, and College Choir auditions.
Sight Reading enhances their comprehensive musicianship.
Sight reading skills allow your, the director, the luxury of spending more time teaching the "music" of a piece of choral literature.
SIGHT READING IS A SKILL!
SIGHT READING MUST BE TAUGHT!
SIGHT READING MUST BE PRACTICED DAILY!
As a teacher for over 30 years, I know just how important it is to teach sight reading. Basically all you need is to plan your work and work your plan. I decided to write my own sight reading program that would take the students step by step through a process that would give them some confidence in the sight singing skills. I have been doing this the past ten years at Anoka and am excited at the results. Now I would like to share them with you. This is what the program offers:
1) Ten Levels of exercises at increasingly difficult levels
Level 1 - Key of C - No rhythmic details - All quarter notes.
Level 2 - Rhythmic studies only - no melodic study. Basic.
Level 3 - Combination of rhythms and key of C studies.
Level 4 - Adding accidentals int he key of C.
Level 5 - Learning to read in different keys. No accidentals
Level 6 - Various keys with accidentals.
Level 7 - Reading in bass clef.
Level 8 - Reading in two parts. Both SA and SB.
Level 9 - Reading three parts. Both SSA and SAB
Level 10 - Reading four parts.
2) A minimum of 80 excercises in each level, over 800 in all.
3) Proficiency tests at the end of each level for your students to demonstrate they are ready to move to the next level.
4) Simple and basic instructions for you as their teacher. Whether you use sol-feg, numbers, or note names is up to you. The exercises work for all.
5) Warm-up excercises suggested if you use the sol-feg system to help familiarize students wht the syllables.
6) The right to copy as many student pages as necessary for your classes is included with the purchase of this manual.
7) A money back guarantee after you have had time to examine the materials if you are not satified.
Sample Pages:
12 sample pages from the Bruce Phelps Sight Reading Manual Volume I and II.
Bruce Phelps
Sight Reading Manual
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