Music Reading for Singers: A Beginner’s Guide
2 hours a week for 4 weeks
Sing in a choir, and need help reading music?
Music notation is much more visual than most people realise. Discover how singers can learn to read and interpret music, by learning the basic principles of music notation.
We will cover pitch, rhythm, melody, expression, and a little basic theory about keys and scales. No prior musical knowledge is necessary.
Start your music reading journey now!
Course Content
Topics we will cover
- How our notes work
- How notes are written on the page
- How clefs show you the starting note
- Staffs, clefs and ledger lines
- Reading by landmarks and intervals
- The black notes: sharps and flats and accidentals
- The major scale, keys and key signatures
- Scale degree numbers and solfege
- Minors and other scales
- Tempo and time signatures
- Lengths of notes and rests
- Time signatures
- Reading difficult rhythms
- Using a metronome
- Musical texture
- Musical navigation
- Notating expression
- Annotating your score
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“Thanks so much Susan. I've learned so much over the past 4 sessions”