Q: WHY ARE ALL OF THE NOTES WRONG? A: This video displays the solfege for moveable do, which is common in the US. In this system, do is always the tonic, and this helps develop relative pitch. You might be used to fixed do if you are from Europe, where C is always do. Because I didn't record myself singing along to this, you can use any method you want, you just can't check your answers using the displayed solfege if you are used to fixed do. JOIN MY NEWSLETTER TO DOWNLOAD A FREE PDF OF THESE EXERCISES: joe-luegers-music-academy.ck.page/d105a89b1c SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL: www.patreon.com/JoeLuegersMusicAcademy FOLLOW ME FOR THE LATEST NEWS ON CONTENT Facebook: facebook.com/JoeLuegersMusicAcademy Instagram: instagram.com/joeluegersmusicacademy Website: www.luegerswriter.com/ TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@joeluegersmusicacademy
Very good channel. I really like your work. I hope that in the future you will have much more insight to match the quality of your work. Long life to your channel !
Happy to help! I could barely pitch match when I first went to college because I only ever played piano. Now I sight sing every day and it’s no big deal.
Thanks - this is very helpful tutorial. I recently joined a choir and sight reading bass clef for the first time. My experience is reading standard notation for guitar and sax so the do-re-me approach is unnatural. Do you recommend, given my background that I push through and get used to solfege, or fall back on naming the notes?
Thanks for using my video! With my own students I always start with scale degrees because it is more universal and makes more sense for intervals. In the choral world, though, solfège can be a lot more useful in the long run. I also really like chromatic solfège because the vowel changes make a lot more sense to me than trying to sing “flat 3”. I don’t really view one as a replacement for the other. Maybe try the whole video on numbers, and if you can do that then make a 2nd pass through with solfège.
I know about the solfege method (movable and fixed), I was just wondering - for absolute pitch - would it not help to sing the names of the notes (C, D, E,) instead? Would that not mean you're learning to associate the note name, the position on the cleft and the actual note pitch all at once?
It couldn’t hurt to sing the note names, although I’m skeptical that practicing pitch memory could ever be more useful than practicing relative pitch. If I think really hard about how a pitch falls in my vocal range I can get close to figuring out which pitch it is, but if you give me a single reference pitch I can tell you every other note in a song almost near-instantly using relative pitch. Moveable do solfège or numbers tell you how notes relate to a key center, but letter names don’t really do this without a few extra mental steps.
Q: WHY ARE ALL OF THE NOTES WRONG?
A: This video displays the solfege for moveable do, which is common in the US. In this system, do is always the tonic, and this helps develop relative pitch. You might be used to fixed do if you are from Europe, where C is always do. Because I didn't record myself singing along to this, you can use any method you want, you just can't check your answers using the displayed solfege if you are used to fixed do.
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Very good channel. I really like your work. I hope that in the future you will have much more insight to match the quality of your work. Long life to your channel !
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Thank you!!!! So usefull to me, I have lot of difficult with sight singing in college 😅
Happy to help! I could barely pitch match when I first went to college because I only ever played piano. Now I sight sing every day and it’s no big deal.
Thanks - this is very helpful tutorial. I recently joined a choir and sight reading bass clef for the first time. My experience is reading standard notation for guitar and sax so the do-re-me approach is unnatural. Do you recommend, given my background that I push through and get used to solfege, or fall back on naming the notes?
Thanks for using my video! With my own students I always start with scale degrees because it is more universal and makes more sense for intervals. In the choral world, though, solfège can be a lot more useful in the long run. I also really like chromatic solfège because the vowel changes make a lot more sense to me than trying to sing “flat 3”. I don’t really view one as a replacement for the other. Maybe try the whole video on numbers, and if you can do that then make a 2nd pass through with solfège.
I know about the solfege method (movable and fixed), I was just wondering - for absolute pitch - would it not help to sing the names of the notes (C, D, E,) instead? Would that not mean you're learning to associate the note name, the position on the cleft and the actual note pitch all at once?
It couldn’t hurt to sing the note names, although I’m skeptical that practicing pitch memory could ever be more useful than practicing relative pitch. If I think really hard about how a pitch falls in my vocal range I can get close to figuring out which pitch it is, but if you give me a single reference pitch I can tell you every other note in a song almost near-instantly using relative pitch. Moveable do solfège or numbers tell you how notes relate to a key center, but letter names don’t really do this without a few extra mental steps.