As many of you already know I direct a ladies choir called Keltique. Keltique is made up of quite a range of members of various musical backgrounds as many local choirs are. We have one lady who has a degree in musical theatre and is a professional singer and then we have others who have joined recently having never sung in a choir before. We have some who can read music and sight sing fluently and others who have to learn by hearing the tune over and over again. However, in the New Year we are going to teach every choir member to sight sing and read music! Sight singing is basically being able to work out how the next note will sound through reading the music and not having any help from hearing the note from a piano or another singer. The musical notation tells us the pitch of the note, length of the note and tone. Being able to sight sing should enable us as a choir to learn new repertoire much quicker as well as refresh old repertoire easier.
If you're a lady and you're interested in joining a choir in the New Year and learning to sight sing then why not come along and join us. We have a lot of fun and rehearse Monday evenings at Looe School music department. You'd be welcome to come along and view a rehearsal or join in just to see what we get up to. We don't normally ask people to commit to the choir until they have attended three rehearsals. Check out the choir's website at vocalgroupkeltique.org.uk for more details.
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