Joining the Dots Singing, Grade 1: A Fresh Approach to Sight-Singing (Joining the dots (ABRSM))

Alan Bullard Joining the Dots Singing Grade 1 Instrumentation: voice Composer: Alan Bullard ISMN: 978-1-84849-739-9 Level of Difficulty: Grade 1 Details: Joining the Dots Singing: Teacher's Introduction To the Teacher Joining the Dots Singing offers a wealth of material to help build skill and confidence in sight-singing. Used as part of regular lessons and practice, it will help pupils learn to read new music more quickly and easily, and develop their awareness of rhythm, pitch and other general musicianship skills. This book is designed to prepare pupils for the sightsinging section of the ABRSM Grade 1 Singing exam, but it will also help instrumentalists to develop their sight-singing skills. While every teacher will have their own approach, pupils who tackle the material in order will - with your help and with regular practice - acquire a sound sight-singing technique. Each book in the series contains the following mix of technical and creative activities and songs to sing: Workouts build, step by step, the rhythm and pitch skills required for the grade, and are taught both aurally and from the page. This book focuses on stepwise movement above and below the key-note. The focus of each Workout is identified in a header and then introduced in a 'singing back' exercise for teacher and pupil (if necessary, you could improvise more). A number of short exercises promote effective reading of staff notation using tonic sol-fa, numbered degrees of the scale or any suitable syllable. Make Music provides an opportunity for pupils to build performing confidence in and through creative and imaginative work. Using an approach that is not primarily notation-based, the activities here will help to familiarize pupils with the 'feel' of a key-centre and the way that pitches relate to it, and to develop their sense of rhythm. You and your pupils can approach these exercises together in whatever way