Sight-singing and ear training are very practical and necessary basic skills in the process of learning music. Sight-singing and ear training are generally divided into two parts: sight-singing and auditory training. In layman's terms, sight-singing means singing from music, and ear training means listening to music. This course is about learning the basic skills of music, just like building a house, it is the foundation. I often hear students say, "I want to be a singer, a star, a pianist, a dancer..." In fact, it doesn't matter whether you want to become a "star" or a "family" or just to take the entrance exam or just to be a student. This is a hobby. If it is related to music, you must start from this subject. Otherwise, how can you sing the correct pitch, dance the correct rhythm, and understand the music score? Sight-singing and ear training is a skill that must be mastered in learning music. Whether learning vocal music or instrumental music, it is indispensable for improving musical quality.

When most students are studying majors, when it comes to pitch and rhythm issues, most professional teachers only teach singing and do not involve learning the effective skills of sight-singing and ear training, which leads to students learning I can sing or play this piece, but I can’t when I change it. This is a typical example of “give a man a fish, but don’t teach him to fish.” Therefore, we must master the skills of sight-singing and ear-training, so that we can Really get twice the result with half the effort when studying professionally!

In layman’s terms, “sight-singing” is the skill of getting a piece of staff/simplified music and reading the music and then singing/playing it. Then we need to be proficient in the staff, various high, medium and low clefs, and the differences. The differences in pitch between different notes, as well as the long and short durations represented by different notes, understanding various rising and falling marks, judging various modes and tonality, etc. When singing, it is required to achieve accurate pitch, accurate rhythm, and effective Sing expressively and in full. Ear training is auditory training, which usually involves listening to the sounds played on the piano. It trains children to distinguish single notes, harmonic intervals, chords, rhythms, and melodies by hearing, and to use the music or music they hear as music notation/ After accurately recording the simplified musical notation, one must also be able to hear and identify chords, analyze the nature and function of chords, and accordingly be able to construct and sing intervals and chords, etc. Auditory training also includes the ability to distinguish timbre. Various musical instruments have different timbres, and the same instrument also has different timbres. The music played by the band also contains mixed timbres of various instruments. The timbres are ever-changing, and students can distinguish them through training.

Sight-singing and ear training complement each other. Only by listening correctly can you sing accurately, and by singing accurately can you listen to more complex content correctly. Although there is a lot to learn as mentioned above, in the final analysis, if you practice single notes and rhythm well, you can quickly solve it whether it is sight-singing or ear training on intervals, chords, and melodies. Why? We know that two single tones sounded one after another are called melodic intervals. In the harmonic interval, two tones are sounded at the same time, so listening to the single tone well will help us listen to the harmonic interval well. Chords are three or more sounds sounded at the same time, and melody is a single sound sounded one by one according to a certain rhythm. During the teaching process, we found that many students always feel a little scared when they first come into contact with intervals and chords. In fact, there is no need to be like this. From the above analysis, we will find that if you listen to the single tone well, no matter how many tones are sounded at the same time, you will be very clear. Hear every sound.

So, how can we quickly learn these skills well? Of course, there are methods and shortcuts to this, and this is also the "cheats" I want to talk about in this tutorial!