Just Voices offers an eight week series of 90-minute classes designed especially for singers who want to learn to read music or improve their sight-reading skills. The curriculum reviews the fundamentals of music notation including staffs, clefs, time and key signatures, notes, rests, dynamic markings, and other common musical symbols. The class will provide you with tools and materials you can use to continue to improve your reading on your own.

Students begin reading music on the staff without accompaniment from the very first class, and sight reading practice is built into every lesson. By the end of the eight weeks the class is reading in four-part harmony.

Exercises for ear and eye training include melodic and rhythmic patterns, major and minor scales, and arpeggiated chords. All class materials are included in the tuition. Members of Just Voices and Morningside Singers receive a discount on membership fees for the semester they are enrolled in these classes.

Feedback from participants:

“I feel I am now able to learn to sing a piece of music on my own.”
–Allen Bleick

“Just two weeks into your sight-reding class my pastor asked if I would put together some music for a service. I found I could now check the key signatures and sight-sing the melodies of tunes I didn’t know!”
–Andy Morse

“Very well thought out and wonderfully presented.”
–Bill Alderfer