Singing at First Sight: Improve your Sight-singing!
Friday 17th July 2026, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (London Time)
Improve Your Sight Singing
Course Overview Reading music at sight is a powerful, transformative tool for singers and singing teachers across all genres. Whether you are looking to audition with confidence, learn repertoire faster, or establish yourself as a highly versatile performer and educator, strong sight-singing skills are essential.
In this short course, join Dr David Cane as he explores a range of practical, evidence-based strategies designed to demystify the page, develop your inner hearing, and enhance your broader musicianship. By bridging the gap between musical notation and vocal execution, this course will empower you to approach new scores with accuracy and artistic independence.
What You Will Learn:
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Core Sight-Singing Strategies: Practical techniques to decode pitch, intervals, and rhythm efficiently on first sight.
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Inner Hearing & Audiation: Developing the ability to "hear" the music in your mind before singing it aloud.
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Rhythmic Precision: Navigating varied time signatures and rhythmic patterns with stability and confidence.
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Application Across Genres: How to apply these skills whether you are working with classical scores, commercial music, or contemporary commercial music (CCM) charts.
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Pedagogical Tools: For teachers, insights into how to introduce and scaffold sight-singing skills for your own students.
Who This Course Is For: This course is ideal for singers, vocal coaches, and singing teachers who want to build their musical literacy and performance confidence.
Prerequisites: There are no formal entry requirements for this course. However, to get the most out of the sessions, a basic foundational knowledge of Western classical music notation (such as reading the treble or bass clef and understanding basic note values) will be useful.
🏷️ Price £30 (UK VAT inclusive)
🎥 Recording automatically sent to all who book (even if you cannot attend live)
▶️ Rewatch as many times as you like
📜 Certificate of attendance available
Dr David Cane
Dr. David Cane is a Lecturer with expertise in musicology, qualitative and quantitative research design, disability studies, and postgraduate supervision. He plays a central role in research methods teaching and dissertation supervision. David’s research interests include critical disability and queerness. David is a lecturer, researcher, singer, singing teacher and choir director.
Attend this course for as little as £22 as part of the Voice Professional Training CPD Award Scheme.
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