With carefully sequenced, easy-to-follow note and rhythm patterns, Foundations of Choral Mastery™ takes even the most hesitant middle schoolers and gives them the confidence they need to begin sight-reading on their own. Concepts presented for MASTERY include:

• counting of all typical notes and rests up to 16th notes
• finding and keeping track of Do
• keeping individual time
• recognizing and accurately tuning pitches
• identifying and performing intervals, and triadic recognition
• singing melodic lines
• developing sight reading skills of looking ahead and “pre-hearing” intervals before you sing them
• understanding and interpreting tempo expression markings
• performing rhythmic and melodic lines in duets
• understanding and differentiating time signatures

Each lesson incorporates ALL aspects of sight-reading on a single page. Lessons may be printed and distributed to your students. However, we recommend using some form of overhead projection, which has several advantages: the entire class is focused on a single task together; the teacher can correct or relocate the class quickly; and once procedures are learned, the entire lesson can take 4 minutes or less!