124: Making Sight Singing Child's Play, with Dale Duncan (In The Middle With Mr. D)

<p class="p1">How do you feel about sight-singing? To be handed a sheet of music and expected to sing it, perfectly, right off the bat?</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">Or, stepping back, how do you feel about singing in general? Maybe even singing a familiar song seems a bit intimidating to you.</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">Today on the show we’re joined by Dale Duncan, also known as “Mr. D” online, who is the creator of a popular method for teaching sight-singing, specifically to grade-school students - perhaps one of the most self-conscious groups of students you can imagine to try to get singing!</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">We were desperate to pick Dale’s brains on how exactly he approaches this and how he’s able to quickly get young people up to an impressive level of sight-singing that has them winning competitions and sight-singing material that the vast majority of experienced adult singers would struggle with.</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">In this conversation we talk about:</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">• How he helps students who struggle to sing in tune and why he never requires members of his choir to sing solo.</p> <p class="p1">• One core technique he uses to teach sight-singing, and how it enables you to practice sight-singing independent of score notation.</p> <p class="p1">• And the clever way he helps students to integrate their pitch and rhythm skills when sight-singing.</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">Dale’s “S-Cubed” method for teaching sight-singing is specifically designed to help other music teachers and choir directors like himself, but as you’ll soon hear, Dale has a ton of insight that can be helpful to move anybody’s singing or sight-singing forwards. We hope you’ll enjoy this!</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1"><strong>Subscribe For Future Episodes!</strong></p> <p class="p1"><a href= "http://musicalitypodcast.com/subscribe-itunes">Apple Podcasts</a> | <a href= "http://musicalitypodcast.com/subscribe-android">Android</a> | <a href= "h