tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18734173.post5852652345379016007..comments2024-03-23T14:36:56.227-04:00Comments on The Collaborative Piano Blog: Barbara Fast on Sight ReadingChris Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05248396106719265480noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18734173.post-52540870484981577672009-01-03T09:09:00.000-05:002009-01-03T09:09:00.000-05:00Chris - this is great stuff. Could you please post...Chris - this is great stuff. <BR/><BR/>Could you please post a related item for singers? Unfortunately, many singers struggle with sight-singing throughout their education and careers. It's an ongoing challenge, unnecessarily fraught with anxiety and even shame for many.<BR/><BR/>Music is a language and many singers are functionally illiterate through no fault of their own. Singing training often doesn't begin early in life, as do piano training and other instrumental studies, and confident competent sight-reading/sight-singing becomes part of the cost. Most singers have lost the crucial early-mid childhood years of brain-synapse formation and language-acquisition which makes musical literacy a greater challenge than it is for many other instrumentalists.<BR/><BR/>We need to create more tools and resources for singers and singing students to develop this crucial skill without evoking fear or embarrassment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com