Which Sight Reading
System is Best?

Any sight-reading system, used consistently, will improve students' ability to read music.

However, after working with all three sight-reading systems, over many years of teaching, I have discovered that one system clearly has an advantage over the other systems. That is "Fixed Do".

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Cole's Newest Arrangement!

The Boar's Head

A natural choice for Madrigal Dinners or fesitival. If used during a Madrigal Dinner, the three verses may be interspersed with "toasts" or dialogue in praise of the boar's head.

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The Boar's Head >>
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Comments
(and pictures) from Fixeddo.com readers

Alto soloist, Gail Multop shares her thoughts on
sight-reading...

Greg Hebert, Director of the Corona Del Sol High School Choral Program in Temp AZ, wonders if the fixed system would make him more successful...

David Bauguess has a different view of Cole's distinction of sight singing methods...

Gretchen Liechty Lynch, Kodaly trained teacher, challenges Fixed Do...

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Cole B. Tyrrell: Author, Sight Reading: The "Fixed Do" Method; Choral Director, South Haven
High School.

I want to hear from you!

If you are a music teacher, please let me know which system you were taught in high school and college, or even if you were not taught a "sight-reading" system.

Tell me why you like one sight-reading system over another, and how much do you emphasize sight reading in your classroom?

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