I've seen this mentioned a lot on this site, but I have to admit I've never heard of it before! could someone please explain to me what it is? thanks!

doh, re, mi, fah, soh, lah, ti, doh. Recognise it? So three blind mice would be

mi, re, doh.
mi, re, doh
soh, fah, fah, mi
work the rest out

ooh I see! makes sense now! Maybe I shoudl try that and see if it improves my singing...

It will!!

But I don't get how it would improve your singing?


[SIZE=1]Cool, 444 posts!

QUOTE (july @ Apr 27 2005, 06:52 AM)

But I don't get how it would improve your singing? [SIZE=1]Cool, 444 posts!

It won't improve the quality of your voice, but what it will do is help you internalise musical intervals, without which it's very difficult to sight-sing with ease.

If you already find it easy to look at, say, an E and a B on a treble clef and immediately hear a perfect fifth in your head, then no problem. But if you don't, and have to work it out, then relative solfah (where doh is always the tonic in a major key and la is the tonic in a minor key) is a very effective way of sorting this out.

In a Kodaly-based choir, you first learn a new piece in solfah. The intervals are quickly internalised, and before long you can drop the solfah names and start singing the lyrics instead.

It really does work, I promise!

Violinia

It does sound good, I'll ask my theory teacher about it! I don't really have problems with intervals, but it might make my sight reading better (I'm always rather slow)!