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For a whole week of Valentine's Day have your students use this fun and engaging sight reading practice with love songs THEY WILL KNOW! I use it as a warm up/ do now at the start of band and choral classes for the first 5-10 minutes or so.
These are quick 2, 4, and 8 measure examples totaling 10 songs for the students to practice sight reading using solfege.
There are some tricky syncopated rhythms involved as well as key changes (C, G, F, D, Bb).
The songs included in the 10 examples are, in order:
1. Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis
2. Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran
3. We Found Love - Rhianna
4. Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars
5. She Loves You - The Beatles
6. I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
7. Shallow - A Star Is Born
8. All Of Me - John Legend
9. Can You Feel The Love Tonight - Elton John/Lion King
10. Love Is An Open Door - Frozen
This is a great warm up exercise at the start of class or rehearsal to get the students focused and their brains warmed up for singing, sight singing, reading, and learning new music.
Typically students can take either the whole sheet down in one day and we spend a good majority of a day on it OR spread it out over the week and do 1 or 2 a day.
Structure it as best you see fit.
The students love competing with each other to see who can figure out the solfege and the song first!
Bonus points if they can name the song, artist, and the correct lyrics!
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