Beginner Solfa Sight-Singing Practice Exercises
When you look at a new sheet of music, can you immediately hear in your head how the notes would sound? This is particularly vital for singers who want to sight-read from score notation, but this kind of audiation from the score can benefit any musician. Solfa can let you know how those notes should sound and sight-sing from written music notation freely and confidently.
It doesn’t take long to learn the basics of solfa and begin to sing with the solfa syllables. However it does take work to then be able to connect this internal feel for solfa with written notes on the page. If you want to apply your solfa skills to sight-sing new sheet music, you will need to work on some practice exercises and develop this specific skill.
Below you will find a set of exercises you can use to begin practicing sight-singing using solfa!
How to sight-sing using solfa
If you are new to solfa, begin by reading our series Starting Solfa andSolfa and the Score which explain what solfa (a.k.a. solfège, solfeggio) is, how it works, and helps you begin to practice with the solfa syllables for the notes of the major pentatonic scale.
Solfa is a versatile framework which can allow you to sight-read even the most challenging music as a singer. When you first begin, it’s important to start simple and build a strong foundation.
In the exercises below we will keep things simple by only using the notes of the major pentatonic scale: do, re, mi, so, la, do’.
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