Learning sight singing is an iterative process. After assessing your current abilities, you may wish to practise any or all of the following:

• Start with just the rhythm! Get good at correctly clapping or verbalising an eight-bar rhythm, disregarding the pitch

• Sing scales and vocal warm-up patterns, especially any that 

Solfège is a system that assigns syllables to notes (do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti). You may be familiar with the use of solfège in Do-Re-Mi from The Sound of Music.

You may wish to use solfège to help improve your sight singing. It is important to know that there are two main types of solfège: fixed do and moveable do.

Fixed do

In fixed do solfège, the note C is always "do", D is always "re", E is always "mi", and so on.

This system essentially ignores sharps and flats. For example, Db, D and D# would all be sung on the syllable "re".

Movable do

In movable do solfège, "do" is assigned to the tonic note in a key. In C major, "do" would be the note C. In G major, the note "do" would be G.