Singing The Dots is both a course in sightsinging,
and a collection of songs for choirs.

Please help yourself to the PDFs. Thanks to the generous support of the Australian Kodály Scholarship, these books are available for free. They are free cost-wise and the copyright licence means the songs and resources are free for you to download, copy electronically or on paper, share, perform and record.  

Many singers would like to be able to read music but it can be hard to find time, enthusiasm and suitable material to work on sightsinging. Drawing on ten years of experience teaching musicianship to adults, I created Singing The Dots, so choirs can develop musicianship skills together through singing songs.

There are sixteen songs for choirs, each containing a sightreadable melody, and harmony parts. The songs are composed for adults. The ranges are comfortable and I chose text of beautiful, well known poetry. The songs slowly introduce musical elements and tools for sightreading, with simple explanations and short, lighthearted exercises to introduce and prepare each song.

Singing The Dots is based on the highly successful Kodály approach, adapted to the needs of adult choristers.

You can use this material in two ways - you can either download the chorister and director books above which include exercises and explanations to help you scaffold your teaching, or you can download individual PDFs of the songs, listed below. This might suit you if you have your own approach to teaching sightreading or if you would like to use the songs simply as easy repertoire for your choir to sing.