Improve Your Sight-Singing! Grades 1-3: Solo Voice Book

Harris has rebuilt this foundational series to match current ABRSM standards while keeping the pedagogical architecture that made the original so effective. Over 100 new exercises mean you're working with contemporary material, and the two-volume split makes the beginner path feel achievable rather than overwhelming. The method respects the intelligence of your students by building each piece methodically before asking them to perform independently.

Structured but never rigid. You move through deliberate stages of understanding, each one building on the last, so the jump from exercise to solo piece doesn't feel like a leap into the unknown.

Solo singers preparing for ABRSM exams, instrumentalists wanting to develop stronger vocal literacy, and voice teachers building sight-singing from the ground up. Anyone serious about reading music fluently will find the systematic progression here genuinely useful.

• Work through the rhythmic and melodic exercises before attempting the full piece; they're not supplementary but foundational to understanding what comes next
• Return to the prepared pieces between sight-singing attempts; they anchor the vocabulary you'll need for the graded exercises
• Track which intervals or rhythmic patterns trip up your students most, then isolate those in short daily practice rather than grinding through entire exercises

Assign this as the primary sight-singing resource in your voice studio or choral rehearsals, working through one section per week. The new exam alignment means students can use it directly to prepare for formal assessments while building habits that transfer everywhere they sing.

• Reading unaccompanied melodies with confidence
• Recognizing and executing interval patterns
• Decoding rhythm notation in multiple meters
• Connecting prepared pieces to unfamiliar sight-singing material
• Sustaining pitch accuracy without instrumental support