Recognizing Patterns To avoid confusion when you are first learning to read rhythms, you can count them out loud. This is a professional technique often used when there is a difficult measure of music. In Chapter 1, we saw how we will count “One-and, fwo-and, three-and, four-and,” etc., counting each individual beat and rest, but we also want to start recognizing rhythmic patterns. It is impossible to count out every beat as you play and sing, especially at fast tempos. You must start to recognize the patterns. Read and count through all the following examples. See how many pattems you can find within them. oOHearing What You See ‘One of the most important things in leaming to sightsing is developing your ear so you can hear ‘what your eyes see in the music. Your ear must be trained to hear the difference between the intervals. INTERVAL WARM-UPS inging through the following examples will help develop your ear and get you warmed up! Notice the number of half steps within each interval 13Sightsinging—Simple Melodies In this chapter, we will start with the first five notes of the major scale then expand. 1 294 8 2 5 4 32 12948322 J