Choir practice. Quire practice.

[labelleizzy]

Choir went well. I both dread and look forward to being forced to sight-sing.

It's scary as hell. *grin* I'm glad I keep going.
Good for me to remember that there's stuff I wanna do that I have to work on learning how to do it.

and this lesson's visceral. the fear locks up in my belly, and the frustration makes me squint and work harder, and I angle my head so I can hear the other altos and try to tune in to what they're singing...

very physical. Is good stuff.

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[serendipity17.livejournal.com]

What I found helped was getting one-on-one time with a well-tuned piano, Work your voice through interval training, such that your brain instantly knows "this is how I sing a [second, third, etc] up or down from any note", both major and minor intervals. Also work major and minor broken chords. As an alto, you've got it tougher for sight-singing, because you can't just follow upper piano melody (soprano line = easy). Think of your line as not only an interval from where you've been, but also as an interval relative to the soprano line. Does your church choir sing Traditional 4-Note Chord Hymns for Organ, or something more flexible in structure?

My choir director started every day after warmups with having us take a blind stab at middle C. We'd come to a consensus, he'd hit the key, and we'd facepalm, then adjust.