The Singing Athlete · Solfège for singers
Do Re Mi Vocal Gym
Revive your solfège smarts with Mila the Deer: 12 progressive exercises at three speeds to sync your brain hemispheres, sharpen pitch, and unlock effortless singing.
Welcome to the Vocal Gym
Recently, I became re-interested in solfège, which I (like most of us) first learned from Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music. As Maria von Trapp taught us, learning your do re mi’s is a great way to understand more about the way music is constructed. Furthermore, solfège is awesome for your brain.
By the way, the name of our cartoon mascot is Mila the Deer. (Get it? Mi-la?)
Solfège and your brain
There is a wide, thick bundle of nerves in your brain called the corpus callosum that joins your two brain hemispheres. (“Corpus callosum” means “tough body” in Latin.)
Musicians have been shown to have more robust corpus callosums. The skill of music requires excellent coordination between the left hemisphere, which is responsible for the more mathematical elements of music, and the right hemisphere, which is responsible for the more melodic elements.
Solfège takes things one step further, requiring communication between the language centers (in the left brain) and pitch centers (in the right brain). Associating a word with a note takes a lot of neural finesse. The harder things get in this class, the more good challenges your corpus callosum is guaranteed to find.
Twelve exercises, three speeds
I’ve created twelve original and progressive solfège exercise patterns for you. They start easy and get a bit challenging by the end. For each lesson, you start with a video where I teach you the exercise and its variations. Then you try the drill at one of three speeds:
Speed 1
Slow Re Mi
Nice and easy.
Speed 2
Do Re Medium
For the moderates among you.
Speed 3
Go-go-go Re Mi
For the solfège superstars out there.
After you finish an exercise, sing a phrase or two of your own music and see if warming your brain up with do re mi helps your other repertoire feel easier to sing. All the videos have captions.
What’s inside
Start here
A Solfège Prologue
1 drill
The ideas behind the class and how to use it.
The core
Exercises 1–12
43 drills
Twelve progressive patterns, each taught in video parts you can sing at three speeds.
Put it to work
Solfège Tests
4 drills
Check how far your ear and your brain have come.
Sing
Solfège Songs
4 drills
Solfège Songs Parts 1 and 2, Do a Deer, Soul-fège
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