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abcSightReading
Unlimited sight-reading exercises for your group, generated from real harmony rules, in the key, level and voicing you choose.
New to sight reading? Start at step 1 of abcStepByStep
Just here for fun? Can you sing these 8 notes?
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Can you sing it?
Eight random notes. Your phone listens and Pip shows where your voice is. Pop every note, then share the video and dare your friends.
Stop handwriting sight-reading exercises
Eight bars of correct four-part writing takes a working musician ten to twenty minutes, and your group reads it once. Then you need another one, in a different key, at a different level, for a different voicing.
Press Generate instead. Every exercise is new, and every one is singable.
How it works
Written by rules, with no AI
Every exercise is written the way a trained musician would write it: real chord progressions, sound voice leading, and melodies inside your singers' ranges.
What you get
Fully customizable
Key, time signature, voicing, measure count, tempo, which rhythms, which chords, how wide a leap each part may sing, how much decoration. Set it once and save it as a preset.
Correct voice leading
Parallel fifths and octaves are ruled out as the parts are written. Chromatic notes are approached and left by step, and resolve the way they are altered. Melodic sevenths are refused, and every part stays inside its own range.
Written in phrases
Eight measures come out as a period: a cadence at the midpoint, a consequent that answers the antecedent instead of repeating it, and phrase endings that breathe.
Built for UIL
Levels 1 to 5 with the UIL document's own keys, rhythms, voicings and ranges, including the two-part tenor-bass voicing the lower levels ask for.
Hear it as well as read it
Piano, organ, choir and more, with a count-in, a moving cursor and a loop. Transpose the playback without touching the page, so it is read in one key and heard in another.
Solfège and analysis on tap
Movable do, fixed do or note names under each part, Kodály rhythm syllables (or the ones your group uses) and Roman numerals above the top staff, each switchable on the exercise already on screen. Print the clean copy.
For your students, too (coming soon)
Practice that happens at home
Give each class a join code, or make accounts from your roster: student accounts are safe for any age, with no student email. Assign a level for fifteen minutes, and see who opened it and how long each one practiced.
Free to start. Unlimited for $19.99 a year. Student accounts come with the Educator plan, coming soon. See pricing
Questions
Is it free?
Yes, to start: 10 exercises a month with no account, 50 with a free account. Pro is unlimited for $19.99 a year.
What voicings does it write?
Unison, two-part treble and tenor-bass, three-part mixed (SAB), treble (SSA) and tenor-bass (TTB), and four-part mixed (SATB).
Does it follow the UIL sight-reading levels?
Yes. Levels 1 to 5 use the keys, meters, rhythms, chords, voicings and lengths from UIL's choir sight-reading criteria. It is an independent tool, not made by UIL.
Can my students practice at home?
Anyone can practice at home today. The Educator plan is coming soon: class join codes, up to 100 student accounts safe for any age (no student email), and assignments with the minutes each student spent.
Is it made with AI?
No. Every exercise is written by rules (chord progressions, voice leading, ranges and phrase structure), so nothing is guessed and nothing comes out strange.
Preparing for contest? UIL sight-reading practice. Choosing a tool for your group? Why abcSightReading.
Your next exercise is one click away
Just starting? abcStepByStep, step 1 takes you from rhythm alone to singing in parts.
Rhythm-only drills, counted in Kodály or 1 & 2 &, are on the Unison page.