Learning Chant is another term for learning Elementary Music Literacy. There are three pillars to music literacy:

• Encouragement. Encouragement is not praise. Music literacy suffers from “music marketing” which positions music literacy as reserved to an elite. It is not. Chant is for everyone. So is music literacy.
• Adequate instruction (see Introduction to the Movable DO method, or Long Beach 7AM mass) . A path to music literacy should be offered in every Catholic parish. Ask your pastor or music director if/why that is not the case. If they say it is impossible, do not believe them.
• Practice: at least weekly, daily if possible (consider chanting Compline every day).

The videos below are an ENCOURAGEMENT to make your first step towards music literacy.

VIDEO 1 : GUIDO D’AREZZO AND THE ORIGINS OF MUSIC LITERACY

See also: Chant and solfege: the foundations of music literacy…

…and the CHORALOSOPHY MUSIC LITERACY SUITE

VIDEO 2 : WHY WE MUST SING

VIDEO 3 : WHY WE DON’T SING

VIDEO 4 : SOUND BEFORE SIGHT WITH DR. CAROL KRUEGER

VIDEO 5 : THE A-CAPPELLA REHEARSAL WITH CHRIS MUNCE OF THE CHORALOSOPHY PODCAST