The Sight Reading Lab is a website that allows users access to sequential music sight reading material that provides practice and feedback tools. For assessment, the website evaluates performance pitch and duration by microphone, but it does not record or store any audio recordings. Teacher accounts may upload their own sight reading content and can maintain groups that allow tracking of student progress on content they select.

Similar products suffer from poorly crafted musical exercises (usually generative sources), and their platforms are bloated with unnecessary software that drive up the cost for access to what we consider basic functionality. Our philosophy is to let experienced educators guide the learning process whenever possible. Our scoring algorithm also reflects our straight-forward approach – reward right pitches at the right times. From there, let the student gain from reflection and critical thinking skills.

Allowing students to reattempt the same sight-reading exercise is a powerful strategy for mastering this skill, and that is exactly what this site is designed to do. You asked - so, here’s how it helps:

Reinforcement of Learning

Repetition: By reattempting exercises, students reinforce their understanding of musical patterns, rhythms, and notations. Repetition solidifies these concepts in their memory, making it easier to recognize and process them in new contexts.

Error Correction

Identifying Mistakes: Repeated attempts allow students to identify and correct mistakes they made previously. This iterative process helps them understand where they went wrong and how to avoid similar errors in the future.

Improved Accuracy: As students correct their mistakes, their accuracy improves. This iterative correction process ensures that they are not just practicing but practicing correctly, which is crucial for developing proficiency.

Building Confidence

Progress Tracking: When students see their own progress through successive attempts, their confidence builds. They can track improvements and feel a sense of accomplishment as they gradually achieve better results.

Reduced Anxiety: Knowing they can try again helps reduce performance anxiety. Students may feel more comfortable taking risks and experimenting with their sight-reading skills if they know they have the opportunity to correct and improve.

Enhanced Skill Development

Mastery of Techniques: Repeated practice of the same exercise helps students master specific sight-reading techniques and musical elements. This focused practice allows them to refine their skills and increase their speed and fluency.

Greater Familiarity: Repeated exposure to similar exercises increases students' familiarity with various musical elements, such as key signatures, rhythms, and intervals. This familiarity makes it easier to handle new and more complex sight-reading tasks.

Personalized Learning

Adaptive Practice: Reattempting exercises allows students to approach their learning at their own pace. They can spend more time on challenging parts and advance through easier exercises more quickly, tailoring the practice to their individual needs.

Feedback Integration: Students can integrate feedback from each attempt, using it to make adjustments and improvements. This personalized approach ensures that practice is more effective and targeted.

Development of Problem-Solving Skills

Analytical Thinking: Reattempting exercises encourages students to analyze their performance critically. They learn to identify patterns, understand common errors, and develop strategies to address them.

Self-Evaluation: The process of reattempting exercises helps students become better at self-evaluation and self-correction, which are important skills for independent learning and continuous improvement.

Yes, each end-user can update their settings for the correct concert pitch according to their instrument. tSRL also supports transposing melodies to work the same exercise in different keys if allowed by the exercise creator.

1. Register for an account using your institutional email and confirm your account by emailed link.
2. Login and purchase the educator account.
3. Determine how many student accounts you need and purchase them in packs of 10.
4. Have students independently register at the site (your step 1). Be mindful of educational filters which sometimes mark registration emails to students as spam.
5. Give students one of your purchased redemption codes so they can upgrade from their registered demo account.
6. Create and share your group through its join code. Approve students requests into your group. You are now ready to assign exercises and receive scoring reports!

Educator accounts are available for purchase by virtue of the registered email domain name affiliation to a school or organization. If the educator purchase option is not available and you believe that is in error, contact support.

No. tSRL does not audio record performances, and it is not designed to be an authoritative performance assessment platform. Our philosophy is that live in-person assessment is the best way to follow-up on skills learned through our site. Our company knows a thing or two about it... checkout RubricKing.com. While we strive for quality feedback, too many factors are involved to use this service as an assessment tool. We are decidedly a learning tool.

Purposefully, no. After joining a group, you only share name and scoring information for assigned exercises. If educators need to associate actual school ids with students for the purpose of connecting csv downloads to grading software, they maintain responsibility for entering that information on their end through the group roster view.