Every singer in your choir can learn to sight-sing.
Aural training exercises and sight-singing rubrics that break music literacy into tangible, step-by-step skills. One purchase gives you unlimited copies for your ensemble — for the rest of your career.
Try the system — free.
Real, classroom-ready tools at no cost: lesson plan templates, a reflective midterm, voicing guides, and more. Use them tomorrow. If they help, you'll know exactly where the rest lives.
Students who grade themselves, grow themselves.
Simple, clear self-assessments your singers complete in moments — and the very same rubrics work as your grading tools. Students become partners in their growth, and your workload shrinks.
Three lanes. One destination: sight-singing.
The ear and the pencil develop separately. Lane 1 is cumulative — each skill builds on the last — while Lanes 2 and 3 develop in parallel, on paper. Every resource below targets a lane.
Aural Development
Cumulative — in this order
Labeling Pitch
On paper — develops in parallel
Rhythm
On paper & out loud — develops in parallel
The 2-out-of-3 Method
Before singers can truly sight-sing, they combine any two lanes at a time:
Singers can attempt sight-singing at any point along the way — but major success comes when all three lanes merge. And no singer is actually tone-deaf: when each skill is isolated, assessed, and developed, every student improves.
Aural Training
The ear-training exercise students use for four consecutive years — from the best-selling original sheet to advanced minor-mode training, with a rubric to measure every singer's growth.
The Best Aural Training Exercise — "Original"
The one sheet with endless variations. Use it with the same students from grade 9 through 12 — in full ensemble, small groups, one-on-one, with beginners and advanced singers alike.
View productAural Training — Major & Relative Minor
A 2-page handout that lasts four years: 18 major exercises plus 18 relative minor exercises, with a 4-page explanation covering variations for every skill level.
View productAll 4 Minor Aural Training Sheets
Advance beyond major, diatonic ear-training: natural (la-based), natural (do-based), harmonic, and melodic minor tables for your developing musicians.
View productAural Training Assessment Rubric
Assess every singer's aural skills based on their performance of the Aural Training Exercise — with tangible steps for improvement, leading to mastery.
View product BundleThe Best Aural Training Bundle
The Original exercise + the Assessment Rubric + a detailed implementation guide with variations for choir, small group, and individual singers. The exercise and its measuring stick, together.
View bundle Best ValueThe ULTIMATE Aural Training Bundle
All four tangible steps to develop your students' ears — matching pitch, in-tune scales, steps vs. skips, and diatonic leaps — assessed and developed. Fast, focused, and fun.
View bundleSight-Singing
The Developmental Rubric system: every prerequisite skill isolated into its own rubric with five clear levels — so you can pinpoint exactly where each singer is stuck and move them forward.
Sight-Singing Developmental Rubric BUNDLE
The complete system: all six prerequisite skills — pitch-matching, scale-singing, alternating solfège, aural training, rhythm, and sight-singing — each with its own rubric. One purchase trains sight-singers for the rest of your career.
View bundleSight-Singing Developmental Rubric
The master rubric: six prerequisites for successful sight-singing with step-by-step goals, and a place to track every singer's score in each category.
View productScale-Singing Rubric
An in-tune scale is the gateway to holding a part and sight-singing. Five tangible levels move singers from struggling to perfectly in tune throughout their voice.
View productRhythm Labeling / Performing Rubric
Five levels for rhythm mastery — labeling and performing, including eighth-note subdivisions in 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8 — with a packet of practice examples included.
View productSight-Singing Self-Assessment / Grading Rubric
Turn sight-singing into a gradeable, self-assessable skill — students see exactly where they stand and exactly what the next level requires.
View productSimple. Clear. Double-duty.
Every self-assessment is simple and clear enough for singers to complete in moments — and here's the real secret: grade your students with the exact same simplified approach. When your grading gets simpler, your students achieve more. Three questions every director asks:
Not when the rubric makes success concrete. Each level describes an observable behavior — there's nothing vague to inflate. Students score against clear descriptions, and your occasional spot-check keeps honesty the easy path. Accuracy itself becomes part of the skill.
Repetition turns reflection into habit. When singers name their preparation, posture, and participation daily or weekly, the rubric's expectations become their internal voice — they start correcting themselves mid-rehearsal, before you ever have to.
Your grading workload shrinks while your gradebook gets stronger. Students generate the evidence; you validate it. Choir earns respect as a "real class" with real assessment — and you go home on time.
Self-Assessment Rubrics
Rehearsals, part-learning, concerts, and beyond: rubrics that make students partners in their own growth while shrinking your grading workload.
Self-Assessment TOTAL BUNDLE
Every self-assessment tool Choral Clarity offers — 10 different assessments as PDFs, editable documents, and Google Forms. Rehearsal participation, sight-singing, part-learning, pre- and post-concert, and more.
View bundle BundleRehearsal Participation Bundle
All four daily rehearsal self-assessments as PDFs and editable Word documents. When singers hold themselves accountable for their contribution, they improve.
View bundle Google Form IncludedDaily/Weekly Rubric — The 4 Ps
Participation broken into four simple categories: Preparation, Performance, Posture, and Positivity — including a Google Form that auto-populates scores onto a spreadsheet.
View productRehearsal Participation Rubric — Monthly/Quarterly
The classic self-assessment: hand it out in week one, set expectations, and let singers hold themselves accountable across the marking period.
View productRehearsal Participation Rubric — Daily/Weekly
The ultimate daily self-assessment for rehearsal participation: easy to use, clear, and quick enough to fill out without eating rehearsal time.
View productPre-Concert Self-Assessment
As the concert approaches, guide singers to step up their engagement — a simple rubric that leads to a more successful performance. PDF plus editable doc.
View productPart-Learning Self-Assessment / Grading Rubric
A simple way for singers to assess their at-home part-learning with rehearsal tracks — as a PDF rubric plus an editable Word doc.
View productRemote Participation Rubric
Clear expectations and self-accountability for remote singers — synchronous or asynchronous, students learn how to engage from anywhere.
View productConcert Evaluations
Pair with the pre-concert self-assessment: evaluation tools that turn every performance into a learning milestone — before and after the downbeat.
Browse concert resourcesAll Self-Assessment Rubrics
Browse the full collection — including post-concert self-assessments and concert evaluation tools — to build exactly the assessment system your program needs.
Browse the collectionFree resources
No email walls, no catches — just tools that work, so you can see how Choral Clarity thinks before spending a dollar.
Run Your Rehearsal
The "Be Respectful" Rehearsal Guidelines
The famous guidelines that replace "be respectful" with specific, observable, redirectable expectations.
Download free → FreeRespect Through Reinforcement
How positive reinforcement — not punishment — builds a respectful rehearsal culture.
Download free → FreeMusical Mishap Form
A simple form for students to report their own mistakes — accountability without fear.
Download free → FreeChoir Bathroom Sign-Out Sheet
The procedure that keeps rehearsal flowing: sign out, sign in, zero interruptions.
Download free → FreeChoir Lesson Plan Template
An effective daily lesson plan template — download, edit, and have a great lesson.
Download free → FreeChoir Observation Lesson Plan Template
Structured around exactly what administrators look for — nail the lesson, impress your admin.
Download free →Build Your Program
The 4 Steps To Building A Successful Choral Program
The framework behind the book — for directors starting out, starting over, or leveling up.
Download free → Free10 Steps to Choosing the Right Choir Officers
Pick student leaders who take real ownership — not just the popular kids.
Download free → Free10 Keys to Eliminating High School Choir Senioritis
Keep your seniors invested and leading right through their final concert.
Download free → FreeChoir Retention Spreadsheet
Track and grow retention — shareable between multiple teachers and feeder schools.
Download free → FreeYour Ultimate Final Week Choir Concert Checklist
Everything handled before the downbeat — walk into concert week calm.
Download free → Free12 Summer "Do Nows" Checklist
Twelve things to do BEFORE you return to school — start the year already ahead.
Download free →Assess, Teach & More
The 10-Question Choir Midterm
No studying required — a reflective, holistic measure of what students truly learned.
Download free → Free"Tone-Deaf" Quiz Answer Sheet
The high-vs-low pitch recognition quiz — proof that your “tone-deaf” singers aren’t.
Download free → FreeHow to Voice Your Choir — Printable Guide
The quick-and-effective voicing method as a printable PDF, in hand while you voice singers.
Download free → FreeValentine’s Day Rehearsal Assignment
A ready-made seasonal assignment that keeps February rehearsals fresh and fun.
Download free → Free17 Choir Demo Lesson Tips To Land Your Job!
For directors going for their first job or transitioning to a new one — ace the demo lesson.
Download free → Free CourseHow To Develop Mindset & Mission!
A full course — phase one of the entire Choral Clarity philosophy — free inside the Choral Clarity Collective.
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Beyond sight-singing and self-assessment — the rest of the Choral Clarity catalog.
Choral Rehearsal Tracks
High-quality part tracks for Adam's compositions — so your singers learn at home and rehearsals move faster.
Browse rehearsal tracksThe Full Resource Marketplace
Every rubric, template, exam, and tool in one place — the complete Choral Clarity resource catalog.
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Adam's compositions and arrangements, written for real choirs — listen to every piece before you buy.
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Inside Collective Premium, all of these resources are included — along with the full course library presented as a guided progression, a monthly live Q&A with Adam, and a community of directors building the same thing you are.