Yamaha "fixed do" teaching method?

[news]

Just wondering, anyone have any thoughts on the Yamaha "fixed do" (C is do
regardless of the key signature) teaching method?

I wasn't aware of it.

Thanks,
Bill

[RVG]

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I've learned by intervals, something I find much more convenient to
compose and write music, especially to "extract" melodies from a chord
sequence and, of course, improvise over such a sequence.
This said I'm not sure this would be easy for children to understand. I
only attended those boring piano classes when I was a child and only
(much) later really enjoyed music from actual composition rather than
mere interpretation of others' works (that I enjoy through CDs of course).
Even when I sang barytone in a male choir, I used to improvise my line
(you have no idea - or you do - how boring this 3rd line is) instead of
following the written notes. This cost me some serious kicks in the
ankles by the choirmaster... :-)

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[socrates]

I wonder why you attribute it to "Yamaha"? Fixed do is one method of
sightsinging ear training, but not confined to "Yamaha"!
I find the movable do method more sensible.

[news]

> I wonder why you attribute it to "Yamaha"? Fixed do is one method of
> sightsinging ear training, but not confined to "Yamaha"!
> I find the movable do method more sensible.

The person who told me about it learned of it in her son's Yamaha sponsored
class. It was the first I'd heard of it.