Begin here.
Everything starts with this.You don't need to read music. You don't need to know Latin. You don't need any prior training. You need a clear starting point — and this is it.
You want to sing chant.
But you don't know where to begin.
You have heard it. You have felt it move something in you — the way those melodies seem to rise out of another world and pull the soul upward with them. And you want to sing it. But every time you open a chant book, you feel the same thing:
- Four lines instead of five. No time signature. Notes that look nothing like anything you've seen before. What is this even supposed to mean?
- Latin words you can't pronounce staring back at you — and a fear that mispronouncing them would somehow make the whole thing worse.
- A sense that everyone else seems to know something you don't — some secret code that was never explained to you.
- You've tried YouTube. But they assume things you don't yet know, skip steps, or contradict each other — and you end up more confused than when you started.
- A quiet, nagging worry: maybe I'm starting too late. Maybe I'm just not musical enough. Maybe this isn't for someone like me.
"I don't know where to begin." That sentence ends here.
I have been singing evening Vespers for 4 years. I now have a full understanding of the Divine Office. Beautiful presentation. Thank you!
Louis Caruso Student · USAIt hands you
the key.
Square notation is a language. Like any language, it looks impenetrable from the outside and becomes completely natural once someone explains it clearly, step by step, starting from the very beginning. That is all this course does — and it does it in the most direct and unhurried way possible.
By the end of these lessons, you will be able to pick up a chant book, find the clef, identify the notes, understand the rhythm, pronounce the Latin, and begin to sing. Not perfectly — but confidently. That moment — the first time a page of square notation makes sense to you — is one of the quiet joys of this tradition. This course exists to give you that moment.
"This is the clearest explanation of liquescents that I have ever heard. Makes sense of the little diamonds too." — Teresa Clark
You are not just learning to read notes.
You are stepping into a living tradition.
What you receive
when you enroll today
5 Step-by-Step Video Lessons — Square Notation from Scratch
Every lesson builds on the last. You begin with the four-line staff and end reading and singing from a real chant book — with solfège exercises throughout. No shortcuts. No assumed knowledge. Everything is explained.
Listen & Repeat Practice
2 immersive call-and-response sessions that help you internalize the sound, contour, and rhythm of authentic chant. Your ear learns alongside your eye.
Ear Training & Melodic Awareness
A dedicated ear training video and quiz to sharpen your pitch recognition and strengthen your sense of interval relationships — the heart of chant singing.
Knowledge Reinforcement Quizzes
2 multiple-choice quizzes that test and solidify what you've learned — ensuring notational principles don't just visit your memory but take up residence.
Sight-Singing Confidence Builder
A sight-singing video quiz where you practice reading and vocalizing chant directly from notation. The moment reading becomes singing — that is the milestone this builds toward.
Latin Pronunciation Guide
Learn to pronounce Ecclesiastical Latin clearly and beautifully. Essential for singing chant with accuracy — and with the devotion the text deserves.
Chant History — 4 Captivating Lessons
Trace the full story of Gregorian Chant from its origins through deterioration to the miraculous restoration at Solesmes. Understanding the history transforms how you hear — and how you sing.
Downloadable Resources
Printable sheet music, reference materials, and practice guides you can use at your desk, your lectern, or in the choir loft — long after the course is finished.
Do you see yourself here?
The moment it clicks.
You have given us such a comprehensive store of necessary information on the Chant and how to work with it and understand it. I personally like to repeat each lesson to fully grasp the contents. Your layout allows this. Thank you.
Maureen Woodhead StudentThis is the clearest explanation of liquescents that I have ever heard. Makes sense of the little diamonds too. Thank you.
Teresa Clark StudentI have been singing evening Vespers for 4 years. I now have a full understanding of the Divine Office. Beautiful presentation. Thank you!
Louis Caruso Student · USAOne course. One price.
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US students enroll for $97. Due to international tax registration requirements, students outside the United States receive the course free of charge — same content, same access, no strings attached.
Chant History
Outside the US? See the card below.
Enroll Now — USA- 5 step-by-step video lessons on square notation
- 2 Listen & Repeat call-and-response sessions
- Ear training video & quiz
- 2 knowledge reinforcement quizzes
- Sight-singing confidence builder
- 4 chant history lessons
- Latin pronunciation guide
- Downloadable resources & sheet music
Chant History
Due to international tax registration requirements, we are unable to process paid enrollments outside the United States. Rather than exclude you, we are offering this course at no charge. If it blesses you and you would like to support this work, we warmly invite you to make a voluntary donation through the PayPal button on our Support page. No obligation — it is freely given either way.
Enroll Free — Non-USA- 5 step-by-step video lessons on square notation
- 2 Listen & Repeat call-and-response sessions
- Ear training video & quiz
- 2 knowledge reinforcement quizzes
- Sight-singing confidence builder
- 4 chant history lessons
- Latin pronunciation guide
- Downloadable resources & sheet music
All prices in USD · Instant access upon enrollment · Self-paced — learn on your schedule
Before you enroll,
let me address this.
Every cantor who ever sang a chant
started somewhere.
This is your somewhere. The notation will make sense. The Latin will come. The history will move you. And one day — sooner than you think — you will open a chant book and simply begin to sing.
The tradition has waited fifteen hundred years.
It can wait for you to learn to read it.
Start now.