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Singscore: vocal warm-ups that listen

Free vocal warm-ups and singing exercises for iPhone, for singers and choirs. Singscore plays each warm-up, listens while you sing it and shows your pitch on a scrolling lane, note by note, so you can see where you go flat or sharp, or slide into a note, and fix it before rehearsal, a lesson or a gig. Exercises move into your range, songs come with a backing band and karaoke lyrics, and your progress is kept on your iPhone.

Something not working, or not sure how to do something? The answers to the common questions are below. If yours isn’t, write to us at contact@nightlybuildaudio.com with your iPhone model, its iOS version and Singscore’s version (in Tools › About Singscore), and we’ll reply as soon as we can.

Getting started

  • Your voice: on first launch, Find my range asks you to hold your lowest, then your highest comfortable note; or pick a voice type. Every exercise is moved into that range. Change it any time in Tools › Settings › Your voice, or run Tools › Range test again.
  • Headphones are the best way to sing with Singscore: you hear the guide clearly and the microphone hears only you. Wired or Bluetooth both work; the microphone is always the iPhone’s own.
  • The microphone: Singscore asks for it the first time you sing. If you said no, allow it in Settings › Privacy & Security › Microphone › Singscore.
  • Where to start: Today › Start workout sings five exercises, warm-up to cool-down, at a speed that fits you. Or pick anything from Exercises or Songs, read its goal, tap Hear it, then Sing.

Vocal warm-ups for singers and choirs

  • The Warm-ups shelf: humming slides, lip trills, sirens, sighs, five vowels on one note and gentle hums, each with its goal and the part of the voice it wakes up. Every warm-up moves into your range and climbs a semitone at a time, like a teacher at the piano.
  • Short on time? Today › Quick warm-up gets your voice going in a few minutes. Today’s workout always starts with a warm-up too.
  • Before choir: warm up, then work on what a choir needs: long notes held in tune, clean starts, intervals and steady passages. If your choir tunes to A = 442, set Tools › Settings › Tuning to match.

The lane and the scores

  • The lane: the notes scroll towards the line, and your voice draws a trail through them, coloured by how close you are: on the note, close, or off. The note you’re singing and how many cents off it you are show above, and each finished note gets its grade in words.
  • Scores: each note is graded on the pitch you hold, forgiving vibrato and the very start and end. Accuracy above 50 %, 70 % and 85 % earns one, two and three stars. Settings › Scoring has Relaxed, Standard and Strict.
  • Octaves: with “Any octave counts” on (the default), singing the notes an octave lower or higher is in tune, except on the Range shelf, where the octave is the point.
  • Speed, loops and again: while you sing, the slider beside the lane slows the exercise down to 30 % or speeds it up to 150 %; the loop button repeats the round until you turn it off, and the round arrow sings the last round again. With Settings › Speed that fits you (on at first), each exercise starts a little faster after a strong run and slower after a hard one.
  • Clean starts: on the Clean starts shelf, how each note begins is judged too: a dot for a clean start, and an arrow where you slid in from below or above.

Headphones and timing

  • Bluetooth headphones play late. Run Tools › Headphone latency with the headphones you use, and accept the offset: the lane and the scoring then line up with what you hear.
  • Without headphones, Settings › Echo cancellation keeps the guide out of the microphone when singing along. “Listen first” and “First note” never play while you sing.
  • No pitch shown? Check the microphone permission, and that no other app is using the microphone. A very soft or breathy voice may not register: sing a little more firmly.

Free, all of it

Every warm-up, exercise and song, every sound for the guide and the band, every tool (pitch monitor, range test, latency check) and your progress in depth are free. No ads, no account, no subscription.

Your progress

  • Everything stays on your iPhone: the practice history, XP, streaks and badges are kept in the app and in your device’s backups. Deleting the app deletes them.
  • Starting over: Tools › Settings › Delete all progress.

Privacy

Singscore collects nothing and records nothing: the microphone is analysed on your iPhone as you sing. The full policy: Singscore privacy policy.

A word on your voice

The exercises are standard ones that voice teachers everywhere use, in Singscore’s own patterns. They are practice aids, not a replacement for a teacher. If your voice hurts or feels strained, stop and rest it.