MyVocal: Vocal Warm Up & Pitch

Train singing basics daily: MyVocal brings warm-ups, breathing, scales, ear training and rhythm together so you can practice a little every day.
The piano plays, you sing, and your pitch is drawn as a live line over the notes, so you can see exactly where you are.

■ Sing scales with the piano
Tap Start: the piano plays a cue chord, then the melody, and you sing it back. Each round the starting note rises a semitone, then comes back down.
As you sing, the mic draws your pitch over the note bars on a piano roll, and you see your pitch accuracy at the end.
• Patterns: 5-note scale, arpeggio, octave arpeggio, octave jump, 9-note scale, 1.5-octave arpeggio, minor 5-note scale, staccato arpeggio, siren, fifth slide, vibrato pulses, chromatic scale, long tone
• Sounds: syllables like Mah, Mee, Nay, Mum, Gee, Lah, No and Wee, sequences like Mee-Meh-Mah-Moh-Moo, and techniques like lip trill, tongue roll, humming, “Ng”, straw phonation, “Ha” staccato and “Woo” siren
• Tap Preview to hear the pattern before you start
• Start with a ready-made exercise, or build your own from a pattern and a sound
• Choose your voice type (bass to soprano) or measure your range with the mic, and scales start where your voice sits. Set the tempo and start note, and turn the piano melody on or off

■ Agility
Practice moving through many notes quickly and cleanly: sing 5-note runs, zigzag thirds, trills, pentatonic runs and blues riffs with the piano, and check your pitch line on every note.

■ Warm-up
Basic Warm-up covers neck, shoulders, jaw, lip trills, humming and an “Ng” siren in just over a minute. Deep Warm-up takes you from body to lips, tongue and resonance, step by step. Every step is timed, with a guide tone.

■ Breath
Belly Breathing (in for 4, then a longer “Sss” each round) and Staccato Breath build the breath that carries your voice. In the Long “Sss” Test, the mic times how long you can keep going on one breath.

■ Ear
• Live Pitch: see the note you're singing, with cents
• Pitch Match: sing back the note the piano plays
• Interval Quiz: name the interval between two notes (easy, normal or hard)
• Range Finder: find your lowest and highest notes and your closest voice type

■ Rhythm
In Beat with “Ta”, listen to the metronome and piano for one bar, then say “Ta!” on every note in the next bar. The notes get finer: quarter, eighth, triplet, then sixteenth notes. In Rhythm Echo you hear a one-bar rhythm and say it back, and Advanced Rhythm Echo adds swing and syncopation. The mic shows right away whether each “Ta” landed on the beat.

■ Today's practice & records
Today's practice picks one exercise from each group, shows how long each takes and checks it off when you're done. In My Records, charts show your practice time and how your longest “Sss”, pitch match, interval quiz and scale accuracy have grown over a week, a month, three months or a year (charts are part of Premium).

■ Made easy
• No account: start right away
• The mic is used only to show your pitch