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About Singing

This is the full sight-reading skill: see a note on the staff, sing it. The reading and the production happen in one motion — what choral singers, instrumentalists, and anyone reading from a chart actually need to do.

The setup

  • Treble clef, C major, naturals only.
  • Range: middle C (C4) through top-line F (F5).
  • Before each prompt, C4 plays as your anchor so you’re reading intervals against a known tonic, not guessing cold absolute pitch.
  • Sing in any octave that fits your voice — the app matches the pitch class, not the height.

How to use it

  1. Tap to start. Grant microphone access if prompted.
  2. The anchor (C4) plays. When the note appears on the staff, sing it — sustained, on any vowel, in your comfortable octave.
  3. A sparkline shows the cents-off trace of your sung pitch in real time.
  4. Within ±30 cents of the target pitch class counts as correct.

What you’re actually drilling

The chain from notation → interval-from-tonic → vocal motor program. Sight-reading the note alone (BetterAtSightReading) trains the visual lookup. Hearing a pitch and singing it back (BetterAtToneReproduction) trains the ear-to-voice link. This drills the full circuit.

Per-note tracking

The Account page surfaces the notes you sing flat or sharp most often, with the median cents-off so you can see whether you’re consistently drifting on a particular scale degree.

Start drilling →