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Singing exercises

Singing exercises use the microphone to compare what you sing with the target pitch content. The same practice screen is used for both interval and scale work, but the target and feedback change with the chosen exercise.

For interval exercises, Minuet plays the root note and asks you to sing the requested interval relative to it. For scale exercises, the app presents a scale or mode and expects you to sing the notes in sequence while staying on pitch and on beat.

A singing interval exercise in Minuet
A singing scale exercise in Minuet

The singing view shows the note targets, pitch and onset feedback, a live input meter, and a Calibrate Silence action. Minuet also counts in before the first note, so you can start on the correct beat. The scale view extends the same feedback to longer sequences, which makes it useful for practicing melodic memory in addition to pitch matching.

Singing exercises are influenced by several settings:

  • Voice class selects the expected vocal range.

  • Pitch tolerance controls how far from the target pitch a sung note may be.

  • Timing tolerance controls how much rhythmic drift is accepted for claps.