Vocal Range Finder + vs Vibrato Practice

Find your vocal range and voice type by singing. Vocal Range Finder listens through your microphone, guides you from your lowest note to your highest, and shows where your voice sits — bass, baritone, tenor, countertenor, alto, mezzo-soprano or soprano. A GUIDED TWO-STEP TEST ▶ Step 1: slide down to the lowest note you can sing clearly and hold it. Take a breath and hold it once more — the app only accepts an end you can repeat, so a single growl or crack cannot fake your range. ▶ Step 2: slide up to the highest note you can sing in full voice and confirm it the same way. ▶ Tap Finish. If the two ends are less than a fifth apart, the app asks you to sing higher instead of guessing a voice type from too little data. YOUR RANGE ON A PIANO • Lowest and highest note with the number of octaves you cover • Your range lit up on a piano keyboard, with the comfortable zone where you held notes longest marked inside it • Your voice type, plus a Guide tab listing the typical range of all 7 voice types • Singers whose range lines up with yours and songs that sit well for your voice • A range card you can share with your choir, teacher or friends PRACTICE: ONE NOTE AT A TIME The Practice tab sets a target one semitone past your current top or bottom. Sing toward it — the app tells you whether you are too low or too high — and hold it steadily for about a second. Once you do, that note is added to your saved range. Switch between extending your high and your low, and see how many notes you reached over the last 7 days. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS Your range is saved after each test, so you can see how it changes as you warm up, train and grow. Tests from the same day are combined into one daily result, and the app keeps up to 60 of these daily results. WHO IT'S FOR Choir singers finding their part, voice students and teachers, karaoke fans choosing the right key, and anyone who has wondered "what's my voice type?" TIPS FOR AN ACCURATE READING Use a quiet room, warm up gently first, and sing single steady notes rather than sliding quickly. Results depend on your microphone, background noise and how warmed up you are. Voice-type boundaries differ between teachers and methods, so treat the result as a guide rather than a strict label. Sing within your comfort. Stop if anything hurts or feels strained — range grows with short, regular, relaxed practice.

A straight, motionless tone is a kind of death. Add vibrato and you breathe life into the note. Vibrato Practice teaches vibrato as something you can actually study — not something you wait to arrive with maturity. Hear a tunable model wave at a steady 5 waves per beat, then match it: shape, depth, and speed. Not a metronome. Not a tuner. Not a drone. A model vibrato wave you match — 5 waves per beat, across 69 instruments. WHY FIVE Five waves per beat is the goal from the very beginning. It is difficult, and that is the point. At the default 45 BPM five waves a beat is 3.75 waves a second; the tempo slider moves that wherever the music and your teacher want it. The slower settings (2, 3, 4) build control on the way there. Don't let anything but 5 become your habit. THE EXERCISE A base note alternates with a chromatic scale — base, note, base, note — climbing to the top of your range, then dropping below. Taught to Prof. Thomas Hornig by Alain Bouhey at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, who insisted on the four low notes: on saxophone, F, E, E-flat, D. Start the note straight, then add the vibrato, the way a singer does. Those four low notes are not hard-coded saxophone pitches. Every instrument carries its own low-register anchor group inside its own real range, so the method transposes — not just the pitch. 69 INSTRUMENTS, 13 FAMILIES Violin, viola, cello, double bass. Voice. Saxophones, flutes and recorders, clarinets, oboe and bassoon, sixteen brass, guitars and basses, mallets, percussion, harp, keyboard — and the oud (Arabic and Turkish), buzuq, qanun, nay and mizmar. Each with correct written-pitch transposition, and the concert pitch shown underneath. WHAT'S IN IT - Tempo 20-120 BPM, depth 1-10, and 2/3/4/5/6 waves per beat - Four style presets: Standard (modern), Moderate, Warm & singing, Lush & wide - Four tone colours: Soft, Warm, Reed, Mellow, each with its own volume - Two wave shapes: Smooth is the goal; Even adds an angular dip, there so you can hear the difference - Two modes: run the full exercise, or hold one note and just match the wave - An optional click, four sounds, its own volume, switchable off - A practice log counting reps and minutes, exportable as CSV to send your teacher Free. No in-app purchases, no subscription, no advertising, no account, and nothing collected. No connection needed to practise. The Recommended Gear page loads product photos from the retailers and links out to them, so that page needs a connection. Those Amazon links are affiliate links, and Thomas Hornig earns from qualifying purchases. The note sets for saxophone and flute are research-grounded. The other instruments carry correct transposition and range, but their practice-note sets are provisional starting points. Refer to your teacher. Thomas Hornig is a Henri Selmer Paris Artist, Professor at the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music since 1994, and Principal Saxophonist of the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra. thewholehorn.com/vibrato-studio