The best practice apps and online tools to help community choir singers develop healthy practice habits, train their ears, and vocalize independently!
For a more "hands-on" approach of tracking your practice with pen and paper, Musician's Way has a variety of free practice files available for download. Their files include everything from a practice sheet for planning your goals, a practice schedule for keeping a regular practice time in your calendar, a practice log for keeping track of accomplishments, and even self-practice and performance skill assessments!
Price: FREE
With over 260 exercises, this app focuses on helping you identify chords, chord inversions, intervals, scales, and notes in relation to a chord. Bonus: You are also able to customize your own exercises and share them with your friends!
Price: $6.99
This app uses exercises directly from musictheory.net. The music theory portion includes learning the key signatures and staff, identifying written notes, training on intervals and chords, and keyboard and fretboard identification. The ear training area then focuses on identifying audio notes, intervals, scales, and chords. The app is known for its built-in calculators which calculate intervals, chords, and even the twelve-tone matrix (wow, that brings me back to college music theory!).
Price: $3.99
This Android app has a simple user interface that makes ear training seem easy! The app focuses not only identification of pitch but how the pitch functions in the key - hence the name "Functional Ear Trainer." It is promoted as a tool for learning how to transcribe the music you are hearing.
Price: FREE
Better Ears is really the crème de la crème of ear training apps. Their easy-to-use application is suitable for beginners and advanced musicians alike featuring modules that train on intervals, scales, chords, chord progressions, pitches, tempos, key signatures, and more!
Price: Varying - FREE/$9.99/$24.99
This app claims to improve your tone, pitch, control, and even your style through it's various vocal warm-ups which focus primarily on scales and arpeggios. In the app, you can listen to demos of expert singers and record yourself for evaluation.
Price: FREE
Warm up, exercise, or cool down your voice with Vocal Warm Up by Musicopoulos. Create your favorite "warm-up playlists," set your tempo, and you're off!
Price: $3.99
Claimed to be perfect for singers of all ages and experience levels, this app allows you to work in your own vocal range, choose your warm up speed, and features sixteen different scale patterns to develop agility.
Price: $3.99
This Android app eases you into singing with light exercises such as humming, oo-ing, and (your favorite!) lip trilling. It is a safe and easy app for warming up the voice and minimizes risk of vocal strain.
Price: $1.99