Sing Back Practice

This exercise plays a short melodic passage so that the user can practice singing it back. This exercise is often used in choir auditions to test how well singers remember pitches. Such auditions also test the singer' familiarity with different types of melodic material, particularly those found in levels 3-6 described below.

The content in level 1 and 2 is primarily conjunct motion using diatonic notes. Level 3 introduces more leaps, and particularly consecutive leaps outlining triadic material. Level 4 includes leaps that do not outline a triad, focusing largely on quartal and quintal material, and level 5 and 6 include highly chromatic and a-tonal material, in which the notes could not possible exist in a key without adding accidentals.

Honor Choir auditions typically test levels 2-5.