What you are training
Every melody is a sequence of intervals, and a singer who can hear them by name learns songs faster, harmonises more easily, and lands leaps in tune, because the ear already knows how far the next note is before the voice has to find it. Interval recognition is pure ear training: two notes are played and you name the distance, a third, a fifth, an octave. The reference songs most people learn it with are useful, but the goal is to hear the interval itself, without the crutch. This exercise plays pairs of notes and asks you to name each one, with the answer explained after every round. It needs no microphone. The intervals you miss most are the ones your singing will miss most, which is exactly what a plan should drill first.
How to do it
- Two notes will play. Identify the interval between them.
- Use the reference song hints on each button to anchor the sound.
- Higher belts unlock more intervals, descending pairs, harmonic playback, and faster tempo.
If you can't hear the distance between two notes, you can't sing it accurately. Interval recognition is the ear-voice bridge that makes everything else possible.
After this exercise, the plan: The daily plan takes the intervals you missed and turns them into sung leaps, so the ear and the voice learn the distance together.
If singing hurts, stop. Pain, hoarseness, extra effort, loss of range, or repeated throat clearing that lasts more than a day is a reason to see an ENT or laryngologist, or a speech-language pathologist who specializes in voice. It is not a reason to practice harder.