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Hold a note
Sing one note and hold it for eight seconds. Watch your pitch as a line against the note, then hear your take next to a perfectly steady one.
The microphone opens when you tap, listens for eight seconds and closes. Nothing is recorded or sent anywhere.
· the light band is a quarter tone either side
You held
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A phone microphone in a room hears roughly what a listener would. Read the numbers as a sketch of this one take, not a verdict on your voice.
How to hold a note
A held note is mostly breath. The voice follows the air: steady air, steady note. Three things help more than anything else.
- Breathe low before you start: belly and sides out, shoulders still. A quick, high breath runs out around four seconds.
- Let the air out slowly and evenly, as if fogging up a cold window. Pushing harder near the end tends to send a note sharp; running out of air lets it sag flat.
- Pick a note in the middle of your range and an open vowel, "ah" or "oo". Very low and very high notes need more air for the same steadiness.
What this reads, and what it doesn't
It reads your pitch a hundred times a second and draws it against the note. Held means the pitch, with any vibrato averaged out, stayed within a quarter tone (50 cents) either side. Drift is where it ended against where it began. Vibrato is the regular wobble around the note: how many times a second, and how far.
Vibrato is a choice, not a fault: many singers hold a straight tone first and let the vibrato in later. Pick "Whatever I sing" to measure steadiness around your own note, or pick a note to aim for one. A different octave of that note counts.
Then make something of it
The note you held goes into Brumm, inside a club track with a beat and a bass. No account, no upload: the note travels inside the link itself. Sing a whole line there, and it becomes an instrument.
Your voice stays on your phone: the tool reads it in the browser, plays it back once and keeps nothing. How the site counts visits.