But I’m pretty confident that the pitch contour is the most important part, and an app that only did that thing would be almost as good on the skill-building side.
BTW, my girlfriend (who originally recommended this app to me after trying a bunch of singing apps), was actually annoyed at all the bells and whistles that the app came with, and recently build a version that just did the “what pitch are you singing? draw a graph” part.
And… last week she went ahead and made it: It’s called Simple Pitch. So you can try it out and see how useful it seems compared to the other one.
It’s in equal temperament, right? Have you thought about using just intonation?
I had always bought the story that the two are close enough for most musical purposes, but a few weeks ago I unfretted my guitar and started playing music in JI, and it’s night and day. For example, in ET the major third from C to E sounds kind of restless, while in JI it’s peaceful with all harmonics overlapping as they should (4:5 frequency ratio). Same for the minor third (5:6), hearing the JI interval makes me feel like “ah, so that’s what the ET interval was trying to hint at”. And then there’s the harmonic seventh chord (4:5:6:7), which sounds very musical but can’t be imitated on an ET guitar or piano at all.
BTW, my girlfriend (who originally recommended this app to me after trying a bunch of singing apps), was actually annoyed at all the bells and whistles that the app came with, and recently build a version that just did the “what pitch are you singing? draw a graph” part.
And… last week she went ahead and made it: It’s called Simple Pitch. So you can try it out and see how useful it seems compared to the other one.
It’s in equal temperament, right? Have you thought about using just intonation?
I had always bought the story that the two are close enough for most musical purposes, but a few weeks ago I unfretted my guitar and started playing music in JI, and it’s night and day. For example, in ET the major third from C to E sounds kind of restless, while in JI it’s peaceful with all harmonics overlapping as they should (4:5 frequency ratio). Same for the minor third (5:6), hearing the JI interval makes me feel like “ah, so that’s what the ET interval was trying to hint at”. And then there’s the harmonic seventh chord (4:5:6:7), which sounds very musical but can’t be imitated on an ET guitar or piano at all.