This course is for people who want to sing better and do not know where to start. It assumes no training. It does not assume you can read music, and it does not need a piano or a teacher in the room, because the piano is built into every lesson.
Nine lessons, in order. Each one pairs a short read with one or two exercises you can sing along to right on the page. The app listens through your microphone and scores your pitch, so you get feedback on the day you start rather than after weeks of guessing. Most lessons take fifteen to twenty minutes, and the course is paced for about three weeks if you do a lesson every couple of days. Nothing is locked. Skip ahead, come back, repeat a lesson as many times as you like.
The course has one structural idea. As you finish each lesson, you decide whether its exercise belongs in your daily routine. Add the ones that help, drop the ones that do not, and by the last lesson you will have a warm-up you built yourself, one that fits your voice rather than a generic list. The final lesson is about keeping that habit going.
Everything here is free and stays free. Your progress and your routine live in your own browser. There is no account to create.
Who this is for
Singers of pop, rock, R&B, country, and musical theatre. Classical technique shares the same instrument, but the exercises and the language in this course are chosen for contemporary styles. If you have never sung outside the car, start at lesson one. If you have sung for years without any formal work, lessons five through eight (pitch and the registers) are often where self-taught singers find the gaps.
Get the most out of it
Use headphones when you can. The piano and your voice both reach the microphone otherwise, and the scoring gets noisier. Sing at a comfortable volume. And read the "what to notice" section of each lesson before you press play, because knowing what you are listening for is most of the skill.
One health note. Singing should not hurt. If you have hoarseness or pain that lasts more than four weeks, see a doctor or a laryngologist. This course is not medical advice.
A note from Ryan
I've gone through a lot of singing lessons online, and some of them are great. But watching a video only gets you so far. Singing needs feedback: you have to sing the thing and find out whether you hit the note, and a video can't tell you that.
So I picked the best lesson I could find for each step and put them in an order that builds, from your first scale to finding your mix. I didn't make these videos, and I'm not pretending I did. Each one belongs to the teacher credited under it, and they deserve the views. Most of the videos are from Justin Stoney at New York Vocal Coaching, whose lessons are a big reason this app exists. What I added is the path through them, plus an exercise after each lesson. In six of the nine, it listens through your mic and shows you how close you got.
Finding good videos is the easy part. Knowing what to watch next, and whether you're getting better, is what's missing from the YouTube-learning experience. That frustration is why I built Vocal Habit, and it's why I put this course together.
-Ryan