Free sight singing exercises
825 graded melodies you can actually sing, in the browser, with every note marked as you sing it. No sign-up, no trial, no tiers.
Most sight-singing exercises online are PDFs. A PDF is fine for a teacher standing next to you and useless on your own, because the entire difficulty of practicing this alone is that you cannot hear your own mistakes while you are making them.
Everything below is singable in the browser. You sing; the app listens through your microphone and marks every note, separately for pitch and for time.
Where to start, by level
| If you… | Start here | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| have never sight sung before | The NSM Method, Unit 1 | Repeated notes, seconds and tonic thirds in C, G and F. Deliberately easy. |
| read a bit but drift or guess | Units 4–7 | Thirds, the tonic triad, dividing the beat, and ties. |
| read fluently and want repertoire | Melodia and Somervell | The classic 19th- and early-20th-century exercise books, note for note. |
| sing in a choir | The SATB hymns | Pick your part; the other three play while only your line is scored. |
| read bass clef | The bass-clef track | A parallel 128-exercise course, not transposed treble. |
What is in the library
- 432 original graded exercises written for this app across 16 units, in treble and bass clef. Each one introduces, secures or tests one specific skill.
- 247 exercises from Melodia (Cole & Lewis, 1909) — the book American schools taught from for most of a century.
- 71 from Somervell's One Thousand Exercises (1911).
- 80 four-part hymns, so you can practice an inner part in context.
All of it is public domain or our own, every exercise carries its source, and the whole thing is free. There is no paid tier holding the good material back.
Sing it in any key
Every exercise transposes. If a line sits badly for your voice, move it — the reading skill is identical in any key, and singing at the top of your range while learning to read is simply two hard things at once.
How to use them properly
The single most important rule: sing each one once. An exercise you have already sung is testing your memory, not your reading. That is why the library is large — you need material you have never seen, at the right level, every session.
Full method in how to practice sight singing on your own.