Reading music a singer has never seen asks three separate things at once: the ear hears the pitch, the eye decodes it on the page, the pulse places it in time.
Ask for all three at once and sight-singing stalls. Isolate each skill and singers can excel at all three — Solfège Singer takes the ear, Solfège Decoder takes notation and rhythm.
Unlimited student accounts are included — not a seat count, not a per-student fee. Assign graded work to every singer you teach: in class, in sectionals, as a sub plan, or for homework. It's auto-graded the moment they submit, and students see their own progress and submit when they're happy with the score.
And when nothing is assigned, they can still practice on their own, any time.
Tap any screen above to try it, or open a demo now: Solfège Singer ↗ · Solfège Decoder ↗
▶ Or watch the full tutorial — about 15 minutes.
Nothing to install. Works on phones, Chromebooks, tablets — and right on your Smartboard. Student data privacy & district review →
Transfer raw percentages onto 100 · 90 · 80 · 70, or whatever your district uses.
On-time first takes stay white, even if a student betters the score later.
Tap any score for the recording, the note-by-note result and the date.
Pick a skill, a level and a due date. That's the whole setup — the same assignment works in the room or at home.
Leave one line: log in, do the assignment. The substitute needs no music background, and the work is graded when you're back.
Level 1 for the singer who's still finding Do, Level 6 for the one who's ready — same class, same day, nobody stuck or bored.
Let students keep raising a score after the deadline. Effort moves the grade, so the reward is improvement, not a lucky first take.
Twenty seconds a rep — run it as a warm-up, hand it to sectionals, or send it home. Same scores either way.
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Written for district review — share it with your administrator or IT office.
No emails, no passwords, no third-party sign-in. A student picks their name and enters a PIN you control.
Audio is deleted every July 1 — nothing carries past the end of the school year. Scores stay. Your dashboard shows the date.
No ads, no data sales, no student profiling — and FERPA / NY Ed Law §2-d answers ready for your review process.
A full walkthrough of both apps — how students practice, what they submit, how to build classes and assignments, and everything that lands in your dashboard. Watch it once and you're ready to run it Monday.
Full walkthrough of both apps · about 15 minutes
Each lane is its own exercise, its own six levels, its own score — so you can see exactly which of the three skills a singer is stuck on, and hand them the one thing that moves them forward.
Students sing the sequence back. The mic confirms each pitch as it lands — the only way through is to sing it.
Students read the staff and tap the syllable under the highlighted note.
Students perform the rhythm — press and hold each note for its full value, in tempo.
Any two of the three gets a singer close. All three together is sight-singing — two apps, one roster, one dashboard, one PIN.
The sequence sits on the screen. As a student sings, each note is confirmed in real time.
The live demo is the real app — the entry level, thirteen notes, never the same pattern twice. Listen to Do, sing the sequence back, and the mic checks your pitch as you go.
A note lights up on the staff; they tap the matching syllable. This is what turns "I can echo it" into "I can read it."
Rhythm is its own exercise — same six levels, same dashboard, nothing to name. Set a tempo, take the count-off, and perform the line: press and hold each note for its full value, release on the rest.
Assign it separately — rhythm this week, notation next week, or both at once for the students who are ready.
Open the Decoder demo and switch the exercise to Rhythm — set a tempo, take the count-off, press and hold. No mic required.
The live demo is the real app — Level 2 in Major, every mode, timed records and all. No microphone needed; just read and tap.
Not because you assigned it — because it's the rare piece of music homework that feels like a game, and because a student who's shaky on Fa can work on Fa quietly, privately, without twenty-eight classmates listening. Take away the audience, and they'll do it.
A Singer sequence is about twenty seconds timed; a Decoder round is quicker still. Nothing to dread.
No assignment required. They can drill on the bus, in their room, five minutes before class.
Practice stays private. Only what they choose to submit reaches you.
Submit by the deadline — then, if you allow it, keep going back and improving it.
In the Singer, students play their attempt back note by note — the problem stops being mysterious.
The student who couldn't find Mi in September watches themselves get it in November.
"Students need to feel successful before they become motivated. Once they become motivated, they become more and more successful. That loop is why aural training creates such enormous buy-in in a choral program."
Adam Paltrowitz
No student emails. No app store. No IT tickets.
Set up a class for each ensemble or period you teach. It takes about ten seconds.
First and last name, or just a first name — a PIN is created for each one automatically.
Students find their name, enter their PIN, and work in both apps. Every submitted take comes back graded.
Open either app straight from your teacher portal and put it on the Smartboard. The same exercise your students do at home becomes the warm-up you run together on a Tuesday morning.
Sing a Singer sequence as a full ensemble. Read a Decoder pattern together, tapping syllables on the board. Work a section through a tricky interval until it locks. Same tools, in your hands, live.
Both apps come out of nearly 30 years of teaching non-auditioned singers — where every student is a soloist, and growth matters more than a perfect first try.
Submitted takes arrive in your portal. Students can step through their own attempt and see which notes were right.
Ear work in the Singer; notation and rhythm in the Decoder — the same students, classes and PINs across all three.
Students can keep raising their score even after a deadline passes. Grade the growth, not the first attempt.
No student emails, nothing to install. Phone, Chromebook, tablet, or the Smartboard.
The Decoder logs every student's accuracy and speed, exercise by exercise — you see exactly where reading is shaky.
Every submitted take arrives with a finalized score. No spreadsheet, no stack of recordings to sift through.
Both program options include Singer and Decoder, the teacher dashboard, and unlimited student access for every singer on your roster.
Where middle and high school choir directors get direction — the place to solve classroom management, win student buy-in, and build a program that keeps growing after you leave the room.
The full Singer — Major, Minor & Chromatic, all three levels, unlimited practice and takes, with playback note by note. For solo singers and directors who only want it in front of their class. No classroom, no dashboard.
Note: Solo is the Singer only — the Decoder is not included. To get the Decoder, choose Solfège Singer & Decoder or the Collective above.
The complete Solfège program on its own is $99 a year. The Collective is $390 a year — and the whole program is simply part of it, at no additional cost, for you and every student you teach.
The difference is who else gets developed. With the apps alone, your students get a tool. With the Collective, you get authentic professional development — guided across the whole school year, not a one-off summer workshop you've forgotten by October.
A curriculum that builds week by week, a private community of MS and HS directors who teach what you teach, and coaching on the things nobody trained you for — the disruptive class, the singers who won't commit, the grading that eats your weekends, the program that has to recruit itself every fall.
Both apps, every level, tonality, meter and mode — plus the teacher dashboard.
Everything above — plus authentic professional development, guided all year: a private community of MS and HS directors, the full curriculum, and ongoing coaching on the work itself.
Developing the right mindset · classroom management · vocal technique · music literacy · grading · cultivating student leadership — and much more.
Sight-singing takes three isolated skills. The Singer covers the first — the ear: students sing a sequence back and the mic checks their pitch. The Decoder covers the other two on their own tracks — notation (read the staff, tap the syllable) and rhythm (perform the line in tempo). Most directors run all three, then combine them.
The Decoder is included in the $99/year Solfège Singer & Decoder package and in the Collective — at no extra cost, for you and all your students. It is not part of the $19 Singer Solo, which is the Singer only.
It's inside the Decoder, but it runs as its own track — a Rhythm exercise with its own six levels and its own scores, so you can assign notation and rhythm independently. Students set a tempo, get a count-off, and press and hold each note for its full duration; the line is graded at the end. It's included wherever the Decoder is included, at no extra cost.
No. You add students to a classroom from your dashboard and a PIN is generated for each. They sign in by choosing their name and entering that PIN — one login works for both apps. Nothing for them to create, nothing for you to reset.
Any modern browser — phones, Chromebooks, tablets, laptops, and your classroom Smartboard. Nothing to download or install, so it works on school devices and personal ones alike.
No. The Decoder is tap-based — students read a note and tap the right syllable, so it works anywhere, silently, no mic permissions needed. The Singer uses the microphone to check sung pitch.
Every submitted take arrives in your portal with a finalized score — the Singer out of 13, the Decoder as accuracy and speed. It doesn't push into your school's gradebook; you see the scores and decide what they're worth. My advice: grade the effort and the growth — the accuracy takes care of itself.
No — both apps are included with your Collective membership at no extra cost, for you and all of your students. If you're not a member yet, joining at $39/month (or annual) gets you both apps plus everything else in the Collective.
This is growth-minded aural training, not just sight-reading drill — the ear first, then the notation, then the rhythm, each one assessed so every singer can see themselves improving.
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