Customer Reviews

Singing Coach

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

This program has quirky characters that teach you the basics of singing, such as breathing, posture and warm ups. Being able to see what pitch you are hitting helps a lot to strengthen the beginning singer.

The reason I gave this only 3 stars, however, is that once you are done with the basics, the only thing that the program can give you is you pitch history while singing one of the songs. While this is a useful information, there isn't a wide enough varity in songs to make using this feature terribly fun and there aren't lessons to encourage you to work through the songs in a specific order.

I was also quite disappointed with their online song library. This version comes with 4 free songs to down load from their song library, and I only found two that I was even willing to sing and have a vague liking for. None of my favorite songs were there. The lists of songs were quite small. They also, beyond the 4 free songs, want to charge what I think is an outragous charge per song.

Get this if you are a rank beginner or need help with your pitch and are happy practicing on public domain folk songs. It's a fine piece of software if that's what you are looking for.

I had seen this product advertised on T.V. and was skeptical at first but intrigued as well. A year later, I decided that it was time to get some voice training.I've loved music all my life and have been singing all through it. Since I'm learning guitar, I figured now would be the time to step it up a notch. Unfortunely, I can't afford proper lessons so I guessed that this would be the next best thing, I didn't even know if I was a soprano, baritone, or anything. Singing Coach arrived yesterday and I've been playing with it ever since. I learned that I'm a tenor! It took a while to get the microphone settings correct, My voice wouldn't register at first and I thought that the product was faulty. If this happens to anyone else, try checking the settings for your computer's microphone, that was my problem.I love the pitch tracking! It helped me so much! You can see if your pitch is wrong and you can adjust yourself while you sing! There are tons of exercises too.You can go by note, or by scale. The songs that come with are old traditional songs like Twinkle, twinkle little star, home on the range,etc. I was kind of bummed by this at first but they definitely help with the training. The only bad thing is the selection of downloadable songs on their website.I was able to find two but other than that nothing I would want to sing. But that's me, you can check out what songs they carry on the carryatune.com website. Also after you use up your free downloads it is 3.95 per song.That's sure to add up if you get bored easily like me. All in all, a good product for the absolute beginner. It does seem like an experienced singer wouldn't get much out of it, except maybe as a supplement between classes or something like that.

I thought this was a really solid piece of software. It taught me alot of things that I needed to know about singing. I am not a professional and could not afford vocal lessons so this really was a HUGE help.

The ability to sing a wide range of songs made it even more useful. Being able to see my pitch helped teach me what types of songs are good for me to sing. From what I have seen so far the music library is growing every week with better and better songs. If they keep adding songs like this there really is no limit what I can do with the software.

This is a really neat software program and its easy to use. I love that I can actually "see" how I am singing right there on the computer screen. It's nice to be able to look at my saved recording and see exactly where I was too high or too low. When I make the changes, my score improves. I think the animation is great (what can I say, it keeps me feeling young and fun). My daughter is using Singing Coach to practice for her school's talent show. We like it a lot.

I really had some reservations when I first saw this. I heard a radio interview for this and thought "Yeah Right" But curiosity got the best of me so I decided I would give it a try. I am SO glad I did. This has everything you need to learn how to sing properly. From the lessons to the song selection, I have not shut up since I got it.

I highly recommend this program. While there are many techniques that must come together to produce quality tone, for a singer to be "on pitch" remains the non-subjective and single most important aspect of singing; this is what Singing Coach helps you target.

For the purpose of correcting pitch problems, Singing Coach is better than a real instructor because it allows you to visually see how close your voice is to the mark. A vocal coach will be using his or her ears to compare you voice to the correct note on a piano, but to have the capability measure your voice unaccompanied by a teacher with a tool like Singing Coach means that you can work on pitch problems a lot more often and for some rather shy students this may be exactly what they need.

On the negative side: the problem comes with a few old standard tunes to sing alone to. My advice is to not waste your time with the songs, why? Because even if you nail them 90-100% you end up with a mono-tone sounding vocal take. In pop, rock and country music (contemporary music in general) vocalist variations in tone character and style techniques don't register well with this software, it will indicate you are of pitch at times or it will score you poorly for not transitioning fast enough. I don't if the original artist were to sing the song into this software that they would get much above an 80% on some of these songs. So skip the songs and instead select "Warm Ups" here you will find the traditional scales used by all vocal instructors. You can easily change the key of a warm up ex cerise so pick a warm like like the "5 up, 5 down" and bring the key down to the lowest note in your range. Sing through it, then raise it up a few keys, keep doing this untill you've reached the highest note in your range. Spend 20-30 minutes a day with this software just doing warm ups in this manner and you will work out any break points you have in your voice and you will greatly improve pitch, probably a lot faster than just singing along to scales without this sort of feedback.

If you seriously want to learn how to sing well, you still need to consult with a vocal coach or at least pick up some other self study material, because this software doesn't get into any detailed techniques for correcting breathing problems and other common vocal problems and than destroy the tone of your voice.

I think for most people the basic feature set found in this version ("basic" version of Singing Coach) will be enough for most people. With the more expensive version you can compose your own songs, but again I don't think the software should be used to train on songs, just scales.

bought this program for my daughter who loves watching American Idol and now all she wants to do is sing. We bought her this as present and it has really helped her improve her singing. She always had a good voice but this really helped tune her skills. If anyone is looking for a way to improve their singing, go buy this program - it is worth the money.

I had a horrible singing voice, but loved to sing. I sat in the front pew in church so that no one would be in front of me to hear my singing. I was very skeptical when I ordered Singing Coach. After installing the program, I went through all of the lessons several times. I could see my improvement in my scores and hear my improvement in my singing. I discovered that I had been trying to sing in a range much above my natural range. I intend to continue to practice using Singing Coach. I will never have a "professional" singing voice, but at least now I'm not embarrassed to let others hear me sing.

This is pretty good set really, I have had it since last Easter and spent a lot of time with it.
It has helped me out greatly. But it does have it's flaws. 1. Sometimes the microphone picks up things you don't want it to or doesn't pick up what you do want it to. You often need to push your voice a little for it to hear you , unless you go around about way of giving the microphone more power other than the settings in the software covers. Which can be a good thing because it helps build strength in your voice. But for those first learning this can be difficult and hard on the throat .
The song selection is pretty poor. They give a few free downloads and I could only find one I even half way like.

But it's not all bad here. The headset that comes with it is very comfortable. The lessons are great for learning. The animated things are kind of funny at times. This is by far better than trying to learn from a book or some of the other similar products out there.

So to sum it up I am pretty happy with the product. But it's got it's flaws. Depending on the use and what you want out of it will really determine if you like this or not. So buy at your own risk.

When I first saw Singing coach making headlines in the local paper I didn't really consider it that much. But after I thought about it for a while and wanted to exceed in my singing capabilities I did in-fact buy it. It wasn't at all confusing to learn and I was glad by the fact I couldn't just go through it all fast and learn nothing. I really had to work at it and learn new things about my voice and how to work it. Now when I sing in front of audiences and such, I practice all the excercises I learned, and I have dramatic and perfect results. I learned how to hold a note and not make it all pitchy but smooth and gentle or hard and rocking. It teaches you all these things and it's a real genuine thing to buy and learn from. It isn't too hard, but isn't too easy. It tells you right where you belong and it teaches you things that can strain your voice or not force it to do enough. Singing coach as taught me so much and as a matter of fact because of it's teachings I've even been offered a demo.
Hopefully June 2007 will serve as a new start in my future singing careers. At least I know I will always have a friend in singing coach. Plus, it's HILLARIOUS to watch the video teachings. (:
THANKS SO MUCH, AND PEOPLE PLEASE BUY BUY BUY!
You won't be sorry!
-S.G.
Sara A. Grafton