About this app

Bel Canto Serioso is a voice training tool with various vocal exercises. It can also be used for ear training and practicing solfege, chromatic solfege.

For now it has 60+ vocal exercises which can be played in either major or minor tonalities in any given range and bpm.

Exercises can be filtered by interval span: third, fifth, sixth... or by motion: descending, stepwise, skipwise, agility, glides, diatonic...

Exercise ranges can be set for a given voice classification. Female/Male Advanced section can be used if classified ranges are limiting.

All scales can be played at any tempo between 45 and 260 bpm.
Exercises can be bookmarked for quicker reference.

The playing note of the scale is shown as text; Bb4 (or Sib4 or Te4).
In the settings you can set the solfege system to be used within the app.
Solfege system choices are, English, Italian and Chromatic Solfege. The app will then display all note names in the chosen solfege system.

There are two player modes;
- Auto mode plays the exercises in a given range as usual.
- In Manual mode the pattern/scale of the exercise can be advanced higher or lower manually. This is similar to practicing with an instrument, like playing
a scale more than a few times at a problematic zone in your range ad advancing when done.

The difference from my other app "Bel Canto Exercises" is;
- This app has more exercises.
- You can choose to play an exercise in major or minor tonality.**
- This app has diatonic exercises, where the exercise pattern moves diatonically.
- You can enable background playback so the exercise will keep playing when the screen is turned off.
- You can loop an exercise to play it repeatedly.
- You can mute the metronome beat sound that accompanies the exercise.

**For example you can play Rossini Scale in major or in harmonic minor. You can play the pentatonic exercises which are only in this app as major pentatonic or minor pentatonic. Triad/arpeggio exercises can be played in 5 qualities; major, minor, suspended, diminished and augmented.
Some exercises can also be played in whole tone scale.

Here is a list of exercises;

Repeated Tone
Third Jumps
3 Tone
5 Note ~ Chromatic
Fifth Jumps
Triad
Triad ~ Descending
Triad ~ Glides
8 Note ~ Chromatic
5 Tone
5 Tone ~ 3 times
5 Tone ~ Descending
5 Tone ~ Descending Ascending
5 Tone ~ Broken Thirds
5 Tone ~ Long Scale
5 Tone ~ Descending Long Scale
5 Tone ~ With Gallop
Sixth Jumps
Sixth Arpeggio
Sixth Arpeggio ~ With Repeat
6 Tone ~ With Repeat
6 Tone ~ Long Scale
Pentatonic
Pentatonic ~ Descending
Pentatonic ~ Variation I
Pentatonic ~ Variation II
Selve Amiche
Octave Jumps
One Octave Scale
One Octave Scale ~ Broken Thirds
One Octave Scale ~ Descending
Voce Cuperto ~ One Octave
Arpeggio
Arpeggio ~ With Glides
Arpeggio ~ With Repeat
Arpeggio ~ With More Repeat
Arpeggio ~ 2 times
Arpeggio ~ With Skips
Arpeggio ~ Descending
Arpeggio ~ Descending Glides
Arpeggio ~ Descending Ascending
Queen of the Night
Arpeggio ~ With a Turn
Scale to the Ninth
Tenth Scale
Tenth Scale ~ Glides
Tenth Scale ~ Descending
Tenth Scale ~ Descending Ascending
Tenth Scale ~ With Repeat
Diatonic Third Jumps
Diatonic 3 Tone
Scale To The 11th
Scale To The 11th ~ With Repeat
Scale To The 11th ~ Groppo
Scale To The 11th ~ Variation
Queen of the Night (A coloratura pattern from Mozart's aria)
Rossini Scale
Rossini Scale ~ With Gallop
Jazz Run
Voce Cuperto ~ 1 ½ Octave
Diatonic Triads
Diatonic 5 Tone
Voce Cuperto ~ Two Octave
2 Octave Scale ~ Descending

New features

Fixed app notifications not showing, when background playback is enabled.