Warm-ups

Every rehearsal starts the same way, and almost nobody has it written down. This writes it down: pick a pattern or describe one, and you get a score that climbs key by key with the syllables under every note.

Open it from Create → Warm-up → score on the top bar, or from the Warm up section of your dashboard.

Build one

Start with a preset — five-note scale, major arpeggio, octave siren, lip trill, descending five, octave leap, staccato arpeggio, or long tones. Each one adds an exercise you can then change. A warm-up can hold up to eight.

Every exercise has the same controls:

• Pattern — the motif as scale degrees: 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1. Write 8 for do an octave up, ' and , to move a note an octave either way, 0 for a rest, and - to hold the note before it a beat longer.
• Sung on — the syllables. One word (mah) or several (mee meh mah moh moo), separated by spaces.
• Syllables — whether those words run one per key, so a whole repetition is sung on one sound, or one per note, so they run across the motif. Five vowels on a five-note pattern want one per note; mah wants one per key.
• Start and End — the range to sweep through.
• Step — a semitone or a whole tone at a time.
• Direction — up, down, or up and back.
• Note length, Last note — the last note of a warm-up is usually held.
• Each key — sing every key once or twice before moving on.
• Breath — a rest after each repetition, so there is somewhere to breathe.
• Short and detached — staccato, for agility exercises.

The line under the controls tells you what you are about to get: how many repetitions, how many bars, and the keys it passes through. Press Create score when it reads right.

Or describe it

Type what you want in the box at the top — “lip trills to start, then five-note scales on ‘mah’ from C up to G and back” — and press Fill from description. It fills in the controls above, which you then read and correct before generating anything.

That step costs 1 credit, and it is worth knowing why: the sentence goes to an AI model, which is what costs money. The music itself is written by the same free engine either way, so the credit buys the reading of your words, not the notes.

What you get

An ordinary score, with a few things placed for you:

• The pattern once per repetition, with the key printed above the bar it starts on — Key of Db in solfa, 1 = Db in jianpu. It is the same mark you would set by hand from Layout → Key here.
• The syllables as lyrics, under every note, in every key.
• A breath mark at the end of each repetition.
• A section label naming each exercise, so a sheet with four of them reads as four exercises rather than one long run.

Press Play and it climbs key by key. Export gives you the PDF to hand round, and Share gives you a link for the choir’s phones.

The notes never change from repetition to repetition, only the key label does. That is movable do doing its job — see tonic solfa and transposing solfa if that idea is new.

Not yet

• No accidentals or chromatic patterns. Every exercise is built from the seven scale degrees.
• The builder is in the web editor only. A warm-up you generate opens and plays in the mobile app like any other score; you just can’t build one there.
• The assistant can’t write warm-ups. Use Create → Warm-up → score.

Where to go next

• The AI features — what else is on the AI tab, and what each one costs.
• Sharing and export — getting the sheet to your singers.
• The free warm-up player — run a warm-up in the browser without an account.