When the keys do not match

A rehearsal recording is in one key and the choir may sing the piece in another. Your director might have lowered it for the altos, or the accompanist may play it a step up. If you learn your part against a recording in the old key, you practice the wrong notes.

Shifting the recording to the choir’s key

Ask your director how many semitones the choir has moved the piece, up or down. Click the PitchShed icon on the recording tab and press + or − beside Key that many times. Now your part lines up with what the choir will actually sing.

Looping the tricky bars

Put Set A and Set B around the bars that give you trouble, and let them repeat. Slow the recording with the Speed row, and the pitch of your part stays where it was, so you learn the right notes at a speed you can manage.

One voice at a time

PitchShed shifts the whole recording and cannot pull one voice out of it. Use a rehearsal track where your part is louder, or a recording for your voice type, and loop that.

Your own number for each piece

Different pieces need different shifts. PitchShed remembers the key and loop points for each recording on your device, so your settings come back after a click on the icon when you return to it.

Before the rehearsal

Open the recording the evening before and set the key and the loops, so that when the rehearsal starts you only need to click the icon. If your choir uses several recordings for one piece, such as a full mix and a part-predominant track, each is remembered separately.