How To Recognize Tunes in Restaurants and Sing In Tune Using Free Tuning Apps

Problems
1 You hear a song played in a restaurant or shop or even in an elevator (that's an Americanism - the UK we say lift) and want to learn the title.

Answers
Goggle sound or music recognition.
Sometimes one works and the other doesn't in finding the tune. Neither is uniformly better. You just have to try them on while listening to the song - of record a snatch on one device such as a mobile phone and then play it back to a laptop or somebody else's mobile.
My family use two aps

Soundhound

http://evolver.fm/2012/10/10/top-5-apps-for-identifying-songs/

Now you want to sing it in tune:

How to sing in tune using free aps:
One of many such titles on YouTube.
The lady says she has tried half a dozen aps. She recommends this ap which she demonstrates.

It looks like a clock face. The pointers are like an old-fashioned metronome or pendulum and swing about the note on the clock face as you sing. You sing higher or lower and the pointer moves towards a higher or lower note on the scale.
INS tuner


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