Riyaz: Practice, Learn to Sing

MusicMuni Labs

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About this app

Riyaz is the singing practice app that 5M+ singers have used to learn to sing in tune. It listens while you sing. Every note you sing appears on screen against the teacher's line, so you can see where you are sharp, flat or right on pitch, and fix it in the next take.

HOW IT WORKS
• Pick a singing lesson and sing along with the teacher's voice.
• Riyaz follows your pitch live and scores every lesson.
• A 30-second speaking pitch check sets every lesson to a key that suits your voice.
• Your practice journal keeps every session, so you can watch your singing improve.

SINGING LESSONS FOR EVERY STYLE
243 courses and thousands of practice lessons, from complete beginner to advanced:
• Hindustani classical: sargam practice, paltas and alankars for beginners, then about 50 raag courses, including Raag Yaman, Raag Bihag and Raag Bhimpalasi.
• Carnatic singing: geethams, swarajatis, varnams, krithis and nottuswarams.
• Western classical: solfege, scales, intervals and structured vocal exercises.
• Voice training: vocal warm-ups, vocal range extension and breath work for any voice.
• Pop & Rock.
You'll also find bhajans and ghazals to sing, and Bollywood singing courses by Udit Narayan and Monali Thakur, sold separately. Whether you want to learn singing from scratch or improve your singing voice, there is a course to start with.

VOCAL TRAINING TOOLS
• Smart Tanpura: sing with a tanpura drone in your own shruti, and see your pitch as you sing.
• Vocal Monitor: watch your pitch live while you sing anything.
• Quick Warmup: a short vocal warm-up to get your voice ready.
• Vocal range test: find your lowest and highest steady notes, then pick sargam or a raag in a key that fits.
• Breath check: see how you use your breath across songs and exercises.

SING YOUR OWN SONGS
Upload a song, or a lesson from your teacher. Riyaz separates the voice so you can sing the lead over the original track.

FREE AND PREMIUM
Practise free for 8 minutes every day. Riyaz Premium unlocks unlimited practice, full voice metrics, a tanpura for any raag and unlimited song uploads.

FOR EVERY SINGER
Kids, teens and adults. Complete beginners who want to learn to sing, and trained Hindustani, Carnatic and Western singers who want daily singing practice and vocal training. Lessons are set to your own vocal range, so every exercise sits where you can sing it in tune.

The app is available in English, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Indonesian.

Questions or ideas? Write to us at [e-mail]. We reply to every email.

Ratings and reviews

Obviously you're meant to match the pitch on screen, but it loops for an unspecified number of times without any way to tell when it will end. It gives you a score, but doesn't explain what's wrong. It will only plot your singing pitch if you wear headphones, but when you wear headphones the music is out of sync with what's on screen, making it difficult to sort out what's going on. The interface is buggy, often not responding to taps or drags. Uses non-English words despite choosing English.

The UI set my choice of Western singing to Hindi singing after my first practice. I had to manually set it back. After that, no issues. The time limit on free lessons doesn't bother me much as a beginner because I still feel like I get a good vocal workout in that time. Lessons are only about a minute each, so far, so I also get a good range of lessons completed.

I paid $79 for a yearly membership to be able to practice particular songs. Unfortunately the song library is very limited when it comes to western music, and the advertised feature allowing to import songs from YouTube doesn't work, it's been telling me to wait for the song to be available for days now. I did find a couple songs i was looking for, one of them 'Daughter' by pearl jam. Well the target melody pitch is way off the actual singing. I've been duped.

What’s new

New, from your messages (thank you!):
• Sing in Mandra or Taar saptak again: open Advanced under the key before Start.
• Repeat a phrase as often as you like: tap its name under the phrase bar, tap again to move on.
• Start over from the pause screen.
• Each lesson says whether you listen then sing, or sing along.
• A volume slider for piano accompaniment.
Fixed:
• On some phones, music and click jumped back between phrases.
• Courses from other genres show their modules in Saved and Purchased.