Guide to using Choralia
Choralia is a website that provides practice tracks for choral pieces. Each part includes synthesized words to help you keep your place.
Each part has 3 ways to practice:
1. only that voice part and a metronome
2. that voice part with the other parts in the background
3. all parts at the same volume with accompaniment
1. only that voice part and a metronome
2. that voice part with the other parts in the background
3. all parts at the same volume with accompaniment
Once you choose a way to practice, the player opens and looks like this:
1. this is your main track info bar with the play buttonj
2. you can use this to shorten the track to a portion you wish to practice
(for example, it can loop between 2:30 - 3:00 and you can practice those
measures over and over)
3. this controls the tempo - you can set it slower for a trouble spot
4. this slider controls the volume of your part compared to the rest
(ex, to the left makes your part quieter and the other parts louder)
5. this slider controls which speaker (sound channel) each part is played in
(ex, put your part in the right speaker with the others in the left, or keep it in the
middle to have everything played in both speakers equally)
6. DOWNLOAD the track - you can download the MP3 tracks and put them on a CD
to listen in your car, or on your phone/device to listen throughout your day
1. this is your main track info bar with the play buttonj
2. you can use this to shorten the track to a portion you wish to practice
(for example, it can loop between 2:30 - 3:00 and you can practice those
measures over and over)
3. this controls the tempo - you can set it slower for a trouble spot
4. this slider controls the volume of your part compared to the rest
(ex, to the left makes your part quieter and the other parts louder)
5. this slider controls which speaker (sound channel) each part is played in
(ex, put your part in the right speaker with the others in the left, or keep it in the
middle to have everything played in both speakers equally)
6. DOWNLOAD the track - you can download the MP3 tracks and put them on a CD
to listen in your car, or on your phone/device to listen throughout your day
Choralia doesn't charge for the download of their tracks like Cyberbass does. If you choose to download their free tracks and want to show them your appreciation, they do have a donation page.
Guide to downloading tracks from the Chorus' Google Drive
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Rehearsal tracks for each voice part, when available, are uploaded to the Chorus' Google Drive in MP3 format. You can stream/play them from the internet or download them.
Click the image to the right (or below, if on your phone or tablet) to be taken to the folder. |
Click to go to Drive.
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How to download:
On your computer:
On your phone or tablet:
If you download these tracks, you can burn them to a CD to play in your car, load them onto your iPod, or just play them over and over without needing to stream (download) them from the internet each time. You can download multiple tracks at once, they will just need to be unzipped afterward.
- Right-click the track or folder you wish to download
- Select "Download" from the menu
On your phone or tablet:
- Tap the 3 vertical dots beneath the track you wish to download
- - or - Long press the icon for the track
- - or - Tap to open the track you wish to download, then tap the 3 vertical dots in the top-right of your screen
- Select "Download" from the menu
If you download these tracks, you can burn them to a CD to play in your car, load them onto your iPod, or just play them over and over without needing to stream (download) them from the internet each time. You can download multiple tracks at once, they will just need to be unzipped afterward.
Guide to Using CyberBass
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To play a track on CyberBass:
(Tracks on CyberBass may be downloaded if purchased.) |
Guide to Using Saved Sounds
These tracks have "words" (generated by the MIDI software that made the track, so they do sound funny) and may be downloaded free of charge.
To play a track on Saved Sounds:
To hear just your part better, the site states that your part is in the left audio channel, while all others are in the right channel. So...
- Scroll down to the section for your voice part
- Click the track you wish to practice
- To download: click the download arrow on the music player
To hear just your part better, the site states that your part is in the left audio channel, while all others are in the right channel. So...
- Use headphones to hear it in your left ear (by pulling the right side away or just listening more to your left)
- If you have stereo speakers, sit/stand closer to your left speaker
- Adjust the balance of your speakers to be more to the left
