Karaoke scores · a different measurement
How to test your vocal range in StarMaker
StarMaker is a karaoke app. It scores a performance against a backing track, and a score against a track is a different measurement from the lowest and highest note you can hold. A high score tells you that you stayed with the song; it does not tell you where your floor and your ceiling are, because it never asked you for either. If those two numbers are what you want, a range test asks for them directly: one low note, one high note, each held steadily, and about forty seconds in total with no account. What a range test cannot tell you is the other half — tone, control, or whether a note is supported.
Once you have the two numbers there are 411 songs in the catalogue with their lowest and highest note printed, which is the thing to do with them.
What each one actually measures
No claim is made here about how any karaoke app works inside. The column is what a score against a track can and cannot contain.
| Measurement | A karaoke score | A range test |
|---|---|---|
| Your lowest note | Not asked for | Measured, and named |
| Your highest note | Not asked for | Measured, and named |
| The span, in octaves and semitones | Not produced | Worked out from the two notes |
| Whether you held the note | Only against the track | The whole rule |
| Pitch against a backing track | The point of the score | Not measured |
| Timing against a backing track | Part of the score | Not measured |
| Tone, or whether a note is supported | Not measured | Not measured — that is a teacher |