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Free practice tools for choir singers

Most of a choir singer's practice happens alone, in the week between rehearsals: learning the notes for the next concert, and getting quicker at reading new music. These free tools help with both.

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Learn your part

Rehearsal tracks play the whole piece with your part louder than the others, or your part alone. Choose the work you are rehearsing, then your voice. A good order: listen with the score in front of you, sing along with your part alone, then with your part louder in the full texture, then with all parts equal. By then you are holding your line against the others, as you will at the next rehearsal.

Rehearsal tracks

Choralia

choralia.net

Synthesized voices sing your part with its words. Each work has three kinds of track per voice: your part alone with metronome clicks, all parts with yours louder, and all parts equal. They play on the site, in the browser, on a phone too.

Expect advertising: a consent dialog opens on each page, and the player pages load ads. Its pages keep their desktop layout on a phone, so you will zoom.

Free
Every rehearsal track
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None
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Yes, and a consent dialog on each page
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Desktop layout; the tracks play
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Rehearsal tracks

The CyberBass Project

cyberbass.org

Large choral works movement by movement, with a track for each voice and one for all. Listening on the site is free, in a player with speed control, skips back and forward, and a loop between two points. Downloads cost money: all tracks of one voice of the Brahms Requiem were US$24.99.

The site shows Google ads and runs a store with Amazon links for choir supplies.

Free
Listening to every part on the site; downloads cost money
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Rehearsal tracks

Learn Choral Music

John's MIDI file choral music site

MIDI files for major works, anthems, madrigals and carols, made by a tenor who sings in community choirs: for each piece one file with all parts and one per voice with that voice brought out. He adds pieces most months; the latest when we looked was from October 30, 2026.

To hear MIDI files you need a program or an app that plays them. The site lists players for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, and links two web apps made for choir parts.

Free
Every MIDI file
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None seen
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Desktop layout; MIDI files need an app
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Get better at sight singing

Five minutes of new music a day, separate from the piece you are learning, makes the next new piece less work. Find the key note first, sing the scale, then sing the melody on solfège syllables or numbers, whatever your choir uses, and keep the beat. Check yourself afterwards by listening.

Made by us Sight singing

Sight reading generator

Open Sheet Music Education, by PhonicScore

A new melody every time, in the key, time signature, length and level you choose, played back on a piano sound with a count-in, so you can sing first and then check. Every exercise has its own link, which a choir director can send to the whole section.

It writes in the treble clef only, between middle C and the B above it: right for sopranos and altos, and for tenors, who read the treble clef an octave down. Basses and baritones need a tool with a bass clef, such as AuralSkills.net below.

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Everything
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Sight singing

AuralSkills.net Sight Singing Generator

AuralSkills.net

A new melody at each tap, in treble, bass or alto clef, major or minor, in five levels from quarter notes moving by step to sixteenths and accidentals. It counts you in, plays the scale first if you want, and prints a full sheet.

Free
Everything
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Sight singing

teoria.com Sight Singing Practice

teoria.com, by José Rodríguez Alvira

Before each melody it plays the cadence, the scale or the first note, so you start in the key; after you sing, it plays the melody to compare. The melodies come from a fixed set (29 with its default settings).

Free
Everything; it asks for donations
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Optional, to save your score
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Sight singing

Solfege

solfegeonline.com

Melodies generated for your voice range, with a reference pitch, a drone to sing against and solfège syllables under the notes if you want them. It doesn't listen to you; you judge your own singing.

Free
Everything; it asks for donations
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Music to read

Generated melodies give you volume. Choral scores and written exercises give you what generators lack: phrases, cadences, and the other parts around yours.

Choral scores

CPDL, the Choral Public Domain Library

ChoralWiki, a US non-profit

The Choral Public Domain Library: free scores of at least 56,670 choral and vocal works by at least 5,581 composers, by its own count. A work page lists every edition volunteers have made, full scores, vocal scores, single choral parts and arrangements, most as PDF and many also as MIDI or MusicXML. Some link rehearsal tracks at Choralia.

Each edition names its license. Most use CPDL's own, which lets you copy, perform and record the music as long as the notice stays on it; some say "Personal" or carry other conditions, so read the line before you copy a score for your choir.

Free
Every score
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None
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No ad network; sponsor banners and one affiliate link
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Scores

IMSLP

IMSLP, the Petrucci Music Library

Public-domain scores of every kind, 890,000 of them by its own count in November 2026. For choirs it has the vocal scores of the big works: 48 of Handel's Messiah alone, next to full scores and parts.

Downloads are free without an account. Members, at US$3.49 a month or US$32 a year, skip the wait before each download and can stream its recordings. What counts as public domain differs from country to country, and every file shows its copyright status.

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Every score; members skip the wait before downloads
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Exercises in parts

Free sight-singing music

Ronnie Sanders

Free sight-singing exercises for choirs, written by a choral composer: unison, SA, SSA, TB, TTB, SAB and SATB, at beginning to advanced levels, 42 in all, plus a short SATB piece and a warm-up, each a PDF. The page says it plainly: no catch.

Free
All 44 PDFs
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Melodies

Eyes and Ears

Benjamin Crowell

A free book of about 400 melodies for sight singing, arranged step by step: public-domain melodies and some written for the book, aimed at the first year of a college musicianship course. The book is under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license or the GPL, your choice.

Free
The whole book as a PDF, under an open license
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On a phone
Desktop layout; one 21 MB PDF
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One paid library is worth knowing: Musicalion has 88,316 scores, many of them for choir. Every score has a free PDF preview; downloads need a membership, €2.42 a month on its pages, or free if you send in scores of your own.

Parts

We found no free tool that writes new sight singing exercises in two to four parts. For reading in parts, start with the exercises and scores above and the music your choir is singing.

A week between rehearsals

  1. The day after rehearsal: mark the bars that went wrong in your score while you still remember them.
  2. Most days, fifteen minutes: ten on the piece, with your part alone and then with your part louder, starting with the marked bars; five on a new melody.
  3. The day before rehearsal: sing your part through with all parts equal, without stopping.

For the reading side in more detail, see How to practice sight reading.

How we test

We use every tool ourselves, without an account, on a desktop screen and on a phone-sized one, the way a student would: make an exercise, play it, print it if it can, or find a piece and open its score. We write down what is free, what needs an account or a payment, and whether it shows ads. We don't make accounts, so where a tool needs one we say so and say what its own pages promise. Nobody paid to be listed, and we don't use affiliate links.

We make the sight reading generator on this site, and we mark it as ours wherever it appears. Found a mistake, or a tool that changed? Write to support@phonicscore.com.