The Noticing Life

presents

The Listening Palette

An interactive companion for discovering your voice through listening.

Begin by listening.

Hear the shape before you make it.

Then try it—and listen again.

What do you hear in your own voice?What do you notice in your body?What changes?What becomes available?

There isn't only one way through the Palette. Follow a pathway, stay with one sound, compare, experiment, or let surprise lead you somewhere unexpected.

The Listening Palette holds the structure so you can listen—to the sound, to your voice, and to your body.

begin here

Shape your practice

Choose a comfortable boundary, receive a vowel shape, and see how many ways you can sing it.

Your comfortable range

Set the easy, usable boundary you want every invitation to honor today. This will never be randomized.

Not sure of your range?
  1. Begin on an easy speaking or humming note.
  2. Use the piano below and glide downward gently. Stop at the lowest note that stays clear and comfortable.
  3. Return to the easy note, then glide upward. Stop before squeezing, reaching, or losing ease.
  4. Choose those two comfortable notes here. Start smaller today—you can widen the range whenever more becomes available.

Range changes from day to day. Pain, strain, dizziness, or breathlessness means pause and reset with a voice teacher or clinician.

Sound behavior

How should the Palette choose a sound during ordinary practice?

A stop is one visited note on the Practice Route. The sound stays steady for that stop's entire Note Pathway, then changes at the next visited note.
Change Palette
Choose an Adventure

Your Original Palette is ready for listening. Choose an Adventure only when you want the Palette to hold a journey.

make the sound · meet it with your ear

Listen to the sound you are making

darker / back

your practice invitation

What can I hear?

find your note

m–afather
Natural / oralMiddle larynx
m–afather
Natural / oralMiddle larynx
m–afather
Natural / oralMiddle larynx
m–afather
Natural / oralMiddle larynx
m–afather
Natural / oralMiddle larynx
m–afather
Natural / oralMiddle larynx
m–afather
Natural / oralMiddle larynx
m–afather
Natural / oralMiddle larynx
m–afather
Natural / oralMiddle larynx

Tap a card to return there and pause. Press Resume when ready. Hear the shape first; choose In word only when you want its doorway.

Exercise sound
Practice route

One pathway from your chosen starting note.

brighter / front

How many different ways can you sing this shape?

find your note

A little listening piano

Your keyboard follows the comfortable range you chose above. Hold any key to sustain it; let go to release it. Follow the colored numbers if note names are new to you.

Current pathwayFive-note wander1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 4 · 3 · 2 · 1 · starting note pass
Keys to press
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Stay with any sound as long as it remains interesting.