Upgrade Manual

Chapter 5: Vocal Wizard

The “Vocal Wizard” displays the best song keys for your vocal range!

This feature helps you choose the best song key for your vocal range. Open the Vocal Wizard, enter your vocal type

(baritone, tenor, etc.), or choose a custom range. Then the wizard analyzes the song and recommends the best keys

for that song. Options available to “include/exclude falsetto range,” “restrict choices to these keys […],” and

“transpose now.”

Before we enter the Vocal Wizard, we should have loaded in a song that has a Melody. The Vocal Wizard will

show you the best key(s) for you to sing the Melody, and transpose it to this key. For this example, we’re going to

load in the song Old Folks at Home (present in the c:\bb\Tutorial - BB 2005 folder).

The song Old Folks at Home is in the key of F. Before entering the Vocal Wizard, try to sing the melody. We’ll

assume that you are a male and have a typical baritone range (from note 43 (G3) to 64 (E5)). You’ll notice that the

key of F is not a great key to sing this song. Let’s enter the Vocal Wizard.

To enter the Vocal Wizard, choose the menu item Window | Vocal Wizard, or press the Vocal Wizard

button on the toolbar. This launches the Vocal Wizard.

Here’s the dialog that you see when you enter the Vocal Wizard.

You can see from the screenshot that the Vocal Wizard has picked the key of D (colored Green) as the best key for

the song, using your vocal range. Other recommended keys are colored yellow. Un-recommended keys are colored

grey, and include the current key of the song (F).

Let’s explore the areas of the Vocal Wizard screen.

There are 4 areas that require your input.

1. Entering your Vocal Range.