Tempo Kit Tuner Gauge, Notes, and Trace: Which View to Use

Gauge for the Note Right Now

Gauge is the familiar free tuner view. Use it to tune a string or check a note in the moment, reading the detected note and cents rather than relying only on the needle.

It is also useful for simple intonation drills: sustain a note, watch how close you stay to the center, then try the same note again without watching the tuner first.

For the basics, start with how to read a tuner.

Notes for Moving Around Your Range

Notes lays pitches out as a grid, strip, or list so you can scan the range you are working in. Tap a note to hear it as a drone. The note you play lights up with its own cents bar, which is useful when you are moving between targets instead of tuning one sustained note.

That makes Notes especially useful for intonation practice across scales, intervals, arpeggios, shifts, or a passage with several target pitches. You can hear a reference note, play it back, and see how close each note lands.

Notes is a Pro view.

Trace for a Whole Passage

Trace draws your pitch as a line over a window from 15 minutes to two hours. Freeze the view and scrub back to inspect a phrase you just played.

Instead of seeing only whether one note is sharp or flat right now, you can see how your intonation changes through a sustained note, scale, shift, bend, vocal phrase, or longer passage. A wobble, scoop, unstable attack, or slow drift becomes easier to spot when you can see the pitch path rather than a single instant.

For intonation practice, try playing the phrase once naturally, look for places where the pitch consistently drifts, then repeat the same passage and compare what you hear and feel. You can also record a camera take to review your sound alongside posture and hand movement.

Trace is a Pro view.

For a drill that adds rhythm to pitch practice, try combining the tuner and metronome for intonation practice.