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key: mechanic/voice-audio--family-07
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id: voice-audio--family-07
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title: Pitch and melodic contour
summary: >-
  The player produces a target pitch or follows a pitch contour. The interface
  shows deviation from the target.
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  - Voice as physical action
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    title: One Hand Clapping
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    title: 'GuitarTuna: Tune & Play Guitar'
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  preview:
    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: Pitch and melodic contour
    description: >-
      The player produces a target pitch or follows a pitch contour. The
      interface shows deviation from the target.
    image:
      src: images/mechanics/sensor-guitar-tuna-2.webp
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      height: 1280
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      game: 'GuitarTuna: Tune & Play Guitar'
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        reserved; excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.
      caption: 'GuitarTuna: the received pitch’s deviation from the target note'
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          label: The −5 reading and Tune up indicate the correction direction
    tips:
      - Choose a comfortable range and allow individual adjustment.
    examples:
      - title: 'GuitarTuna: Tune & Play Guitar'
        url: >-
          https://apps.apple.com/us/app/guitartuna-tune-play-guitar/id527588389?uo=4
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provenance: >-
  Original taxonomy adapted from user-selected design discussions; linked
  sources support specific examples, not the whole classification.
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attribution: gamemechanics.pro contributors
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---
# Pitch and melodic contour

id: voice-audio--family-07
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/voice-audio--family-07
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/voice-audio--family-07/

The player produces a target pitch or follows a pitch contour. The interface shows deviation from the target.

## At a glance

![GuitarTuna: the received pitch’s deviation from the target note](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/sensor-guitar-tuna-2.webp)

[GuitarTuna: Tune & Play Guitar](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/guitartuna-tune-play-guitar/id527588389?uo=4) · © Yousician Ltd. Developer-distributed App Store screenshot. All rights reserved; excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.

1. The −5 reading and Tune up indicate the correction direction

- Choose a comfortable range and allow individual adjustment.

- [GuitarTuna: Tune & Play Guitar](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/guitartuna-tune-play-guitar/id527588389?uo=4)

## How it works

Reach a target pitch or move the voice along a specified contour.

## Variants

### Pitch control

<a id="family-07-branch-1"></a>

- Select an action with a high or low tone. <a id="family-07-branch-1-variant-1"></a>
- Move an object continuously through vocal pitch. <a id="family-07-branch-1-variant-2"></a>
- Match a note or interval. <a id="family-07-branch-1-variant-3"></a>
- Hold a steady tone for a specified duration. <a id="family-07-branch-1-variant-4"></a>

### Pitch changes

<a id="family-07-branch-2"></a>

- Raise or lower pitch along a contour. <a id="family-07-branch-2-variant-1"></a>
- Repeat a pitch sequence. <a id="family-07-branch-2-variant-2"></a>
- Jump between several target tones. <a id="family-07-branch-2-variant-3"></a>
- Repeat a melodic contour in a comfortable vocal range. <a id="family-07-branch-2-variant-4"></a>

### Pitch relationships

<a id="family-07-branch-3"></a>

- Match a sounding reference. <a id="family-07-branch-3-variant-1"></a>
- Find consonance or a required difference with another voice. <a id="family-07-branch-3-variant-2"></a>
- Alternate pitches as code symbols. <a id="family-07-branch-3-variant-3"></a>
- Control one parameter through pitch and another through loudness. <a id="family-07-branch-3-variant-4"></a>

## Context and limits

A working design-space map: 27 families, 81 branches and 324 variants. Voice control, audio-based play and communication can combine or exist separately. Released-game examples support particular techniques; supplementary combinations are design proposals.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Original taxonomy adapted from user-selected design discussions; linked sources support specific examples, not the whole classification.

- [One Hand Clapping](https://baddreamgames.com/one-hand-clapping/) (id: source-ab07b52c1329e133)
- [GuitarTuna: Tune & Play Guitar](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/guitartuna-tune-play-guitar/id527588389?uo=4) (id: source-ecc918e0c949ef2f)

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