Can Garageband measure pitch on a vocal waveform?

I've just recently discovered that Garageband has an autotune feature that will take a recorded vocal waveform and alter it to transform off key notes to on key. I would like to know if there is a way in Garageband to analyze a recorded vocal waveform and identify the pitches and/or note names in that track. I would like to see when and where a vocal gets slightly sharp or flat so the singer can improve the performance w/o resorting to autotuning.

You can use the "Tuner" to show how far the pitch is off:
Single out the vocal track.
Set the LED display to the "Tuner" (you should see the tuning fork).
Play the song.
The tuner will show how far the pitch is off.
Regards
Léonie

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