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Unit 2 · Bass syllables

Call and response

The guide sings a bar and you sing it straight back on the same root, on "buh": lips just touching, no puff of air. Three calls to answer. Free, step by step.

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Call and response

Call and response: the guide sings a bar, and you sing it straight back. "Buh" is lips just touching, with no puff of air.

Listen. One bar from the guide

Answer. The same bar, on the same root

Buh. Lips just touching, no puff

What you sing

  1. Call 1: listen, then answer.
  2. Call 2: listen, then answer.
  3. Call 3: listen, then answer.

Challenge: Talk like a bass

Unit 1's four roots, now in bass syllables: "doom" once through, then "dm" three to a chord.

Doom. Stop each one on time

Then dm. Exactly on the beat

Then and now. Hear lesson 1 beside today

What you sing

  1. Once with the guide, to learn it.
  2. Now the whole groove under the group.

Singing safely

Low and easy: never press, growl or tuck your chin to reach a note, and keep your throat where it is when you speak. Stop if anything tightens or hurts.

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