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The sound behind the song.
Sing the parts that sit behind a lead: a soft "oo" pad that moves with the chords, doo-wop figures, and answers in the lead's gaps, then put them behind a real song.
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What you'll learn
- Oohs and aahs: a held pad under the lead, moving with the chords, everyone stopping together
- Doo-wop: "doo-wah" and "bop" figures, three parts stacked over your own takes
- Answers: filling the lead's gaps and coming back in on time
- Behind a real song: a pad, then answers, then three backing parts of your own, kept as a song
The course, unit by unit
4 units, 15 lessons
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Stage 1Unit 1
Oohs and aahs
- A pad Start here
- Moving with the chords
- Together off
- Shenandoah's pad
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Stage 2Unit 2
Doo-wop
- Doo-wah
- Shoo-bop
- Three parts
- Your doo-wop
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Stage 3Unit 3
Answers
- Fill the gap
- The response
- Back in on time
- Answers through a verse
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Stage 4Unit 4
Behind a real song
- Home on the Range: a pad, then answers
- Amazing Grace: two more parts
- Amazing Grace, your backing
What the app listens for
Your notes on pitch, and in some lessons your cut-offs, when you come back in, and whether your answers land on the beat. Volume and blend aren't scored: the course asks you to listen, and in your headphones, could you hear the lead over yourself? Headphones on for every lesson: through a speaker, the lead and your earlier takes rest while you sing.
Up to three stars for the notes on pitch, and in the answers on the beat, and XP.The same take says it plainly, like "21 of 24 notes on pitch" or "93% on pitch and time", with no stars or XP.
Singing safely
- Easy volume, softer than the tune.
- Stop if anything tightens or hurts.
The songs
- Shenandoah Traditional, public domain
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Spiritual, public domain
- Michael, Row the Boat Ashore Traditional, public domain
- Home on the Range Traditional, 1870s, public domain
- Amazing Grace Public domain hymn (words 1779, tune 1829)
- The doo-wop lead and every backing part Written for the course
Start here
New to singing harmony? Start here
Learn to sing harmony from your first note, in short lessons, with your notes lighting up as you hit them. In unit 7 you sing all four parts of Amazing Grace. Like every course, it's free.
