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Amazing Grace: two more parts

Add a middle and a top part above your pad from lesson 1, breathing at different times so the sound never stops, then all three kept as a song. Free to sing.

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Amazing Grace: two more parts

Your pad from lesson 1 is the low part. Now a middle and a top: mi, fa, re and so, la.

The top rests. Where the tune dips low, the top waits

Breathe at different times. In a group, so the pad never stops; stop if anything tightens or hurts

Headphones on. Through a speaker, the lead and your earlier takes rest while you sing

What you sing

  1. Find the top part's notes: so, la, so.
  2. The middle part under the tune: mi, fa and re, each held on "oo".
  3. The top part over your middle, under the tune: so and la, resting where the tune dips low. Only the chord changes light.
  4. Your middle part once more, the tune singing with you, then hear yours beside it.

Challenge: Amazing Grace, your backing

Three parts under the tune, kept as a song. First, your pad from lesson 1, beside today's.

Then and now. Your first pad beside today's, the same line

Three of you under the tune. Low, middle, top; stop if anything tightens or hurts

Headphones on. Through a speaker, the lead and your earlier takes rest while you sing

What you sing

  1. The low part, your pad from lesson 1, the tune at full volume this time. Nothing lit while you sing.
  2. The middle part over your low part. Only the chord changes light.
  3. The top part over both. Only the chord changes light. Three of you, under the tune.

Singing safely

Headphones on. An easy volume, the middle of your voice, always softer than the lead; bops and doo-wahs sung lightly, never punched. Stop if anything tightens or hurts.

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Stackapella recording the alto part of Amazing Grace: each note is a bar with its name, and the one being sung says A little low, go up. Stackapella recording the alto part of Amazing Grace: each note is a bar with its name, and the one being sung says A little low, go up. Stackapella recording the alto part of Amazing Grace: each note is a bar with its name, and the one being sung says A little low, go up. Stackapella recording the alto part of Amazing Grace: each note is a bar with its name, and the one being sung says A little low, go up.
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  • Your notes light upEach note shows where you landed, and a hint when to go up or down.
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