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Unit 4 · Behind a real song

Home on the Range: a pad, then answers

Hold a soft pad for two lines of a cowboy song, then switch to answers, waiting, echoing the tune and filling its gaps, after hearing the tune first. Free.

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What it teaches

A pad for two lines, then answers: wait, echo "word", and fill under the long "day". Hear the tune first.

Pad, then answers. Hold for two lines, then the gaps; stop if anything tightens or hurts

Doubling the tune. Pop backing often sings the tune too: the mic can't score it

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

What you sing

  1. Hear the tune with each echo, then choose.
  2. The first two lines: the pad on mi, a step up to fa and back, held under the tune.
  3. The whole verse: the pad, then echo "word" in the rest, and fill "all day" under the tune's held note. Halfway, the lights fade.
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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.
  • A guide sings your partHear your line over the others, slow it down, then take your turn.
  • Your notes light upEach note shows where you landed, and a hint when to go up or down.
  • Record every part yourselfStack your takes in time until you're the whole choir.
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