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Unit 4 · Words for an audience

Lining out

The guide sings lines 1 and 3 of Amazing Grace and you answer with 2 and 4, every word clear: stressed vowels, pure vowels and ends on time. Free to sing.

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Lining out

In lining out, a leader sings a line and the group answers. The guide sings lines 1 and 3; you answer with 2 and 4, every word.

The leader. Lines 1 and 3

You. Lines 2 and 4

Every word. Stress, vowels, ends

What you sing

  1. Amazing Grace's first verse, taking turns with the guide.

Challenge: Every word, heard

Lesson 1's line to hear how far you've come, then the end of Shenandoah's verse, every word for the back of the room.

Then and now. Lesson 1's line, today

The verse's end. Stress, pure vowels, the n on the note

Not louder. Clearer

What you sing

  1. Lesson 1's line.
  2. Shenandoah's first line, then hear it with the words hidden.
  3. "Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you, away, I'm bound away, 'cross the wide Missouri."

Singing safely

A loose jaw and an easy tongue: light consonants, never pushed. A medium volume, the middle of your voice. Stop if anything tightens.

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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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