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Unit 1 · Leaps you already know

Up or down, step or leap

Ask two questions of every new note: is it higher or lower, and is it a step or a leap? Choose by ear, then echo the scale and short shapes. Free to practise.

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What it teaches

Two questions about every new note: up or down, and near or far?

Up or down. Higher or lower than the last

A step. The next note along: do to re

A leap. Skipping notes: do to mi, or further

What you sing

  1. Each clip starts with the key's chord. Listen as often as you like, then choose.
  2. The scale with numbers: do (1) up to so (5) and back. Echo it.
  3. Now shapes: echo each one, up and down.
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Sing at an easy volume, in the middle of your range. Stop if anything tightens, scratches or hurts, and rest your voice.

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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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