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Unit 3 · The blue note

Bend or stall?

A bend has to arrive. Hear which bend lands on the third and which one stalls, then sing your own bend and hold it there. Free, in short steps you sing.

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Bend or stall?

A bend has to arrive. Listen for the one that lands.

Listen. Which one lands?

Then you. A bend that arrives

Hold it. On the third

What you sing

  1. Listen to each, then choose.
  2. Now your bend, arriving on the third.
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Challenge: A bluesy ending

Five stairs again, a bend on the line, then an ending run in threes (unit 2's groups).

Then and now. Five stairs, today

The bend. Arrive on the third

The run. In threes, landing home

What you sing

  1. Five stairs.
  2. The bend, arriving on the third.
  3. The ending run, in threes, landing on do.

Singing safely

Runs need a light voice: a medium volume, the middle of your voice, no pushing or squeezing. Short sessions. 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.
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