Stackapella Open the app

Unit 4 · The ladder, and the songs

Steal Away

Sing a line of Steal Away plain, then with one gentle run on a held word, at a medium volume or less, so the word comes first. Free, in a short lesson.

Sing this lesson

Free in the app: sing one lesson of each course with no account; a free account opens the course unit by unit.

More in The ladder, and the songs

Steal Away

A quiet spiritual: one gentle run, nothing more.

Quiet. A medium volume or less

One run. Gentle, on a held word

The word. Comes first

What you sing

  1. "Steal away to Jesus", plain.
  2. Now with one gentle run.

Challenge: Your run

Five stairs again, then Swing Low's line with a run of your own on "home": each note its own stair or the next one down, landing on the song's note.

Then and now. Five stairs, today

Your run. Each stair, or the next down

Land it. On the song's note

What you sing

  1. Five stairs.
  2. "Coming for to carry me home", your run on "home".

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.

Free tools by Stackapella

All of these are free, and so is every course.

Stackapella teaches you to sing harmony one part at a time, right in your browser.

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.
Start the beginner course Open the app How Stackapella works

More free tools

No account, no ads. Each one keeps working offline once you've opened it.

See all 17 tools