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Unit 2 · Groups, placing, and the minor

Where a run goes

One run a line, on a held word, usually at its end: the tune comes first. Hear where a run fits, then sing a line with one run on its held word. Free.

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Where a run goes

One run a line, on a held word, usually at its end. The tune comes first.

The tune. Sung plain

One run. Not on every word

On a held word. Where there's time

What you sing

  1. Listen to each, then choose.
  2. "Steal away" with one run, on its held word.
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Challenge: Wade in the Water

Five stairs again, then Wade in the Water: a minor song (darker, its third a half step lower), with a minor run in fours (In groups).

Then and now. Five stairs, today

Minor. The darker five notes

In fours. A small lean on the first

What you sing

  1. Five stairs.
  2. "Wade in the water", plain.
  3. Now ending in a minor run, in fours.

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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