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Unit 6

Low and inner voices

Hold your own note while the chords move, sing a bass line of roots and big jumps, and learn a tenor part that keeps coming home, on Amazing Grace. Free.

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Hold your note

The chords change; your note stays.

Find your note. Hold it steady

Let the harmony move. Around you, above and below

Don't follow them. Your note is your note

What you sing

  1. Hold your note as the chords move.

The bass line

The bass is the floor the others stand on.

Sing the chord's root. The note the chord is named after

Big jumps are normal. The bass leaps from root to root

Sing "oo". Round and warm

What you sing

  1. Learn the bass of Amazing Grace, for 3 singers. Too low? Sing it an octave up. We'll still light your notes.
  2. Now on your own: sing the bass's third line over the chords. Big jumps, root to root.

The tenor

What you sing

  1. Learn the tenor of Amazing Grace. It keeps coming back to do, the home note, while the chords change around it, just as you held your note.
  2. Now on your own: sing the tenor's first line over the chords, and keep coming back home.

Challenge: Record the bass of Amazing Grace

What you sing

  1. The unit's challenge: record the bass of Amazing Grace.

Singing safely

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.
  • 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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