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Unit 4 · Your own loop

Choose your bass

Choose your own bass for Drunken Sailor as you go: two notes light in every bar, either one fits, as each is a note of that bar's chord. Free, step by step.

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What it teaches

Your own bass for Drunken Sailor: in every bar two notes light, and either one fits. Pick as you go.

Two notes a bar. Low la or do in la's bars, low so or low ti in so's

Every pick works. Each is a note of that bar's chord

Headphones on. Through a speaker, your loops rest while you sing

What you sing

  1. Once with the guide singing the lower note of each pair, to learn the bars. Just try it.
  2. Now your bass under the guide's tune: in each bar, sing either lit note. Easy volume, light, never pressed; stop if anything tightens or hurts.

Singing safely

Headphones on. An easy volume, the middle of your voice; the bass sung lightly, never pressed. Stop if anything tightens or hurts.

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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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