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Unit 4 · Your own loop

Choose your layers

Pick your own bass and pad by ear, either lit note fits each bar, then sing Drunken Sailor's tune over your layers, kept as a song in Sing. Free.

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Choose your layers

Your bass again, then your own pad over it: two notes light in every bar, and neither meets your bass.

Your bass. Picked as before, once round

Your pad. Mi or la in la's bars, re or so in so's

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

What you sing

  1. Your bass, once round: either lit note in each bar. Easy volume, light, never pressed; stop if anything tightens or hurts.
  2. Your pad, from your loop's first beat: a soft "oo", either lit note, held each bar.

Challenge: Your song

Your song: your bass, your pad, then Drunken Sailor's tune over them, kept as a song in Sing.

Three layers, all yours. Bass, then pad, then the tune

Then and now. Your first loop beside your new bass

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

What you sing

  1. Your bass, once round. Easy volume, light, never pressed; stop if anything tightens or hurts.
  2. Your pad from the first beat, once round.
  3. The tune on top, from the first beat: your band of you.

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.
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  • Your notes light upEach note shows where you landed, and a hint when to go up or down.
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