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Unit 2 · Slides and the cry

Which move?

Hear a line with one move each round and pick it: a scoop, a fall-off, a slide or a cry. Then decide which one was overdone. Ear training for style. Free.

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Which move?

Four moves so far: a scoop, a fall-off, a slide and a cry. Can you tell them apart, and hear when they're too many?

Listen to the line. Each round has one move

Pick the move. Only your first answer counts

Then taste. Which one overdid it?

What you sing

  1. Listen, then choose.
Try one round

Challenge: Lone prairie

A cowboy lament, styled: a slide from "not", a light cry on "lone", a scoop into "low" and a fall-off at the end.

Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie. Cowboy words of 1910, to The Ocean Burial's tune

Long notes, long moves. The slide, the scoop and the fall sit on five-beat notes

The cry is light. A flick, never a hard catch

What you sing

  1. The two lines at your own pace first.
  2. After the drone's lead-in, sing the two lines, styled.

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.
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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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