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Unit 2 · Mapping your break

Around the break

Step up to just past your break and back on separate notes, lighter as you climb, so you know where it sits before you reach it. A jump is fine. Free.

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Around the break

Now sing notes that step right up to your break and just past it. Knowing where it sits lets you get ready before you reach it.

Stop if it strains. Tightens, tickles or hurts: rest

Lighter as you climb. Go lighter just before it

A jump is fine. You're finding it, not hiding it

What you sing

  1. A quiet hum first, low and easy: hear it, then hum it back.
  2. Notes stepping up to just past your break and back, heard then sung.
  3. Sing them once more, slowly, and listen back.

Challenge: Know your break

Today is about finding your break, not getting rid of it. Crossing it smoothly comes later.

Two sirens. Agreeing on one place

Then steps. Up to just past it and back

What you sing

  1. A quiet hum first, low and easy: hear it, then hum it back.
  2. One more siren, light at the top.
  3. Up to just past your break and back, heard then sung.

Singing safely

Voices that are still breaking should wait. Sing only as high and low as is easy, keep the top light and quiet, never drag a heavy sound up past your break, and stop if anything tightens, tickles 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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