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Unit 2 · Mapping your break

Find your break

Find the place where your voice changes from heavier to lighter with quiet sirens on "oo", twice to be sure it's yours. It isn't a fault. Free, gently.

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What it teaches

Everyone has a place where the voice changes, from the heavier sound to a lighter one. It isn't a fault. The app hears the jump in pitch, not which voice made it.

Warm up first. A quiet hum or an easy slide

Light at the top. Never louder

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

What you sing

  1. A quiet hum first, low and easy: hear it, then hum it back.
  2. Slide up and down once on a quiet "oo", following the ribbon. Somewhere your voice may jump: that's your break. Only as high as is easy.
  3. Breathe, then the same again. Two jumps in the same place make sure it's yours.

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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  • 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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