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Unit 1 · The swing pocket

Start on the and

Let the beat go by and start each line just after it, on the "and", the way jazz lines love to, ending clean on the t of "dat". Echo four calls. Free.

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Start on the and

Jazz lines love to start just after the beat, on the "and". End each one clean, the t of "dat" cutting it off.

Wait. Let the beat go by

Then go. On the and

Dat. A clean end

What you sing

  1. Four calls that start on the and; echo each.

Challenge: Four trades on the and

Lesson 1's trades, to hear how far you've come, then four calls that start on the and, your echoes ending wherever you like on a lit note.

Then and now. Lesson 1's four trades

On the and. Calls that start off the beat

Your landing. Any lit note

What you sing

  1. Lesson 1's four trades again.
  2. Now the four calls on the and.

Singing safely

Light and easy: a loose jaw, a medium volume, the middle of your voice. Accent with breath, never the throat. Stop if anything tightens.

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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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