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Unit 1 · Find do on the stave

Do on the stave

Learn how the five lines and spaces of a stave are notes, find do where your own note sits, then read do, re and mi, with the names fading as you go. Free.

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What it teaches

A stave is five lines. Every line and every space is one note, and higher on the stave is higher in pitch. Your do sits where your own note is.

Do is home. Every line here starts on it

The signs at the start. The clef, set for your voice, and the key's sharps or flats: more on them in unit 5

Easy voice. Medium volume; stop if anything tightens or hurts

What you sing

  1. Watch the stave while it plays, then sing it back: do, re, mi, re, do.
  2. Your turn to read. Look first, then sing it as the notes light: the names are under them.
  3. Names faint now: read the stave. The same line or space twice is the same note again.

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.
  • A guide sings your partHear your line over the others, slow it down, then take your turn.
  • 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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