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Unit 5 · Your part in a chord

Inside the chord

Keep your eyes on your line while the other parts sing around you, find the next bar if you lose your place, then read a whole alto part in the chord. Free.

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Inside the chord

Now the other parts sing while you read yours. Keep your eyes on your line and let the chord sound around you.

Headphones on. So the mic hears only you

Don't follow the tune. Your notes are on the stave

Lost your place?. Find the next bar's first note

What you sing

  1. The alto's first line, the other parts singing with you.
  2. Amazing Grace's alto, its second line, the other parts singing with you.
  3. Back to Michael, Row: its second line, inside the chord.

Challenge: Your part, read

The whole alto part of Michael, Row, read from the stave while the other parts sing. No names, no guide: you're reading in a choir.

Find do. From the signature

Look ahead. At the shape, not each note

Keep going. A slip? Catch the next beat

What you sing

  1. First, the line you read cold in your first challenge, read again. Then hear how far you've come.
  2. The whole alto part, inside the chord.

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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