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Unit 2 · Leaps you can see

Steps and skips

Read lines that mix steps and skips, spot the skips before you start, keep the beat through the leaps, then read a three-bar line cold. Free, step by step.

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Steps and skips

Now lines mix steps and skips. A step goes to the very next line or space; a skip jumps one.

Spot the skips. Before you start

Steps fill in. Between them

Keep the beat. Even when it leaps

What you sing

  1. Steps and skips, names faint.
  2. And again, no names.
  3. From so below do this time, steps and skips, no names.

Challenge: Leaps, read cold

Three bars you haven't heard, with leaps you can see: so below do, and skips through the home chord. Hear it first is there if you need it; the top score is for reading it cold.

Find do. Then the so below it

Spot the skips. Line to line, or space to space

Read it cold. No names, no help

What you sing

  1. First the leaps to warm up: names faint.
  2. Now the whole line, cold: no names.

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.
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