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Unit 4 · Faster

Clean or smeared?

Hear a fast roll that flips cleanly beside one that smears into slides like a siren, and pick the clean one. The ear behind a sparkling yodel. Free and short.

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Clean or smeared?

Fast, a roll either flips cleanly or smears into slides. The clean one sparkles; the smeared one sounds like a siren.

Clean. Each note distinct, even when quick

Smeared. Glides between, no flips

Listen as often as you like. Only your first answer counts

What you sing

  1. Listen to both, then choose.
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Challenge: Keep on the Sunny Side, yodeled

A line of Keep on the Sunny Side sung plainly, then a fast yodel tag: the hook and the roll, after a song.

Warm up first. A lip trill or a quiet siren, up and down

The line first. "If we keep on the sunny side of life"

Then the roll. Clean, at the speed you can keep clean

What you sing

  1. The line at your own pace first.
  2. The line, plainly, over the drone.
  3. Now the tag: a hook and a roll. Listen, then yodel it back.
  4. Sing the hook once more, then hear yours beside the guide's.

Singing safely

Voices that are still breaking should wait before yodeling. Keep every flip light and at a medium volume, land gently, and stop if anything tightens, tickles or hurts.

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