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Unit 4 · Faster

The roll

Sing a roll, several flips on one breath: low, high, low, high, low, slowly first so each flip is clean, never more than four to a breath. Free, step by step.

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What it teaches

A roll is several flips on one breath: low, high, low, high, low. Four flips at most to a breath.

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

Slowly first. Each flip clean before it's quick

Breathe between rolls. Never more than four flips a breath

What you sing

  1. The roll at your own pace first: low, high, low, high, low.
  2. Listen, then sing the roll back, slowly.
  3. A little quicker.
  4. The same roll over the home chord, every flip clean.

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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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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