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    "guide": {
        "slug": "a-round-for-beginners",
        "title": "A round: the easiest way to start singing harmony",
        "description": "In a round, everyone sings the same tune, starting at different times, and the harmony happens by itself. It's the gentlest first step into singing in parts.",
        "blocks": [
            {
                "type": "paragraph",
                "level": null,
                "text": "In a round, every voice sings the same tune, but each starts a little later. Because the tune is written to fit with itself, the harmony happens by itself: you only need to know one tune and hold it while the others come in.",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "heading",
                "level": 2,
                "text": "How to sing one",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "list",
                "level": null,
                "text": null,
                "items": [
                    "Learn the tune until you can sing it without thinking.",
                    "Sing it while one other voice starts a line behind you. Keep going, whatever you hear.",
                    "Add a third voice, and a fourth."
                ]
            },
            {
                "type": "paragraph",
                "level": null,
                "text": "The hard part is the same as in any harmony: keeping your place while another line plays. A round makes it easy, because what the others sing is something you already know.",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "heading",
                "level": 2,
                "text": "Then sing every voice yourself",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "paragraph",
                "level": null,
                "text": "Record yourself singing the tune, then record it again starting a line later, and again. When you play them back together, you'll hear a round sung entirely by you.",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "paragraph",
                "level": null,
                "text": "Try it with a round everyone knows.",
                "items": null
            }
        ],
        "reviewed": false,
        "song": {
            "slug": "are-you-sleeping",
            "title": "Are You Sleeping (round)",
            "description": "Frere Jacques as a round for 2 to 4 singers: everyone sings the same tune, entering two bars apart (tenor and bass an octave lower), and the harmony happens by itself. The easiest way into singing parts.",
            "difficulty": "beginner",
            "genre": [
                "round",
                "children's",
                "folk"
            ],
            "parts": [
                {
                    "key": "soprano",
                    "name": "Soprano",
                    "low": "D4",
                    "high": "E5"
                },
                {
                    "key": "alto",
                    "name": "Alto",
                    "low": "D4",
                    "high": "E5"
                },
                {
                    "key": "tenor",
                    "name": "Tenor",
                    "low": "D3",
                    "high": "E4"
                },
                {
                    "key": "bass",
                    "name": "Bass",
                    "low": "D3",
                    "high": "E4"
                }
            ],
            "previewUrl": null,
            "previewType": "audio/mp4",
            "words": [
                "Are you sleeping, are you sleeping,"
            ],
            "credits": [
                "Words: traditional English version",
                "Tune: \"Frere Jacques\", traditional French (published 1780)"
            ],
            "plus": false,
            "freeThisMonth": false,
            "pageUrl": "https://beta.stackapella.com/songs/are-you-sleeping",
            "startUrl": "/?song=are-you-sleeping&ref=song-page"
        }
    }
}