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    "guide": {
        "slug": "practise-a-choir-part",
        "title": "How to practise your choir part at home",
        "description": "Rehearsal goes further when you've learned your part at home. Here's a short routine that works between rehearsals, ten minutes a day.",
        "blocks": [
            {
                "type": "paragraph",
                "level": null,
                "text": "In rehearsal there's never enough time to learn every part, so the singers who've practised at home lead their section. A few minutes on most days does more than an hour the night before.",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "heading",
                "level": 2,
                "text": "A ten-minute routine",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "list",
                "level": null,
                "text": null,
                "items": [
                    "**Two minutes: listen.** Play your part alone, following the words.",
                    "**Three minutes: sing with your part.** Quietly, until you know where it goes.",
                    "**Three minutes: sing with everyone.** All parts playing, yours softer each time.",
                    "**Two minutes: record yourself.** Sing it through and listen back. What you hear is what the section hears."
                ]
            },
            {
                "type": "heading",
                "level": 2,
                "text": "The hard bars",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "paragraph",
                "level": null,
                "text": "Every part has a few hard bars: a jump, a note that clashes on purpose, a moment where the tune pulls you away. Loop just those bars, slowly, until they're easy, then put them back into the whole song.",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "heading",
                "level": 2,
                "text": "Before rehearsal",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "paragraph",
                "level": null,
                "text": "Sing it once through with everyone, at full speed, without stopping. If you get lost, find your way back in, as you would in rehearsal.",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "paragraph",
                "level": null,
                "text": "Try the routine on a carol your choir might sing.",
                "items": null
            }
        ],
        "reviewed": false,
        "song": {
            "slug": "silent-night",
            "title": "Silent Night",
            "description": "The gentle carol, for 2 to 4 singers: the soprano sings the melody, the alto a third below most of the way, the bass holds the roots on \"oo\", and the tenor fills the chord. Slow and singable.",
            "difficulty": "beginner",
            "genre": [
                "carol",
                "christmas"
            ],
            "parts": [
                {
                    "key": "soprano",
                    "name": "Soprano",
                    "low": "C4",
                    "high": "F5"
                },
                {
                    "key": "alto",
                    "name": "Alto",
                    "low": "B3",
                    "high": "D5"
                },
                {
                    "key": "tenor",
                    "name": "Tenor",
                    "low": "D3",
                    "high": "C4"
                },
                {
                    "key": "bass",
                    "name": "Bass",
                    "low": "F2",
                    "high": "C3"
                }
            ],
            "previewUrl": null,
            "previewType": "audio/mp4",
            "words": [
                "Silent night, Holy night,",
                "All is calm, all is bright,",
                "Round yon virgin mother and child,",
                "Holy infant so tender and mild,",
                "Sleep in heavenly peace,",
                "sleep in heavenly peace."
            ],
            "credits": [
                "Words: Joseph Mohr (1816); English words John Freeman Young (1859)",
                "Tune: Franz Xaver Gruber (1818)"
            ],
            "plus": true,
            "freeThisMonth": false,
            "pageUrl": "https://beta.stackapella.com/songs/silent-night",
            "startUrl": "/?song=silent-night&ref=song-page"
        }
    }
}