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Sing a part for Tamil Pamalai

The practice player lets a choir member learn their part by hearing it sung alone. Many hymns now have a Tamil score but nobody has recorded their parts yet, so the computer plays them. If you sing in a church choir, you can change that with a phone and twenty minutes.

How to record a part

1. Open the hymn's Tamil score on the website, choose your part under My part, and pick a speed you can sing comfortably.
2. Put on headphones and press play: the computer plays the hymn with your part standing out. Sing along once or twice until it is secure.
3. Record on a second device (a phone's voice recorder is fine) in a quiet room, about an arm's length away, while the score plays in your headphones only — the recording should hold your voice alone.
4. Sing verse 1 (with the refrain, if the hymn has one) once, in the printed key, keeping a steady beat. Say the hymn number and your part before you start.
5. Name the file with the hymn and the part, for example 263-tenor.m4a, and send it to christianpamalai@gmail.com (or share a Google Drive or WhatsApp link).

Email a recording

By sending a recording you allow Tamil Pamalai to publish it free of charge on the website and the apps, with your name or without, as you prefer. Every recording is listened to before it is published; its loudness is matched to the other parts automatically.