wannabedoc - Posted - 04/09/2016:  18:16:25

I'm interested in learning how to sing harmony, but don't quite know where to begin. Not only that, but I don't get many chances to play or sing with other folks, so I'm wondering how to get started. Any advice will be truly helpful -- thanks!

UsuallyPickin - Posted - 04/09/2016:  19:50:56

Well Harmony singing is about singing a third or a fifth above a melody note or a third below. A C chord contains the tones C E and G soooo for example in the key of C if the melody tone is a C you can sing an E or a G tone and be in harmony with the melody tone. Try it out with an instrument first .... play a tone on your guitar and find the third or the fifth to that tone and sing it ..... eventually you will be able to do it on the fly I used to practice with recordings. Listen to some good bluegrass harmony The Bluegrass Album Band is good for this, or some solid folk or folk rock harmony singers like Peter Paul and Mary or Simon and Garfunkel. Be patient ... you have to learn to hear where you belong and fall into it. Early 20th century Barbershop Quartet type singing is another place to hear harmony and how it fits together...... Luck R/

wannabedoc - Posted - 04/09/2016:  21:44:36

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Originally posted by UsuallyPickin

 

Well Harmony singing is about singing a third or a fifth above a melody note or a third below. A C chord contains the tones C E and G soooo for example in the key of C if the melody tone is a C you can sing an E or a G tone and be in harmony with the melody tone. Try it out with an instrument first .... play a tone on your guitar and find the third or the fifth to that tone and sing it ..... eventually you will be able to do it on the fly I used to practice with recordings. Listen to some good bluegrass harmony The Bluegrass Album Band is good for this, or some solid folk or folk rock harmony singers like Peter Paul and Mary or Simon and Garfunkel. Be patient ... you have to learn to hear where you belong and fall into it. Early 20th century Barbershop Quartet type singing is another place to hear harmony and how it fits together...... Luck R/

Good advice -- thanks!

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