Try different methods of harmony, sing horribly, sing beautifully, try it on different music genres and harmonize to a male/female voices. How? Play your favorite music, and just jump into it! So why not take it forward and actually become productive with this fun habit? You can sing in your car and enjoy while working on your harmony skills. It just does not work that way… BUT, where everybody DOES like to sing along with the music that's played? That's right, in the car. Honestly, most of us would not sit at their homes, play songs on the stereo and practice harmonizing to them. Just like you did not really sound good on your first tries with the guitar or with singing, harmony is something that is learned by doing.Īctually, in the beginning, I mostly refrained from harmonizing a lot in public and in jams with friends and focused more on what's in the following point which is key to becoming good: 6 – Your Car is Your Harmony Skills' Best Friend, Especially in the Beginning… Do not let this discourage you and stop you from becoming the harmonizer that you can become with practice. In fact, you might even sound pretty terrible. And this also brings us to our next point: 5 – Do Not Expect to Sound Good When You Are Just Starting Out (see point number 7) Try it for yourself and see.
However, I have noticed that harmony comes much more naturally, and paradoxically also much more accurately, when you are simply trying to sing “slightly above” or “slightly below” the original pitch. Here I am not talking about the familiar photography world's Rule of Thirds, but about the harmony world's rule of thirds… When you are learning harmony, a lot of resources will tell you to stick mostly to singing a third (an interval of three or four half steps) above or below the original pitch (and it is, indeed a very common line of harmonization). Most of the songs take a good leap forward when you do that! 4 – Forget About the “Rule Of Thirds” or any Other Strict Rules It's always fun to be able to join in and add great harmonies when your friend is singing. So before we go artsy and start to create our own lines of harmony, it is easier to just go with the original flow of the song and sing with the singer at the same pitch, at least for a few lines, to get both feet planted steadily on the ground. Singing unison (Unison is the musical interval of 0 half steps) is a fancy way of saying “singing the song just like the original singer did”. *originally posted May '15, updated April '17.įirst, I highly recommend checking out the two previous articles about harmony to get a solid starting point before reading today's article which aims to be more advanced:ħ Useful Principles of Singing Harmony 1 – At First, Start by Singing Unison to Get A Hang of The Song Today we will focus on some 7 wide-reaching principles for the beginner harmonizer that should help get you on your feet in the “harmony business”. Singing harmony can add huge amounts of fun and sheer musical beauty to just about any jam you stumble into as we've discussed before.
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