How To Harmonize Melodies
How To Harmonize Melodies
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Barbershop quartets, do-wop, acappella and choirs all sound so beautiful because the singers harmonize with the melodies, and professional singing teacher Sonia Jones explains how to practice harmonizing techniques so that your singing group will perform at its best, whether in a barbershop, street corner or church.
The best way to harmonize melodies - I would get a friend who plays an instrument, like a piano or trumpet, violin, guitar. Then get them to play the melodies and then you put the thirds and the fifths and practice. The best way to harmonize with melodies is to join a choir because you get to use your ears which is the only way you can train yourself to sing harmonies and stick to your part, whether it's the fourth, fifth, the octave.
Joining a choir is definitely the best way to practice. Another good way to practice your harmonies is so fa, because that gives you your notes, so you can do relative pitching with your notes. So if you look at "The Sound of Music," the song "Do Re Mi" is perfect, learn that and that will really teach you your thirds and fifths.
So, let's have a recap on how to sing harmony with melodies. Get a friend who plays an instrument and let the instrument play the melody, and you sing the harmony. Join a choir so you train your ears to stick to your part, which is the thirds, fifths or the melody, and the last one is the so fa method, which is do re mi fa so la ti do, as Julie Andrews said in "The Sound of Music.
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