Is there is special formula? Thrids? Fifths? Anything you would like to suggest for creating harmonies? Thanks!What is the secret to creating awesome A Capella harmonies?
I'd suggest thirds and sixths. If you use fourths and fifths, your harmonies sound too hollow--like Gregorian chants. Thirds and sixths are consonant and full-sounding. Better yet, use triads, which are composed of a note, the note a third above, and the note a fifth above. If you add the note a minor seventh above, it sounds jazzy--like doo-wop.What is the secret to creating awesome A Capella harmonies?
In the 50's and 60's people would stand on street corners in brooklyn and the subway and it would just come natural like breathing to them. Listen to groups like the shirelles and rhonettes or any doo wop group and try to pick up some tips. You will be suprised on how that helps. Then with your group have each person pick out a voice in one of their songs and just mimick it and catch along with their harmonies. Once you can do that, when listening to regular music try to find the harmony on your own and once you find it sing along.
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