An easy trick for singing HARMONY!

Hey Sahara Gault here and I'm gonna share the easiest harmonizing technique there is let's get to it the art of the pedal tone is often overlooked when discussing techniques for creating harmonizing lines but it's actually one of the most powerful and creates really beautiful outcomes it's also one of the easiest techniques to learn and use so imagine this is our lead melody we want a harmony part for we can harmonize it with a single note [Music] has the lead melody winds its way around because our static counter line doesn't move it allows our ear to focus on the flashes of sweetness of serenity and melancholy that emerge only in the presence of our pedal tone ok let's see if you can do it here's your note now hold on to it don't change notes just sustain this one while you're hearing the lead melody ready sing [Music] now you might be wondering how did I know which note to sing surely not any random note would have worked and that's true so a surprising amount of notes will do interesting things with most melodies but to give you a couple probable choices for good outcomes more often than not the tonic or the dominant of the key or in will have the best chance of creating a beautiful result the tonic and dominant by the way are names for scale degrees all seven notes of the key get a number and a name the first scale degree is called the tonic and the fifth scale degree is called the dominant so if you're in the key of C the tonic one is Z and the dominant five is G now in determining whether a tonic or dominant or any of the other possible pedals will be right you can check out my lesson download harmony workshop for a more detailed exploration of this idea and a comprehensive look at harmonizing in general but as a kind of shorthand if your melody is hovering close to the tonic then you'll likely have trouble with dissonant stack ups against adjacent nodes if your pedal tone is also on the tonic so that's when it might be a good idea to try the dominant and the scale degrees also have functional qualities that are intrinsic to them tonic pedals create a feeling of foundation anchoring us to home dominant pedals create a feeling of expectation a desire to resolve so we can't simply choose based on what sounds Pleasant we also need to be thinking about what function is appropriate okay you get the idea now let's practice a dominant pedal here's our lead melody [Music] and here's the dominant what you're singing [Music] oh here's what it should be sounding like [Music] once more just you [Music] okay that's it for this time if you'd like more on the subject of harmonizing check out my new lesson download harmony workshop it contains over four hours of instruction exercises and techniques to help you get great at creating harmonies any questions let me know in the comments subscribe say catch my future videos and as always thanks for watching I'm Sahara Gault I'll see you next [Music] you [Music]

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Keywords: harmony, sing, singing, how to sing harmony, harmonize, harmonizing, pedal tone, easy, harmonies

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Length: 4min 27sec (267 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 31 2017