*** One thing I forgot to mention. While programming harmonies in Grid Mode is an amazing tool for arranging/demos, I don't suggest you use them on a final product. I'm singing all the parts in the video. Programmed parts do not appear anywhere incase anyone gets confused and thinks programmed harmonies will sound like this. They will not :( ***
Yes I was wondering about that, thanks for clarifying. I can see the sense in being able to play with the harmonies exact contour in midi mode though rather than having to rerecord every single variation.. To do it this way I assume you're just copying off the lead vocal each time to a separate channel and editing the Grid mode individually?
Ah, yet another criminally underrated creator. Amazing production quality, love the lighting, loved the puppet show, loved how you went into the details of everything rather than talking down to me like some channels do, loved everything about this.
You are totally a beast man. The way you quickly make everything easily understandable is insane. How nobody watches this video?! This is one of the best vocal arrangement foundation out there tbh. You even did that little cute yet hilarious drama scene there! So much efforts man Also I totally did not expect an Ab1 so sudden lmao I mean your speaking voice kinda tells but it was just very sudden lol GOOD VIDEO MAN THANKS A LOT
Thanks 😊 and yes I’m definitely a bass lol I just have learned throughout the years to get comfortable singing at the very very top of my range to trick people into thinking I’m a tenor 😇
Joe - this is without a doubt the BEST video about harmony on RUclips. I love that you jump right into the heart of it and rocket along with all the different examples. Best 25 mins. spent today.
I am so happy to have found this video. I learned new things and got clarification on pieces that were familiar, but not, well, totally clear. Great job!
First off, we have the same exact water bottle... Second, this is literally the ONLY comprehensive guide I have been able to find online on writing multi-part harmonies. Everything else never went any deeper than just singing the 3rd and 5th, and everybody who I’ve seen writing huge harmonies with tons and tons of layers (ie. Jacob Collier) seems to just do it completely by ear. Thanks so much for this in depth explanation. I’ll definitely be rewatching! Also, the puppet show was the funniest thing I’ve seen all day. 😂
Lolololol solid bottles. Ya it's unfortunately not a well covered topic. I think people get turned off by the amount of theory it involves, so I tried to teach it in a more practical way that allows you to still learn the theory as a byproduct of experimentation. Thanks for watching!
One of the best tutorials I have seen on creating harmonies. Direct and information, but also very amusing! Love it and will be interested to see more content......keep it up!
awesome dude. I studied theory up until atonal 12 tone charts and this video did not sacrifice any knowledge for ease of consumption. you made it mad accessible while still "teaching" the thirds and fifths, nice man. music theory is magic and the more ppl who know about it, the better music we all get.
been writing my own harmonies just following chords via 3 parts for a little while now... i've been meaning to find a video like this for a while... I honestly never thought to do it "the easy" or apparently more popular way of just finding 3rds above and below the harmony line! God damn! What have I been doing!? But anyways, I pretty much died when you started the puppet skit. Gold. Deserves 1m views.
Awesome video, this is really the BEST video on vocal harmonies I've seen, and I feel like I've watched them all. I ended up here trying to understand how Post Malone does his harmonies, I would love to see you do a video on that!
You did some backstreet boys videos that were absolutely electric but I can't seem to find them. Was planning to study them for a new project since you always engineer such a brilliant sound . Am I missing them or are they somewhere out there?
Great video, also really nicely split into respective chapters. Thank you for this! I've been writing / producing harmonies turning down the formants and keeping that weird sound as part of our sound aesthetic, but been looking on and off for a good demonstration of a more commonly heard example of vocal harmonies, so I'm glad you made this video!
Dude is a master. You did all this in with only a compressor and L1 on individual tracks and just EQ on the bus. I'd love to see how you're going into the DAW. This is ridiculous.
This is the first video of yours that I've ever seen and, NGL, you instantly got a subscriber when you said "FUCK SQUARESPACE, this video is sponsored by ME." 😂 For real tho, awesome video. Love your style of explaining things in an easy-to-follow manner and also the fact that you have a lot of visual aides as well. Plus the storytime puppet show was 🔥. So happy I found your channel. 🙌🏽
@@JoeQuick not at all useless, man! That was insanely sick! 🙀🙀 A super rare talent and vocal groups would kill for notes like that in their arrangements. Boyz II Men are my fav vocal group and their bass harmonies used to send chills down my spine. Ofc, everybody loves the high notes, tenors and sopranos and that’s pretty typical and redundant now…but I believe one day someone will come along and put bass singers on the map, could be you.
Hi Joe, super video! Just a question, are all lines panned central? I thought some lines should be doubled L/R. I have a three part harmony with doubling on the main line (both line C/C) and then two panned left and right (two individual takes, singing the same line, one panned L and one R). So all in all 6 lines , but it sounds pretty flat/not powerful? So I was wondering if you pan everything all center, or how do you do it?
Very helpfull! 🙏🔥 What I don‘t get, is that in the beginning you are talking about 3rd above the lead (-1 octave=6th below) and 3rd below (+1 octave=6th above) , but at 17:10 (chord shapes) you are talking about arranging harmonies in 3rds and 5ths?
LOGIC ,applied to explaining the VAST and multifaceted world of music theory for real world scenarios,application, and use . and then the Jim Henson thing , xdeadx and you didnt even beg for my likeandsub... go pull howard stern out by his thinning curls 10-10 , howie says 10 too yourgoing to hollywood (and yes i know there all differnt but the same) thanks bruddah
Question: Great video by the way - just wondering are all vocals recorded - mutiple different takes by the same singer at the same key, but then the harmonies pitched up or down as per autotune / tuning software. Ive always been struggling to get something as tight as these, especially as some notes are very difficult to sing when you the further away the key is from the lead. Also do you by any chance use revoice or vocalign to tighten your vocals or you do do everything manually? and also is autotune better than melodyne for this purpose ? thank you very much for the tutorial / tips!
All the vocals are sung. I don’t use any type of time alignment software. If someone had problems with timing I would just make sure I had them do enough takes that I’d be able to comp together a good performance. I prefer autotune over melodyne both for the ease of use and the sound quality.
So, just to be clear, you're skipping part of the process each time in the video, right? Moving the piano roll notes doesn't actually change your vocal notes, correct? I'm guessing you're moving the piano notes around and playing back the part on the piano track until you're satisfied, then making the same changes to the vocal notes on the auto-tune graph, right? Or am I missing a really cool feature that links the vocal notes to the piano roll somehow?
I'm singing all the parts in the video, they aren't programmed. Sorry if that was confusing. Programmed harmonies wouldn't sound like this unfortunately. I just use the Grid Mode harmonies when I'm doing an arrangement, so I don't have to demo things before doing the final. You can route midi notes to the input of Autotune from a piano roll but because of the vocals not being grid accurate it would likely glitch out alot.
@@JoeQuick So in reality, you're hearing the piano track play your proposed changes to the arrangement while you're brainstorming. It's not until you're happy with the arrangement that you record each vocal line on the mic, correct? The video was making me think you could drag each harmony note around and hear the vocal lines change instantly. (Great voice, by the way.)
@@mikefox6211 Thanks :) It still is what you're thinking. So basically the process will go like this. I'll do the arrangement in the piano roll on midi piano. Once I think it's finalized I'll load the demo melody into Grid Mode on Autotune. I'll then duplicate that track 2 times if I was doing a 3 part arrangement. I'd then write in the top voice in Grid Mode on Autotune and write in the bottom voice on the other track in Grid Mode of Autotune. Now I can hear the whole 3 part arrangement with voices and have access to move around the notes on each of them if need be. Then I'll record the parts for real once everything is good.
@@JoeQuick Great, thanks for clarifying. That all makes sense. Now the final question - when does the song drop? I'll be hearing it in my head for the next week. ; )
*** One thing I forgot to mention. While programming harmonies in Grid Mode is an amazing tool for arranging/demos, I don't suggest you use them on a final product. I'm singing all the parts in the video. Programmed parts do not appear anywhere incase anyone gets confused and thinks programmed harmonies will sound like this. They will not :( ***
Yes I was wondering about that, thanks for clarifying. I can see the sense in being able to play with the harmonies exact contour in midi mode though rather than having to rerecord every single variation.. To do it this way I assume you're just copying off the lead vocal each time to a separate channel and editing the Grid mode individually?
Would love to see know how the grid mode works
Thanks for this comment. Lol I was thinking that’s not the same take. The inflections are different. Especially on the bass part. Great video!
Ah, yet another criminally underrated creator. Amazing production quality, love the lighting, loved the puppet show, loved how you went into the details of everything rather than talking down to me like some channels do, loved everything about this.
Thanks man! Very much appreciated
Literally the best explanation of harmony arrangement I have ever seen. Thank you for this!
Glad it helped 😃
The quality of this video deserves 1 million subs minimum
One of the better videos I have watched on youtube. Well played, sir!
Okay, I did not expect the puppet show. That segment alone made me want to subscribe instantly. Well done and thanks for the lesson.
how does this not have millions of views lmao this a masterpiece
You are totally a beast man. The way you quickly make everything easily understandable is insane. How nobody watches this video?! This is one of the best vocal arrangement foundation out there tbh. You even did that little cute yet hilarious drama scene there! So much efforts man
Also I totally did not expect an Ab1 so sudden lmao I mean your speaking voice kinda tells but it was just very sudden lol GOOD VIDEO MAN THANKS A LOT
Thanks 😊 and yes I’m definitely a bass lol I just have learned throughout the years to get comfortable singing at the very very top of my range to trick people into thinking I’m a tenor 😇
That puppet show was the highlight of my day, haha! :D Thanks so much for this video!!
Joe - this is without a doubt the BEST video about harmony on RUclips. I love that you jump right into the heart of it and rocket along with all the different examples. Best 25 mins. spent today.
Much appreciated glad it was helpful :)
you put so much effort into this demo. a subscription well earned
I am so happy to have found this video. I learned new things and got clarification on pieces that were familiar, but not, well, totally clear. Great job!
First off, we have the same exact water bottle... Second, this is literally the ONLY comprehensive guide I have been able to find online on writing multi-part harmonies. Everything else never went any deeper than just singing the 3rd and 5th, and everybody who I’ve seen writing huge harmonies with tons and tons of layers (ie. Jacob Collier) seems to just do it completely by ear.
Thanks so much for this in depth explanation. I’ll definitely be rewatching! Also, the puppet show was the funniest thing I’ve seen all day. 😂
Lolololol solid bottles. Ya it's unfortunately not a well covered topic. I think people get turned off by the amount of theory it involves, so I tried to teach it in a more practical way that allows you to still learn the theory as a byproduct of experimentation. Thanks for watching!
Huge amount of effort went into this and it's amazing.
Best youtube video about pro sounding harmonies shows below crappy videos in search results. Damn RUclips
Broo! I have watched millions of RUclips videos about music and your storytelling about melody and harmony is the most creative! Bravo
One of the best tutorials I have seen on creating harmonies. Direct and information, but also very amusing! Love it and will be interested to see more content......keep it up!
The "Creation of Harmony" short was absolutely incredible
Thank yew 😊
I finally understand what to do with my harmony arrangement! Thank you for making such an amazing tutorial video!
Outstanding video. Your puppet show is a straight out masterpiece!!!
Great tutorial! And I love the puppet show - genius!
Thanks for watching :)
This is exactly how I need music theory explained to me lmao. Good video. The puppets rock
Great video man! The country example had me rolling 😂
Great content! I really enjoy the video.
LMAO i did not expect that whole disney movie based on your deadpan delivery in the first few minutes of this video. needless to say, i'm engaged.
awesome dude. I studied theory up until atonal 12 tone charts and this video did not sacrifice any knowledge for ease of consumption. you made it mad accessible while still "teaching" the thirds and fifths, nice man. music theory is magic and the more ppl who know about it, the better music we all get.
Stuff like this is the glory of the internet.
Thank you for this post. Subscribed.
been writing my own harmonies just following chords via 3 parts for a little while now... i've been meaning to find a video like this for a while... I honestly never thought to do it "the easy" or apparently more popular way of just finding 3rds above and below the harmony line! God damn! What have I been doing!? But anyways, I pretty much died when you started the puppet skit. Gold. Deserves 1m views.
Awesome video, this is really the BEST video on vocal harmonies I've seen, and I feel like I've watched them all. I ended up here trying to understand how Post Malone does his harmonies, I would love to see you do a video on that!
The live vocal group clip had me ☠️☠️☠️🤣
But fr I wanna hear the whole song. That was so beautiful 😩😍😍😍
literally have sent this to like 10 people. so practical
This is a whole masterclass
You explained it very well and easy to understand and also showed great examples!
Just discovered this gem of a channel 😂 time to binge
Thanks dude 😎
Great video. Very easy to see and interpret through the production quality. Nice job!
yes ! thank you so much ! there’s not enough videos explaining this type of stuff. super thankful 🥰🥰
Me: Aw, cute. Puppets. Let me get my kids.
Also me: Mayyyybe I should preview this before I bring them over.
😂😂😂
Wow! Thank you for making this simple
Thanks 1000X Joe for an amazing educational melody and harmony adventure.🤩 Thanks with deep respect to the master of harmony.👌You deserve⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Brother... You're a genius... I just found your channel... Thank you for your content..!
Bro!!! This video is a GEM!!! And the puppet show SOOO COOL! Damn this is my fav tutorial now! Thanks!!!! ✨
Thank you 😊
@@JoeQuick Bro 2:31 I need to see this process T.T it will help me a lot.
Wow, wow!! Amazing content. Informative, witty, funny, entertaining!!
You rock Joe! Thank you for your generosity!
Subbed. Quality content. Cant thank you enough for your effot
You did some backstreet boys videos that were absolutely electric but I can't seem to find them. Was planning to study them for a new project since you always engineer such a brilliant sound . Am I missing them or are they somewhere out there?
Watching an awesome video, reading the comments you’ll run into.
Dude honestly this is really impressive work but mos importantly... f**** hilarious!!
Honestly you kill me everytime!
Thank you 😊
GOAT
Well that covered everything, awesome vid, thank you!
This was amazingly made !! Congrats and don’t stop doing RUclips videos !
Gracias
men thanks, suc h valuable lessons! Wow
Great video, also really nicely split into respective chapters. Thank you for this! I've been writing / producing harmonies turning down the formants and keeping that weird sound as part of our sound aesthetic, but been looking on and off for a good demonstration of a more commonly heard example of vocal harmonies, so I'm glad you made this video!
Thanks!
The story time made my day haha xD
Gracias, saludos desde Medellin Colombia!
Excellent video!! Thanks for all the great information and different approaches when arranging vocals.
Glad you found it helpful!
Strummed acoustic never dissapoints
Very helpful! THANK YOU!
Great tutorial! This video is def gonna be a go-to for me.
Thanks!
Genius
thank you for taking the time to make this!!!
Glad it helped :)
Dude is a master. You did all this in with only a compressor and L1 on individual tracks and just EQ on the bus. I'd love to see how you're going into the DAW. This is ridiculous.
Lol thanks just the mic into the interface into the DAW
Here before he blows tf up🔥
This was awesome man 😁
god this video is underrated!
I love your voice! And great vid!
How does this not have more views?
Awesome tutorial 🎉🎊
This is the first video of yours that I've ever seen and, NGL, you instantly got a subscriber when you said "FUCK SQUARESPACE, this video is sponsored by ME." 😂 For real tho, awesome video. Love your style of explaining things in an easy-to-follow manner and also the fact that you have a lot of visual aides as well. Plus the storytime puppet show was 🔥. So happy I found your channel. 🙌🏽
Much appreciated :)
🙀 omfg did this guy just sing a G#1?!!!! Geeeesh!!! Those base notes gave me a super eargasm 🥹😍🥰🥰🥰
Lol I'm a true bass so G#1 is actually not that low for me. On a good day I can get down to E1. It's an incredibly useless skill to be blessed with.
@@JoeQuick not at all useless, man! That was insanely sick! 🙀🙀 A super rare talent and vocal groups would kill for notes like that in their arrangements. Boyz II Men are my fav vocal group and their bass harmonies used to send chills down my spine. Ofc, everybody loves the high notes, tenors and sopranos and that’s pretty typical and redundant now…but I believe one day someone will come along and put bass singers on the map, could be you.
@@arcanearcanum8926 Lol thanks! Boyz 2 Men are awesome 😎
That was fantastic
Hi Joe, super video! Just a question, are all lines panned central? I thought some lines should be doubled L/R. I have a three part harmony with doubling on the main line (both line C/C) and then two panned left and right (two individual takes, singing the same line, one panned L and one R). So all in all 6 lines , but it sounds pretty flat/not powerful? So I was wondering if you pan everything all center, or how do you do it?
This is an amazing video. I don't really comment on videos but I had to. Keep up the awesome vids. Gonna subscribe
Much appreciated :)
Amazing work. Intense harmonies.
...As the 100th comment do I win a prize.
Awesome video.
Definitely subscribed great video, and that country song was made for me! I left thank God! Hahaha 🤣
I'm gobsmacked by the beautiful harmony you created. Which software are you using for this arrangement
This is so amazing. Is there a Full Version of the Song?
great vid !
That was too good 😮💨😮💨
Great video
Very helpfull! 🙏🔥 What I don‘t get, is that in the beginning you are talking about 3rd above the lead (-1 octave=6th below) and 3rd below (+1 octave=6th above) , but at 17:10 (chord shapes) you are talking about arranging harmonies in 3rds and 5ths?
can you make how to mix a voice over?? like as what you did on the story 🙊
dude you should have like 20K subs
even more maybe
Much appreciated :)
LOGIC ,applied to explaining the VAST and multifaceted world of music theory for real world scenarios,application, and use .
and then the Jim Henson thing , xdeadx and you didnt even beg for my likeandsub...
go pull howard stern out by his thinning curls 10-10 , howie says 10 too yourgoing to hollywood
(and yes i know there all differnt but the same)
thanks bruddah
Will this work with Auto-Tune 8's graph mode, or does it need to be one of the new versions of Auto-Tune?
Yep! They added the note function back in EVO.
@@JoeQuick Excellent!
Can't hear the bass voice bit at the end unfortunately
Everyone, MAKE SURE TO WATCH THE PART STARTING AT 8:19! You will not regret it!!!
10/10
Question: Great video by the way - just wondering are all vocals recorded - mutiple different takes by the same singer at the same key, but then the harmonies pitched up or down as per autotune / tuning software. Ive always been struggling to get something as tight as these, especially as some notes are very difficult to sing when you the further away the key is from the lead. Also do you by any chance use revoice or vocalign to tighten your vocals or you do do everything manually? and also is autotune better than melodyne for this purpose ? thank you very much for the tutorial / tips!
All the vocals are sung. I don’t use any type of time alignment software. If someone had problems with timing I would just make sure I had them do enough takes that I’d be able to comp together a good performance. I prefer autotune over melodyne both for the ease of use and the sound quality.
@@JoeQuick wow thank you for your reply, I will keep this in mind :D
Which DAW do you use ?
Studio one
So, just to be clear, you're skipping part of the process each time in the video, right? Moving the piano roll notes doesn't actually change your vocal notes, correct? I'm guessing you're moving the piano notes around and playing back the part on the piano track until you're satisfied, then making the same changes to the vocal notes on the auto-tune graph, right? Or am I missing a really cool feature that links the vocal notes to the piano roll somehow?
I'm singing all the parts in the video, they aren't programmed. Sorry if that was confusing. Programmed harmonies wouldn't sound like this unfortunately. I just use the Grid Mode harmonies when I'm doing an arrangement, so I don't have to demo things before doing the final. You can route midi notes to the input of Autotune from a piano roll but because of the vocals not being grid accurate it would likely glitch out alot.
@@JoeQuick So in reality, you're hearing the piano track play your proposed changes to the arrangement while you're brainstorming. It's not until you're happy with the arrangement that you record each vocal line on the mic, correct? The video was making me think you could drag each harmony note around and hear the vocal lines change instantly. (Great voice, by the way.)
@@mikefox6211 Thanks :) It still is what you're thinking. So basically the process will go like this. I'll do the arrangement in the piano roll on midi piano. Once I think it's finalized I'll load the demo melody into Grid Mode on Autotune. I'll then duplicate that track 2 times if I was doing a 3 part arrangement. I'd then write in the top voice in Grid Mode on Autotune and write in the bottom voice on the other track in Grid Mode of Autotune. Now I can hear the whole 3 part arrangement with voices and have access to move around the notes on each of them if need be. Then I'll record the parts for real once everything is good.
@@JoeQuick Great, thanks for clarifying. That all makes sense. Now the final question - when does the song drop? I'll be hearing it in my head for the next week. ; )
@@mikefox6211 😂😂
Love the lesson but don’t remember anything after it do I have a problem
Lol it’s a lot to take in
If Bill Maher did a video on vocal harmony this is what it'd be like, except this is funnier than he is. Hilarious as well as being super useful.
2:30
gr8 stuff..!! sub..
“If you don’t like America, you can get out.“ Not a word of a lie.
Dude this whole video was like a missing puzzle piece for me
Glad it helped! It’s definitely not a well covered topic outside of a university setting.
🎶🪕If yew don like a murica yew can git out 🤣💀
Quailty.........
....doubling is not harmony.
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