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Exactly! That was awesome! I usually skip everything and go right to the end to see the result BEFORE wasting time in some "beginner-teaching-beginner" tutorial. This guy KNOWS how to show his stuff. Only 38 sec of the first video I watch from this channel and instantly subscribed 👍
@@songsbyspencer I only hope you don't use autotune/pitch correction to shift up to those thirds and fifths when making this video. I'm skeptical because it sounds almost to perfect and not human sounding.
Harmonies aside, can we just acknowledge the great voice this guy has!! absolutely beautiful TONE and stable pitch? gorgeous and silky ( Typos corrected. Reposted original comment AND SUBSCRIBED. )
Autotune, not talent. As long as you can sing within 50% plus or minus of the correct note, Autotune will simply drag your vocal to perfect pitch. The Autotune algorithm was originally developed to aid geologists using seismology to find oil reserves underground. When my tone-deaf wife insists that we should do some karaoke I used a vocal pitch pedal on her microphone to make the experience palatable 😂
@@gadget348 Did not know that about the origin of autotune. Very cool info. Understandable with your wife but with this guy he can sing but for some reason he wants his pitch to sound artificially good. The examples in this video which aren't "pitch assisted" sound a lot better to me than the robotic sound which is so obvious in the intro section.
I love Spencer's teaching style. He makes it simple, to non-musicians, doesn't make one feel inadequate, then teaches by doing, or singing, where we can sing along, and surprise ourselves without much knowledge,just watching, observing, and trying it. I am a teacher, but not of music, and I give Spencer the Music Teaching Award for the Decade! So well done,and so inviting and personable! I'm on my way to the next video , the acapella one! Thanks so much Spencer!
The way I understand this, there isn't enough detail to be a comprehensive course. For instance, Counterpoint - how do you come up with the 2nd melody? Rather, this is an intro. = Oddly enough, for those who have the skill already, this IS very enlightening. I learned harmony by listenting to my dad's records, like the Norman Luboff Choir. I can harmonize extemporaneously, but howzit work? Beats me... = As another teacher noted, (She teaches math and software to 8 year olds.) "They are learning very challenging things. XY coordinates, variables, negative numbers. They aren’t fully grasping them but they are playing with them and these early experiences will be fertilizer for when they are introduced in later grades." = If a student is in a calculus course and it's all new, it's likely to be a hard challenge. But if he's heard of integrals before, he already has room in his head for it.
Now I finally understood the concept of close harmony. Asked a music teacher once and she said: it ´ s Jazz harmonies. Alright, but did not help me. Would be great to see all this in a written score, just to have a sample visualising it. Great Job. Always loved the Four Freshmen.
This is one of the best videos I’ve ever seen. Seriously Incredible job packaging what would take most people years to figure out for recording into just a few minutes.
@@wyattstevens8574 Parallel harmony is as far I go, generally. It's the easiest harmony to pick out; the sort of sound that the Everly Brothers excelled at. Carry On Wayward Son is more complex, I think.
99% of the time I agree. It gives a more full and complete sound. That being said, having 2 mono harmonies panned 15 L and R can sound cool too, as you preserve the character of the individual performances a bit more. Early Beatles recordings are a great example of that!
True if there's just one harmony part. If you're doing 3 or 4 part harmonies, I give each pair a unique space in the field, always 180 degrees apart. 30% left and 70% right is a pair.
@@BrianHunsakerMusic I don't like in between panning for most of the elements, the exceptions being toms and strings and occasionally some guitars if there are already many elements hard panned. I like to have all the vocal layer except the lead vocal and harmonies double tracked and hard panned
I get confused with vocal harmonies because I tend to perceive the highest notes as the main melody. So in your first example when you add a third as a harmony it stands out to me above the main melody and I perceive the melody of that harmony such dominant that it seems to be the main melody. Thanks for the video, both your editing and your musical quality are incredible!
I appreciate the kind words! You raise an interesting point. If there are two melodies consistently going at once, which one is the main and which one is the harmony? Simon and Garfunkel is a prime example. Most people would say the high is the harmony but if that's the one you hum when you hum the song, then that's the main melody to you!
(Sorry I've jumped in to reply to this comment when the video has only just started... hopefully not just repeating some stuff that was already said 😆) As I've deliberately tried hearing and singing along to backing vocalist harmonies, I have found that - because of this intention - it then starts to feel like the main melody to me. Though there is truth to the high note grabbing our attention the most - there's also sometimes arguably an "objective" main melody: decided to us by the mixing. If a band or artist just has one vocalist, then the extra harmonies that are lower in the mix are perhaps "objectively" not the main melody. (counterargument: if 2 melodies have equal footing, as with counterpoint melodies. This is rare with rock bands, and one thing that I like about System of a Down, though they may not to be many people's taste, for multiple reasons😅). Also, if a band has a lead singer and then the other band members do harmonies, then arguably the person singing the lead vocals would have the main melody. I've found finding live versions of songs can help pick out the harmonies better, as they can be mixed quite differently to meticulous studio versions where only the lead singer with overdubs is present! (primarily thinking of Everything Everything and their songs 'Can't Do' and 'Distant Past', if looking for examples)
1. Singing in thirds of the same melody 2. Singing counterpoint 3. Singing one note , usually holding the root note 4. Open harmony , increasing interval distance 5. Close harmony
I've started to do a lot of close harmonies by default, but now you've got me thinking of other ways to approach it. Thanks! It helps a lot to hear the examples so well done so we can think about the sound we want to achieve before just randomly trying things.
Very nicely presented - easy to see and understand and widely applicable. Since I haven't done vocals for a long time, I instantly went to applying this to any number of VSTi instruments, such as lead and acoustic guitars, piano, synth/pads, violins/strings, woodwinds and other melodic leads.
Dude, I haven't watched the video yet, and I don't even know what you're going to say in it, but 20 seconds of this was enough to hit the subscribe button!
I'd argue that most people who watched this value their time when it comes to receiving information... You sir, didn't waste a second of it. Thank You! Liked and Subscribed
THANK YOU so much for this video, Spencer. Your techniques were a real an eye-opener for me. My only wish was that you had illustrated how to blend these five harmonic methods by soloing each Harmony part directly AFTER singing the Melody and THEN combining the two together. That way, I could latch on to the harmony part and record my trying to sing each of those five harmonies you illustrate here against each of the initial Melody sections that you sing. If you could release an update of this video with those solo harmony parts, I believe it would widen the value of your lesson to make it that much more accessible to myself and, more than likey, countless others.
Hey! I absolutely love how your audience has grown. You are just great a what you do and one can feel your heart is fully in that. You also show a lot of technical insight. You are so cool!
Will you talk about chord structures. Chord extensions (6, 7,9, #4, etc.) that lend themselves well to close harmonies, or do you think that t is best to let one’s ear guide their choices, without getting bogged down with theory? Clearly, one way or another, you know what you are doing.
That means a lot. It truly is my biggest passion. Each one of these videos takes me days to write, record, shoot, and edit. But I have the time of my life doing it.
Incredibly best tutorial I have seen so far. So much impressed I played it several times. Never knew before the concept of harmony and backing up vocal. Simon & Garfunkel’s are open harmony!
This video is a goldmine for anyone looking to dive deeper into music production and vocal harmony. The breakdown was so clear and the examples really helped solidify my understanding. Subscribed for more insightful content like this! 🎵🔥
Dude this just made it to my search for a certain tune and made my night. What an amazing didactic experience. I never heard harmonizing explained this neatly with examples. Quick and easy like and subscribe. I look forward to more of your work.
Well done, dude! Tech 3: Alternative tone to the root could be the 5th, used all the time in classical music to create tension leading towards the tonic. Eventually, instead of a low tone, placing a mid-range 6th in a major key song and keeping it there can completely shift the feel of a song, because it turns every tonic chord into a minor7. Have only tried it a few times at parties, it was really fun. Giorgy Sviridov does this in his "Canticles & Prayers" no. 13.
The last note of the melody, doh that you parallely hamonnized (1:53) wasn't sung a third above unlike you did to the first note which is doh as well (1:39). The latter was fourth above (fah instead of mi). You broke the rule but you did it at the right time which sounds better than sticking to the rule at exactly that time. You're awesome ❤❤❤❤❤
Hi Spencer, I've watched thousands of music and recording videos and yours are the BEST ONES ON RUclips hands down! In every area .. Content: - spot on!! - selected concepts are the bottom line - all of them immediately useful Delivery: - succint, crystal clear narratives, awesome examples - entertaining, fun to watch Production: - excellent camera, lighting, clear angles and shots - first rate editing and flow Perfomance Examples: - you are an excellent musician and vocalist !! - your performance of examples of topics is inspiring Thank you for investing what must be an enormous amount of time and effort into these videos and giving the world access to them ! Well done, well played !! Do you ever do vocals, harmony, and arraigements on existing songs? I'm a songwriter and I would like to transform some of my original recordings into more professionally arranged versions and think that I have gone about as far as I can go with my own performance and vocal abilities. Below are a couple of the songs I want to re-do. If you do studio work please let me know and what your rates are. If not THANK YOU AGAIN for posting your wonderful content!! ---------------------------
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Great video. Succinct explanations with good visuals and your examples in use are great too. Of course, there are other issues to address here too - e.g. vowel/tone blend, matching phrasing and entries and cutoffs. (I really have to work on those.) Maybe you already have a video on those or will address those in the future. This is my first time here. I subscribed and will check out your content. Thank you for sharing this lesson!
Thanks! I had a great time making that intro. I've got another video about harmonies coming out soon. I'm gonna try to raise the bar and top this intro!
What an incredible video about vocal harmonies and recording! Not many channels on RUclips specializing on how to create and record vocal harmonies. Please create more content showcasing your knowledge on how and when to double track vocal harmonies. When to pan them and exercises on creating and layering vocals! ❤
Wow, what an intro! Great job. This is the first video I directly liked after this stunning intro and even before watching the real content. I'm out now, over at a capella.
being able to harmonize on the fly is a different skill altogether, that takes great ear training. I think this video is mainly talking about different kinds of harmonies you can utilize in your songwriting. If you have the melody, you should be able to work out what the thirds are and if you struggle, a reference track made with an instrument or your own voice pitch shifted up a third would help you get there
I would argue those are not musicians, but people who play music (or sometimes they even do that...). I do have 8 years of music theory and 14 (8one instrument, 6 another) on my belt. A long time a go (some remains, but most is long gone) I don't call myself a musician, nor I do that for a living. I think you're being nitpicky.
Oh man you're the first vid I clicked on my quest to better understand vocal harmony! This first foray into this fascinating topic will be hard to beat! Instant subscriber!
This has the workings of being a great video, but if you’re trying to teach people how these harmonies work, I think it would be easier if you had use the same melody throughout. I also think that using the simple harmonies at the beginning would make it easier to understand for exampleafter the third harmony show the Fifth Harmony and then show the third and Fifth Harmony below otherwise this is a fantastic video.
That would have been really interesting. I think he was trying to demonstrate the best uses/highest impact of each style of harmony and they each lend themselves to different styles of music and arrangements. As an example, for the Pedal Point harmony he used a minor melody. Minor scales also have more tension, so that effect of the harmony is amplified. That being said, I agree that demonstrating in this way with different melodies confuses how much the harmony is doing vs the changes in melody.
I really enjoyed this video. Gave me a lot of insight. Would you be able to do a video breaking down easy method to find complimentary notes to create cohesive harmonies? Im pretty good at coming up with dope melodies, but I struggle in finding the right notes for the harmonies. So a song that should have taken me a couple of days to record, takes me a week or more because of finding complementing notes that go with everything when I sing.
Everyone always sounds good harmonizing with themselves. Your points are great! Pedal Point, Open Harmony, as well as Close Harmony are among my favorites. Glad you didn't use the Fall Off every time. Thanks for sharing. ❤😊
Glad to help! I've got another video coming out in a few weeks that dives deeper into how exactly to make really complex harmonies in an incredibly easy way.
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You must have been great at singstar bro, very good
can you do an updated Video of this, but with examples of 1-3 popular songs that uses each kinda vocal harmonies used in this video .
What's the name of the app/software you use for the soundtrack?
They studied at Dixie Chicks university but couldn't pull the grade,.
You are not simple man bro
Best intro ever for a RUclips video and I’m not even a singer.
I appreciate that!
Exactly! That was awesome! I usually skip everything and go right to the end to see the result BEFORE wasting time in some "beginner-teaching-beginner" tutorial. This guy KNOWS how to show his stuff.
Only 38 sec of the first video I watch from this channel and instantly subscribed 👍
😂❤lol
I can recommend the video on harmonies by signal studio
Literally ever.
That intro took away any question of your ability to teach. I’m 30 seconds in and very impressed
Glad you liked it!
@@songsbyspencer a microphone, anny dog can doo that..la la
@@songsbyspencer I only hope you don't use autotune/pitch correction to shift up to those thirds and fifths when making this video. I'm skeptical because it sounds almost to perfect and not human sounding.
I subscribed when he told me to im the intro. I was like "word?"
Definitely❤ subscribed within 30 seconds. Insane!
Harmonies aside, can we just acknowledge the great voice this guy has!! absolutely beautiful TONE and stable pitch? gorgeous and silky ( Typos corrected. Reposted original comment AND SUBSCRIBED. )
You can't hear the pitch correction? I thought it was pretty blatant.
Autotune, not talent. As long as you can sing within 50% plus or minus of the correct note, Autotune will simply drag your vocal to perfect pitch. The Autotune algorithm was originally developed to aid geologists using seismology to find oil reserves underground. When my tone-deaf wife insists that we should do some karaoke I used a vocal pitch pedal on her microphone to make the experience palatable 😂
@@gadget348 Did not know that about the origin of autotune. Very cool info.
Understandable with your wife but with this guy he can sing but for some reason he wants his pitch to sound artificially good. The examples in this video which aren't "pitch assisted" sound a lot better to me than the robotic sound which is so obvious in the intro section.
I've been a natural harmonizer for my whole life, but I finally found the ultimate in close harmony when I became a barbershopper. Nothing beats it.
Wow I bet! That’s cool
Ooh lovely
It's only 0:34 and you already convinced me to subscribe. Man, that was fast!
It means a lot!
same
I must tell you, the same happened here....
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Agree, 0:25 was for me. I love YT recommendations.
I love Spencer's teaching style. He makes it simple, to non-musicians, doesn't make one feel inadequate, then teaches by doing, or singing, where we can sing along, and surprise ourselves without much knowledge,just watching, observing, and trying it. I am a teacher, but not of music, and I give Spencer the Music Teaching Award for the Decade! So well done,and so inviting and personable! I'm on my way to the next video , the acapella one! Thanks so much Spencer!
Thank you so much for watching and sharing the kind words! It really means a lot and I've got a lot more videos coming.
The way I understand this, there isn't enough detail to be a comprehensive course. For instance, Counterpoint - how do you come up with the 2nd melody? Rather, this is an intro.
= Oddly enough, for those who have the skill already, this IS very enlightening. I learned harmony by listenting to my dad's records, like the Norman Luboff Choir. I can harmonize extemporaneously, but howzit work? Beats me...
= As another teacher noted, (She teaches math and software to 8 year olds.) "They are learning very challenging things. XY coordinates, variables, negative numbers. They aren’t fully grasping them but they are playing with them and these early experiences will be fertilizer for when they are introduced in later grades."
= If a student is in a calculus course and it's all new, it's likely to be a hard challenge. But if he's heard of integrals before, he already has room in his head for it.
Now I finally understood the concept of close harmony. Asked a music teacher once and she said: it ´ s Jazz harmonies. Alright, but did not help me. Would be great to see all this in a written score, just to have a sample visualising it. Great Job. Always loved the Four Freshmen.
@@herbbartleby2817 Or check out Gas House Gang- or anything in barbershop style in general!
Wow, not only are these great techniques, but each of those example songs are bangers!
I appreciate that!!
This is one of the best videos I’ve ever seen. Seriously Incredible job packaging what would take most people years to figure out for recording into just a few minutes.
@@NateTheMeh so glad you think so. Thanks for watching!
Entertaining, educational, clear, and concise. This is peak content!
PS I just did a video on lyrics you might enjoy.
Excellent! The open harmony sounded like prog rock, while the close harmony reminded me of bands like the Eagles and America.
@@1man1guitarletsgo And now I think of it, the parallel harmony sounds almost like Kansas ("Carry On Wayward Son" specifically)
@@wyattstevens8574 Parallel harmony is as far I go, generally. It's the easiest harmony to pick out; the sort of sound that the Everly Brothers excelled at. Carry On Wayward Son is more complex, I think.
Great video! I'd also add: ALWAYS double track your harmonies to pan them hard L and R. It sounds way better than a single mono harmony
99% of the time I agree. It gives a more full and complete sound. That being said, having 2 mono harmonies panned 15 L and R can sound cool too, as you preserve the character of the individual performances a bit more. Early Beatles recordings are a great example of that!
@@songsbyspencerAnd don’t forget fan-panning. Can sound just right in the correct context. (Oh- Subbed, by the way!!)
True if there's just one harmony part. If you're doing 3 or 4 part harmonies, I give each pair a unique space in the field, always 180 degrees apart. 30% left and 70% right is a pair.
@@songsbyspencer I stick to LCR panning without overthinking it
@@BrianHunsakerMusic I don't like in between panning for most of the elements, the exceptions being toms and strings and occasionally some guitars if there are already many elements hard panned. I like to have all the vocal layer except the lead vocal and harmonies double tracked and hard panned
Daym the subscribe button lights up when he sings the word "subscribe" at 0:21. Cool interaction!
That's why I clicked the subscription button
Me too lol@@enriquegarcia4002
This guy. is brilliant and his intro proves once and for all that he's worth listening to.
Thanks! So glad people are digging the intro. It was fun!
I get confused with vocal harmonies because I tend to perceive the highest notes as the main melody. So in your first example when you add a third as a harmony it stands out to me above the main melody and I perceive the melody of that harmony such dominant that it seems to be the main melody.
Thanks for the video, both your editing and your musical quality are incredible!
I appreciate the kind words! You raise an interesting point. If there are two melodies consistently going at once, which one is the main and which one is the harmony? Simon and Garfunkel is a prime example. Most people would say the high is the harmony but if that's the one you hum when you hum the song, then that's the main melody to you!
(Sorry I've jumped in to reply to this comment when the video has only just started... hopefully not just repeating some stuff that was already said 😆)
As I've deliberately tried hearing and singing along to backing vocalist harmonies, I have found that - because of this intention - it then starts to feel like the main melody to me.
Though there is truth to the high note grabbing our attention the most - there's also sometimes arguably an "objective" main melody: decided to us by the mixing.
If a band or artist just has one vocalist, then the extra harmonies that are lower in the mix are perhaps "objectively" not the main melody. (counterargument: if 2 melodies have equal footing, as with counterpoint melodies. This is rare with rock bands, and one thing that I like about System of a Down, though they may not to be many people's taste, for multiple reasons😅).
Also, if a band has a lead singer and then the other band members do harmonies, then arguably the person singing the lead vocals would have the main melody.
I've found finding live versions of songs can help pick out the harmonies better, as they can be mixed quite differently to meticulous studio versions where only the lead singer with overdubs is present! (primarily thinking of Everything Everything and their songs 'Can't Do' and 'Distant Past', if looking for examples)
Loving the way this lesson breaks down Paul’s vocal techniques! He’s a master at using his voice as an instrument in every song.
He's the GOAT
1. Singing in thirds of the same melody
2. Singing counterpoint
3. Singing one note , usually holding the root note
4. Open harmony , increasing interval distance
5. Close harmony
This video earned my sub! Guitarists like me really need to realize their voice is their primary instrument. Great work Spencer!
You’re the guy I wish I was sitting next to on a plane. Great stuff.
Thanks for watching and the kind word!
The vocals are so powerful and ambient. Wow❤
Thanks!!
I've started to do a lot of close harmonies by default, but now you've got me thinking of other ways to approach it. Thanks! It helps a lot to hear the examples so well done so we can think about the sound we want to achieve before just randomly trying things.
Happy to help!
Harmonies are the most delicious thing on songs and this is a perfect video to sprinkle some deliciousness. Stellar stuff!
Couldn't agree more!
On a second watch, it occurs to me this channel is such a hidden gem. It deserves not be so hidden. Glad to see the subscriber count grow!
Me too! I'm working to turn this into my full time job.
Very nicely presented - easy to see and understand and widely applicable. Since I haven't done vocals for a long time, I instantly went to applying this to any number of VSTi instruments, such as lead and acoustic guitars, piano, synth/pads, violins/strings, woodwinds and other melodic leads.
These harmonies definitely work for more than just vocals!
Dude, I haven't watched the video yet, and I don't even know what you're going to say in it, but 20 seconds of this was enough to hit the subscribe button!
Glad to have you on board!
notice how the mic makes the sound…?
A microphone works by converting sound waves into an electrical current, which can then be amplified:
Sound waves hit the diaphragm: When sound waves hit the diaphragm inside the microphone capsule, it vibrates.
The coil moves: The vibration causes a moving coil to move back and forth in a magnet's field, which generates an electrical current.
The current is amplified: The small electrical charge is amp..singing WTF. THAT MIC COST $$$$$$$$shitlods..la la la
10 years on RUclips and 1st ever Intro thats blown me🤩
That means so much! I always put my all into my intros.
I'd argue that most people who watched this value their time when it comes to receiving information... You sir, didn't waste a second of it. Thank You!
Liked and Subscribed
Thanks, Garrett!
Heartily agree. He is fun AND informative
THANK YOU so much for this video, Spencer. Your techniques were a real an eye-opener for me.
My only wish was that you had illustrated how to blend these five harmonic methods by soloing each Harmony part directly AFTER singing the Melody and THEN combining the two together. That way, I could latch on to the harmony part and record my trying to sing each of those five harmonies you illustrate here against each of the initial Melody sections that you sing.
If you could release an update of this video with those solo harmony parts, I believe it would widen the value of your lesson to make it that much more accessible to myself and, more than likey, countless others.
this is the best. he's actually doing what he is teaching...
Thanks for checking it out!
Hey! I absolutely love how your audience has grown. You are just great a what you do and one can feel your heart is fully in that. You also show a lot of technical insight. You are so cool!
Thank you so much!
Will you talk about chord structures. Chord extensions (6, 7,9, #4, etc.) that lend themselves well to close harmonies, or do you think that t is best to let one’s ear guide their choices, without getting bogged down with theory? Clearly, one way or another, you know what you are doing.
You deserve so many more views. The introduction was all I needed to know I am at the right place. Kudos man!
The kind words are greatly appreciated! Thank you so much for watching.
The level of music that you have brother is amazing. Another level.
That means a lot. It truly is my biggest passion. Each one of these videos takes me days to write, record, shoot, and edit. But I have the time of my life doing it.
@@songsbyspencer I wanna learn how to do that in order to help the worship ministry at church. But I never got voice lessons for choirs
TRY THAT WITH OUT A $$$$$$MONEY MIC JACK'
A microphone works by converting sound waves into an electrical current, which can then be amplified:
Sound waves hit the diaphragm: When sound waves hit the diaphragm inside the microphone capsule, it vibrates.
The coil moves: The vibration causes a moving coil to move back and forth in a magnet's field, which generates an electrical current.
The current is amplified: The small electrical charge is amplified inside the microphone. MONKEY.
Incredibly best tutorial I have seen so far. So much impressed I played it several times. Never knew before the concept of harmony and backing up vocal. Simon & Garfunkel’s are open harmony!
So glad you got something out of it!
Would be great if the f ex the harmonys also could be heard separately, not only blended. The 3rd for instance, how does it actually sound isolated?
This video is a goldmine for anyone looking to dive deeper into music production and vocal harmony. The breakdown was so clear and the examples really helped solidify my understanding. Subscribed for more insightful content like this! 🎵🔥
So glad that you enjoyed this video and your subscription means a lot. I've got plenty more videos coming, I hope you like them!
The entrance itself is amazing
Much appreciated!
Woooow !... Blew my mind !... God bless you!
Thanks for watching!
Best comprehensive and detailed tutorial on vocal harmony I've found on RUclips...thank you !!
Glad to help!
this is the best intro i have ever seen/heard in my life..
Never seen you before. Pushed pause after the intro. Amazing intro my guy! Amazing. You’re doing what you’re great at!!! ❤
15 years of video and music production led me to this channel!
Dude this just made it to my search for a certain tune and made my night. What an amazing didactic experience. I never heard harmonizing explained this neatly with examples. Quick and easy like and subscribe. I look forward to more of your work.
That was the coolest intro to an audio RUclips video I’ve ever seen! Great video!
Thanks! I'm really proud of that intro.
WOW!! WOW!! WOW!! You're a perfect music teacher. The lesson was organized nicely to make it easier to understand.
I try my best to keep things clear and easy to follow! Thank you so much for watching
Great video!!! I've always been a natural harmonizer (tenor) and this is terrific information!!
Thanks, keep on harmonizing!
A good pedal note melody can also create really clear and dynamic over and undertones.
The introduction sold me…. I subscribed and turned my notifications on 😅… well done Spencer
Thank you so much for watching, Taryn. It means so much!
Me too
Well done, dude! Tech 3: Alternative tone to the root could be the 5th, used all the time in classical music to create tension leading towards the tonic. Eventually, instead of a low tone, placing a mid-range 6th in a major key song and keeping it there can completely shift the feel of a song, because it turns every tonic chord into a minor7. Have only tried it a few times at parties, it was really fun. Giorgy Sviridov does this in his "Canticles & Prayers" no. 13.
Wow. Best intro to a video ever. This video is such a find.
Thanks!
The last note of the melody, doh that you parallely hamonnized (1:53) wasn't sung a third above unlike you did to the first note which is doh as well (1:39). The latter was fourth above (fah instead of mi). You broke the rule but you did it at the right time which sounds better than sticking to the rule at exactly that time. You're awesome ❤❤❤❤❤
I love that you sing the instructions and it doesn’t suck lol
Very helpful tool thx ❤
Glad to help!
Wow!!! WhAt a beautiful presentation!!!!
Really appreciate that!
Trop bien ! J'ai souscrit immédiatement.
Thanks!
My goodness! You should never stop singing! Absolutely beautiful! Gosh! I love how you harmonize! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks for the kind words! I'm glad you enjoyed the harmonies!
Excellent, best RUclips video about harmonies 👏🏽
Appreciate it!!
Originality in your intro with some nice harmony made me subscribe before you asked. As a songwriter/singer/producer, I appreciate you.
I take my intros seriously haha!
You had me in the intro🔥🔥🤣🤣!
This was SO COOL!! Thank you for the lesson!
Thank you so much for watching! The fact you took the time to watch and comment means more than you know.
THE BEST !!! demonstration of vocal harmonies!! Thank you for sharing and explaining what it is!
@@uri-c6z glad to help!
Great! I heard CSNY in the Open Harmony and America in the Close Harmony. Fantastic video!
You have a keen ear!
One of the best intros I have heard after a long time💯💯🔥🔥.... Super crazy
Wow, thanks!
Hi Spencer,
I've watched thousands of music and recording videos and yours are the BEST ONES ON RUclips hands down!
In every area ..
Content:
- spot on!! - selected concepts are the bottom line
- all of them immediately useful
Delivery:
- succint, crystal clear narratives, awesome examples
- entertaining, fun to watch
Production:
- excellent camera, lighting, clear angles and shots
- first rate editing and flow
Perfomance Examples:
- you are an excellent musician and vocalist !!
- your performance of examples of topics is inspiring
Thank you for investing what must be an enormous amount of time and effort into these videos and giving the world access to them !
Well done, well played !!
Do you ever do vocals, harmony, and arraigements on existing songs?
I'm a songwriter and I would like to transform some of my original recordings into more professionally arranged versions and think that I have gone about as far as I can go with my own performance and vocal abilities.
Below are a couple of the songs I want to re-do.
If you do studio work please let me know and what your rates are.
If not THANK YOU AGAIN for posting your wonderful content!!
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Lonely Road
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A Heartbeat Away
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The best example of examples I’ve seen
Thanks for watching
KIller!! been singing for years could never wrap my mind around it this is simple and direct love it!!
Glad to help!!
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If this video doesn't get a 1M views, i'm gonna lose my head. Top fricking content🎉
I really appreciate the kind words! I'm just glad people are finding it helpful.
Great work! You are a very effective teacher and your vocal examples are outstanding!
Thanks, I try to make my videos as clear and accessible as possible!
Great video. Succinct explanations with good visuals and your examples in use are great too. Of course, there are other issues to address here too - e.g. vowel/tone blend, matching phrasing and entries and cutoffs. (I really have to work on those.) Maybe you already have a video on those or will address those in the future. This is my first time here. I subscribed and will check out your content. Thank you for sharing this lesson!
OMG this harmonies in the beginning… crazy. 🔥
Thanks! I had a great time making that intro. I've got another video about harmonies coming out soon. I'm gonna try to raise the bar and top this intro!
That was seriously effective teaching. I can use this.
Please do!
Absolutely love this video! ❤
What an incredible video about vocal harmonies and recording! Not many channels on RUclips specializing on how to create and record vocal harmonies. Please create more content showcasing your knowledge on how and when to double track vocal harmonies. When to pan them and exercises on creating and layering vocals! ❤
Will do!
Wow, what an intro! Great job. This is the first video I directly liked after this stunning intro and even before watching the real content. I'm out now, over at a capella.
So glad you liked it!
Every musician, including beginners or people do not know music theory? Singing in thirds is very difficult and would deserve its own video, I believe
being able to harmonize on the fly is a different skill altogether, that takes great ear training.
I think this video is mainly talking about different kinds of harmonies you can utilize in your songwriting. If you have the melody, you should be able to work out what the thirds are and if you struggle, a reference track made with an instrument or your own voice pitch shifted up a third would help you get there
Agree, though it should not be too difficult if you stick to a single key.
I would argue those are not musicians, but people who play music (or sometimes they even do that...).
I do have 8 years of music theory and 14 (8one instrument, 6 another) on my belt. A long time a go (some remains, but most is long gone) I don't call myself a musician, nor I do that for a living. I think you're being nitpicky.
@@RuiSousa46 we are NOT gatekeeping what defines a "musician," that shit is so tacky. get out of here with that bs
Im not really a singer, but i love this stuff. Great video
Brilliant, thanks Spencer! Loved the intro.🙂
Glad you liked it!
Incredíble the quality of sound!!! Super masterclass. Tks.
Many thanks!!
Impressively, The Beatles mastered all of these!
@@joaoelias07 they sure did! They’re the GOAT
Wow...is this extra extra good? It grabbed right away...very impressive
1:53 : this is a fourth, ,not a third 😉
Whoops!
Haha! Came here to say the same thing. Always those little changes that the pros do automatically because they know it sounds better.
Was just about to comment the same thing😹
Because you can't just parallel a melody directly note for note. Kinda missed explaining that.
That was incredible! Massive thank you to you !!
You're very welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
@@songsbyspencer Thank you for sharing your talent and knowledge with us. Looking forward to enjoying your catalogue! Blessings
Damn I've been looking for a video like this for 8 months now
I'm just thrilled I'm able to help. It means a lot!
Oh man you're the first vid I clicked on my quest to better understand vocal harmony! This first foray into this fascinating topic will be hard to beat! Instant subscriber!
You can do it!
This has the workings of being a great video, but if you’re trying to teach people how these harmonies work, I think it would be easier if you had use the same melody throughout. I also think that using the simple harmonies at the beginning would make it easier to understand for exampleafter the third harmony show the Fifth Harmony and then show the third and Fifth Harmony below otherwise this is a fantastic video.
That's what I thought was going to happen
That would have been really interesting. I think he was trying to demonstrate the best uses/highest impact of each style of harmony and they each lend themselves to different styles of music and arrangements.
As an example, for the Pedal Point harmony he used a minor melody. Minor scales also have more tension, so that effect of the harmony is amplified. That being said, I agree that demonstrating in this way with different melodies confuses how much the harmony is doing vs the changes in melody.
This is a great video. Strict matter from the beginning to the end. Thank you, Spencer!
They say: anything before a “but” is nullified
You're a hack, dude. For those that can't do, teach. Yup.
10CC were SO good at harmonizing, and blending their voices. And SO overlooked as creators of adventurous pop.
Come to think of it - you look a bit like Graham Gouldman. Are you sure you know who your dad is? Grampa, maybe?
Close(d) harmony is where barbershop harmony gets its sound!
100%
I really enjoyed this video. Gave me a lot of insight. Would you be able to do a video breaking down easy method to find complimentary notes to create cohesive harmonies?
Im pretty good at coming up with dope melodies, but I struggle in finding the right notes for the harmonies. So a song that should have taken me a couple of days to record, takes me a week or more because of finding complementing notes that go with everything when I sing.
Great suggestion! I'll try my best to incorporate this into a future video.
There's a free university that puts all this to the test. It's called The Beatles.
Some of the best to ever do it- no doubt!
Then there’s the Bee Gees Academy 😅
You also have ABBA :)
Can’t forget about the academy of Beach Boys.
Really!?!? I like the Beatles.
Everyone always sounds good harmonizing with themselves. Your points are great! Pedal Point, Open Harmony, as well as Close Harmony are among my favorites. Glad you didn't use the Fall Off every time. Thanks for sharing. ❤😊
Thank you for watching! It really means a lot.
Do it like ABBA: double everything.
the intro ... that had me!! And then you did what you always do and provide a wonderfully clear and engaging explanation. Well done and thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
The director guy from The Boys
Spencer, you are an extremely gifted man in several areas! Thank you. It was fantastic!
Thanks! I really appreciate it.
This guy is just excellent with a beautiful voice!
The kind words mean so much. Thank you!
amazing video and amazing voice! Thanks man for sharing!
So glad to help! Thanks for watching
Exactly what I was looking for - now I know what else to look for.
Glad to help! I've got another video coming out in a few weeks that dives deeper into how exactly to make really complex harmonies in an incredibly easy way.
This is indubitably the single greatest intro to a video I have ever seen. Well done!!!
@@HieronymousCheese thanks for watching!
So closed harmonies is pretty much The Eagles. Loved the video man! 😀
Glad you enjoyed it! You’re right, The Eagles really own that style!
WOW! what a talent, and what a voice.
I appreciate it! You can do it too.
Best video about how to sing harmonies ever! Would be fun if you add your own harmony for a chosen song, that would be nice to hear😊