Sing In Harmony: Great Things To Know

The primary reasons some people have complexity with harmony are either not being able to read music and be aware of the chords, or inadequate listening skills to sing anything aside from the melody.

Before you strive to sing harmony it’s a good idea to already be pretty much confident of your voice and your own capability to have a tune. Based upon the size of the group you’re singing with, you may very well be the only person singing your particular part.

If you’re amateur at singing harmony, start by using music which has the harmony parts currently written. Do not try to improvise until you’ve had more awareness. Be a part of your school or church choir. Choirs are the best training ground for singing harmony. If you are ahead of school and don’t belong to a church, explore a community choir or choral society.

In several choirs the rehearsals are split into sectionals for leastwise a part of the time. In a sectional rehearsal, the members of each voice section meet in separate rooms to study just their part, without the distraction of the other parts. Following the sectional sessions the overall choir comes together to sing all of the parts simultaneously.

At times in rehearsal the director will have just certain sections sing a certain passage, to demonstrate how two parts are correlated or are different. It is necessary to listen to the singers around you so that you keep on your own part and learn how it meets with the others.

After you have sung in choirs for a short time and are comfortable with multi-part harmony, you can start to improvise. To be creative harmony you will need at least a fundamental understanding of the song’s key signature (tonality) and the arrangements and progressions of its chords. If you play an instrument you should just have that understanding.

Typically, any note that appears in a chord in the accompaniment can be sung as a harmony part. For example, in a song in the key of C major, the melody may vary between C and G while a C major triad chord is played in the accompaniment. The C major triad is formed of of the notes C, E, and G. So if the melody note is C, either an E or a G could be sung together with it as harmony.

Learning any new skill takes time, practice and experience. Just keep at it and you will eventually become a master of harmony.

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