Harmonize with myself? To me, that's what multitracking is for! When I was a kid, not long after "Hey Jude" came out, I was obsessed with The Beatles (still am), and I wanted to do what they did. So I got an idea! lightbulb I recorded myself singing a verse of "Hey Jude" on my Radio Shack cassette player. Then I put another cassette in the family stereo, and recorded myself singing harmony along with that Radio Shack recording. Wow! Multitracks! It amazed my family, and sparked a lifelong jones for recording.

Many years later...well, last year...I finally got into digital recording, and unlimited tracks. And my favorite part of track-by-track recording is that I can sing as many parts as I want. This is one of my first attempts to be a one man choir:

Hold On Strong To Your Love

Yup, I sang the high part too...but when soloed out, it sounds a lot like Mickey Mouse. An angry Mickey Mouse. Not very pretty all alone. (You know, the BeeGees kinda sang like Mickey too. But that's hot.)

A little later I wanted to try a Beach Boys kind of thing. Please pardon my lyrics. blush

My Little STD

And here's one last example where I let a two-voice harmony play "lead" all through the song. That's against the rules, by the way. Please don't report me.

Serena

You can do a lot of things now with harmonies. Sometimes I like to make a set of harmonies function like another instrumental part. You can run them through a filter and some effects, and they can do fun things. Remember the Beatles harmonies like that in "Octopus's Garden", or "Lady Madonna"? Always fun to do, and there's something about the imperfection of voices...when they sing in harmony, the little dissonant bits just sound better than instruments to me.

Okay enough already.

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