I sing harmony like intoxicated elephants tap dance! I barely sing lead. Actually, until I suffered a near 6-month episode of laryingitis many years ago, I had a relatively deep, decent voice. Now, I sound like a cement truck having a hernia! I would post one or two samples of "back then" when, my voice was good, but...they're cover tunes for which I have no license. So, I really shouldn't post them. But, I asure you, you would be amazed at the difference! You would hardly know it was me from what you have heard from me here at JPF. I lost half an octave on the low register and three-fourths of an octave on the high end. That leaves me pretty monotoned with a limited range. Sucks!

To more specifically answer your question, I usually do a tenor harmony and then either a duplicate of the lead or the lead melody an octave lower. I often have to stretch bigtime to get that lower octave! I would love to be able to do a baritone harmony. But the voice ain't there anymore. Plus, I cannot sing any harmony (never could) during a live performance because my voice always drifts back to following the lead vocal. When I record at home, I turn the lead vocal down substantially so I can hear my harmony good enough to be somewhat on key.

On this one I did recently for John Hoffman, you can hear the melody twin and the one octave lower.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=276329&songID=7639624

It's still very mediocre harmony. And you can here the monotone in my voice. It's in the key of "D" but would sound so much better in "F" or "G". My vocal limitation since the laryngitis has robbed me of that range.

I've always admire guys like Darrell McCall and Steve Wariner who can just do killer harmony.. All the best to you, Mike!

Alan

Last edited by Al David; 06/15/09 05:34 PM.