How to Sing in Harmony | Tutorials Ep.13 | Vocal Basics 

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When listening to a song I'm the person who tries to sing all the parts at once! Lol

That harmony in the beginning. 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

i find harmonies really hard to do without already hearing it first

She said pentatonix my heart

I would love to see a tutorial about tips for maximizing "unusual" voices, like men who sing more in the alto or higher range and women who sing in the tenor or lower range. There is a serious lack of info out there for those whose voices don't fall within the norms. Thanks!

I would love to see more on this because when I am trying to do harmony I totally find myself singing with the person I am trying to harmonize with which totally defeats what I am trying do. Its like I lose where I am suppose be and end up back with the melody of the singer. hope that made sense.

Learning harmony makes you a better lead vocalist.

I think harmonies are so beautiful, but it’s so hard for me to sing and hear! More tutorials on ear training and harmonies please! 🎶❤️

This is THE BEST video I’ve seen on harmonies. This is exactly how I learned to harmonize from a very young age in Ensembles and Choirs and eventually it allowed me to apply to recordings, bands, and worship teams. This is such a simple way to train your ear!

More of these please! Harmony is the most intimidating for me (...from childhood choir trauma, I won't bore you w/details)...I love your tips on the topic...keep'em coming!

practicing harmonies ^^ 1st harmony : 5:40 2nd harmony (w/ dissonance) : 9:20

@Tara Simon Studios I am a HUGE fan of harmony. Even as a child, I was able to hear, and pick out harmonies. It was just something that came to me naturally. Now, many years later, my voice coach really appreciates that fact.

I've mastered singing on 5ths using only my ear right after I hear the melody. I really relate to Tara because I also find the 3rd the hardest because it doesn't fit anywhere in my ear 😂 it's like hearing a different perspective if you know what I'm saying.. root and 5ths are easy (idk why coz of my ear) and 3rd are the hardest because they don't really line up with the actual melody if I'm making sense

Please do a video on ear training 🥺🥺🥺

no one: me practicing harmony: uwu

Yes I would play songs over and over doing each part of the harmonies, it really helps you as a singer.

A brilliant yet easy lesson on 3 part harmonies.... And sprinkled some dissonance on top! That was awesome! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I love harmonizing with the radio. Don't usually do crunchy chords, though I might start trying to do that. I sing in a church choir (2nd alto) and we have done some lovely stuff with crunchy chords.

I can do easily an octave harmony to the melody of a song but the struggle comes when I try to do a fifth harmony or a third harmony:(

Whenever I heard harmony, Pentatonix comes to my mind. I'm too addictedddd

Wow, this is amazing real..!!

♫ Oo wah oo wah Oo-oo-oo-oo wah Oo wah oo wah Why do fools fall in love♫

Tara belts notes off the bat, it takes me like three tries to get a note right, I can't even sing but I just love watching them 😭

I too am a harmony freak. To the point that multiple coworkers over the years have mentioned it lol funny enough I couldn't actually harmonize until I was 14 or 15 when an amazing choir friend from school taught me with Whiskey Lullaby. Ever since I just love the variety harmonies give. I'm also lucky enough to have a decent sized range so I can make my way through all kinds of harmonies in a single song.

I really enjoyed this tutorial. A GREAT example of harmony and dissonance is Run To You by Pentatonix. The dissonance in Avi's bass is really breathtaking and incredibly difficult.

Thanks it was useful I want more videos on harmony

The dissonants made me fall in love🤩 i want to do that

I love harmonizing, I use to not be able to pick out a harmony or stay on a harmony, with practice and ear training ive been able to do so, although its still difficult at time depending the song it all comes down to practice

Thank you for sharing these tips! I sing in choirs for a long time but never made harmonies myself, including middle parts, but am getting into harmonization now. It is a lot of fun and very exciting!

I'm a tenor singer and this video really helps newbies to parting and harmonies

Nice lesson Tara👏The challenge I am having is trying to find my 'real' voice without actually trying to strain my throat or trying to sing like the artist in the song I may be listening to!!

Heeyyyy, tara!!! Would love to see a tutorial on how to make acapella arrangements!!! Or if that's too hard, could you do a tutorial all about ear training?? Specifically for those people who LOVE to sing but cant get the notes right, but KNOW they're doing it wrong. Would be SUPER thankfull if you take any of these suggestions! (Or both! Hehe!😘)

Most of the people love high harmony but for me i like the bass harmony the most and it suites me

I love these tutorials. It would be great to hear this with the microphones, and each panned differently. I am a "garage band" or self taught, musician this would be helpful... but maybe just to me!. :)

I can't read music, I have to learn it all by ear. When in rehearsal I record my alto parts then go away and learn it by listening constantly or whenever I'm able. It works for me. My problem is if I don't have a fellow alto with me, I can't pitch my first note and end up coming in about four notes late. So I have to practice practice practice. I really enjoyed singing along with you guys. Great harmonies.

Here I am tryin' to make a 7th harmony 😅😜

This video really put harmonizing into context! Thanks you guys. It'll really help mine and my siblings' harmony improve! A suggestion on a Tutorial would definitely have to be ear-training! I'd really love to know how I can better take apart harmonies!

She's the only singing coach that covers everything

Thanks Tara breaking down the harmonies and explaining about the 1, 3, 5. I learned something new today!

This takes me back to all of my choir days

Pentatonix is magical!! Yaaas!! 😍

That was so so useful! I’m in choir so it was pretty easy to understand but I feel like I understand it a lot more

Being able to sing harmony is so important as a singer when it comes to working in groups or even getting studio session gigs! Great Lesson!

8:56 they are called "sustained chords", where the third degree (the third) of a major chord goes up a half step (a semitone)

This was so helpful! Thank you! I sing on our music ministry team. I sing harmonies and always learning and growing!

ok but you didn't teach me how to pick out harmonies in a song. All I learned was how to harmonize on aG chord. I'd like to learn how to harmonize in any song not on just one chord

Yes !! You guys are fire !!! This is the best harmony tutorial I've ever found.

This was an awesome start for me because I used to sing soprano in my younger days but now in my sixties I have to sing alto. I realize this video is 3 or more yrs old but I hope I find more of your lessons.

I love harmony and don't often find other harmony singers - so I have to admit i was major 7th ing along with you all and it was a blast!

Great tutorial, very helpful. Im learning so much from your videos. You're my number one voice coach.

Found this in my recommendations. Is RU-vid trying to tell me something?

I love you all and your teachings, you've made me understood how melodies are sung

This was so useful! I hope you expand on this more 💙

When you LOVE singing eversince you were an infant, it automatically develops good singing : Love to hear / listen Love to do singing

LOVE crunchy chords and harmony , period!!!

My mother taught my sister and I to sing in harmony when we were very young. I perfected my harmony on "You are my sunshine" when sung in a key that I could handle. I try to apply the same tactics to other songs but fall short of the mark which exasperates me. I search for songs sung in a key that I can handle but different singers usually sing in a key that is right for them so I can't seem to get in harmony with them. I found this video and learned some basic features that I feel will help me but I need many lessons.

I love and live for harmonies! :)

I think something that may be helpful to the learning vocalist is not just the standard harmonies based upon 1/3/5, but also delve a little into stylistic choices you might see (hear) in differing genres of music. For example, the 3/5/7 that can be heard in traditional gospel music...or some of the crunchiness you spoke of, Tara, in pop music from people who grew up with these other traditions. Also, while you did not point it out, approach to vowel is key in singing, but CRITICAL in harmony. A right pitch can sound very wrong if the vowels and consonants aren't in agreement.

What a simple demonstration straight to the point I like it.

Use of major and minor cords, for instance in setting a mood in a song. Jim Hester

I have friends who are always harmonizing and now because I listen to them all the time I can harmonize a bit myself

Even though I'm not a singer, I'm really having fun watching your tutorials! Also, in case you read this, can you please see and react to Lea Salonga and Cyd Pangca singing True Colors together? Thank you so much!

I love harmonies they add so much to a song.

That video helped me a lot but I think I have to practice those crunchy harmonies many times until I can do it. Thank you so much

I would love to see you doing a reaction of Little Mix - PAPER penthouse or Acapella Queens, and hear their harmonies!!! Love your channel!

I really enjoyed this interactive format where I can pick to sing with one of you and follow along. I always struggle finding my note when I am the 1 or the 3.... especially the 1. So I decided to match with Jeremie and it really helped me focus on my note in context to the others. :D

What's also cool is to get a really good harmony line, perform it dozens of time, and then try to sing lead. Ouch! Yes, ear training! I'd been singing harmony in the car for five decades, when my two band mates (both singers) heard me singing harmony to a song we did they forced me to buy a microphone! Three years later I'm singing lead a fifth of the time, and harmony on probably well over half of our other songs. It gives us a nice edge over other bands in the area!!! Being a basso profundo (A1-E4ish) makes it interesting, too!

I am new to harmonizing. I have been called to worship and have been singing my whole life but know diddily squat about music. Harmonizing in alto. I am new to music noted what certain words mean etc.

This was extremely, super helpful. I can do lead all day but harmony is a little bit challenging. Thank you for making this video 🎼🎤❤️

i can sing harmony. its a gift godgave to me.

My voice went straight to the 3rd. I stayed with her the whole time

Yup. I harmonize with any (literally, ANY) song I can taking the top note. Hahaha!

This is a fantastic Lesson. I am able to pick out a harmony interval and I am trying to learn ONE part of the many harmonies of Hotel Cal with my band here in Oregon. HARD to pick out THANKS for this 1/3/5 lesson. GREAT STUFF.

Awesome!

Just a nice bunch of people at Tara Simon Studios. You can tell that they all get along, like each other, and love what they do.

Everyone on the bus was staring at me

Love this!! Can you talk about flat vs sharp and tips on how to avoid it while singing?

wonderful! dear tara....It would be helpful to hear you do your "crunchy" sequence alone, up thru the modulations, so we could practice locking onto the 1/2 step changes (I think they were 1/2 steps). and then do it with all 3 voices. this is sooooo helpful! thank you!

As children my family would sing Jackson Five songs, thinking we were harmonizing. Not. My brother is the guy who would start with the lead and switch to backup somewhere in the middle. 😂 And I, the younger, had to adjust to his switching. This lead me to loving harmony groups like Take Six. Good stuff, subscribed.

Thank you. Harmony is my melody.

I love this. I'm always led astray by the parts I'm not singing. I'm wondering if you can teach confidence?? lol I love to sing but I'm so afraid to sing out in front of people, even people I know.

I was singing the bass part when you guys sang.

Wow...What a nice harmony...Thank you so much for the demonstration...I love it...

Thank you. This was very helpful

Thank you for sharing and teaching! This is so helpful. I help sing at church and am not that great. Your videos are really encouraging and helpful. My pastor and his wife used to make big bucks when they were in a band back in the day. I want to help compliment them and didn’t know how to know who to sing with or match and now I understand. Thank you to much

Coach Niki has beautiful eyes OMG and what a smile.

Tara ,you are beautiful as well as your voice ❤❤❤

I’m so happy you made one of these!

I just love that

I really enjoyed this one and would enjoy seeing more tutorials about harmonies.

Hi friends, this is very important to me as a worship leader. Thanks guys this is great. You've helped me big.

Maybe this isn’t the place to put this but if you could, I think you should react to Pentatonix’s Run To You. It’s got an insane amount of harmony and never fails to make me emotional. I think you’d really enjoy it.

FROM PHILIPPINES WACTHING 👏👏👏😁🥳

Thank you Tara

Harmonies was wonderful however, can you please give more harmony tutorial please and also thank you so much for sharing

Okay this was awesome👌I loved this👏one thing I always was shakey about was separating the positions into 3 parts: the lead and the two harmonies with the upper and the lower but now that you guys do it too makes me feel a lot more comfortable haha because I always thought I was wrong for doing that🙌🏽 9:36 and WHAT🔥My ears just melted😣❤❤

This is one of the best explanations ever.

Jeremie was legit adorable with how geeky he is about singing 😂

Tara has beautiful voice...perfect for Broadway!