I'm already working with a bunch of looping songs; I'm using them to train my voice for harmonies (sometimes up to 5 parts), and I use call and response.
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My average song is 4 part harmonies, and . . . let's see, I'm already working with ( . . . I just checked) 24 songs, right now.
To do those harmonies required me to push my voice another 3 notes lower: I learned to use my voice a different way.
(not 'manly' enough)
The high notes are pretty easy for me, but I hate singing falsetto.
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(Are there any women out there, who are nearby, that want to sing (and perform) harmonies with me? Any age, as long as you can sing. I'll teach if necessary, for free, if you agree to perform in public)
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Excuse the shameless plug!
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Anyway, 24 songs averaging 4-part harmonies, is like learning to sing lead for 96 different songs . . . 96 melodies . . .
That's a lot . . . for me, anyway . . .
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I want to be able to do those songs good before expanding.
I still have quite a ways to go in training my voice - I'm still hitting some notes a little off-key sometimes.
A Capella can be a lot harder than guitar.
I have to be able to sing a song for up to 50 seconds, and when the loop comes around - and with no music to guide my voice/ear - be nearly note-perfect, not a little sharp or flat.
that's hard, but it is what I choose to do, and I love the challenge..
Sometimes I can't hear myself; that's why I use my hand near the microphone. It bounces the sound back to my ear, makes it easier to hear my own voice on the lowest notes.
I use/need a hot microphone, for the low notes, so a monitor doesn't work so good for me: feedback. I tried several dozen times, in 9 - 10 different locations, using different equipment . . .
I think that now - after doing it for a couple years - that I've got a handle all the technical problems I've encountered; the rest is self-improvement.
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When you record & play back every single note you sing, all it takes is a few off-key notes for the entire song to crash, or sound like crap.
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But I'm getting 5% better with all those songs every month.
Practice, practice, practice . . . I enjoy it (um, usually, anyways . . .).
Anyway, my plate is full, right now . . . overflowing.
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And I still need to practice my guitar, too, for I'm still working on new songs there . . . and I've got over 30 songs that still need good recordings for copyrighting . . . sigh . . .
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Ya just can't do it all . . .
Huh . . . you have to decide what NOT to do, sometimes, to free up time for the most important things, eh?
