How to Sing Harmony
The fun and easy way to sing harmony, even if you’re a complete beginner.
Singing vocal harmony can be daunting for some singers because you’re worried about hitting a ‘bum note’ and sounding horrible or because you keep getting influenced by the other person and switch to their melody line instead of sticking to your harmony.
The truth is that singing harmony is all about your musical hearing. Yep, that and a few good tricks to know how to do it easily. I have some really fun ‘how to sing vocal harmony’ videos for you on this page, so let’s jump straight in and practice with the first vid below.
Nicola x
How to Sing Vocal Harmony
The fun and easy way to sing harmony, even if you’re a complete beginner
Learn how to 'hear' harmony easily
Develop super musical hearing to help you listen into the music and pick out the right harmony notes to sing.
Discover the secret to not hitting a 'bum note'
There’s a trick to singing harmony that sounds good, is easy and avoids hitting bum notes!
Learn off the pros and see how they do it
We’ll break down some harmony and learn off existing songs to see how they create harmony that sounds fantastic.
Discover the secret to not hitting a 'bum note'
There’s a trick to singing harmony that sounds good, is easy and avoids hitting bum notes!
Start making up your own harmony from scratch
Yep! We’ll also look at how to create your own vocal harmony from scratch. Its so much fun!
How to Stick to Your Part
Easy Harmony Songs For Beginners
Here are 10 easy harmony songs for beginner singers:
- London’s Burning
- The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)
- Can’t Help Falling In Love (Elvis Presley)
- Look for old folk songs like ‘Scarborough Fair’ – these all have really simple melodies and chord progressions, making them easy to harmonise over.
- Fields Of Gold (Sting)
- Mr Sandman (
The Chordettes) - Anything from the Andrew’s Sisters
- California Dreamin’ (The Mamas & The Papas)
- Christmas Carols like ‘Silent Night’ are super easy
- Nursery rhymes are a good place to start
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I have watched a few of your videos and all I can say is you are a gift to the world. The video on singing harmony is great and even a good idea for someone who has been singing in a group for a long time to kind of re-train. You also exude personality plus. Cheers!
You are most welcome! Thanks so stopping by and if you ever have any questions about singing, songwriting etc just shoot them through and I’ll do my best to help.
Nicola xx
Dear Nicola
Thanks for your valuable comments on singing better, but i couldn’t found or could not download your videos, in fact i am an 48 year old associate proff. of medical microbiology and working as lecturer and researcher at Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, but recently interesting in singing so that in some nights i could not sleep without extensive practicing of folklore songs. but i have a final goal of entering to singing world, my mean is helping to cancer patients or making school in poor areas of my province, so is it possible send your videos on my email please. i am waiting to hear from yourside,
Best Moments, with special thanks.
Hasan Hosainzadegan……Maragheh, Iran
Good day, I just want to ask a question on how to manage my singing, I often have a cracked voice after singing for a short while, I made a research on while it was so I discovered “I was singing from my throat” pls how can I go about this. It is really limiting my singing pls help.
Nicola…you are indeed a gift to the world of music. Please what can i do to improve on my singing ability coz i have a weak voice. please reply me on my mail. Thanks Nicole
Dear Nicola,
Many thanks for all you good tips, but i experience my voice goo’s
every where, I try to sing tenor, but I easy start following the soprano part
but I do my best, I am a latte starter learn to sing.
Thanks for reading my mail.
Ben
I have been singing melody and lead for 14 years and have never learned harmony. I am so hopeful that I am
Going to learn now. Thank you.
In teaching harmony singing, could it be helpful to employ the solfas to indicate the parts? Something like: d: m: s: as the treble, alto and tenor notes respectively, and then going ahead to actually suggest some phrases complete with their parts?