For the past couple of days, I’ve been doing a little research on harmonizing in music so I can learn how to do it with my own songs. I learned that you can still do harmonizing with or without back-up vocals. You don’t always have to sing in octave of the chord you’re playing, you can sing higher or lower in any of the notes in that chord. This could be experimental stuff with my own singing. I need to learn to not sing in octave of the chord/riffs all of the time. I need to learn to be more melodic in my vocals and learn to be a lead singer. Harmonizing requires music theory and a good ear so if you don’t have either of those, then there’s no point in doing it.

If you’re in a band or in an acoustic duo that do a lot of back-up vocals, harmonizing can be pretty important and I need to learn that more in my songs as well. I need to practice harmonizing and experiment with it myself. Harmonizing could take my songs to the next level. If I want my original music to be catchy and memorable, gotta learn harmonizing. Don’t wanna sing everything in octave all the time, people will get bored with it. Gotta be creative and different.

I’m gonna try to write a whole song with nothing but my vocals sometime in the future, an acepella song using my voice as instruments kind of like what they do in the movie, “Pitch Perfect”.

I kind of want to stay away from the dark acoustic rock songs and really focus on the songwriting. Get serious with it.

Kev