Members nat whilk II Posted July 2, 2011 Members Share Posted July 2, 2011 They could do this spot-on live. zr7NOTYbPeU nat whilk ii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lucky #9 Posted July 2, 2011 Members Share Posted July 2, 2011 Phil and Don...absolutely! Beach Boys...incredible! Earlier Poco...great live! Eagles...not too shabby! It begins and ends with the singing (for me, at least). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chevybusa Posted July 2, 2011 Members Share Posted July 2, 2011 It's not a specific example, but I always LOVED (and still do LOL) the twin guitar harmonies commonly found in a lot of metal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted July 2, 2011 Members Share Posted July 2, 2011 Well I got news for you! Sex with myself is awesome. Just ask me!I would seriously prefer not to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted July 2, 2011 Members Share Posted July 2, 2011 Lots of great vocal harmony examples already given. [EDIT: I have to mention the whole David Crosby solo album, If I Could Only Remember My Name, which still strikes me as utterly amazing. I wasn't the biggest CSN fan -- although they were very good in the studio and made extraordinarily well crafted, high calorie confectionery music that continues to be pretty stunning in its craft and creative integrity -- that is, it doesn't really sound like much that came before -- but, anyhow, back to Crosby, that DC solo album just knocks me out cold.] These guys aren't going to be to everyone's taste and I'm not holding them up as technical exemplars but rather as a pair of guys whose vocal duos consistently send shivers up my spine... This is about as different as one could get from that... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqb2NjIheuE And this is about to ethereal as one can get and still keep a toe on the ground... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members midinut Posted July 11, 2011 Members Share Posted July 11, 2011 +1 for the Eagles+1 for the Everly Brothers+1 for Poco+1 for The Beatles+10 for CSN+1 for YesThe Corrs, Wilson-Phillips, Trio (Linda Rondstat, Dolly Parton, & Emmilou Harris)Little Big Town, Simon & Garfunkel, Nickel Creek, Toto, EW&F, Lady Antibellum, Bread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul McCartney Posted July 12, 2011 Members Share Posted July 12, 2011 F, F2, Fsus4, F5, Fmaj7, F7, Fm7b5, F7b9, Falt, Fm, Fm6, F/E, F7Eb, F/D, F/C, F/B, Fmaj7, in all tonalities of course and only for pop, and my absolute favorit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted July 12, 2011 Members Share Posted July 12, 2011 Love the harmonies here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY2SRLMCHm8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4GjQUT3hnw [video=youtube;gAPMrg5Ct-I] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Magpel Posted July 12, 2011 Members Share Posted July 12, 2011 Ah So many. Big fan of the Beatles' harmonies. Like Jeff I prefer lines with, erm, independent meloldic integrity over the parallel stacks of most three part harmony in pop. I also have a thing for lines that split off lyrically, really expanding the contrapuntal possibilities. In fact I don't dig a lot of three art harmony pop/rock, unless there is some true counterpoint. You know what underappreciated rock band had a great ear for rock harmony? The Posies. How about some of what Os Mutantes did? yikes! I also think the first Proclaimers album, This Is the Story, the one they did entirely as an acoustic duo, has a lot of organic, geneticically telepathic and unrehearsed-sounding counterpoint on it, not quite the level of sophistication that Garfunkel is capable of when it sounds like he is just making it up (dare you to find two S&G versions of "American Tune" on which he sings the same part) but really enthused and interactive just the same...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRodnS7lZaQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted July 12, 2011 Moderators Share Posted July 12, 2011 One of my all time faves... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members veracohr Posted July 12, 2011 Author Members Share Posted July 12, 2011 It's not a specific example, but I always LOVED (and still do LOL) the twin guitar harmonies commonly found in a lot of metal. Yes! Good mention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted July 12, 2011 Members Share Posted July 12, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvf5rVzmHuc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dessalines Posted July 13, 2011 Members Share Posted July 13, 2011 Gee, no love for: The Byrds Moby Grape Oh well.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted July 14, 2011 Members Share Posted July 14, 2011 I like it when they do the odd-numbered notes: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 And also some of the even ones thrown in: 4 6 8 If you do them all, it gets a little busy. But if done with taste and some discretion, it can bend your ear toward nirvana's direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul McCartney Posted July 14, 2011 Members Share Posted July 14, 2011 today anything in Db minor tonality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted July 14, 2011 Moderators Share Posted July 14, 2011 today anything in Db minor tonality So, Lick My Love Pump is Dm isn't close enough? Dm being the saddest if all keys, I suppose when you don't want to go to 11 on the sadness scale, Db minor is good. Sadder but not saddest. But that's a key. What does this have to do with harmonies? BTW, I'm thinking Lick My Love Pump is Db minor done up in a Yes-style I've Seen All Good People acapella tour de force, but in minor of course, that would be lovely. And sad. Sadder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul McCartney Posted July 15, 2011 Members Share Posted July 15, 2011 But that's a key. What does this have to do with harmonies? Harmonies are usually diatonic to a key, except you additionally compose chromatic extensions, and/or change the key (tonality) in a song, or not? Tenor saxophonists like to blow over Db major/Bb minor. This tonality has some lubed fingerings on the tenor sax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted July 15, 2011 Moderators Share Posted July 15, 2011 Harmonies are usually diatonic to a key, except you additionally compose chromatic extensions, and/or change the key (tonality) in a song, or not?Tenor saxophonists like to blow over Db major/Bb minor. This tonality has some lubed fingerings on the tenor sax. Get your lubed fingerings off my tenor sax! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Sayers Posted July 15, 2011 Members Share Posted July 15, 2011 These guys were the best in their day in 1959 IMO. I later started a similar kind of vox group where you may be singing a semitone away from the guy next to you. We used to do a version of night and day in this style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members timmit65 Posted July 16, 2011 Members Share Posted July 16, 2011 Two words Crowded House! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted July 16, 2011 Members Share Posted July 16, 2011 Okay, dunno if people will think this is from left field, but the early R.E.M. albums have beautiful harmonies, in my opinion ("Murmur", in particular, but also "Reckoning"). Very very simple and basic, but quite beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted July 16, 2011 Moderators Share Posted July 16, 2011 Two words Crowded House! I'm right there with you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members timmit65 Posted July 19, 2011 Members Share Posted July 19, 2011 Okay, dunno if people will think this is from left field, but the early R.E.M. albums have beautiful harmonies, in my opinion ("Murmur", in particular, but also "Reckoning"). Very very simple and basic, but quite beautiful. Agreed, Ken! I'm still in awe of that album! If you haven't "Read" it, there's a 33 1/3 book about the recording (audio book). http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_7?asin=B002V5BPRE&qid=1311036102&sr=1-7 It's the best of that series (33 1/3), IMHO! "Quite beautiful" you hit the nail on the head!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nice keetee Posted July 20, 2011 Members Share Posted July 20, 2011 Beach Boys, Beatles, Layne Staley's Alice In Chains. Many others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beck Posted July 20, 2011 Members Share Posted July 20, 2011 Beach BoysBee GeesABBAEarth Wind & FireMamas & the PapasByrdsOne of my fav Mamas & the Papas:[video=youtube;RzG-BP6RYko] One of my fav Byrds as far as vocal harmonies go:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoSwOrytf_M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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