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  • Teaching Students How To Harmonise (Singing Teachers)

    Posted by Guest Teacher on August 31, 2016 at 9:50 am

    Hi guys!

    Students can always improve but I am aware that there comes a time when students become very good at singing melodies to songs but have no idea how to sing harmonies or even what a harmony is. I like to mix things up a bit and for those students who are good singers give them a bit of an extra challenge.

    So I was wondering what kinds of excersizes/techniques you guys use to teach harmonies?

    Eliza Fyfe replied 7 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Eliza Fyfe

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    August 31, 2016 at 9:53 am

    Great question! I am the harmony queen (!) and my students probably think I’m weirdly obsessed with getting them to chuck a harmony on to every bloody chorus they record in a song!

    However, I could really do with finding out about harmony exercises! I should know this as a choir leader too… I have done some scales in harmony (e.g. I sing G-G and get the student to sing the 3rd above, then we swap) and teach a bit of theory… that’s it really!