From the course: Singing Lessons: 3 Essential Techniques
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Singing harmony: Part 2
From the course: Singing Lessons: 3 Essential Techniques
Singing harmony: Part 2
- I want to revisit that old faithful Mary Had a Little Lamb. You're familiar with this melody in a dozen different ways now. You've seen it played on the keyboard, you've seen it transposed. You've become very familiar with it. We're going to play it in C. Here's the melody to Mary Had a Little Lamb in the key of C. (piano) So that's the melody. And you can see very clearly each note, every note, is in the key of C. Every note that's in the melody is contained in that scaled, the C major scale. We can create a harmony part to that. Now, if I just sing it, it will sound very familiar to you because you are already familiar with the scale, all the chords to that song. (piano) So I'm going to sing the harmony now to Mary Had a Little Lamb and play the melody with the piano. (piano and singing) So what I've done in creating the harmony part to go with that melody, I've chosen the next higher note that's in the chord that the melody is part of. So you can see that (piano) is all…
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