Join Matt Piper for an in-depth discussion in this video Adding excitement and variety to your song with drum fills, additional percussion, and harmony vocals, part of Learning Songwriting: Reason.
- Alright, I've done a fair amount of work…since the last video.…I have re-tracked the vocals…so that scratch vocal is gone.…And I went ahead and recorded the vocals…section by section.…So if I double click here…you can see several takes.…I'll close that.…And I have renamed the vocal track…"Lead Vocals"…because I have now added…several vocal harmonies…on the chorus.…
So if I scroll over here…to the chorus section…you can see…that I have…low, mid, and high vocals.…And I have left and right for each of those.…Now those chorus vocals,…the vocal harmonies,…have not been carefully mixed yet,…they've not been panned in stereo yet,…and I've not done any pitch correction on them yet,…so they may not be sitting in the mix…as well as we hope they will later.…But at least they're there.…
I also realized that I had never…gotten around to…pasting that spacey electric guitar…part throughout all the spots in the song…where it's needed.…So I scroll over here,…you can see that it's in all the choruses,…and in most of those verse rest…places as well.…
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