3 part Vocal Harmony

[karmalord]

Wonder how many are doing this, and how many don't mind playing the game without the 3 part harmony feature. Since finding out it can only be done on the same console and not with other singers online, this has to be an issue with some, as this was one of the new added features for the game.

[Scapegoat]

My mates and I enjoy to have them all on so we are free to have a go at everything but damn harmonising is hard.

[Aldex]

Yeah, it's frustrating not to be able to do this online. I am dying to double and triple fab songs and I know so many good singers on my friends list. Time to recruit family members.

[MaxRenn82]

I made my girlfriend sing with me last night. haha Got 11 of 14 "double fabs."

[Opus Penguin]

I love it ... but it is hard. I get mixed up at which line I am supposed to be following, and at what pitch. I am sure learning new ways of singing these songs.

[The Hungry Samurai]

I've done 2 part harmony with my Fiance. It's a blast, but I'm not sure I know anyone else who sings well enough to take that third mic.

[west siide]

It's an amazing option.

Tried it for the first time last night with my sister using the harmonies.

Firstly, the concept and delivery of this feature is incredible.

To take certain songs and then trade off on vocals between John and Paul is bone-chillingingly amazing.

Second, I now have an appreciation for the complexity of the vocal arrangement between the singers on 2 and 3 part harmonies which is so much more complex than I ever thought. Some of the phasing in and out of the vocals from sharing the same tone to harmonies and back again has blown me away.

Thirdly, it's darn hard to harmonize! The problem that I think most non-singers have in listening to popular songs is that you are used to singing the main tune of the song and you can't easily switch gears to sing a harmony part that is off the main tune of the song....or stay on the main portion to fulfill your component of the harmony.

Also I find myself getting the vocals wrong on the main portion of the song where a harmony starts and I found that I've been switching to sing the higher harmony portion rather than sticking with the main vocals to complete the harmony sound..

John sings most of the lower parts and when there's a harmony part of his songs I tend to jump into the harmony and drop off his vocals, as I'm not using to staying with the lower part of the song.

I'm really looking forward to learning how to harmonize properly. In the few times that my sister and I got it correct (i.e. we sung the separate portion correctly) it actually sounded pretty decent (we're both mediocre singers btw) and gave us alot of encouragement to keep working at it.

One thing I want to understand better is the detailed scoring data at the end of songs for vocals. Is there somewhere that explains that further? Not as a matter of keeping score really - just trying to see how correct we got things and where we need to work on correcting mistakes.

[elfreako]

I find it much harder than I expected. So far I've tried to harmonize while drumming, and it's been a disaster. I'll give it all my attention soon enough.

It was pretty obvious we wouldn't be able to do it online when they specified all microphones are linked to a single controler.

[skysaw]

I'm looking for some cheap mics to add to start harmonizing right away. Over the years, I've come to sing most of the harmony parts anyway for the Beatles when I sing along.

[MisterSchulz]

My brother came home from San Diego for a couple of weeks, just at the right time so we could play Beatles RB together. We are loving the Vocal Harmonies, it's what we spend most of our time on. Harmonies is what is really going to extend the life of this game on a difficulty level.

Last night, we did a little practicing and managed to get two #1 Global Ranks! It was awesome.

I just wish we had a 3rd vocalist, and I wish we could do this online, because he is going back to SD soon...

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