"if it helps any, here's a section from a piece I wrote & arranged a couple of years back. It's written in 3-part harmonies with the melody as the lowest note. It could give you some examples of what notes can be used for which chords…"
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Arranging for 3-part harmony. What's a reasonable range for tenors, altos, and sopranos?
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How do you "build up" a song when you have only a couple instruments?
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Practical question when singing from C to C
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Steven DeMott replied to Cyrus's discussion 'Arranging for 3-part harmony. What's a reasonable range for tenors, altos, and sopranos?'"Thanks so much J B, Steven and Wulf! All these tips have been very insightful and will definitely help me as I lead the team in upcoming weeks!
It's good to know that other teams are in the same boat and that it can work out fine if the…"
Wulf Forrester-Barker replied to Cyrus's discussion 'Arranging for 3-part harmony. What's a reasonable range for tenors, altos, and sopranos?'"The simplest choice is to sing in unison. Even when you are hitting the same note, each person has a distinct timbre to their voice, so it will be a fuller sound than one individual voice singing the line. The next step is to sing in parallel lines…"
Steven DeMott replied to Cyrus's discussion 'Arranging for 3-part harmony. What's a reasonable range for tenors, altos, and sopranos?'"First off - traditionally vocal ranges for the voice parts are generally agreed to be this:
of course, voices are unique and top/bottom notes for individuals will vary. This is the generally accepted guide. I would sit with each singer and notate…"
J B replied to Cyrus's discussion 'Arranging for 3-part harmony. What's a reasonable range for tenors, altos, and sopranos?'"We have the same situation and here is how we handle it. Whoever is leading chooses the key that fits their range best that still will fit in with congregational singing. Then one person will come in and sing lead with them on certain parts of songs…"
Arranging for 3-part harmony. What's a reasonable range for tenors, altos, and sopranos?
Hi everyone,God has answered a prayer recently and brought out team 3 more singers. Previously, there were really just 3 of us. Usually 2 people would sing melody (the Worship Leader and another person) and the other person would add in a harmony part occasionally by ear. With the extra singers, we are now at a point where we can really do 3-part harmony. So I've begun to teach the 3 parts that I have on the lead sheets we've purchased before. We don't have any "Chris Tomlin tenors" or soaring…See More
Rick Galbraith replied to Cyrus's discussion 'How do you "build up" a song when you have only a couple instruments?'"Whoops, that's why as a singer I find it more difficult to lead with worship than with a keyboard playing the melody line.
My creative gift seems to be more on the video side of things."
Greg Moore replied to Cyrus's discussion 'How do you "build up" a song when you have only a couple instruments?'"What does your keyboardist do besides standard rhythms? Does he/she know how to add rhythm with the thumbs? The other four fingers can suffice for harmony, so the thumbs are free to add all kinds of interesting or percussive rhythms. Fore instance,…"
Cory Zipperle replied to Cyrus's discussion 'How do you "build up" a song when you have only a couple instruments?'"I'd even say that you have MORE scope!"
Ian MacLaren replied to Cyrus's discussion 'How do you "build up" a song when you have only a couple instruments?'"Goes back to the original point of the discussion:
If you just have a piano and a singer, you still have a lot of scope for variation and dynamics if the singer is confident enough to just go for it and let the pianist change the accompaniment to…"
Ian MacLaren replied to Cyrus's discussion 'How do you "build up" a song when you have only a couple instruments?'"Your church is experience is different to mine. What I have observed is fairly widespread in my experience of many churches.
Many churches with a more traditional starting point (even if now using more modern songs) tend to use the music book and…"
Greg Moore replied to Cyrus's discussion 'How do you "build up" a song when you have only a couple instruments?'"If the melody is scored into the accompaniment, the wise pianist removes it, unless it is obviously there is for powerful effect, or the lead singer needs help."
Cory Zipperle replied to Cyrus's discussion 'How do you "build up" a song when you have only a couple instruments?'"Now go to church. How often does the piano play the same melody line as is being sung by your band's lead singer? Is there any point in having said lead singer when the melody line is already covered?
I have only observed this in churches with…"
Ian MacLaren replied to Cyrus's discussion 'How do you "build up" a song when you have only a couple instruments?'"This is the trouble, the piano can do it all, but in a band it does not need to.
One thing I've noticed: listen to some recorded music with piano and vocals - it's almost irrelevant what style - could be Christian, any recent secular…"
Cory Zipperle replied to Cyrus's discussion 'How do you "build up" a song when you have only a couple instruments?'"Holy cow, I totally read that wrong... Sorry.
Of course, your truly musical pianist isn't like that. Those guys are listening and responding to everyone else and know how to play a part rather than all the parts, all the time.
Of course, every…"
Cory Zipperle replied to Cyrus's discussion 'How do you "build up" a song when you have only a couple instruments?'""A piano doesn't have to play the melody.
It doesn't have to play the bass line."
You have been taught very poorly. A piano is very capable of doing both of those things, at the same time."
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- At 4:00am on July 24, 2009,
David Goodwin said… - Hi Cyrus, welcome to Worship The Rock. Hope you are blessed by all the great people and resources on this site. Enjoy the discussions, music, blogs and fellowship with people around the world, including me here "down under" :) God bless you, David
- At 3:16pm on July 23, 2009,
Junjie said… - Hi, Cyrus!
Welcome to Worship the Rock! Hope to see you getting involved with the discussions here. And do check out the songs the others have uploaded, lots of great stuff! :)
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