How to Write Vocal Harmonies with Little to No Music Theory Knowledge | Make Pop Music

In this video, I shows you how to find the harmonies of a song with little to no music theory. I show you how to duplicate a track and manually create your own harmony as a rough guide for yourself or a vocalist, and how to take a root note and establish a 3rd and 5th harmony easily.

(p.s.) Sorry if I seem a little low energy or scatterbrained in this video. It has been a hectic couple of weeks and it took a little toll on me. Hopefully by next week I'll be back up and running at 100%.

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[YvarMusic]

Been doing the drag it up, and sing that - method for 6 years. And then one day.. my mind made harmonies by hearing the lead... It's all about time and repetition! 😁🔥

[marcsigner]

I literally looked up this topic about 10 minutes ago and now this pops up! This is perfect!

[katecosette]

this is genius!!! No more of me constantly attempting to sing different notes over the recording. THANK YOUU

[jdlstrm]

This is what I use for my harmonies and it works really well.

I use Izotope Vocal Synth 2. I record the lead vocal track, then I play the chord progression of the song on piano.
Vocal Synth 2 has a MIDI mode. Split your chord progression into each track having 1 note of each chord (so usually 3 tracks, 1st, 3rd, 5th)
Send the midi into vocal synth 2.

It will generate harmonies that always sound great.

I then solo only 1 midi track (say the 1st of each chord), and I learn what vocal synth is suggesting and record it.
Repeat for each note.

At the end when you play all the tracks back you have a nice modern 2-4 part harmony that sounds organic!

[BusyBASMR]

i’m late to this but i’ve been watching your channel forever, i hope you understand how much you’ve helped me develop any kind of knowledge/skill set. thank you for making these videos 😭💗

[tonyvlogs]

Your literally the best producer to learn things from. You have saved me so much time

[lolaproductions]

Thank you very much. i tried doing a 3rd and 6th harmonies and they were clashing real hard so if i saw your video b4 i would not even bother just go straight for that 3rd and 5th harmonies :)

[arunmusic]

Austin doesn't know how he's helping me grow as an artist:-)Thanks for such good content everytime!

[LovenArtiste]

Happy to have you back, dude! Congratulations on your move 💕

[adamivy]

Can't wait to see the new house! :-)

[ruffnekk]

The gift that keeps on giving... Love you Austin <3

[Pikachu-oj]

pahaha this video came like from heaven. im in the studio recording a song right now which has some harmonies

[snaredrum]

Yes that hair bro! Congrats on the house too.... I’ll now watch the video!

[himanshudigwal]

thanx man...literally needed this tutorial..I always stuck in vocal harmony and there is no particular tutorial on youtube on vocal harmonies production...it helped a lot..thanxx...

[ProdbySimar]

Thanks for the tutorial i was literally looking for this

[morepoppunkthanpizza]

super freakin helpful. thank you so much for this

[teyloh]

Only 4 minutes in but I already see what you mean dude. Thank you

[IAmLisetteMusic]

Please do a video on the production style of AURORA. She has so much cool ear candy, sound design, harms, etc in her music. No one on YouTube has covered her music production style

[victorloya]

Looking good Austin, like a 70s rockstar

[dafingaz]

Nice. Congrats on the new home! Stay safe man!