Double Pack - Harmony & Backing Vocals in Worship Vols 1&2
Volume 1 includes 10 short video tutorials covering essential harmony and backing vocal techniques:
- How to form basic harmonies
- Understanding 3rds & 5ths
- Finding harmonies above and below the melody
- When and when not to sing
- Using unison effectively
- Matching lead vocal phrasing
- Pads or vowel sounds to add colour
- Emphasising key phrases to add punctuation
- Echoes and ad libs
Volume 2 includes another 10 video tutorials covering:
- More challenging harmony parts
- Harmonies that push your vocal range
- Using head and chest voice
- Blending and supporting the lead vocal
- Matching drop-off, inflections and vibrato
- Avoiding crossing over parts
- Using dynamics to create tension and release
- Finding harmonies to chords outside of the key
- Using pedaling, 1sts, 5ths and 7ths to create textures
- Close harmonies and smooth voice leading
Suitable for men and women at all singing ability levels. The video lessons are taught by Andreana Arganda who has sung on over 50 live and studio worship albums with Matt Redman, Tim Hughes, Vicky Beeching, David Ruis, Casey Corum, Andy Park and many others.
A total of 5 hours instruction on two DVDs designed for both male and female singers at any level who'd like to learn how to harmonize or improve their backing vocals skills. Together the DVDs contains high quality backing tracks to 20 worship songs with:
- 20 instructional video lessons covering harmony and BV technique
- 2 separate harmony parts for each song to copy and learn
- on screen words
- and a full version of every song to practice to
Track listing for video lessons and harmony backing tracks
Volume 1:
- You Never Let Go - Matt Redman
- Forever - Chris Tomlin
- Holy is the Lord - Louie Giglio, Chris Tomlin
- Mighty to Save - Reuben Morgan, Ben Fielding
- Everlasting God - Brenton Brown, Ken Riley
- Hosanna - Brooke Frazer
- Be My Everything - Tim Hughes
- Blessed Be Your name - Matt Redman
- You Are - Ben Cantelon
- God of Wonders - Marc Byrd, Steve Hindalong
Volume 2:
- How Great is Our God - Chris Tomlin, Ed Reeves, Ed Cash
- In Christ Alone - Stuart Townend, Keith Getty
- Hungry - Kathryn Scott
- From the Inside Out - Joel Houston
- Happy Day - Tim Hughes, Ben Cantelon
- Faithful One - Brian Doerksen
- Beautiful One- Tim Hughes
- Indescribable - Laura Story, Jesse Reeves
- Famous One - Chris Tomlin
- Nothing But The Blood - Matt Redman
Who is it for?
This course is suitable for people that are able to sing but want to develop their ability to sing harmonies and backing vocals. If you've not had vocals lessons before we would definitely suggest getting the Worship Vocals Course and working through that before attempting the Harmony & Backing Vocals Course. Like this you can be sure that you are singing correctly with proper breath control.
What else is available to help me practice?
We have a DVD called Worship Backing Band - Musicians Practice Tracks which contains 54 worship songs that you can play along with. Practice is a lot more fun with other people! You can select to take the vocals out of the mix so you are effectively the singer with a pro band. Its like high quality worship karaoke. The DVD shows on-screen words and chords so if you play an instrument you can also play along as you sing.
We also have two warm up and work-out CDs which are an excellent accompaniment to the DVD set. The Essential Musicademy Vocals Warm-Up CD contains many of the vocals warm-up exercises taught on the DVDs. Its very helpful to have all the exercises together in one place in a format you can use in the car, at church or wherever you are. The Advanced Vocals Work-out CD goes a step further with a variety of hard core exercises to really train your voice. You'll see a marked improvement in vocal tone, range and power as well as an improvement in your ability to hear and sing harmonies.
Will the DVDs work on my DVD player?
The DVDs are NTSC and coded Region 0 which means they will play anywhere in the world.
Can I get a refund if I don't like the DVDs?
Yes, you are also covered by our 100% customer satisfaction guarantee if having received the DVDs you do not feel they are right for you.
- Great resource | Review by Wade Lodge
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Was looking for a resource to help teach harmonies with my worship team and was excited to see this product! Looking forward to introducing it to our singers!Ease Of Use Effectiveness Value
(Posted on 7/9/13) - Very helpful in teaching vocalists how to harmonize! | Review by Marc
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As a church pastor and praise band leader, I've been looking for a tool to help beginner and intermediate vocalists (who may or may not know how to read music) learn how to harmonize. This product does exactly what it claims AND it has met my need to provide some of my vocalists with good instructional material for learning how to harmonize well. We've put it to use and it works!!!Effectiveness Value Ease Of Use
(Posted on 4/3/13) - Limited | Review by Jd
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Works great for learning the harmony for the specific songs it give you. It does not teach how to find harmony though, which I was looking for.Ease Of Use Effectiveness Value
Musicademy's response:
We have a few other products that are more technical in relation to learning to hear and find the harmonies if you've not naturally been able to pick it up from the Harmony DVDs.
The Worship Vocals Course DVDs go through it in some detail, the Playing By Ear DVDs cover the theory aspects of chord (and harmony construction) and the Advanced Vocals Work-Out CD gives you lots of practice at pitching intervals.
(Posted on 2/23/12) - great product for teaching and hands on practice | Review by jam
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Love this product! Although our team has only processed through vol. 1, it has taught and thoroughly demonstrated the fundamentals of harmony and singing back ground vocals. Thank you music academy!Value Ease Of Use Effectiveness
(Posted on 1/18/11) - A practical singers resource with current, popular songs to learn and follow along with. | Review by KBC singers
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As a song leader I found this very helpful in locating harmonies and learning how to blend with the melody. It was very easy to follow with simple instructions. A valuable tool for any worship team.Value Ease Of Use Effectiveness
(Posted on 1/11/11) - Great Tool! Great Value | Review by cslink
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I've tried a variety of instructional DVD to help improve the skills of our singers and they all seem to be the same...focus is on warm up and breath control but no practical tips. Your's is the best by far. Many helpful tips and a unique approach. I'd recommend this to anyone looking for an affordable training tool.Effectiveness Value Ease Of Use
(Posted on 1/8/11) - Great! Very Valuable! | Review by cslink
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Very Good. Have ordered my instructional DVD's for singers but they all seem to focus on warm ups and breath control but don't give practical advice on how to take and beginner and make them better. Nice.Effectiveness Value Ease Of Use
MUSICADEMY COMMENT:
Thanks for your note. I can only assume that you've not yet gone through the Musicademy Worship Vocals Course DVDs because they cover a lot more than warm ups and breath control. This Harmony product, however, is a lot more detailed on harmony and BV skills. Together they are a very comprehensive course.
(Posted on 1/8/11) - Good but could improve | Review by Helend
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Good product. Has good quality tracks to practice with. I am very new to harmonising and I would have liked a little bit of more basic information rather than being told to get lessons for this. Even a short 3-5 minute introduction would have been useful.Effectiveness Value Ease Of Use
MUSICADEMY COMMENT:
Thanks for your review. We try not to duplicate content across our DVD series so the basic singing information is all contained on the main Musicademy Worship Vocals Course. We couldn't possibly do justice to the requirements for proper breathing, control, posture, warm-ups etc in a DVD set focussed on harmony. If you want just a heads-up on basic vocal technique look to just get volume 1 of the Worship Vocals Course - that will get you started with some good technique from the start.
(Posted on 1/7/11) - Great Product! Only one caution... | Review by Shyrl
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This is a great product that has the potential to help any singer with learning harmonies and how to sing as a backup vocalist. The only caution is if you have a female worship leader, it may not entirely translate, because the ranges of the songs are generally different when a female is leading. I have a concern that if my vocalists try to learn the harmonies with the DVD, that it won't work the same for our application, with a female lead. That's the only downside. Still a great teaching tool.Effectiveness Value Ease Of Use
MUSICADEMY COMMENT
The principles of 3rd and 5ths will work across different keys so you should be fine regardless of having a male or female lead. The point to learn is the notes to sing relative to the melody line rather than learning a harmony for a particular key.
(Posted on 1/7/11) - Use this to recruit more vocalists | Review by Barb
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There are lots of folks out there who would like to sing, but think they can't sing any line other than the melody. This helps vocalists to create better harmonies and gives them confidence in their singing. Better harmonies equal a better sound and a better sound helps recruit new vocalists onto the team. Thanks for this...it has helped in more ways than one!Effectiveness Value Ease Of Use
(Posted on 1/6/11)
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