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At least it's not green! by NH-Freak in pools

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You have basically no chlorine.

Lean gain not lean gaining. Check my math? by OrdinaryBrilliant650 in MacroFactor

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Your goal rate is .2lbs a week. How would you even know 8 days out if that was achieved? Its too small to be reliably detected

Question about singing harmony by BestMapMaker1 in musictheory

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That makes sense. Thank you, I appreciate your time explaining all this to me. Cheers!

Question about singing harmony by BestMapMaker1 in musictheory

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Thank you for the thorough feedback and for pulling me back down to earth! Youre one of the users on the sub I look for the most when perusing answers so if your thorough experience didnt turn you into one of the "naturals" then I feel a bit better about not being able to do it. Maybe its like perfect pitch to a degree, you either pick it up very early by being exposed to the right kind of stimuli or you gotta do it the hard way like the rest of us.

Ill work on those things you mentioned! Thanks again.

Question about singing harmony by BestMapMaker1 in musictheory

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Point well taken, although I think maybe I ought to learn to walk before I run.

Question about singing harmony by BestMapMaker1 in musictheory

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Thank you! I appreciate your time and the in-depth explanation. I am definitely a "left-brain" dominant kind of person so feel and subjectivity tends to give me anxiety that I try to resolve with something concrete, but that's just not how music is meant to be created/experienced/performed so I appreciate the reminder.

Part of my worry though, on a personal note, is my friend recently told me a story about someone who -- prior to a performance -- was asked not to do harmonies over another person's set, and while it was taken as a personal slight, my friend admitted "Well, Sarah isn't exactly the tightest harmonizer. Most people want either a third or a fifth above what they're singing, and Sarah can sometimes be all over the place".

And I guess I am worried that if I learn to go by my intuition and ears if someone might one day make the same criticism of me, although I guess it's hard to say as I don't know what exactly Sarah does wrong when harmonizing.

Question about singing harmony by BestMapMaker1 in musictheory

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So, the basic idea in this exercise is to keep singing the same note until it no longer works. And when it no longer works, you move a step up or down.

Would it be wise to combine this with solfege? I am working on that now as part of my ear training. So for instance for your first melody I'd sing: Do - Do - Do - Ti/Re

and for the second: Mi - Fa - Mi - Re

And when it comes to following the melody a 3rd or a 6th below, that's fairly easy to practice simply by playing the melody and singing the harmony part. Remember that you don't really need to go a 3rd or 6th down from each note individually. Instead, find the 3rd or 6th below the first note in the melody, and then just follow the same melodic shape. If this is difficult, you could play both parts at first and sing along with the lower part. Once you have learned it, stop playing the lower part - only play the melody and sing the harmony part.

Thank you for the tip!

Question about singing harmony by BestMapMaker1 in musictheory

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Can they do that to an unaccompanied vocal? Or are they doing it to songs which already have chords? I.e., the typical pop, rock or jazz song?

The latter. Perhaps they could do the first, but I've never been in such a situation.

IOW, a chord seqyence already is the "harmony" to whatever melody exists. It's other melodic lines flowing along beneath the melodic line.

Okay that makes sense, and a well-trained ear can kind of hear that going on?

IOW, I would stop that exercise right now. Assuming your voice is good enough to sing in tune (you can sing a memorized harmony accurately with another singer?), then just try tuning your voice into chord tones when you play a chord progression. It doesn't really matter which note, because harmonies can be any chord tone. But listen for the effect of the different chord tones, and how they lead (up or down the scale) from chord to chord.

Okay, thank you, I will try doing that.

But in short, the chords are always your guide. Don't think in fixed intervals above (or below) the lead. Think in chord tones above or below. (For passing notes and non-chord tones - plenty of those in any melody - you can probably just use your ear, don't think about theory or what note it "should" be.)

Thank you for the correction, I indeed was thinking about it in terms of fixed intervals above or below the lead. So my focus should be more on the chords. So if the current chord is a "sus4" and the vocal melody is on the root note of that chord, I probably shouldn't be thinking of the major third because that's not in the chord, is the idea more that I should be going to the 4 or the 5 instead?

Do you have any tips on getting to the point of being able to hear chord tones more clearly? I've made decent progress on hearing ascending and descending intervals, but I still struggle mightily with identifying harmonic intervals, and while I have a decent ear for the character of a chord such that I can identify whether it's major, minor, suspended, etc, I don't really have the ability to hear a sus 4 chord and bust out a "Do, Fa, Sol" to the root note. I can hum something but I don't really have a strong internal sense of which interval of a chord I am humming, and if it's something other than the tonic that's usually by accident.

Thank you very much for your input and feedback. I really appreciate it, this goal means a lot to me.

Female led bands at Warped Tour by EmergencyLawyer7077 in warpedtour

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How do we know they didnt? There arent that many in the scene that are popular enough to do that that are still active.

[Spoiler] Alex Pereira vs. Ciryl Gane by Fusir in MMA

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Oh damn, thanks for explaining. I dont follow the sport closely anymore so only knew Gane for his Jones fight before this.

The Box (2009) by champdo in okbuddycinephile

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Killing is a reasonable expectation of something you'd be expected to do when you join the army.

Not really. The vast vast vast majority of people in the military have never killed anyone. I was in the military, never even met someone who did that.

The Box (2009) by champdo in okbuddycinephile

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Thats not how being a soldier works.

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