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Since school starts next month I am trying to get back into the groove of things by doing some stuff related to the class I am taking. So this morning, as I sat in a traffic jam, I was listening to "On and on and on" and started to come up with other vocal parts for the song. Like, if there were no other instruments on it besides Jeff's voice, but fill it in with the tenor, bass and alto parts. Make it like a 4-part choral song. It worked suprisingly well. I will try to work it out on some staff paper and post it...

 

Has anybody else tried anything like that?

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Since school starts next month I am trying to get back into the groove of things by doing some stuff related to the class I am taking. So this morning, as I sat in a traffic jam, I was listening to "On and on and on" and started to come up with other vocal parts for the song. Like, if there were no other instruments on it besides Jeff's voice, but fill it in with the tenor, bass and alto parts. Make it like a 4-part choral song. It worked suprisingly well. I will try to work it out on some staff paper and post it...

 

Has anybody else tried anything like that?

 

 

Wow! That's impressive. I harmonize (or attempt to), but that's about it.

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Since school starts next month I am trying to get back into the groove of things by doing some stuff related to the class I am taking. So this morning, as I sat in a traffic jam, I was listening to "On and on and on" and started to come up with other vocal parts for the song. Like, if there were no other instruments on it besides Jeff's voice, but fill it in with the tenor, bass and alto parts. Make it like a 4-part choral song. It worked suprisingly well. I will try to work it out on some staff paper and post it...

 

Has anybody else tried anything like that?

I had to do something somewhat like this in music class but rather than doing 4-part choral we had to do just harmony parts in piano for a line. It was pretty interesting...

 

It would be kind of interesting to take Jeff's lead part as a melody and completely re-write the harmonizing instruments, you could get a very different arrangement of the song.

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Since school starts next month I am trying to get back into the groove of things by doing some stuff related to the class I am taking. So this morning, as I sat in a traffic jam, I was listening to "On and on and on" and started to come up with other vocal parts for the song. Like, if there were no other instruments on it besides Jeff's voice, but fill it in with the tenor, bass and alto parts. Make it like a 4-part choral song. It worked suprisingly well. I will try to work it out on some staff paper and post it...

 

Has anybody else tried anything like that?

 

That's a cool idea, I just don't think I wanna take the time to figure out what Jeff is actually singing. If you wanna post your version or even just the original melody I'll join you in a friendly 4-part-on-and-on-and-on-chorale off.

 

I'm using Sibelius 4 btw.

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That's a cool idea, I just don't think I wanna take the time to figure out what Jeff is actually singing. If you wanna post your version or even just the original melody I'll join you in a friendly 4-part-on-and-on-and-on-chorale off.

 

I'm using Sibelius 4 btw.

Dude, I don't have a program to do it... I do it all by hand. Old school, represent!

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Dude, I don't have a program to do it... I do it all by hand. Old school, represent!

 

You can download the demo to see if you like it. You can use everything except for the save funtion.

 

If you really like it (like it did) i got it on bit torrent (it's like 400 dollars otherwise). If you do, just don't sell your music! For educational purposes i think its fair to steal their program...

 

And as this thread seems to be full of music theory nerds, who understands my signature? It's pretty basic, i think...

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re-write the harmonizing instruments

 

Us jazz dorks would call that "reharmonization." There's another term for you music students out there.

 

I don't have a program to do it... I do it all by hand.

 

Hell yeah. Representin'.

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