Three Part Vocal Arranging

[@angerock49]

So glad i found your channel!! This is exactly the info i was looking for

[@JulieGaulke]

Deke, you are SO right about 3-part writing being harder than larger ensemble writing. I find it challenging, yet very satisfying... it's like fitting puzzle pieces together! In my case, it's even more of a challenge since I write mostly for female voices, so the range I'm working with is even more limited. I do have a version of "How Deep Is Your Love" both in SAB and SSA format (www.pianomomsheetmusic.com/howdeepisyourlove.html and www.pianomomsheetmusic.com/howdeepisyourlovessa.html ) Here are a few more: "If I Fell" SSA (www.pianomomsheetmusic.com/if-i-fell-ssa.html ) and TTB (www.pianomomsheetmusic.com/if-i-fell-ttb.html ) "Java Jive" SSA (www.pianomomsheetmusic.com/java-jive.html ) "Little Sparrow" (www.pianomomsheetmusic.com/littlesparrow.html ) "Up Up And Away" (www.pianomomsheetmusic.com/up-up-and-away.html ) and "You've Been A Good Ol' Wagon" (www.pianomomsheetmusic.com/youve-been-a-good-ol-wagon.html ).

[@ibdense]

Nice!

[@JuneS-sf5bh]

Glad I stumbled into this. Currently teaching intermediate school kids and they want current pop songs so this helps in the direction I have to give them to sing.

[@jakegatesmusic]

Thank you, aca God

[@FuelMeOnce]

Loved loved loved this. Thank you Deke. Btw, the other woman in “Three’s Company” is Janet

[@DekeSharon]

Dammit, Janet! ;)

[@FuelMeOnce]

@@DekeSharon different Janet 😆

[@dennisvangrospe1051]

I learned a lot! Thanks! :)

[@TwoSoundsatOnce]

As a beatboxer multivocalist. I find when I loop is an option for building more complex melodies there is a static element to looping where you pretty much have to be close to the looping processor. And other way I find to make an arrangements done by fewer people more complex is to alternate more complex techniques between two people. You kind of mentioned this but when I say more complex techniques I come at it from a multi-vocal instrumental which by the way I like you tutorials do the harmonica with my son and daughter. It's one of my favorite instruments also with in Melody for me composing melodies can be difficult trying to be original and I find that mixing and matching and looking at music as a puzzle the puzzle that can be patternized. If you see things for what they are not for what they can be you really put a limitation on things. As I use minimal effects I am a purist in that sense borderline but you can use for instance a trumpet sound of two notes in a certain set of bars and a person with a lower register do more of a trombone or base like a tuba or someone slapping the tongue around in a BnG bnG through the nose curving your tongue up pushing on the roof of your mouth and this through the back of the throat you can lower your register from a high-pitched Puck guitar to a bass guitar and you kind of close your lips as you're doing it. with a slight opening another saying is to add extraneous ambient sounds with my beatboxing I mostly do these days is hypnotic beatboxing genre I've designed and also bioboxics or animal sounds made by voice is a therapy and a bilinguistic approach to animal and human language and communication. Both of those fields I have worked hard over the last several years. I'm kind of a Sigmund Freud of beatboxing honestly. But doing a Canadian toad sound which is a whistle with a uvula tap doing that in the background while another person is doing an Aries sound I call it oceanic breath and the other person does the harmony or the melody so those are a few ways to do it obviously if you're looking at purely a vocal harmonies and melodies usually using normal verbalized pauses and ahs and mmmm and such and you have to work within where you're comfortable with purism or adding an electronic pedal or pre-recorded which can be very inconvenient sampled recordings that you can play on loop or through a keyboard midi style and on the pattern I was mentioning the patronization of puzzles means that they are designed to fit with each other in multiple configurations so I like to use syllables in my obviously in my rhyming and singing but the syllables be good for changing up melodies and baselines otherwise you can start sounding really similar and I'm not good with knowing pitch and knowing different things I kind of have a natural feel for things I can't count four beats in the measure four counts quarter note half note none of it really clicks with me I don't know if it's because my ADHD but I have a natural rhythm which I I follow on timing and I think my pedal being off on timing in loop feels like it actually works and has a psychedelic effect for the hypnotic beatboxing. But the patterns you look at Legos and several different colors of Legos and if you imagine those two different color Legos going together and they all turn eight and the length of the Legos spreads out do this to sound this is a video of visual analogy and the visual or at least the visualization in the mind of for instance phraseology is one thing that I do I will read off whatever random thing I can find like 52 oz cup that's near me and I might use the word 52 oz cup that's near me in a Harmony dragging out different parts and fitting them in the next you listen to that and then you put a corresponding rhythm. I find that it doesn't always have to be complex super overtly ostentatious and complex. Doing less is more sometime. If you do the little that you can do with three people and you Max that out you could have a negative effect or a positive effect but if you have just the right amount of swag in there you can make a little bit sound like a lot another way to change up is accenting or voice over and for the visual soliloquizing or justiculating in certain ways ornate and appropriate ways can add a visual aspect synchronization of your choreography. I'm a lone wolf one man wolf pack and I guess you could say I'm a army of one or a one man disgruntled nomadic beatboxing man. Looping stations have been a saving Grace for me. As well as Sony acid it's not too complicated and what I do it seems to work well and with the flow of things you can create delays by sliding over the waiver whatever file form it is for the interface sliding one over a little bit from the one below it and adjusting volume so so and panning I find panning you can do that in a live setting too you can pan from one voice to another there are so many ways that just you could I call when I say wrote a book on it think outside the beatbox it's seeing beatboxing is more than entertainment I get into humanitarian and scientific and linguistic approaches with my beatboxing but what's the next big step. I can do covers I can do single layer covers which is just from the mouth but I don't like doing covers and that's the sense I'm kind of a purist I really find that that's their song and I don't feel like I would necessarily do justice to all of them I could do to some but I'm a ground up beatbox small tea layering musician. If you've heard of naturally seven that's the kind of stuff I do not necessarily hip hop like they do but I do hip hop in a different way and I created a genre of biological beatboxing called bioboxics which only uses animal sounds and beatbox voicemails no words no rhyming they're kind of biological tracks but you have to do the specific species with your voice and then there's beast box battles which are like beatbox or rap battles but you can only use animal sounds No beatboxing no turntables and then they got to be set out in nature I have videos on this stuff but I won't babble too much more I just like to revisit your channel I discovered it a few years ago I love home Free Pentatonix is good too and they do a lot of transitional techniques and the way they vocalize is not the same as tonic solfa which would be one of my favorite groups of acapella cuz I've heard of the longest ago. In case you got tired reading my message those are just a few ideas but basically my thoughts on ways to improve arrangements in summation Loop pedals Treat melody Harmony words and other sounds as a puzzle that can compliment other parts and be adjusted accordingly To needs desires Explore accents inflection cadence diction etcetera to spice up things Alternate in unique panning sort of ways like a doplar effect or crescendo Do instrument and animal sounds and biosperic airy sounds Know o when to appropriately exact the desired necessary techinques I heard that there was a song harder faster stronger and someone sad it's different ways of saying the word watermelon and repeating it and changing notes it also sounded like a vocoder or distortion Read the words and sylobols Silence oddly enough dramatict pauses and punch re-entering the flow that absence can actually work for a sound would work. Thank you for the video I hope you like some of my tips.

[@anahimansur7288]

you amazing

[@captainsworld1986]

#triosDOwork