I get the 2 mixed up a lot. Like there’s a rap group called bone thugz n harmony and they haromonize a lot in their songs. It actually sounds like they’re singing. However, these guys are NOT singers they’re rappers. But still, one could mistake them for rappers who actually sing in their songs. But that’s not what they’re doing because they’re harmonizing.
So what’s the difference between the 2? They both sound like actual singing. But one’s different from the other right?
Think of it as the differerence between 1 note on the piano and a chord. You can have 2 part harmony (like your rappers) or 3 or 4 part, Usually thre is no more than that. So that would be 2 or 3 or 4 notes simultaneously on a piano except they use their voices. I don’t know the group but more they probably are singing. The old 50′s doo-wop street music used 1 singer and often 3 others humming or just singing individual notes in harmony without words. But you don’t need words to be singing. If you remember the old Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do scales one guy can sing a "do" and another a "Re" or "Mi" and that’s a harmony. Each guy is in a different key.
Singing is when you use your voice as a musical instrument. Anytime you’re being musical with your voice, that’s singing. If you’re singing by yourself, without any instruments, there is no harmony, only melody.
Harmony is just one two or more notes are sounded at the same time. So if two people make pitches, one on top of the other, at the same time, that is harmony.
Harmony is something you can do with singing, you could do with pianos or horns or whatever makes a musical pitch. It does not have to include singing, but it can.
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Think of it as the differerence between 1 note on the piano and a chord. You can have 2 part harmony (like your rappers) or 3 or 4 part, Usually thre is no more than that. So that would be 2 or 3 or 4 notes simultaneously on a piano except they use their voices. I don’t know the group but more they probably are singing. The old 50′s doo-wop street music used 1 singer and often 3 others humming or just singing individual notes in harmony without words. But you don’t need words to be singing. If you remember the old Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do scales one guy can sing a "do" and another a "Re" or "Mi" and that’s a harmony. Each guy is in a different key.
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