How to produce vocals for your music?

Hey everyone! So today, I’m going to share with you all how to produce vocals for your music.

Let’s get into it.

How to produce vocals for your music?

So there are a few ways that you could go about producing vocals for your songs. 

It’s all about how you want it to sound.

But an important concept in vocal production is layering.

Here we go again talking about layering

lol, I know that I talked about this yesterday, but there is power in layering. 

I hear it all the time in music. 

Like right now, I have playing on my headphones a song (Out of the millions of other songs)

That layer the main vocals with a harmony vocals for a few different times. 

And the concept is not hard to understand, what you have to do is to literally sing the same part over the main part and either do the literal exact same melody or do a third or fifth or octave above that. 

So say for example if I’m doing la la la, then I sing those exact same la la las but an octave higher or lower, depends on how you want it to sound. 

and it’s very interesting hearing how it sounds because it sounds really cool and like it’s got a cool effect on it. 

But how about composition wise?

what if we want to create great sounding background vocals that sound different than the melody that’s being sung.

Let me give you a few tips that I follow in order to compose great sounding background vocals. 

Follow the chord

So one way that you could create background vocals that sound different than the melody is to sing over and basically layer the chord that’s being sung but do it in a different rhythm. 

So say for example if the guitars are playing the chords G, C, and D but they’re doing it while playing 16th note rhythms, then an option that you have is to play the exact same chords and hold them out instead of playing them for 16th note patterns.

So whole notes and half notes and similar rhythms basically. 

That’s one way to follow the chord. 

Another way is to arpeggiate the chords using your vocals. 

So say for example if you’re playing a G chord, then an option you could do is to play the notes G, B, D, and hold them out longer like half notes in an arpeggiated fashion. 

This could create contrast and offer an emotional well-being into your music. 

Of course you do all of these things with layering because layers sound so much better. 

A composing advice that I heard from one of the greats

So I was one time on the internet, and there was a songwriter who said some pretty cool stuff about melodies.

He said that you usually don’t want to play one melody over another unless you’re doing it in a counterpoint way. 

But basically do not make main melodies clash with each other. 

And ever since then, I have not heard music the same way because I realize that a lot of songs don’t clash melodies with each other. 

What they do is like a call and response sort of thing. 

Where you’ll hear the piano playing the chords at first and then the singer is singing and then once the singer takes a little break, a little melody is introduced. 

So just in case you want to create more melodies in your music, here is some tips on how to do so.

As always recreating tracks is your best bet

So the best way to get better at producing is by literally recreating tracks. 

Recreate tracks to get better at music production and overall melody writing. 

You’ll pick up on things that you didn’t know were there. 

And you will make your own style of production

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