How to harmonise?

wickerman

Hey

I enjoy harmonising certain riffs as they sound good and thats what alot of my favourite bands do.The only reason i have been able to harmonise upto now is through trial and error.

What is the correct way to find the harmony of something?

ednrg

Try the IPS. It may serve as a tutorial for you also.

For example, the following works on the A Major scale.

Shift Amount: 3rd up
Scale: Major
Key: A
Level: to taste try 40

iliace

You mean with a second guitarist?

The best way to harmonize is to stay at consonant intervals and within the given chord. If you stick to a particular scale, staying a 3rd or 5th above (or below) your mate, it should sound good. 6th is another good interval to try.

thehootman

What you do is pick your scale/mode.
For most of what you play (maiden etc) it will be minor, mostly aeolian.
Then you pick your interval. Usually for maiden it is a 6th down from Dave's part.
get your note, then count up /down from 1 (or anyother interval) as you decend the scale, ie the original note is 1, till you get to 6. Do that for every note of your riff and there's your harmony.

wickerman

Thanks for that, not as hard as i thought it would be