My lovely minions, pigeons and smidgens, I come to you today bearing the gift of harmony. I slogged for more than seven hours to bring you this little treasure, in which you will discover a complete and concise guide to harmonizing Mr Music (although the file title has "Almost Complete" in it). Several members will recognise its various two predecessors which were rather short and sketchy. This incarnation, however, has been mixed carefully (as carefully as a flying fishing line) and will be a joy to practice with. I took seven hours because the techniques involved in creating harmonies technologically out of thin air are tedious and dangerous, and I performed an adequate mixing job to try and improve microphone qualities, as well as try to make them similar. The latter was rather unsuccessful due to certain members enjoying extremely bad environmental/laptopical luck. I can hear an effort at energy and I have to admit that it's commendable, although it would be really awesomer if we could all sound happier! I'm sure we don't want our debut to sound like soggy mud pancakes. A strange way to do it is to smile when you sing - not so much as to not be able to pronounce properly, but a small smile. It brings a certain essence into your voice, using the same feeling when a person can hear you smiling happily over the phone conversation although he can't see you. When you listen, you will also get a taste of what some of you sound like together. I advise that you download this to your MP3/cellphone/whatever and listen to it on repeat for a minimum of 4 times. After listening enough to know the sequence it goes in, you are required to sing along. You will then be able to differentiate between the harmonies and the melody. After you've gotten the hang of it, send me a recording (this time, MP3 format is acceptable) of you singing along to the tutorial so that I can see how much more time we need. ALL of you have to do this. We have obviously shot way past the deadline, but let's not hold grudges, eh~?
Here's the link: Fish, fries, and anything rice!
Have fun, and don't hesitate to ask (non-stupid) questions if you need help~!
Kthnxbai.
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