http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXImi2etl7I

[QUOTE=BenJammin;17450019]I've been doing solo (bass, and otherwise) stuff for years. That, in and of itself, is not necessarily anything new... I dunno.

Maybe I need to learn how to write songs, and sing.[/QUOTE]
Writing music with vocals is so much more rewarding.

Plus people might actually listen to it twice lol.

I need to learn to sing before doing anything so outrageous as recording a song with vocals.

Wow that's a nice effort.

Yeah it's true about vocals too, vocals are the main way that non-musicians connect to music when they're present, so not having them eliminates a rather large potential audience.

[QUOTE=Joelbassman;17450115]Writing music with vocals is so much more rewarding.

Plus people might actually listen to it twice lol.[/QUOTE]

It's funny because it's true.

I'll work on it.

Of course, the irony is in that I traded my audio interface to Liam for his Brice fretless, so I can't actually record vocals atm. :lol:

These guy don't have vocals and pull it off reasonably well. By reasonably I mean I really like them and work with the drummer.

http://www.myspace.com/hazardsofswimmingnaked

[QUOTE=BenJammin;17450141]It's funny because it's true.

I'll work on it.

Of course, the irony is in that I traded my audio interface to Liam for his Brice fretless, so I can't actually record vocals atm. :lol:[/QUOTE]
Haha and trust me, for people like me who basically practice vocals whilst recording, you caannot do it around anyone. Unless you have super duper skills of not caring. So you'll wanna do it at home by yourself.

And yeah unless you're famous/ish, usually people won't give a damn about a instrumental band unless they're really into it and/or the band is really ****ing good.

[QUOTE=gaslight;17450136]Wow that's a nice effort.

Yeah it's true about vocals too, vocals are the main way that non-musicians connect to music when they're present, so not having them eliminates a rather large potential audience.[/QUOTE]
*cough*

I posted a novel in the other thread on your mic search.

*cough*

im a vocalist and i cant sing LOL

I'm working on my singing but it ain't worth hearing yet.

I'm trying backup live with my band soon, lets see how that one goes.

Harmonies or unison?

Both.

Unison I can do no worries, all our songs I know without thinking more or less and sing along regardless of whether I have a mic in my face. Harmonies will be more tricky.

[QUOTE=funkyhoney;17450319]Both.[/QUOTE]

At the same time :eek:.

[QUOTE=gaslight;17450342]At the same time :eek:.[/QUOTE]

I'm quite talented, I also play a big keyboard with my feet.

Damn, I didn't take the rest of my gear pictures this weekend.

I know what I'm doing today after work...

[quote=funkyhoney;17450340]Unison I can do no worries, all our songs I know without thinking more or less and sing along regardless of whether I have a mic in my face. Harmonies will be more tricky.[/quote]

Harmonies come pretty natural to me, but it's probably because I have always listened to vocal melodies on the radio and sang harmonies behind it.

I do find that harmonic vocals are much harder if you come in before the melody vocals. My band had a song that required me to do it, but it was a minor 9th above the music note, so I could never hear it in my head.

I have to really think about things like that. I'd have had to sing the melody note in my head, then sing it an octave higher, and then stick a semitone onto it, and then I'd have to keep that note fresh in my head until I had to sing it.

[QUOTE=FunkMetalBass;17450711]Harmonies come pretty natural to me, but it's probably because I have always listened to vocal melodies on the radio and sang harmonies behind it.

I do find that harmonic vocals are much harder if you come in before the melody vocals. My band had a song that required me to do it, but it was a minor 9th above the music note, so I could never hear it in my head.[/QUOTE]

Oh I don't know about all that "actual interval" business, but we shall see how I go :p

A minor ninth above? Geez, that has the potential to be pretty grating.

If you also had a 6th in between that could potentially ruin the very concept of a harmony.

If it works, it works :)

I'm too **** for such harmonies, I can barely even register simple things like 5ths and dominant 7ths. I've never been good at tonal recognition.

It's all just practise. Singing is the best way to internalise your sense of pitch. If you have a piano at your disposal that's one of the best tools to use for singing and aural training. I've never sung back-ups for anything, I'd be terrible at it at the moment.

I don't.... I have a small 2 octave keyboard and a number of basses though.

Even a two octave keyboard is perfect as long as it's polyphonic. Try out playing triads in different keys and singing the chord tones, or pick one note, sing it, and move to a lot of different chords in your hands while practising keeping that note in your head and voice. Other good ones. You can also practise singing harmonies over the notes, play a C, sing an E, and so on. Five or ten minutes a day equals quantum leaps in ability over not too long a time at all.

Hrmm I should definitely do that, I'm going to have to find it now.

If you have a good enough ear to tell you when you're singing the wrong note in harmony, then you have a good enough ear to listen for what you should be singing IMO.

Saying that, I'm still awful at it :p

I know when things aren't in tune/high/low, I'm just not good with intervals.