Ah, it's good to see another Joe around. Welcome, Brother Joe!
I seem to be able to pick up the melody of songs almost automatically. I'm just starting to get an idea why that is - I guess it's that certain note progressions work, and certain ones don't. You can pretty-much figure that the next note is going to be one of two or three choices. I can't really read music, but I can fake it pretty well.
Now, I'm trying to figure out how to thransfer that "natural" ability on to harmony singing, but it seems the note progressions in harmony are quite different. The harmony part of a song is rarely a solid third or fifth above or below the melody - when sund alone, the harmony part seems to have a different character, a different "feel." I think if I could figure out what that character is, I sould sing harmony without much effort.
Does anybody understand what I'm getting at?
-Joe Offer-