Here's a practical list to help learn harmony singing.

Lorraine Hammond taught us this in a wonderful workshop at "The Woods Music and Dance Camp" in the mid 90's. I've referred to it since, and have used it to teach basic harmony singing. For information about the Woods Camp, held in Ontario, Canada every summer click here!

LORRAINE HAMMOND'S HINTS FOR VOCAL HARMONY:

MELODIC INTERVALS FROM FAMILIAR SONGS
(major except where specified)


ASCENDING:
Second: DO A deer
ARE YOU sleeping?

Minor Third: A-LAS, my love

Third: KUM - BA -ya
IF I loved you

Fourth: HERE COMES the bride
A-MA-zing grace
Fifth: TWINKLE TWINKLE little star
DON'T THROW bouquets at me

Sixth: MY BON-nie lives over the ocean
BE-YOND the blue horizon

Seventh: MA-RI -a
All at ONCE AM I several stories high

DESCENDING:

Second: THREE BLIND mice

Minor third: THIS OLD man, he played one

Third: Down in the VAL-LEY

Fourth: BORN FREE

Fifth: AS TIME goes by
I WISH I was in the land of cotton

Sixth: BYE -BYE blues