I don't know why, but my brain has a real problem actually hearing the distinct notes in vocal harmonies, unlike piano or guitar where if I play a chord and focus on each note I can actually distinctly hear it. With human voices the notes all block together like a thick mesh where overtone and separate voice are difficult to distinguish, and when I'm transcribing I'm doing it by feeling it out and checking until it sounds right, I can't clearly and distinctly hear each individual voice the way I can with other instruments. I get by ok, but I write a lot of vocal harmonies and I think it would vastly improve my writing to be able to really hear them analytically like I do other instruments.
Could you guys recommend some good material to practice transcription of vocal harmonies? Ideally I'd want something a capella with 2-4 voices, slower tempo, good recording quality and either sheet music or some sort of reference like isolated stems I could use to check my work. Anybody else have a problem where human voices or other timbres sound fundamentally different from others and it's much harder to hear them analytically?
Submitted May 05, 2021 at 02:25PM by JimmyFalunGong https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/n5lesf/good_material_to_practice_transcription_of_vocal/?utm_source=ifttt