Will Landrum One of the most powerful ways you can spice up your tunes whether you're recording or playing live is to harmonize your leads and melodies. When you're ready to sink your teeth into this creative approach, you'll have taken a giant step toward musical maturity.
Harmonization is actually an easy concept.
What will take a little work and time is, and I've said this on numerous occasions in the past, you must know in what key or mode you're playing and you need to know your modal scale patterns and positions in order to exercise your creativity. The basics of harmonizing begin with taking your lick or melody and adding notes to it that are a diatonic third above. Here's what I mean. These are the same notes but in a different position to make solo playing easier. OK, let's take another look at harmonizing with thirds.