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Tight Harmonies

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FALSETTO
Soul singers pushed the falsetto into lead-vocal territory long before it became a pop staple, Eddie Kendricks of the Temptations rode that gossamer upper register all the way to the top of the charts.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
DOOWOP
Doo-wop's name comes from the nonsense syllables, 'doo,' 'wop,' 'shoo-be-doo', that backup singers used to fill the space beneath a lead voice, turning pure rhythm into something warm and human.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
REFRAIN
The refrain is where a harmony group gets to truly shine: every repeated pass lets listeners hear the blend anew, often with a slightly tighter, more confident lock each time around.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
STACK
Studio producers would 'stack' vocal parts, recording the same singer or group multiple times on separate tracks, to create a wall-of-voices effect that no single live chorus could match.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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About Tight Harmonies

Few things in music are as spine-tingling as voices that lock together so cleanly you can't tell where one ends and another begins. Motown's studio singers, the Andantes, the Funk Brothers' vocal guests, the background chorus on countless hits, spent long hours stacking parts until every interval was airtight. That blend, whether a sweet soprano floating over a rolling tenor or a low alto anchoring the whole thing, is the heartbeat underneath every great soul record.

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