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Self-Backing Vocalist
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Occasionally, when recording a song, there's no backing vocalist available to bring out the melody and harmony. The most common solution is for the artist in question to record his or her own backing vocals and then overdub them into the final recording. In some cases, this can be done several times over to create a "chorus of one" effect. The trope has been in use since the 1940s when technology first allowed for the combination of several recorded tracks into one recording (also known as multitracking). Modern equipment makes this trope easier and can even apply the effect in real time. May overlap with Solo Duet. See also Dramatic Choir Number is the backup vocals are sung by a choir other than the lead singer. |
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Marina Diamandis harmonizes with herself in "Starring Role" and "Valley of the Dolls". | |
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KT Tunstall records the backing vocals and accompaniment on the spot whenever she performs Black Horse and the Cherry Tree in concert. | |
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Blind Guardian's Hansi Kürsch does this A LOT. Live, the fans often fill in the other parts. |
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Vic Mizzy, who wrote the iconic theme for The Addams Family, couldn't afford backup singers to record the song, so he triple-overdubbed his voice to simulate a trio. | |
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Akiko Shikata (a good deal of Ar tonelico series vocal tracks, Umineko: When They Cry opening and ending, etc) does this all the time, and she really can take it to extreme levels. It's not unheard of for her to do 200 or more recordings for one song. She might as well be a one-woman choir. It helps that her rather incredible amplitude often makes you forget that all those voices belong to the same person. | |
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Modest Mouse used this a lot on their first couple albums and somehow still managed to be lo-fi. If anything, this has become part of their signature sound; a lot of their songs have what sounds like one Isaac Brock standing at the microphone and another shouting the vocals from across the studio, and Isaac generally gives himself leeway to go off on weird tangents with the backing vocal ("I fucked up the last line."). |
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Part of Ozzy Osbourne's signature sound, at least on his solo records. | |
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During his solo career, Collins did all three voice parts for his cover of The Supremes' "You Can't Hurry Love", to the point where he plays the entire trio in the video. | |
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Most of Rush's early albums (up to Grace Under Pressure) feature no vocal harmony at all (one exception being the song "Take a Friend" on their self-titled debut). Since then, however, intricate multi-tracked harmonies are often performed entirely by Lee in "The Choir Of Geddies", including live, when his vocal samples are triggered on synth keys or effect pedals at Geddy or Alex Lifeson's feet (or, occasionally, on Neil Peart's drumset). Alex also occasionally provides backing vocals during live songs, though they aren't necessarily good and his microphone is often given far less volume than Geddy's. During the Clockwork Angels tour in 2012-2013, Alex would often mock Geddy's "wish them well" harmony in the eponymous song before going into a nonsensical rant during an instrumental break. | |
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Beck records his own backing vocals on most of his albums, one humorous example being "Where It's At", where he supplied different types of voices for each overlaid track in the chorus. | |
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Neil Sedaka sang harmony with himself in his early days. Examples can be heard in "Breaking Up is Hard to Do" (the original version), "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen", "Little Devil", "Samson and Delilah" and "Our Last Song Together". | |
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Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose, especially noticeable on "Knocking on Heaven's Door". More often than not, even on songs with other members singing harmonies, Axl took care of the highest and lowest notes. "November Rain", for instance. |
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Maskerade shows that Agnes Nitt is able to accompany herself, singing two or even three voices at the same time (and able to perfectly mimic voices too), allowing her to stand in for the unskilled Brainless Beauty Christine. | |
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Lindsey Stirling and Peter Hollens' cover of "Dragonborn" involves over a hundred copies of Hollens' voice singing at once. As an a cappella artist, most of Peter Hollens' recordings feature Self-Backing Vocalist out of necessity. |
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Michael Barnes of Red. Some songs, such as "Fight to Forget" and "Cauterize," overdub his screaming and his clean vocals. | |
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The theme tune for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was recorded with a large group of singers who were recorded multiple times and then dubbed over each other to get the effect of (in the words of the team) "a barbarian choir". | |
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The song “Meltdown�, inspired by The Gods Themselves, requires this, as it is a three-part harmony sung by a single performer. | |
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Parody artist Jon Cozart, aka Paint, combines this with The Oner to harmonize with himself and perform a medley, combining traditional choir style with beatboxing to create several elaborate songs, including the popular "After Ever After" series. | |
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In the Ultra Fast Pony episode "Chickens! Run!", Sweetie Belle sings a death metal lullaby (It Makes Sense in Context), complete with scatted backing "instruments". When asked how she sang both parts at the same time, she answers, "Magic." | |
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David Draiman of Disturbed, with Another Way to Die as a particularly excellent example. He does this a lot with his wordless vocalizations. The "RAH!" at the beginning of the track Asylum is six tracks at once. |
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Bill Oddie of The Goodies used to work into the night to replace Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor's backing vocals. He put his own vocals through a "harmonizer" so Tim and Graeme wouldn't tell the difference. Despite focusing on comedy - what a voice!! | |
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Todd Rundgren had an entire album - A Cappella, released in 1985 - which involves no instruments whatsoever, just Rundgren himself singing tons of background parts behind himself. | |
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Part of Sabaton's signature sound is a three-part harmony, which the band initially made by recording themselves singing the melody, a high tenor harmony, and a baritone harmony. "Primo Victoria" was their first song to use this technique. | |
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Charlotte Wessels of Delain sings with herself for most of April Rain, Hunter's Moon and Apocalypse & Chill. | |
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Eagles did it sometimes. For instance, the line 'and still those voices are calling from far away' (Hotel California) is sung by Henley, Frey, and either Meisner or Schmit when it comes to live versions, but in the studio, it was just Don Henley + Don Henley. The last verse of Take It Easy features Glenn Frey on lead vocals and also joining his bandmates on backing vocals (which include a dual role by Randy Meisner as tenor and alto). | |
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In Jekyll & Hyde's 1994 album, 1995 tour, and 2006 Resurrection album Hyde's vocals in "Confrontation" are a backing track while Jekyll's are sung live. | |
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Sara Evans briefly sings a three-part round with herself at the end of "Coalmine". | |
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Mick Jagger has occasionally done this, more frequently on his solo material as other members of The Rolling Stones (particularly Keith Richards) have done legit backing vocals over the years. | |
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hinayukki's song, "Floriography" is produced with only one voicebank (Meiko's), but combines various pitches to produce a chorus effect in certain parts. | |
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Russ Mael of Sparks does his own backing vocals. Since he's a falsetto, it ends up sounding like a group of female background singers. | |
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Elvis Costello does this a lot. Tracks where other members of the Attractions sing backup are pretty rare. | |
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The Oh Hellos: The same songs, recorded by just Maggie and Tyler Heath, require a dozen other band members to keep the same sound while touring. | |
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Nightwish: The band sometimes loops the lead vocals on the last refrain of a song, repeating the words behind the singer vocalizing. "Escapist" is one such example. In "Yours Is an Empty Hope", the bridge ends with Floor Jansen simultaneously yelling and growling "YOURS! IS! AN! EMP! TY! HOPE!" |
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Kirsty Mac Coll was well-known for this, regularly producing complex self-harmonies that are often compared to The Beach Boys. | |
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While Slipknot have proper backing vocalists in the form of their percussionists, some songs have lead vocalist Corey Taylor's vocals overlap with one another. In live shows, these backing vocals are still provided by the percussionists. | |
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Heather Alexander, on her album In'shallah, sings one particular song as a three-part round. She's the song's sole vocalist. It's particularly startling since she just didn't use such techniques. Though after transitioning to a man, Alexander James Adams, he did record an album on which he performed several duets, performing both alto and tenor parts. | |
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Dave Grohl still does vocals in some songs, such as "In Bloom". He played this trope straighter with Foo Fighters. | |
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Debbie Harry did almost all of the vocals on Blondie's "Atomic." | |
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There are a number of a cappella singers on YouTube that do this, notably François Macré's 64-channel recording of Michael Jackson's "Thriller", found here. | |
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Netta does it just about every other song. Especially prominent in her songs from Hakochav Haba, where backup singers weren't allowed. Those songs were what got her to the Eurovision. | |
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Meg Myers harmonizes with herself in some songs, such as "Make a Shadow" and "Done." | |
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Many Aerosmith songs. | |
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In Ancillary Justice, the AI Hive Mind One Esk has a habit of doing this live by singing choral music with several of its bodies at once. | |
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Billy Currington usually averts this, but he played it straight on "Drinkin' Town with a Football Problem". | |
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Every line of every song on Atheist's debut album Piece of Time has one track being a low growl and the other being a high scream. It lends it a very demonic tone. | |
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Hunter Hayes did literally every vocal and instrument on his debut album. Downplayed with the rerelease and his second album, where he still plays multiple instruments but has a few helping hands. | |
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