Mar 29, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
“Simile” Mark in Film Scoring When you’re writing a score sheet, especially when for a film score, rather prefer to use the word “simile” or “sim.” (meaning “in the same way”) where you can instead of articulating/marking everything. This has a massively...
Mar 22, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Musicians’ Feedback No book or course on orchestration can actually replace the invaluable lesson you can learn by talking to and/or observing musicians who are playing your music. Whenever you have the chance to work with musicians, try to find time to have a...
Mar 15, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Ethnic Instruments Ethnic and more rare instruments are still pretty popular in film/game/trailer music and are of course a great tool to locate a scene or character or to simply add unusual textures. However these instruments pretty often come with technical...
Mar 8, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Perfect Fifth Double Stops on Strings There are several disagreeing statements in orchestration books about perfect fifth double stops on string instruments that don’t involve open strings. Some claim they are impossible and should be avoided while others say they are...
Mar 1, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
“Col Legno” on Strings A quite interesting sounding and more commonly used special playing technique on string instruments is the so called “col legno”, which translated means “with the wood”. Probably one of the most well known use of it is the beginning...
Feb 22, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
“Epic” Low Horns Recent years have shown a tendency in film music to write more often for brass in their very low register. Especially horns are often requested to play in their lowest octave. While excellent players in great numbers (speaking of at...
