Aug 23, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Vibrato The amount and intensity of vibrato as a default playing style is highly depending on the instrument and also location of the orchestra. While string players naturally add vibrato to longer notes, brass players only play with slight vibrato when they have an...
Jul 26, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Three Part Divisi in Two Violin Sections In a situation where you want to spread out three voices over both violin sections, usually the better choice is to divide the second violins into two voices and leave the top voice to the first violins alone. Even though this...
Jun 14, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Mutes on String Instruments Using mutes on string instruments has some important things to consider and remember. Mutes as seen on this picture have no influence on the vibration of the strings but simply alter the way how the vibration of the strings is transmitted...
May 31, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Study Instrument Registers Just as important as knowing the ranges of the instruments that you are writing for you should also have a clear idea about their registers and dynamic possibilities of them in these registers. There are a few charts out there which show one...
Apr 19, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Excessive String Divisi Many composers coming from the sample world tend to use massively split up string sections. Things like triads in the violas alone, several different violin movements at the same time etc. are very common. While this might work in the sample...
