Jun 21, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Trills and Composers with a Piano Background For everybody coming from a piano background, a trill usually feels quite noisy and dragging a lot of attention on itself due to the many audible attacks of the notes that you get when you do a trill on a piano. This makes...
Feb 8, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Doubling Woodwinds Woodwinds usually sound more brillant and characteristic when they’re playing solistically instead of doubling the same instruments in unison. For example 3 flutes playing a line in unison in generally sound thicker and slightly louder than a solo...
Nov 2, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Piccolo Flute Highest Register In it’s highest register, the piccolo flute can be very piercing and shrill and sometimes even painfully loud. This can be a great effect when you want a really edgy sound. For example in action or horror music this sound can work...
