Sep 7, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Pitch impression on Double Basses Double basses have a quite unfocussed sound, especially in their very low register. In some occasions, it might be even tricky to actually identify clearly which note they are playing. This occurs on passages where the basses have a...
Aug 31, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Harmonic Spectrum of String Instruments String instruments in particular have a very rich harmonic spectrum meaning that besides their “played” pitch, a whole set of harmonics will sound quite prominently as well. This applies particularly for the next few harmonics...
Aug 24, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Midi Controller Curves in Score Sheets Just because you have drawn extensive Midi Controller curves into your sampled mock-up doesn’t mean you have to translate all that into the score sheet before you go to a real orchestra recording. Extensive micro-managed...
Aug 17, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Orchestration Strategy When orchestrating music, one of my favorite strategies is to orchestrate from most important to least important which means that you start off with the element that you need to be perceived as the main idea and work your way down to the...
Aug 7, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Fermatas in Film Scoring When scoring a movie by writing score sheets for the reason of having it played by real instruments at one point, avoid fermatas and breath marks. These musical markings are very open to interpretation and it get’s even more complicated to...
