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...
Dec 21, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
ORCHESTRATION STANDARD RULES One of the biggest misconceptions about orchestration is that people who just start to learn it think there is a definite set of rules to follow like “If situation x then always do y.” There are no such things as “Top orchestration...
Nov 23, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Optimal Range for Timpani Timpani sound best between the f below middle c and the f one octave lower. Even though their range exceeds that limit, in the very lowest register the membrane needs to lose so much tension that the sound gets muddy and unfocussed....
