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...
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...
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...
