Introduction to string arranging
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2024
- A 10 minute tutorial video, with some suggestions about how to approach string arranging, focusing on using strings as a pad. Update, when I made this, it was a bit of an introduction to my work for my website. To cut past the waffle and get to the meet of the video, start at about 1 minute in.
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9 minutes, so much useful info in only 9 minutes.
Standbackforscience hear hear - great tutorial Pete
Not only do you show what to do, but clear and concise procedures in doing so!
Nice!
Many thanks Pete for providing us substantial Musical information in such a crystal clear presentation.
I found this tutorial very helpful, thank you. I have written string arrangements for my own songs for years, but your approach is so logical, it's given me a new method.
This is the second time I watched this. Once last year and now again. This really helps the beginner arranger! Thanks!
Thank you Pete for making this tutorial. It's really helpful and the best explanation I have seen of how to make midi strings sound "right."
What a clear, straightforward, excellent tutorial. I know almost next-to-absolutely-nothing about string arrangements but this is pitched (hur hur) just perfectly. Thanks Pete!
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Hi Pete,
Thank you so much. you have opened my eyes. you are the true teacher. very simple and effective. Once again thank you.
This is so far one of the best musical tutorial I've seen on RUclips!
Great job, I learned a lot today from you :)
One of the most helpful videos I’ve seen in a while, thank you!
Wonderful string arrangement tutorial. Thank you for taking the time to share your perspective.
It's amazing! This is an orchestration course compressed in 10 minutes! Thank you for this video. It's very helpful for beginning composers! Using different samples for each part is great option!!! I've never used it before!
A very comprehensive guide and explained so even an idiot like myself, can understand it. I have a couple of string libraries and have always been quite lazy in the arrangement; partly because I don't now really the best method so I compromise with what I think sounds good.
It certainly gives me scope and another approach to sound arrangement. Cheers.
This video was enough to get me through my string arrangement module at university. Thank you 🙌
Haha! Nice one
Hi Pete, this video has been most helpful as I am doing a remix of my arrangement of Mary Did You Know from several Christmases ago. I recently acquired some new string samples and wanted to split the voicings up on tracks with separate instruments. I also realized that my string parts needed a little more life bred into them. Thanks for the inspiration.
Really enjoyed watching this tutorial Pete - you've certainly given me some ideas to work with!
谢谢您，很简洁有用的入门教程，对我们新手刚学习编写弦乐的很友好，思维逻辑清晰，步骤明了。 谢谢
I have a master's degree from Juilliard. I started my professional life doing arrangements for top rock and r&b artist as well as several orchestras in America. And, even I found this incredibly useful. Thx, it's always good to see how another does things.
Outstanding - I feel like I leapt a few years ahead in learning by wathcing this short video! Thanks so much!
Thank you, Pete. very helpful. I've been looking for this type of instruction for some years. Needed to take my strings beyond block chords, I saw several techniques I can use.
Great video. I enjoy arranging string parts from the keyboard, and this video helps me to understand the ideas that i create.
Great tutorial! I learned lots of new things. Thanks for making it, Pete!
Thank you Pete, I really appreciate you making and sharing this video!
I wish I could "like" this video 1K times.
Suuuuper helpful. Thanks Peter!
This was extremely useful and inspiring! Thanks Pete!
Enjoyed this Pete, very educational and interesting. I have just bought LA Scoring Strings, hope to use some of your tips! thanks again
Wow, such a great, well-condensed tutorial, thank you very much!
Excellent tutorial, Pete!
This is great. I was having real trouble writing parts for a Violin and Cello, but now I feel inspired or at least have a direction I can head in. Thanks a lot.
Well done - a great intro to the subject. This will go a long way in improving some string pads I'm working on!
Many thanks for that video Mr. Whitfield!
Simple, and well explained - Great job!!!
Awesome lesson. Thank you for your time and effort. All the best to you.
This is a great video and answered many questions I had about not just arranging for strings (I'm a beginner currently arranging for a quartet), but also wider application for song accompaniment on a single instrument - in my case, my main instrument, English concertina. Using score-based tools alone I struggle to visualise the relationships between chords and how the performance might be improved - I liked the way you introduced elements such as counter melody, passing notes etc. - having the visual relationship is very helpful, so I'm off to give Logic a test drive.
Wow. That's what I was seeking for so long! Thank you alot!
Excellent tutorial. Went right from the begining and very clearly spelled it out. Big help if you have had college harmony classes. So many other boneheads on you tube put uptheirown
I wish I saw this back in 2009 but really I wouldn't have got it. After working with some incredible jazz and symphonic composers for hip hop tracks, reading the step notation helped me see what was going on (that's how us fake musicians read). I definitely will add more obstinate to future pads. Thanks!
This video tutorial, REALLY change my mindset to positive attitude! Thank you!!!
I really appreciate it!! :D
I actually have quite an extensive background with music theory and writing and such, but for those who are just starting out and don't know any of that. This is very handy for them to know! Anyone can sit down and play a few chords. But this shows them how to turn it into much more. Great tutorial.
I agree wholeheartedly. I'm on the other end of the spectrum. I learned the basics of piano when I was younger, but other than how to read sheet music and basic piano playing, I'm musically inept.
This was very interesting to watch, and very inspiring!
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Love every bit of it. Thanks so much.
Thank you, this is very useful and I appreciate a lot you share your skills with us !
That was simple and clear. This is great for the novice! Thanks!
Great video with exactly the thing I'm always after - practical "bullet list" tips
Found this useful. I seemed to already some of the methods although there's a few tricks I picked up from here. Good tutorial.
Very helpful . Hope you and your family stay safe during Covid Pandemic
Wonderful. many thansk for taking the time to make the video.
The last thing with different instruments is genius! I'm going to try it. :)
Can anyone recommend more videos like this? ie. where someone takes a simple 8 bar arrangement and arranges it to be more interesting. Best way to learn!
Great tutorial! Found that I was doing most of these things instinctively in my string arrangements, but toned it down because the strings' slow attack time made me think they were late to the beat/rhythm of other parts (even if sample attack is set to 0).
Thanks for the info - you indirectly stated through these techniques that such is normal.
Visaural For the strings' slow attack you can have them come in a bit earlier. I found that many people do that but it depends on the samples you use. It's especially useful when you have non-stringed instruments playing along. And if you need a fast and strong attack on the violins, you can just put them quantized on the bar and add another patch of staccato violins play that first note, then you just play around with the velocities. :)
+Jeremy Pigeon I was wondering if you know the notation software used in the tutorial, as well as the software used to play back and edit the scores (piano on the left)...?
Really good! Well explained.
This has been so de mystifying! Thank you so much! Before my string parts were bassically happy accidents that just happened to sound good but now I have some practical writing theory to help create more realistic and smooth sounding string parts. Would love of you could do the same thing with horns
Very interesting...nice work Mr Whitfield. Joe in Ireland.
thanks pete ,this has given me a lot of ideas on arranging my beats.I think this video has a lot of views because you did it in MIDI , it may be easy for you ,but its not everyone who knows how to read music in the staff,etc...Please do more stuffs like this in midi.
Very useful, thank you very much Pete
Hey man , a quick thanks , lots of helpful advice , Cheers Pete
Excellent video!
Learning cello will be really helpful! It's quite difficult to get started on a string instrument so don't be put off if it takes a while to make a decent sound. Some of the most effective things you can do with strings are really simple - like single held notes that have a natural start and finish, and some basic dynamics (getting louder and softer).
super helpful. will help me in my uplifting trance tracks!!
Well done man, really helpful!
I really enjoyed this.
Wow, super informative. Helped me a lot, thankyou
Very good sound of this string!
In my latest composition for orchestra (The Gaia Hypothesis) I used the Factory Kontakt 5.
Hi Jaisyn, this is Logic. Most midi recording programmes will let you display midi in both 'piano roll' and notation, though the notation part of the programme is often limited, which is why we use specialist notation programmes like Sibelius and Finale.
Thank you very much!! Great tutorial!
Thanks very much. This was very helpful.
Hi - I'm just using a standard pad string preset in the ESX24 for this (Logic 8). For recordings I use live instruments and the East West sample library.
Brilliant. Simple but very effective
Very descriptive, very helipful.
this is awesome : ) hope you can do more of these.
Great video and helpful, thanks!
Brilliant - very helpful. Thanks!
Awesome video. Found you through Gearslutz. Thanks you very much!
Great stuff. Learned a lot
Thank you Pete, I know this is 9 years old bust still helped in 2018 :) Thanks
Great lesson!
How did this get some any thumbs down at all? I hope it's due to fat thumbs. For a free 9 minute intro to string arranging, this is excellent and straight to the point tutorial. I wish I had checked this a lot sooner. Thanks Peter!
Because this tutorial is done in grid editor and is dumbed down to the point that nothing of use can come from this video.
great and easy lesson... thank you
@alobosk Exactly! Responding to the harmony is a good start I reckon but in many cases you need to also work round the existing melodies. The Incognito arrangements are a great example. I'm going to have a go at a video about working with melodies some time!
Very helpful! Thank you for this.
Thanks for so great stuff. Really helped me!
Fantastic tutorial.... Do you have more of these ?
Beautiful. Totally subscribed...
Thank you....this is just great!!!
Hi Leo, as an arranger, I've sometimes felt like I was writing a core part of a track. Where composing ends and arranging starts is a tough one. It doesn't really matter until it comes to copyright and who gets royalties. In this case, I was kind of assuming the chords existed and maybe it was part of a song, and I was just adding some strings.
Thank you, Pete. This makes a lot of sense. A good next [step] video might be: 'articulation assignment'.
By the way: May I suggest you and add a slow release compressor to the background music track and side-chain it to your speaking track? It's a little thing that I think you'll be happy with. There are many tutorials out there for how to do it.
What's up, Pete? I like this video. I'm a cellist and composer, myself, and I think you've clearly and intelligently laid out some helpful tips here for those without extensive knowledge of strings and how to use them. I'm sure you've got a lot of other ideas/textures for strings, too! I'll check out some of your other videos as well. I wish you continued success and fulfillment. - with ardent appreciation for both the music maker and the music lover, Tom Kersey
I do not think midi can enunciate a string.
Great lesson, thankyou very much!
great tutorial! thanks a lot
Hi, I just changed the voicing of the chords to create some variation and to try to get both a fluent and melodic line in each part. There's no right or wrong way to do it, but plenty of choices!
Very helpful, thanks
Very helpful please make more!
Got You..Thanks. I was confused for a while trying to find out the difference. Some cases It seems like a thin line.
Thanks for the reply Pete... keep making that good music my guy! :)
very nice and helpful
Nice lesson!!
thank you very much for your reply. I have one more question. How can I split them in to section for example if my song is CM7. How can I split them to viola, contra bass and so on and keep improvising notes? What specific notes do each instruments play?
Hey-o! I'm a relatively noobish digital orchestral composer, and while your advice applied sounded kind of strange on my string soundfont (freeware; what can you do?) it was absolutely fantastic advice on creating chords and a stable melody in general for more calming pieces.
I tend to find that music with more erratic and predictable motions reflect well on high energy situations of deep sadness or epic sounds, whilst more complex but flowing movements help take that and tone it down a notch. Probably because you have to spend slightly more time considering what you're hearing.
Wonderful tutorial nonetheless~
Thank you, this is very helpful!
thank you very much,my friend lend me a cello,would learning a cello be less effective? and for the keyboard for chord voicing,it cannot play a chord with two same note at the same time,is it a better way that i should think and play violin 1 and 2 separately instead of playing a chord?
Really interesting!