7 Must-Know Voicing Techniques to Enhance Your String Writing
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- Wondering how to make your strings sound dark, light, full, or delicate? In this video, I share my seven essential voicing techniques, giving you solid foundations for your string writing. These fundamentals, and the various details I will go over in my video, will help you understand the different implications of the various sub-groups of the string orchestra. Enjoy!
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0:00 Introduction
0:47 #1 Dark and Dense
3:46 #2 Full and Large
7:34 #3 Small
9:45 #4 Small but with Support
11:51 #5 Light
14:33 #6 Emphasis on the Melody
16:35 #7 Melody with extra color
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Do you think there are some basic voicing types I didn't mention? Let me know in the comments!
Can i ask if you purposely didnt overlap the notes in the piece (ie no legato) ......or is it the daw or string library you're using doesn't require you to overlap the notes to create legato...or did you puposely not want any lines to be played legato ?
Very interesting!
Glad this helped 😊
Toujours aussi intéressant. Merci de partager ce savoir. Peut- être un jour un tuto sur la façon de programmer les Vsti ?
Merci Pierre! Je donne d’ailleurs un cours de simulation MIDI orchestrale à l’Université de Montréal cet automne, j’en profiterai pour vous en partager du contenu!
Thank you so much. *Sigh*, this is gold even if it "only" touches more of the choral like string writing. Just the first example is beautiful (the rest of course, too). Not only dark, but hopeless, sad, suffering. I'm currently disovering the violas a bit more. I love their grittyness in the lowest octave especially for aggressive ostinatos.
I rarely use divisi. I'm not sure how to implement it in the DAW with my strings library (CSS). I just lower the expression about 20-30% on the divisi tracks.
Thanks for your comment, and glad this is helping. You can use these voicings and expand them by adding counterpoint to the lines, or doing short marcato notes. The important thing about this lesson here is the register of the instruments and the distance between the notes.
Although I didn’t do this here and although it might not work with every sound libraries, I usually record two violin 1 lines, playing together in the tutti parts and each one doing a note when divisi. It’s the only way to have a natural divisi sound with a sample library, since lowering expression doesn’t change the timbre, but only the volume of a sound. This technique might although lead to having too big of a sound if you already have a patch that sound large.
Keep going! Your Instructions are great.
18:34 The example is muted... Please check it!
Thanks a lot!
Oops you’re right, it’s the same as 16:45. Thanks for pointing this out!
Salut Alexandre! Très bon vidéo. Il n’y a pas de son pour le dernier exemple la 2e fois (à la toute fin). Mais tu dois déjà le savoir…
Oui merci on me l’a déjà soulevé ! Tu peux l’entendre à 16:45, c’est le même :)
@@adavidcompo Oui, et ça sonne très bien! Est-ce que tu donnes des cours privés? Je demande ça pour un ami... 😏
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That first bar in the violas is not playable in double stops (not the first beat at least).
Only the first beat, the rest can be played double stops no problem. it was just an example to talk about div versus non div, I didn’t meant to be like : this excerpt would be perfect for double stops
Some solide advice here. Thanks!
Thanks a lot!
no audio at 18:35. My string parts look a lot like #7 to wrap a choir and usually an organ.
Thanks! Yes, sorry, not sure why it didn’t export with the video, it’s the same as the one at 16:45!
It’s a very efficient way to voice the strings and to integrate chords to a melody!
It’s interesting to consider these voicing in regard to other parts, like a choir part. You can wrap a choir like you say, but you can also support only it’s lower register, or add brightness to a group of baritone’s notes by including some higher notes in the violins.
Is this D minor? I'd like to see the chord changes so i know what the harmony is.
Yes it’s in D minor, here’s the chord progression :
D min, C maj, F maj
G min, D min
A min