Originally Posted By: PeterF
Stefan

Loved it - inventive amusing and a great sounding band.

Those horns are great - (any tips on writing/arranging them?).

A great fun listen.

Peter


Hi Peter,

I'm glad you enjoyed the song - thanks for your kind words.

As to the horns arrangements - I'm afraid that this is not a miraculous tip:

I finish the song then arrange the horns in the piano roll. No keyboard, just the PR. Try this, try that, maybe discard what I wrote the day before and so on. Sometimes this is done in a jiffy, sometimes it takes a week before I'm really convinced that the arrangement fits the song. But that goes for the entire songs anyway...).

The only real tip I have: If you're going to write a multi-instrument horns arrangement start with trumpets writing the full voicing in one window. Afterwards you can decide wether you want to use just one instrument (like I did with HONEY = 4 trumpets) or split the arrangement into e.g. the typical horn section /tb, ts, tp). In that case just copy the original MIDI track (with the 3 or 4 trumpets) into new tracks, assign the instruments you want and then simply delete all the notes that must be played by the other instruments. Sounds a bit tedious? Not that bad, you'll get faster with every new song.

Take care,

Stefan

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