Music Composition DUMmIES

Getting the Sounds You Want ..................................................................... Getting the sound you want goe ...

Stringed instruments ......................................................................... Because the bow (or pick, in the ...

Any guitar player knows that playing several down picks in a row sounds dif- ferent than picking up and down alternately (Figure ...

The slur indicates a legato style of connecting the notes. You could play the same first series of four notes on a single bow st ...

There are many more indications for string players. Con legno means to play with the wooden side of the bow; Pizzicato(sometimes ...

Remember that without some kind of indication of how you want a part to be played, you will probably spend a lot of time (and po ...

Chapter 15 Composing for the Nonstandard Orchestra In This Chapter
Getting to the bottom of basses
Strumming along with guitar ...

guitar, or keyboard to pull off, because these instruments are all very fast and expressive. Range is another factor that fades ...

musician, such as, for example, Reid Anderson of The Bad Plus, and you have a sound that combines both the deep, resonating tone ...

What it is really good for, though, is accompanying a lead line of a song. In this setting, the rich sound of an acoustic bass s ...

Acoustic guitar.................................................................................... Because an acoustic guitar i ...

Twelve-string guitar ........................................................................... A twelve-string guitar is much ...

Steel guitars are not tuned like conventional guitars, either, and each kind of steel guitar has its own specific tuning, which ...

graduated glass bowls and champagne glasses that one would rub a wet finger along the rim of to produce a clear, ringing tone. F ...

extremely popular for, classical pieces, with its fast action lending it nicely to “party pieces” such as “The Flight of the Bum ...

196 Part IV: Orchestration and Arrangement ...

Chapter 16 Chapter 16: Composing for Multiple Voices................................................................ In This Cha ...

Tuba” by Paul Tripp and George Keinsinger. In this composition, several instruments take on personalities as the Tuba seeks some ...

Another idea might be for one voice to move and the other to stay a little more stationary. This is known as block harmony. In F ...

Ideas such as these can work well if your intention is to convey rhythmic and tonal interdependence between the two voices. In t ...