Tartini, Tones and the Beat
The celebrated Italian Violinist and composer Guiseppe Tartini (1692-1770) has been credited in discovering the phenomenon of an audible ‘third voice’ when playing double stops […]
Read More →The celebrated Italian Violinist and composer Guiseppe Tartini (1692-1770) has been credited in discovering the phenomenon of an audible ‘third voice’ when playing double stops […]
Read More →This weekend, we were asked to record the strings on two songs for a talented singer songwriter who is producing her own album of melodic […]
Read More →This weekend was quite full with two separate recording sessions of a contrasting nature. In the first, I had been given the brief of notating […]
Read More →Although some clients who require string parts arranging for their tracks just give the string arranger ‘free rein’ to compose the parts in their own […]
Read More →When a string player refers to an ‘open string’ it means that one of the four strings is being played without the left hand fingers […]
Read More →All the members of the family of instruments in the string section (excluding the double bass) are tuned in fifths. This means that (including the […]
Read More →One of the most important things to get right when arranging strings for a pop track (or even rock or folk) track is having the […]
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