Part 1: Why Nick Drake String Arrangements are so Popular. . .
The music of Nick Drake is now (almost 40 years after his premature death in 1974) more popular than it ever was in his lifetime. […]
Read More →The music of Nick Drake is now (almost 40 years after his premature death in 1974) more popular than it ever was in his lifetime. […]
Read More →‘New Age’ or Relaxation Music, like all music intended as a background ambience, can elicit very mixed responses from different people. Whilst some find the […]
Read More →Yesterday, we popped into RAK Studios in St John’s Wood to record string quartet parts for a band who wanted to enhance their track with […]
Read More →Occasionally we receive enquiries from people who would like parts written or a string arrangement for a pop track but on listening to the track, […]
Read More →This is a technique reserved for the most skillful players and when executed rapidly and cleanly, up and down bow staccato can have a mesmerising […]
Read More →The literal definition of the Italian word ‘Rubato’ is ‘robbed time’, which doesn’t seem to be a particularly attractive way of describing something that adds […]
Read More →To begin with, a Cadenza is not something a string arranger would usually write into an average 3 minute pop song or rock track but […]
Read More →Col Legno (meaning ‘with the wood’) is a special technique where the main wooden stick of the bow is tapped against the string – this […]
Read More →Counterpoint is the art of writing individual parts that have complete melodic independence from one another yet work in harmony and compliment each other perfectly. […]
Read More →Despite the title, todays blog entry is nothing to do with bicycles…. 🙂 A pedal note is where the bottom note of a chord (the […]
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