![]() And then, what would make me still special and stand out? While I am not particularly 100% that way, but there is a portion of my brain that thinks that if I do share certain things that I do, I would be giving away all my secrets and suddenly everyone else would be making music just like mine. And that’s perfectly reasonable and understandable. Secret? Well, to be perfectly honest with you, there are a lot of composers out there who do not like to divulge their secrets of orchestrating – because that is what makes their music uniquely their’s. I suppose that depends a lot on the composer’s style. I think to some people, orchestrating is this secret and complex thing that a small percentage of musicians actually know how to do. ![]() How do you write parts for all those different instruments? How do you know which instruments are going to play which parts? In the midst of doing so, the topic does seem to be one that I end up discussing quite a lot – either within my family, or with colleagues. I’ve been spending a lot of time lately orchestrating some of my music for my upcoming album. ![]() *Originally written April 2011 – Recently updated January 2014*
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