hi everyone,
I've been trying to orchestrate this new piece of mine. The chords and melody are all done. However, since I am not yet a good orchestrator, I am having troubles with my trombone sections and my cellos.
Ok.
I have my 3 trombones playing a C major chord root position going to a Ab major chord 1st inversion. The root of that C major chord being C2 (midi).
G Ab
E Eb
C C
I want my doublebasses to always play the roots of those chords. So they'll play:
C1 Ab1 (reason i did not go up to Ab2 is to sorta respect the common practice rules of basses not jumping higher than a 5th) (but tell me if it's ok to do that)
Now the problem comes with cellos (since i am not yet a good orchestrator).
Should I just double the basses an octave higher? which would overlap the C in the first chord. Or should I divide the cellos in half and play some of the notes played by the trombones?...which would then not require the cellos to always play the roots.
Thanks everyone
I've been trying to orchestrate this new piece of mine. The chords and melody are all done. However, since I am not yet a good orchestrator, I am having troubles with my trombone sections and my cellos.
Ok.
I have my 3 trombones playing a C major chord root position going to a Ab major chord 1st inversion. The root of that C major chord being C2 (midi).
G Ab
E Eb
C C
I want my doublebasses to always play the roots of those chords. So they'll play:
C1 Ab1 (reason i did not go up to Ab2 is to sorta respect the common practice rules of basses not jumping higher than a 5th) (but tell me if it's ok to do that)
Now the problem comes with cellos (since i am not yet a good orchestrator).
Should I just double the basses an octave higher? which would overlap the C in the first chord. Or should I divide the cellos in half and play some of the notes played by the trombones?...which would then not require the cellos to always play the roots.
Thanks everyone