Pete whitfield's Blog (23)

It's not composing, it's not recording, it's not even performing. It's a thing in between!

Most of my work involves arranging and recording strings. But some orchestration and score preparation comes my way too. It's an enormously satisfying part of the music making business, not least when I

get to attend and help out at the orchestral sessions which have taken

me to studios all over Europe.

I had a go at a YouTube vid about score prep a long while…

The creative and technical process of making music is fascinating and I wish more musicians would expose their own professional practice.

Here’s my short contribution – a video that explores how I came to put strings on Rhymefest’s song ‘Letter’ and some suggestions about how to approach arranging strings.

I am an entirely amateur video maker who believes video is such a great communicator! I’m using Snapz Pro to make screen shots and Final Cut Express…

What does a song look like? If you could represent the shape, character and feel of a song graphically, how would it look?

I’ve played around with this concept for a while; it’s something that helps me, as an arranger, to get inside music and understand how it

works. I’m interested in getting a clear vision of musical form

because as we listen to music, we hear only the moment, and while we are

aware of what has gone before and we anticipate what is to come,…