7 Must-Know Voicing Techniques to Enhance Your String Writing

Wondering how to make your strings sound dark, light, full, or delicate? In this video, I share my seven essential voicing techniques, giving you solid foundations for your string writing. These fundamentals, and the various details I will go over in my video, will help you understand the different implications of the various sub-groups of the string orchestra. Enjoy!

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0:00 Introduction
0:47 #1 Dark and Dense
3:46 #2 Full and Large
7:34 #3 Small
9:45 #4 Small but with Support
11:51 #5 Light
14:33 #6 Emphasis on the Melody
16:35 #7 Melody with extra color

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