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 Arranging isn't voicings. Once you understand the difference between orchestration and voicing, the sooner you start to develop an identity or sound of your own. Voicing is just that, a group of notes stacked together to create a unique presentation of a chord change. Close, open, cluster, unison, octaves, whatever, that's all they are. Gil wouldn't sound like Gil if it weren't for his choice of instruments assigned to specific notes of a voicing. So if you're sitting at a piano for hours holding down different combinations of keys, don't assume this to be the end result, hear those notes as instruments. This is assuming that you're not a hummer (LA term) and you're doing your own orchestration. The arranger's art is as much about instrument assignment as it is about voicing. There was a time when we had the luxury of doing a 6 line sketch and giving the arrangement to an orchestrator who knew his craft and understood your direction and style. But today we are forced to wear the hat of arranger and orchestrator so its hard to separate the two sometimes. |
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