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 Arranging is composing without the royalties.  Arranging isn’t voicings. If the band guesses what’s coming up next you’re ok but if the audience does, you’re screwed. Play each part in the score on your ax. It should flow. If you’re a keyboard player, start singing, take up a monophonic instrument, or put your left hand in your pocket. Your mind has no chop problems or limitations, it favors no key center, it flows linearly not vertically; trust it. Always charge dancers double and singers triple. Eventually you’ll know what I mean. There are no rules except your ear. Get the job and then figure how to write it later. Always get a deposit no matter how little. If the singer wants it in Ab, use the computer ‘cause it will end up in G, A, Bb, or B. Anybody’s writing can sound good with an orchestra, but a quartet is a bitch. Check out what the old guys did without sequencers then use your ears more than your machines. Listen to Bill Holman. Don’t force it... go to sleep and it will be there in the morning. |
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