
Originally Posted by
jsrnephdoc
...make the pipes sound like a cello, or a cello sound like the pipes...
We had a large family next door, they had at any given time a half-dozen kids learning a like number of different instruments. We got to hear what absolute beginners sound like on every orchestral instrument.
What was amazing was how, at the very start, they all sound more similar than one might think.
One day I was listening to one kid making his/her first noises on something, and for the life of my I couldn't figure out what. Oh, not only what instrument, but whether it was string, brass, or woodwind!

Originally Posted by
jsrnephdoc
...don't bother linking if you're not an orchestral music lover...
It's cool to see an orchestra do that.
Stuff like that can happen with Studio musicians (doing film scores, playing on albums, etc.)
Usually you show up and there's a music stand with your part written out.
But sometimes there isn't. You might have a Lead Sheet. Or not even that, and the songwriter/composer will hum something so you have a general idea of what he's after, especially if he doesn't read music.
And sometimes there's no guidance at all, and you have to create something out of thin air on the spot.
They'll play what they have on the track already (maybe a "scratch" rhythm track and "scratch" vocals) and you listen in your headphones and improvise something.
Of if it's a film they'll run the scene and you just make something up you think fits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aXK...&start_radio=1
I've done all of those permutations. That's the thing, when you show up at the Studio you never know what you're in for.
Last edited by OC Richard; 30th August 25 at 03:28 AM.
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