Comments on: Arranging for Co-Ed Groups 0 : The colors! http://www.portamental.com Fluidity of Mind and Music Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:03:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: liz garnett http://www.portamental.com/a-cappella-arranging/advanced-explorations/arranging-for-co-ed-groups-0-the-colors/comment-page-1/#comment-67 liz garnett Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:29:26 +0000 http://www.smartermusic.us/?page_id=1391#comment-67 This bit: "trying to write the world every time will drain you (as the arranger) and make your arrangements clunky and forced (thus draining your singers and audiences). Assume you’ll get another commission, and know that you can put in a crazy idea another time" needs to be said to *every* arranger just starting out. I think it's partly because arranging is a slow process when you're new at it that people put in way too much stuff. It's easy to forget that in real time the effects will sound 10 seconds apart, rather than the 2 hours between them the arranger experienced while working on the chart. This bit:
“trying to write the world every time will drain you (as the arranger) and make your arrangements clunky and forced (thus draining your singers and audiences). Assume you’ll get another commission, and know that you can put in a crazy idea another time”

needs to be said to *every* arranger just starting out. I think it’s partly because arranging is a slow process when you’re new at it that people put in way too much stuff. It’s easy to forget that in real time the effects will sound 10 seconds apart, rather than the 2 hours between them the arranger experienced while working on the chart.

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