Arranging Pop Horns Explained

Do you need horn parts for your Pop songs and productions? Well Eli Krantzberg shows you just what you need to know to create killer horn section parts for both real horns or MIDI programmed horns!

Videos
Introduction (03:40) - Get an overview of what will be covered in this course.
Unison & Octave Doubling (10:06) - Get a sense of the flavour and ranges of each of the main brass and woodwind instruments as they are doubled in various combinations, playing a simple riff either in unison or an octave apart.
Harmonizing in Thirds (08:44) - Explore various settings using two wind instruments harmonized in thirds.
Harmonizing in Sixths (07:49) - Hear what two note voicings sound like when parts are voiced a sixth apart. And then hear the result of doubling each of these parts with other instruments.
Thirds & Sevenths (08:19) - Learn how to work with two horn voicings using the third and seventh degrees of underlying chord progressions.
Three Note Voicings (12:03) - See how the two note voicings from the last video are enhanced with "color notes"; extensions to the basic chords, that create a richer sounding harmony. Hear the contrast between open voicings, where the three voices are spread apart, versus close voicings, where they are all within the same octave. And explore the use of triadic harmony, where the third, fifth, and seventh degrees of the scale are used to outline the chords, rather than the root, third, and fifth.
Four Note Closed Position Voicings (12:56) - Explore various instrumentation and approaches to "closed" voicings when creating parts for four horns.
Drop 2 Voicings (11:07) - Explore the more open sound of Drop 2 horn voicings where the second part is dropped down an octave, resulting in chords spread out over a wider range.
Working with Five Horns (13:22) - Discover the use of wide open voicings, fourths, splitting the horns so they aren't all playing together, and combining different voicings to create a unified arrangement.