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Percussion - the best section to write for?

The percussion section is an extremely versatile family of instruments. Equally capable of adding a light sprinkling of fairy dust to a Strings and Woodwinds piece, or providing the rhythmic energy and movement to an action cue accompanying a car chase.

Many people struggle writing for percussion...

Orchestration in the style of Danny Elfman's Edward Scissorhands

I would like to show you something I have been working on over the last few days. I'm going to show you step by step how you could take a simple 8 bar melody and orchestrate it in the style of the End Credits from 'Edward Scissorhands' by Danny Elfman. Here's a link to the track which I used as...