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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...

Piano Sketch to Strings

Why start with a Piano Sketch?

Get ideas down quickly
Piano Sketches enable you to compose quickly, getting ideas down fast, without
having to go searching for say a staccato Cello patch when you're thinking of
adding low strings.

Whole orchestral range at your fingers
You also have the whole range...