The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99424   Message #1980731
Posted By: wysiwyg
27-Feb-07 - 09:21 AM
Thread Name: Add Horns or Winds to Folk Arrangement?
Subject: Add Horns or Winds to Folk Arrangement?
If I am creating a chordsheet arrangement for stringed instruments, can I also create one for horn and/or woodwind players that will work for them?

Will we be limited to certain keys (and/or modes), and if so which ones for the strings and which ones for the winds and brass?

Do the horns and winds have the SAME key "requirements"?

I've had brass players try to explain this all to me in depth in music theory terms, and my mind glazed over. I just want to know if it is feasible to add these to what we do, and if so what I need to do as our arranger to facilitate it. There ARE some players in the area that I KNOW sit in, informally, with other players-- I just don't know who is having to adjust to whom, so I don't know how big a request it would be if I were to invite someone to jam with us.

I think this is analogous to some threads we've had about guitars and melodeons playing together?

~Confused but Interested