SECRET MAP🗺️ for SHORT STRING patches? Articulation walkthrough with REAL CELLIST!
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Enjoy a new episode in which Alex is joined once again by our beloved cellist Clara. Together they explore the various types of short notes a string instrument can produce, and how they are categorized, named, and notated.
Virtual Orchestration is a collaboration between Berklee College of Music (Boston, USA) and Orchestral Tools (Berlin, Germany).
A big warm thank you to Clara Baesecke and her cello 🎻 for supporting us on this episode.
More infos on her and her Ensemble Mosatrïc here: www.mosatric.com
----- Contents of the Video -----------------------------------------------------------
00:00 - Too many short string patches ?
01:09 - Spiccato
05:04 - Ricochet
05:48 - Staccato
06:17 - Marcato
07:22 - Martelé
08:12 - Portato
09:32 - Detaché
10:13 - Pizzicato
11:44 - Snap/Bartók Pizzicato
12:16 - Col legno
13:26 - Saltando
13:58 - Outro
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Video creation credits:
Script / video concept 📜 : Alex Lamy, Eduard Flemmer
Script Consultation 🔍: Sascha Knorr, Hendrik Schwarzer
Camera 🎥 and Editing ✂️ : Fabián Barba Hallal
Motion graphics 🎨 : Michael Logar
Production Assistant 🎬 : Aleksi Oksanen
Thank you yet again! I will say that the biggest thing missing from the ones and zeroes of a virtual orchestra is the sheer joy of the performer. Clara is a delight!
I simply love to see this interaction between someone coming from “sample land” and a “real” musician. Clara seems like a sweet and positive young lady, she has patience and is open and inviting towards answering all these “nerdy” questions and showing how it translates to actual playing on her instrument. Well done the both of you 🙂👍
This series is AMAZING!!! Using the patches is one thing, but knowing what those articulations actually mean in real life is another, especially for someone who is not classically trained in orchestral stuff.
Thank you guys for this
Thank You Very Much!
🙂🙏
Wonderful video and thanks again to Clara. You foreshadowed responding to my comment on your last video about short articulations and you delivered in spades! Can’t wait to see the follow up.
Amazing content, please do it for every single instrument of the orchestra! Something that might be useful to know to understand better the difference between Martele, which literally means to hammer in English, and Marcato, is that Martele it’s a note with a strong attack and consistent intensity throughout the duration of the note. Marcato is not specific to strings, and it means to mark the note with emphasis. Again this is probably the result of years of sample libraries naming stuff wrong. Like some libraries call Marcato the patch with fast and agile legato, go figure.
Wonderful! Can't wait for the next vid! 🤩🤩
And the next vid can't wait for your commment 👀
So well done! Thank you!
Well, Donovan, thank you so much for your comment.
You had great chemistry. Fantastic content.
As someone mentioned below, it's interesting how Clara says she never sees indications for spiccato, staccatissimo, etc. in her actual performance work (3:28). And yet, we virtual orchestrators spend so much time obsessing over how many articulations we have (or don't have) in our sample libraries. (But. I get it -- you have to tell the computer what you specifically want.)
Well, yeah, a machine / box works a little different than a wonderful and talented musician. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on that, Kevin.
Intro 0:00
Spiccato 1:09
Ricochet 5:04
Staccato 5:48
Marcato 6:17
Martelé 7:22
Portato 8:12
Detaché 9:32
Pizzicato 10:13
Snap* Pizzicato 11:44
Col legno 12:16
Saltando 13:26
End 13:58
*Also called Bartók Pizzicato
@Felipe. Thank you so much for your effort and taking the time to mache chapters. It's really cool you helped us out with that. Best wishes to you.
Thank You🙏
I would have liked to have this channel 10 years ago when I was studying! So much answers to a lot of my questions! Thanks so much, please keep making videos!
Well, we are sorry that we can't provide you with time travels (yet). So long, you will have to live with the content being created here and now. Thank you for your wonderful comment.
It will be interesting to see all those techniques applied to a melody
Hey Gaby, thank you for the comment. We're keen to show you what Clara and Alex have in store in part 2.
I was waiting for this video soooo loooong 😂
Well, now it's heeeeere 😉
Great video with one of the best explanations of articulations in general. A guide for us creators of mockups to choose the right "boxes".
Cheers, Jens! The next video has a much more genuine application of choosing the right boxes, hope you enjoy that too when it’s out next week 👍🏻
Well technically a > is an accent on the beginning of the note followed by a quick decrease in dynamic. Whereas ^ is a sustained accent where the note must remain at the same dynamic. > is the most common and ^ should be reserved for particularly dramatic moments, such as a long sustained or endings. However, the same can be achieved by just putting a higher dynamic on the note. Sfz also usually sounds like a >.
Hello guys!
Thank you very much for providing this lesson. The topic of instrumentation is very interesting and challenging!
I hope that at the end of this topic we will look at Organ.
Good luck to you!
Hey Yaroslav. To be honest, we haven't planned on doing a video on the Organ (yet), but we may consider that now that you've mentioned it. Good luck to you too =)
Thank you to illustrate. It would be nice to have short passages of music demonstrating those effects, it is hard to hear those effects without context. Having an AB sample/human comparison also would be nice.
The follow up video to this does just that 👍🏻
I go through a short piece written to showcases short notes, and then I program it up with samples afterwards.
Very cool (and useful) video to start the week! Keep it up! 🙂
Well, Baptiste. Thank you. We hope you will have more wonderful starts of the week with our videos 😉
Another great tutorial, thank you. I really do over think articulations to the detriment of actually composing.
Hey Mark, thank you for your nice comment. Yeah, sometimes it can be causing you a headache to think about the right articualtions. But, wouldn't you agree that it is also a part of the process of composing ?
@Virtual Orchestration true. Like any musical instrument, it takes years of practise to sound good.....dialing in sample library articulations is no different to when I was first learning to play the French horn.
Such a fabulous video. Well done guys!!!
Hey Andrew, we appreciate your comment. Thank you.
8:00 "martelé" is a french word 🙂 it comes from "hammer" so you can imagine how strong the accent is 😅
Love from France 🇨🇵
I loved this. Being a guitarist, I found trying to program something like Shreddage difficult because there are a lot of little things I do that I didn’t have the language to program in or that samples just can’t do. Then with strings there was this whole other vocabulary. It’s reassuring to see and hear that this disconnect occurs with other instruments as well.
Great information. Up 'til now, I always took "portato" to be a potato cooked in port, which made my music orchestrations rather odd.
Once again a fantastic video, many thanks to you! 🙏❤ It is so extremely helpful to know what we should look for in the mockups for the most authentic "play". Interesting that Clara rather rarely has to deal with these terms like spiccato and so on. I am very much looking forward to the second part. Best regards from Berlin, Frank
Thank you, Frank. Yeah, it is rather funny that pro players do not always use the same terms that we find in sample world. Hopefully you will also enjoy the second part of the video and find the information useful. Best regards to the neighbourhood.
You bet! 😃Thank you! 🙏
Fantastic video! I enjoy the results of this series very much so far. Keep it up!
Thank you, Sascha. This really means a lot to the entire VO creation team.
a very good idea to ask a real player about the real articulations they see. One question what about sforzando sfz and sfortato sf in the short notes choices? Especially in realation to Marcato.
Hey Mavros, thank you for asking. We will forward that question to @clarabaesecke3113.
Yeah good question... I would again say: no clear boxes... sf, sfz, >, ^, marcato etc. all kind of overlap and it really depends on the context. Composers have used them very differently over the centuries and it's part of a musician's job to figure out, or make an individual artistic choice how to bring them to life!
#short harmonics as well
Got some of those in the next video! 😉
But, funnily enough I think that’s one of those ‘sample boxes’ we have. Harmonics are just a note, the articulation can be staccato, spiccato, or marcato (and so on) still. We just tend to only see long and short harmonics in the world of samples.
Haha yes so true... I was almost about to ask: What is a short harmonic? Some technique that I haven't heard of? ;)
Speaking or short harmonics, our two protagonists of the video re-meet shortly and in harmony here in the comments section. How great is that ?
this channel is dope and all but lads you gotta figure out your titles lmao, looks like a spammy scam in some comment section
Hey Jona, thank you for your comment. Which title would you suggest ?
@@virtual.orchestration anything with less caps and emoji, i feel like this over the top title doesn't fit the topic at all. tbh i think something simple and to the the point like "applied orchestration - how to work with short string articulations" would suit the channel much better. this title feels both like i'm being tricked into something and is also just confusing, had i not seen the channel name i would have no clue what to make of it
Completely agree. Short, concise titles may not attract as many views, but the end goal of these videos is to educate, not get clicks. Though doing both doesn’t hurt.
@@virtual.orchestration I think the caps are probably fine, but the emojis are too much. I think the first video on the channel--balancing sonic prospective--is the perfect amount of attention grabbing but not utterly insane. I think something formal like the "applied orchestration" another commentator suggested is too much like every other music channel out there. But that's just my two cents. Beyond Realism also has a good title imo.
@@clark5317 yeah agreed, caps are fine and probably necessary. I just feel like especially since their goal is probably more towards attracting professional musicians that have the cash to buy the OT libraries, who you attract and repel may be a lot more relevant than mere numbers.