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by Don Chapman
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Super Tuesday 2008 was especially super for
me - I was in Nashville recording strings
for Chris Sligh's major label debut with
producer Brown Bannister.
Brown has won 25 Dove Awards and 14 Grammy
awards and has produced all the top names
in Christian music.
One of my favorite things is arranging orchestra
for pop music, and usually I just do what
is called a "MIDI mockup" - emulating
a real orchestra with synthesizer on my computer.
I did this on Half Past Forever's "Take
a Chance On Something Beautiful" (Chris's
band.) |
However, with a major label budget, real
string players were hired. These days, even
major label budgets are tight, so a full
string section was affordable. With the fantastic
sounds of today's synths, you can achieve
quite a beautiful, realistic string sound
using synths and only a few players - dubbing
them over and mixing in digital strings.
The day of the session Chris and I were like
little kids on Christmas morning - it was
thrilling to hear some of the finest session
players in the world record music that he
had written and I had arranged. An added
treat was meeting renowned cellist John Catchings.
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