UP FRONT Sectio : Scorig ad Arragig or the Pit Layig out the score Letʼs start ith a lak slate At this oit, you eed to ko hat tye o euimet you are orkig ith, the setu, ho may layers are i the esemle ad their aility levels No you ca lay out the score age While there are several ays to lay out the score, it ill hel you kee track o your layers i you create oe sta lie er layer I you have 8 layers i the it, create 8 searate staves to accommodate them Here are the to most ovious ays to do this: Creatig a ersoalized sta or each layer This method is most aroriate i you rotate your layers to dieret istrumets throughout the sho It also orks ell i you have a strog koledge o your layerʼs caailities By creatig a ersoalized sta or each layer, you are creatig a custom made art or them This ill hel you to rite or the stregths ad eakesses o the esemle Also, aytime you at to address a certai layer durig rehearsal, youʼll ko exactly here to locate their sta lie o the score Check out igure A, ad youʼll see the staves amed ater each layer i the it I order to kee track o ho is layig o hat istrumet, itʼs iortat that you create laels i the music to idicate hat istrumet is eig used Kim Tom Aimee Kate Nate Kriste U s s s aaaaaa sss aaa a a s aaaaaaaa a aaa s e mmmmmm mmmmmmmm mmm m mmm Xylo e V Steve Mike / Slash Muted BD Sare Drum Figure A: Pit score sale rom SCV s oeer i the year 000 To urchase U Frot lease visit tasacecom 181
UP FRONT Sectio : Scorig ad Arragig or the Pit Havig each sta lie rereset mai istrumets I ay rot esemle score, youʼll id there are rimary istrumets hich are used or the maority o the sho I arragig scores or the Vaguard, our mai voices are: virahoes, loa marimas, tiai, glockesiel, xylohoe, ad ercussio These ie staves corise the rot esemle score O course, eʼll use other istrumets throughout the sho; these are sily our mai voices Whe settig u your score i this maer, itʼs customary to list the high itched istrumets o to ad the lo itched istrumets o the ottom This is airly commo i ercussio esemle literature ad makes it easier to uickly locate a certai istrumet i the score Figure B is a exale o this age setu Notice you still eed to lael ay istrumet chages that may occur alog the ay s s l s e aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa a mmmmmmmmmmmmm m e e e e Figure B: 00 Pit score Each sta reresets a dieret mai istrumet O ages 788, e discussed dieret ays that the it ca e set u I you are usig the od style setu, each od ill eed its o sta lie o the score Perhas you have a marima ith a glockesiel mouted o the rot, lus a cocert tom, tele locks, to suseded cymals, a chia cymal, ad a slash cymal This is more o a multiercussio setu As log as you ko hat istrumets are availale to each layer o their sta, you are armed ith all the iormatio you eed to start ritig I you are usig a atihoal or slit setu you ill at to grou together the istrumets rom each side i the score For exale, all o the istrumets o side oe o the it ill e i the to hal o the score ad all o the istrumets o side to ill e o the ottom hal o the score 18 To urchase U Frot lease visit tasacecom
UP FRONT Sectio : Scorig ad Arragig or the Pit Formulatig your ideas Formulatig your ideas is erhas the most iortat ste i the arragig rocess This is the time to thik through all o your otios Whe ritig or such a diverse istrumetatio, itʼs easy to get carried aay ad overrite It ca e eually tetig to sily mirror the arts o the id layers, resultig i a score that doesʼt colemet the overall ackage The olloig ages ill guide you i geeratig ad orgaizig your ideas ito score orm No the u egis! The Phrase Chart The irst ste i the orgaizatio rocess is creatig a hrase chart This chart ill iclude a geeral aalysis o hat the ids ad attery ercussio are layig durig each hrase This chart ill allo you to see the igger icture ad lo o the etire chart From here you ca start to ormulate ideas or the itʼs role Iormatio i your chart may e as vague as metal colors, har eects, strig arts rom origial, tacet, or as seciic as sketchig i rhythms ad itches Phrase Name o couts Teo Meter Percussio Notes Wid Notes Origial Recordig Other Notes Lo rass lay tromoe melody couteroit 1 QN=180 s/ Bass ostiato, sare/teor colors Vie/ Mellos lay slit ostiato estrig/lute Mar sulemet ostiato eel /8ths couteroit igure Lo Brass e tromoe o melody mai melody Cotiue eel, lead ito ext hrase ith 1A 1 cotiue as aove ecotiue as aove agroth Melodic accets distriuted throughout 1 Mellos take over trom melodyecotiue as aove aattery es etrom still carryig melody, agaist eel or variety, the melodic Sos take over melody, mellos A 18 etruet addig more motio uild to iact o hrase cover movig truet lie udereath 1 0 A B 1 7 / s a m l e Add decedig lourishes i keys ad BD s, otherise ull Brig it ack do a it, cyms cresc lead ito hrase A /sizz ru Xylo/teor 1th ost, choirs o vie/mar to simulate so couteroit Tiai, old /lo rass statemet ostiatos cotiue, hile attery suorts melodic accets Full esemle Uiso iacts i rhythm /rass Bass rush texture or e eel, S /mids, Teor /aris, ass /rass reeter, all add ito uild Full out, all sectios Sos cover 8th ote couteroit as ostiato to setu ext hrase mellos sustai hor art Lo rass trom statemet over the to o so 8th ote ostiato Full esemle Rhythm iacts Modulate key or etter ugle rage So trio (9 cts), Midhor trio (9 cts), Baritoe trio (9 cts) 1 Sare reak tacet erc eature N/A Rich harmoies, musical arrival oit Truet couteroit ostiato, leded strig 1ths ith lute/clar lourishes Cotiues as aove / tromoe addig BIG melodic statemet over the to Arrival oit o tesio uild Hors had theme o to muted tr, the had o to uer, had o to strig MEAS PHRASES Figure C: Phrase chart rom a ortio o Barer s Syhoy No 1 ad No roductio rom 1999 1st to ars, ercussio sets u e teo Halt iact statemet 9+9+9+9+9+1 Build/aricate iact at ed o hrase To urchase U Frot lease visit tasacecom 18
189 UP FRONT Sectio : Scorig ad Arragig or the Pit To add a melodic voice or couteroit to the musical esemle This arragemet rom the 00 SCV sho is rom a chamer iece or 1 strig layers The rass arts (as see here) used all o the material rom the origial score; leavig othig or the it For our eeds o the ield, this as a it orig So the vies took the lead o to o this material y layig a augmeted melodic theme Notice the attery layig a very suortive, accoaimetal role so as to ot get i the ay This is a case here the it is scored to take the lead, hoever itʼs leded ito the overall esemle or a more holistic soud Otetimes, itʼs ust as easy to have the other sectios sily tacet or these tyes o hrases This as a istace hoever, here e eeded the eergy o a more ully orchestrated eel For this reaso, the melody is limited to metallic keyoards hile accoaimetal elemets still exist i the marimas, tiai, ad ercussio Figure G: Pit takes the lead over rass i this exale rom the 00 closer / µ / To urchase U Frot lease visit tasacecom
UP FRONT Sectio : Scorig ad Arragig or the Pit Coosig Rus What ould drum cors e ithout some high seed rus o the keyoards Practicig all summer log, today s it erormers ca iish the seaso ith a ugodly amout o chos While there are much more diicult techiues to dislay i ourmallet ideedece, rus are iroically the sectios here audieces ad udges like to oooh ad aahh There is roaly o harm to this; rus are lashy, ad eole like to hear them Nothig rog ith that Writig rus is usually the sole resosiility o the it arrager Ote, the origial scores do t cotai this musical emellishmet To create rus rom scratch, use the same rocess you used to create couter melodies i the revious sectio Start ith a harmoic aalysis o the id arts, exerimet ith the rhythm ad hat chord toes you at to start o, create a shae or the lie, the start to exerimet ith itches Fially, decide ho it should e scored (thick texture, thi texture, etc) Here s a exale rom the 1998 SCV Oeer ou ll see the seuece i the rass arts modulatig u a miorthird every to ars These are sile, maorchord harmoies (ith a mior 7 th addig tesio o the doeat o each toar seuece) The trick is to id a scale mode hich its ito this harmoic structure Also, sice the ru is made u o a series o uick 1 th otes, it s iortat or it to it o the istrumet so the layers ca avigate through the ars ithout akard iterval us R ^ s^ s ^ s^s ^ ^ ^ ^ sssssssss a aaaaaaaaaaa aa s aaaā aaaa ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ e^ e ^ e e ^ ^ s s s e e sz Crash Cymals sz T Figure M: Brass reductio ad rimary it score rom the ed o the 1998 SCV oeer To urchase U Frot lease visit tasacecom 199
UP FRONT Sectio : Scorig ad Arragig or the Pit Orchestratio cocets Writig Harmoic Mallet lies Sometimes itʼs more aroriate to take a sigle melodic lie ad have it layed i harmoy ith aother lie It ca create a thicker texture ad add more iterest Sice this techiue may slightly reduce the amout o keyoard roectio, itʼs ot somethig you at to rely o or a maority o your sho Harmoizig keyoard lies is usually est areciated i situatios here the keyoards ca e heard clearly Ote itʼs easiest to rite the mai (to) melodic lie, the harmoize ith a secod lie y ritig i thirds or ourths elo the mai lie Here are a e exales o some keyoard lies that have ee used i ast arragemets sa ṣ s s ṣ ṣ a m l e e e sssssssss aaaaaaaaa a m m m e e e e e m e e m e e e m m e e Figure O: This excert, rom the 1999 SCV oeer uses uartal harmoies These are harmoic lies that are arallel i motio, ut searated y a iterval o a ourth Figure P: I this excert rom the 000 SCV itro roductio, you ll see the sixtulet lies are actually areggiated chords Rather tha eig layed i uiso, they are erormed i iversios The harmoies are the same, ut the startig oit ithi the areggios is dieret 0 To urchase U Frot lease visit tasacecom
UP FRONT Sectio : Scorig ad Arragig or the Pit Usig the istrumet s est rage Doʼt e araid to sed a air amout o time exerimetig ith the rages o keyoard lies Whe ritig, itʼs good to have each istrumetʼs characteristic soud i your head, so you ca rite the arts i a rage that leds ell ad roects ust or u, imagie hat a medium sot marima mallet ill soud like i the uermost rage o the istrumet Itʼll soud kid o luy, right No imagie usig that same mallet i the loer rage o the istrumet ou ca roaly imagie a more resoat soud, ad more ure udametal toe rom the ar sily ecause the mallet is more aroriate or the rage These are thigs you eed to thik aout he ritig Have a idea o hat timre ill result rom ritig too high, or too lo ou might also id it helul to cosider the istrumetʼs trasosig ualities to determie i hat rage it ill soud est For exale, sice a xylohoe souds oe octave higher tha ritte, this hrase (hich aears as a uiso lie etee xylohoe ad marima), ould actually soud i octaves This is a hady scorig techiue to get more roectio I you at more soud out o a sigular lie, youʼll id it helul to have the keyoard lies sread out amog a octave or to sssss am l m s a mmmmmmmmm m m m l l e e m m e e Figure Q: To add more ulless ad armth to this lie, marima is ritte do a octave rom marima Betee the xylohoe s atural trasositio (oe octave higher tha ritte), the marima 1 lie (souds as ritte), ad the marima art ritte a octave loer, you ll have three keyoard layers erormig the same lie i three dieret octaves This ill create a very ull soudig hrase Tiai rages are limited o each drum, hoever the heads usually soud their est at higher tesios For exale, a C o the 9 drum ill soud much etter tha a C o a drum ou should try to actor this ito your ritig Also, you might id it eeicial to lay certai tiai iacts i octaves Aother method ould e to rite or a uiso doule sto o to dieret drums or more roectio I you choose to use these doulig methods, e sure there is eough time to tue accordigly A good tiaist ca do this uickly, ut i your tiaist isʼt very exerieced, you should allo eough time or them to set their itches For a geeral remider o tiai rages, reer to the tiai rage chart o age Figure R1: Tiai iacts i octaves Figure R: Tiai iacts i doulestos (same itch, to drums) To urchase U Frot lease visit tasacecom 0
UP FRONT Sectio : Scorig ad Arragig or the Pit Overritig cotiued Hereʼs aother exale here overritig cluttered the esemle This is a excert rom the 199 SCV roductio o La Mer Oservig the it score, it doesʼt ecessarily aear to e overritte Hoever, this is a case here itʼs iortat to ote the itʼs role i relatio to the rest o the esemle I our rass arragemet, these our ars ere desiged to soud old ad triuhat; a iact! The ruig trilet to 8 th ote art i the xylohoe as take rom the strigs i Deussyʼs origial score, as ell as the tiai art ad the uarter ote trilet melody see i the Marima art The rolem isʼt that these arts are iaroriate Itʼs ust that durig a iact momet o the marchig ield, sometimes the itet is more clearly heard y elimiatig musical ideas that areʼt as romiet i the origial Itʼs merely a matter o idetiyig the mai musical riorities, ad lettig them do the ork N N ^ / i i i i i i ^ ^ ^ s / i s sii si siii s s ^ ^ e^ e ^ iii e e e e / e e e / e N BD/Tam Ẏ Sus Cym Crotales s s s s e Ẏ Sus Cym 08 Figure T1: Reductio score rom the 199 closer This is the origial versio ith a e too may thigs goig o To urchase U Frot lease visit tasacecom
UP FRONT Sectio : Scorig ad Arragig or the Pit Cosiderig ho the setu ill aect the overall soud Itʼs retty sae to say that o to rot esemles have exactly the same setu Whe ritig, youʼll id it very helul to kee a ma o the it eary so you ko here the music is goig to come rom Sily dra a rough sketch o the it, ad lael each istrumet ith the layerʼs ame Figure U: Pit ma This scra o aer is ever ar aay durig the arragemet rocess Hereʼs oe coside eratio Itʼs ote helul to have eole ho are layig similar arts stad ext to each other so they ca more eectively liste We reer to these as choirs or teams By ositioig layers closer to each other, their musical material ill e eighted more heavily i that geeral area o the it I you at a ull it soud, e sure that the etire it is cotriutig to the material eig layed Otherise you might id that certai hrases have a losided alace i relatio to others 10 To urchase U Frot lease visit tasacecom