If you write most of your songs on one particular instrument, how easy or difficult is it to figure out which parts should be played by other instruments?
I was thinking about Beethoven the other day for some reason. Since ol' Ludwig Van wrote the majority of his music on the piano, he must have had a bugger of a time working out individual parts for all the other instruments that would be playing it.
To a layman like me, coming up with a rhythm guitar riff, a lead guitar melody, a bass line, a vocal melody line and a drum part for the most basic three minute rock song sounds like hard work. The idea of writing for a whole orchestra is mind-boggling .
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I was thinking about Beethoven the other day for some reason. Since ol' Ludwig Van wrote the majority of his music on the piano, he must have had a bugger of a time working out individual parts for all the other instruments that would be playing it.
To a layman like me, coming up with a rhythm guitar riff, a lead guitar melody, a bass line, a vocal melody line and a drum part for the most basic three minute rock song sounds like hard work. The idea of writing for a whole orchestra is mind-boggling .
W