Basic String Writing - Sul Ponticello & Sul Tasto

[@LaureliAmadeus]

THANK YOU! this is so helpful

[@violagirl6132]

Love that you're playing the viola!!!!

[@ChrisMcQueenMusic]

So helpful!! As a composer/arranger who doesn't come from the string world, little tidbits like "here's exactly how to show it on the score" can actually be hard to find an answer to online.

[@jimvandersteege]

Lovely video! I like your pace and like that you gave some examples of famous scores

[@JordanMHollowayComposer]

Thank you!! I’m glad you enjoyed it I hope it was helpful!

[@robihiltone9742]

Amazing thank you so much for these videos! it helped me a lot

[@CraigHunterMusic]

Enjoying these videos a lot! I would appreciate a video on the different short techniques - spiccato, sautille, ricochet. There's a plethora of resources on how to play each technique, but far fewer on when it's appropriate to designate a particular technique in a score (if at all?)

[@JordanMHollowayComposer]

Great suggestion! I'll get to work on the script in the next few days :-)

[@brodytrumpet]

Jordan, Thanks!! Great explaining and demo! This helps! I'm composing alot for strings now. Best from Berlin!

[@JordanMHollowayComposer]

Cheers, Paul! I'm glad I could help and I wish you luck with your composing!! Thanks for stopping by!

[@fabiovieira2892]

Beautiful voice 😂😂🔥🔥🆘🆘🙏🙏❤️❤️

[@SantiagoSanchez-lf4qx]

thanks!

[@fiddeou]

What about pizzicato and harmonics w/ suls?

[@joelwybrew]

Love this! I'm doing a bit of research for a college composition project, and this is a great reference for these techniques :) Do you find that any of these techinques have a slightly different kind of effect on the different string instruments? What I mean is, does sul pont. contrast *more* on a cello than a violin (as a random hypothetical)? Thanks for these!

[@JordanMHollowayComposer]

Thanks for watching, Joel! I would say they’re pretty equal across the board, but for me personally, I don’t hear as much of the contrast with sul pont. on contrabass as I do all of the other instruments. Something about the starchy timbre of the instrument pushes it toward that more overtone-riddled quality by default, but again, that might just be how I hear it. In general, sul pont. across the board gives clearer contrast than sul tasto does, but I’ll also add that it’s been my experience that you often have to coax the really intense sul pont. quality out of players, especially folks who aren’t used to seeing the marking frequently in a single piece; I remember a number of times having to really insist on it, so hopefully that info is helpful to you :) Not to plug my own music, but a piece that might be of use to you is my string sextet no. 2, specifically the third movement which has a ton of switching between these different techniques across the whole string family. There’s a video of the performance on my channel and a score video on George N. Gianopoulos’ channel if you’re looking for more music which demonstrates this type of thing!

[@luiscuypers38]

Thank you! Your explanations are really great and detailed. Could you maybe do something on double stops? I know it is often covered and I have studied it along, but I feel like I have a good grasp on what individual double stops work,however I would like someone to talk about what goes into connecting different double stops. Hat double stops can be played consecutively and which can't. Does that makes sense? Thanks a ton!

[@JordanMHollowayComposer]

Sure thing! I will try and think of some demonstrations that would be good for that. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@martagynku5483]

Dies irae 😅

[@JordanMHollowayComposer]

The only acceptable excerpt for this!

[@sarahlee1016]

Can you tell me what is the music in the very beginning? Thank you.

[@JordanMHollowayComposer]

It’s an excerpt from my Symphony No. 2, which has yet to be recorded, but I’ll be putting out a video next month that has the NotePerformer version of the whole piece :)

[@gracestringfellow3262]

My grandnephew

[@nicolasguzman9057]

Great video. Really enjoyed the depth and explanations of the techniques. By the way, the last Takashi Yoshimatsu link is dead. Here's a re-upload of the video kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5PRqZ18ib55jMk

[@JordanMHollowayComposer]

Good catch, thank you!!