Take your STRING WRITING to the next level with the ZED Clef ! feat. Sean McMahon

Sean McMahon, chair of the Screen Scoring Department at Berklee College of Music, gives you expert tools to perfect your string arrangements. He explains and demystifies the nebulous ZED clef, a super handy measuring tool to see if your string writing is well balanced. What’s more, he also shares his knowledge on octave doublings vs unison string lines among the different string instruments, and he gives some advanced tips for string runs.


Virtual Orchestration is a collaboration between Berklee College of Music (Boston, USA) and Orchestral Tools (Berlin, Germany).





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0:00 - Intro and Orchestration
1:53 - The ZED Clef
5:34 - Octave doublings and unisons
6:54 - Violin 2 shadow
8:42 - String unisons for tone weight
9:39 - Flourishes for strings








































Video creation credits:
Video idea and Script 📜 : Sean McMahon
Script Consultation 🔍 and Director 📣 : Eduard Flemmer
Camera 🎥 and Editing ✂️ : Fabián Barba Hallal
Lighting 💡 and 2nd Camera 🎥 : David Kudell
Motion graphics 🎨 : Michael Logar