Send us your song, and we’ll create a beautiful arrangement for your desired ensemble.
In this article, you'll find information about:
When to request an arrangement
- If you've finished writing a song but are struggling to understand how each musician should go about playing it, this is the service you need.
- Whether it's defining the right groove for the band, getting a string quartet, a horns section or any other elements created for your song, your arranger will have your back.
Our service offers
Our Arrangement service is both:
- Included in the Unlimited membership — Live Arrangement
- Available as a standalone service — Offline Arrangement
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Live Arrangement — Included in the Unlimited membership
Join the livestream and collaborate in-person (or let our arranger handle the work offline).
Book your Live Arrangement here.
What you will need to send
- Your song's demo
An audio file of your song recorded to a click - A chord chart
For the arranger to quickly navigate your song.
Request your chard through our Session Materials Creation service here.
How will the session go
Once you join the session, you'll start by discussing your song with the arranger. Take a few minutes to explain what the song is about, what it expresses and how you'd like it to sound. We obviously recommend writing that in your pre-session note to the arranger and, if possible, send a reference link of a song that sounds like what you'd like your song to sound like. This is extremely helpful for arrangers because it allows them to hear that reference song, analyze what instruments are playing (and how and when) and create something similar for your song.
No reference song and finding it hard to put into words what you want? No worries: arrangers are extremely creative people (usually composers by trade), so you can let their instincts guide them and they'll create what they think is the most fitting arrangement for the song. They'll do so by recording each instrument's part with virtual instruments, live in front of you, so you can discuss in real time if you like it or not and what you'd like to change.
What you will receive
Audio files (WAV) for each instrument that's been arranged. Up to 5 files per session - 5 different instruments or 5 different parts for one instrument, which you can then send to the session musicians for them to record. These could be a myriad of things:
- Typical pop-rock band parts: drums, bass, rhythm guitar, lead guitar and keys.
- String quartet parts: violin I, violin II, viola and cello (plus double bass, for a quintet!).
- Horn section parts: alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, trumpet I, trumpet II and trombone.
- And anything in between or beyond the examples above! Maybe you want to define the bass line for your song but also want it to have a violin and cello. So that's what you'll get from the session: 3 audio files, one for each instrument.
Whatever you'd like, whatever you can imagine, you can get those in your Live Arrangement session, as long as it's up to 5 parts. So for instance, in that last example, if you wanted to add 2 more violins parts, that would be perfectly fine. You'd get the bass file, the cello file and 3 violin files.
Looking for an arrangement with 6 or more parts? Then all you have to do is book more sessions for that same song.
If your arrangement was created for a typical pop-rock band (drums, bass, guitars, keys), then the arranger will create a chord chart for you, as this will be more than enough for the musicians to use. But if you had any melodic instruments (violins, celli, woodwinds, brass) or specific melodic content in any instrument that you'd like to be specified, then the arranger will actually create a score for each one of those parts with everything written note by note.
If you wish to receive written parts, please book a second session for the arranger to create those. We highly recommend not attending this specific chart/score creation session that you book, since there's no collaboration that needs to take place. This is just a time for the arranger to create the written materials for you, which will be uploaded right after the session time ends.
See what else is included in the Unlimited membership here.
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Offline Arrangement — A standalone service
Hire a standalone Arrangement service here.
How it works
- Request a quote by filling up this form with your request, materials and files.
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The cost of an arrangement is based on the following:
- the length of music to arrange (for example, 1 minute of a cello solo in a 3-minute song);
- which instruments.
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The required materials are:
- Audio or Midi of the song;
- Bpm;
- Audio Reference (something that might be similar in genre/style/expectations).
- Our arranger will create an arrangement for you, and provide you with a Midi mock-up for approval. Upon your approval, you'll receive the final scores and parts for the musicians to play (PDF), audio mock-up of all instruments (.wav) and a midi tempo map (mid / optional).
- You're now ready to record your music, arranged to its highest quality and prepared to deliver the best recording results.
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All about arrangements
If you're still having trouble wrapping your head around what an arranger does, think of your song as a house. Maybe even your dream house. And you're the architect for that house.
Which means you have the artistic vision for what you want it to be like, so you draw it to the best of your abilities.
Now, two simple things can happen:
- You may not know exactly what to draw, so maybe you just have some sketches of your idea. These would be your melodies and/or vocal scratches (audio files that maybe you've even just recorded with your phone), your instrumental demos (also audio files with maybe just some basic chords on your guitar or keyboard to go along with that melody) and some lyrics (written in a text document).
- You may know what to draw, and you draw it well, overall, but you haven't done it technically very well, so they need some work. These would be your audio stems (maybe done in your DAW) and sheet music (scores or charts) of a song for which you already have a clearly defined structure in mind.
Whatever the case may be, this is where our arranger will come in. Think of the arranger as the Head Engineer who'll help you build your house. You, as the Architect, provide the Head Engineer with all your plans and ideas for your house. And then the Head Engineer will make sure that all those plans and ideas are actually technically perfect and feasible so that, when the house is being built, everything is done with the utmost efficiency, quality and safety.
So when you, the song's author, provide our arranger with your original materials for your song, the arranger will make sure everything is tip-top quality in every aspect, so that, when the song is being recorded, it is done so in the most productive and creative possible way, allowing for more session time to be spent making music and less (if any at all) trying to figure out what to do and how.
- If point 1 is your situation, the arranger will propose instruments, form and colorful harmonies, proceeding to produce world-class materials, including audio stems and scores for all the musicians.
- If your situation is closer to point 2, the arranger will make sure that everything is up to world-class standards for the musicians and also help you to add that extra flavor to your song.
In other words, think of our arranger not only as the Head Engineer for your house but also as its Interior Designer: he'll make sure all your materials are top-quality and everything is built to perfection, while insuring that everything will look stunning on the inside, too.
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