Hi Everett,

I agree, "The right instrumentation of a song can give the right feeling to that song or take away from it."

Songs are like people and each kind of want to be adorned in different ways. This is what makes arranging so much fun! Putting my ear to the song and listening--not just to the chords and melody and all--but listening for it to tell me what it wants! Songs whisper like that, to me. They say, "I want a resonator here and a fiddle there" kind of thing.

Mike


Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice
Fortune depends on the tone of your voice

-The Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon)
from the song "Songs of Love"
from the album "Casanova" (1996)