Challenge - to compose a track using only the Crow Hill Pocket Strings library, one day turnaround.  Library has amazing shorts and pizz, sweeping longs, and a really intuitive GUI which allows you to blend as needed great string samples, and also two vintage string synths, with in-library effects.  Chose this genre to make something different to my usual style in the spirit of a challenge, but also make the best of those cracking pizz and shorts and see if I could use them as a creative stand-in for brass stabs and punchy bass.  Really brilliant library at the price point, I had lots of fun!  Thanks for listening!

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Crow Hill Composer Challenge - to use only the newly released Vaults Bridge Guitar to make a 30-60 second music bed for a reality TV project which wants to look back to the noughties pizz string trend, but think of it in a fresh way.  The reference track was given as Thomas Newman's Six Feet Under theme.  
My piece takes the harmonic flavour of that theme, but takes it to a different emotional place to make a bed which I see being useful alongside sneaky comedy on screen antics.  I have attempted to give the editor as many options as possible - lots of potential start points, edit points, various soft and hard stings, pauses, and no long tail reverb or delays or changes of key or mood.
Great learning curve - thanks again Crow Hill for introducing me to yet another way to make music!

Rachel Howie Bridge Guitar Challenge

A new submission for the Vaults Bridge Guitar underscore challenge - using only the Vaults Bridge Guitar instrument, create a 30-60 second underscore. 

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