How To Arrange Strings For Pop Songs

In this episode my friend Pierre Piscitelli and I break down the beautiful string arrangement for the Train song "Drops of Jupiter".

Pierre's YouTube Channel @pierrejpiscitelli

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[martag.]

I would love to see more of this stuff (string arrangements etc..)

[TheGeeJ]

"can you explain what is happening there?" "of course, Rick. So Im pressing this key and it sounds good" ... [rick] "wow" ❤

[stevschlack]

Pierre and Rick, unbelievable humble yet both talented as hell. Good to see you together again.

[deangoritz]

2024 version of old school Rick teaching videos. Love it

[iamrobfromcardiff]

I too ABSOLUTELY LOVE string arrangements in rock music. Drops of Jupiter is near perfect.

[todddurbin]

I would love to see Rick and Pierre do an analysis like this on any George Martin string score done for The Beatles.

[robertpickert]

Paul Buckmaster’s string arrangements on Elton John’s “Madman Across the Water” have remained a benchmark for me as a musician, arranger and producer.

[balsamfir]

MORE OF THIS!!!! 10/10 EXCELLENT CONTENT thank you 🙏

[lorenialemas]

You make me want to learn piano, I'm 65 and used to do guitar(acoustic) in HS and college. Learned to play by ear by listening to Neil Diamond. Love this song as well. Love you channel glad I fell into it!!

[jamesdavies]

This kind of analysis of beautiful compositions is what us music junkies love.

[mpritchard]

Pierre's piano videos are awesome. I started watching them after he first appeared on Rick's main channel talking about perfect pitch. Most of his lessons are aspirational at this point in my learning curve, but I still love them.

[scottleitch]

Watching your channels is my guilty pleasure. As a drummer, I find all this quite fascinating. I'm really starting to understand this.

[TheAbundance]

I learned so much from this. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[mahkyb]

I'm a pop producer and I love adding strings and orchestral drums into my productions. This video is so awesome and really breaks down more of what I need to start doing. Keep doing more production

[mathumphreys]

Oh wow - Pierre is great!! So happy to see him on here!

[jaredkoziol]

This dude just instantly being able to call back what was played is so impressive

[Dillygotitbumpin]

So awesome! It’s so hard to find this type of stuff on YouTube from someone who actually does it 🙌

[Joe-mzdc]

This is exactly what I need. I've been trying to do songs with strings for years! I'm fumbling along because I'm just a guitar player and strings are very complex. I'm just deluding myself thinking that I'm Paul McCartney or something LOL anyway this is awesome thank you very much for this great information. Now I'm going to throw some strings into a new song and there is a 100% probability that my strings are going to sound a hell of a lot better.

[YAMISOOLD]

Oh you made me appreciate something that I never had stopped to really hear before. Thank you for this. I love it!

[AnthonyAnzer]

oooof, you just hit my heart! Thank you Rick and Pierre!