Studio Orchestral Strings

Vibrato

• Basses: no vibrato / non vibrato variants

Short notes

• Staccato short and long

• Spiccato performance

• Détaché short and long

Long notes

• Sustains with and without vibrato, regular and fast attack, normal and soft release

• Flautando with and without vibrato, regular and fast attack, normal and soft release

Legato

• Legato regular and fast, normal and soft release

• Slurred legato regular and fast, normal and soft release

• Portamento, normal and soft release

Dynamics

• Sforzato, sforzatissimo, with and without vibrato

• Fortepiano with and without vibrato

• Crescendo and diminuendo, medium and strong, with and without vibrato, 2–3 lengths

• Piano-forte-piano, medium, 3 lengths

Tremolo

• Sustained, normal and fast attack

• Legato (violins and violas)

• Crescendo and diminuendo

• Piano-forte-piano

• Measured, 150/160/170/180/190 bpm (except basses)

Trills

• Half and whole tone, regular, crescendo, diminuendo, pfp

• Half and whole tone, accelerando regular, crescendo, diminuendo (except basses)

• Minor and major third, regular (violins only)

Repetitions

• Static and dynamic repetitions

• Staccato

• Spiccato normal and harsh

• Portato fast and slow

• Legato fast and slow

• Bowed, fast and slow (violins and violas)

Pizzicato

• Pizzicato, tight and loose (cellos: with and without vibrato)

• Snap pizzicato

• Repetitions, slow and fast

• Col legno, tight and loose

Harmonics

• Staccato

• Sustained regular and with fast attack

• Repetitions

Upbeats and grace notes (except basses)

• 1/2 upbeats, slow and fast, regular, crescendo, diminuendo

• 1/2 grace notes, up and down

Runs

• Octave runs, up and down

• Legato major and minor, chromatic and whole tone

• Spiccato major (except basses)

Glissandos (violins only)

• Glissandos sul G/D/A/E

• Octave glissandos, up and down

Sul ponticello

• Staccato

• Sustained, normal and fast attack

• Sforzato

• Crescendo and diminuendo, 3 durations (basses: 4 sec.)

• Tremolo, normal and fast attack

Con sordino (except basses)

• Staccato, détaché

• Sustains, regular and fast attack, normal and soft release

• Legato normal, slurred, portamento, normal and soft release

• Sforzato, fortepiano, crescendo and diminuendo 2/4 sec.

• Tremolo, regular and fast attack

• Trills half and whole tone, regular, crescendo, diminuendo

• Static and dynamic repetitions, staccato, portato, legato

• Pizzicato