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Services
Our close contacts within the music industry can prepare all genres of written music and we can record professional tracks using live instruments. The in house services we provide are as follows:
Musical Arranging
Any piece of music for (almost) any size and type of ensemble. As it is an arrangement you can alter the style or feel of the music should this fit better with your requirements or the ensemble - the arrangement may well be intended for a specifically themed event / performance so this can be taken into account as well.
The people we use are established industry professionals, they each have their areas of expertise in terms of ensemble and stylistic requirements / capabilities.
Ensembles catered for include:
Big Band
Brass Band
Brass Quintet
Choirs
Jazz Ensembles
Orchestra
Percussion Ensembles
Piano
Pop / Rock Bands
Show / Theatre Orchestras
Solo Instruments
String / Saxophone Quartets
Vocal Groups
Wind Band
Musical Transcriptions
As with musical arranging any piece of music for any size and type of ensemble can be accurately transcribed. The people we use are established industry professionals, they each have their areas of expertise in knowledge of musical styles.
Music Copying
Creating clear, legible and easy to navigate parts is an art in itself. Poorly laid out parts with even slight enharmonic or geographic issues make for reading errors - even if you have booked the best musicians for your session or live performance. They will more than pay for themselves in terms of lost studio or rehearsal time and they will also raise the level of performance and therefore the overall production on a live event.
Music Composition
You can commission a peice of music for any size and type of ensemble. You can specify a style or styles of music in which it will be written or even specify the emotion you want it to create. It could be for a specific live performance that has a theme or it might be to mark a special occassion. Whatever the case your composition will best fit your requirements and the ensemble.
Professional Backing Tracks
We can provide the highest quality backing tracks for the most discerning ears. You will find catalogues of low cost (sometimes free) tracks on the internet that are ok and let you and the audience 'know' how the song goes. Play them in front of a knowledgeable and musically educated audience (or even worse music industry professionals) and they will not be impressed.
Our tracks' creation begins with 2 of the preparation services above (arranging or transcription and copying). We then use a combination of programming but then most importantly we use real instruments and musicians when the track needs it.
The result?
Backing tracks that you aren't ashamed to perform to anywhere. If it's Big Band and Swing tracks, you've got a real live Big Band behind you. If it's Rock you've got a Rock band behind you. Etc.
We have in house studio facilities and partner with other facilities and industry professionals around the country to bring you the best sounding backing tracks. At the bottom of this page you will find a list of session musicians that we have on our books.
Click Tracks
We provide a cost effective and professional service for the creation of click tracks to run with live performance. As with our backing track service the process begins with arranging/transcription and copying of the parts that are to go onto the click. Beyond this we use a combination of sampled and live instruments to give your production a fuller and more professional sound.
Jingles, Stings & Playons
We can write and record jingles, stings and play ons for Radio, Television and Live Events. As with all of our other music and track preparation service their quality is second to none. Established industry professionals will create the music that will enhance your production.
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Personnel
Here are our main collaborators in the field of Music & Track preparation. Where applicable their websites are listed for further research. You therefore may choose to contact them directly - please extend us the courtesy of telling them where you found them, THANK YOU.
The benefit of working through Blue Juice is that we can combine the services of different personnel and oversee your complete project / production.
Irvin Duguid
Irvin is based in the city of Glasgow (UK), though his work regularly takes him to Europe and beyond.
He studied at the RSAMD (Glasgow) and has since worked as a session player, arranger, writer, and music director.
His performance experience encompasses Rock, Pop, Classical and Folk as well as Theatre and Television, and he composes music for media projects as well as writing original scores for film.
Irvin has a comprehensive recording studio with full Sync-to-Picture capability, centered around Logic, his software of choice since 1998, and now with the G5 Quad from Apple. He can also upload audio and video files to an online server which can then be downloaded by his clients from anywhere in the world.
http://www.irvinduguid.com
Kennedy Aitchison
A native Glaswegian and graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Kennedy has worked for over twenty years as a musical director, pianist, keyboard player, producer, orchestrator and arranger in most musical genres.
His theatre credits include: West End and touring productions of Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, The Beautiful Game and Saturday Night Fever. He was also Assistant Musical Director on the Emmy award winning movie of Jesus Christ Superstar. He recently toured the US, Canada, Mexico and Europe as Musical Director of Riverdance. He has also played principal keyboard in major productions of Joseph, Evita, White Christmas, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Sunset Boulevard.
He worked extensively in network television as a Music Associate, Musical Director and keyboard player throughout the late eighties, including Only Fools And Horses and four seasons of Opportunity Knocks at the BBC.
Kennedy has also performed with Strictly Come Dancing Live, RSNO, RPO, BBC SSO, The Three Degrees, The Supremes, Randy Crawford, Shirley Bassey, The Drifters, and Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes. He also had the pleasure of working with country star Nanci Griffith, conducting the Orchestra of Scottish Opera in a live performance her album "The Dust Bowl Symphony".
In 2008 he was the Musical Director and arranger on Highland Heartbeat, a new Scottish music special being broadcast coast to coast in the US throughout 2009. Earlier this year he completed a UK and European tour with Jeff Wayne’s War Of The worlds.
Andy Scott
If you're booking live music with Blue Juice you may want to make your event extra special and stand out from the crowd by commissioning a new piece of music; a harp solo, a string quartet, a pop song, or even a brass fanfare! In November 2006 Andy Scott collected a prestigious British Composer Award, at the Southbank Centre in London, and since then has been busy writing and recording music for many of the UK's top classical, jazz and pop musicians. Projects in 2009 included writing for Supertramp's sax man John Helliwell, a set of music scored for strings and rhythm section for Duran Duran's Simon Willescroft, Composer in Residence with Foden's Brass Band (ranked no.3 in the world), a fifteen minute work the classical Aquarelle Guitar Quartet's next Chandos CD release in June 2010, and a commission from the acclaimed Park Lane Group Series, featuring a new work premiered at the Purcell Room, London. Andy's music is recorded on CD by the top musicians, and is performed and broadcast worldwide.
The way it works for you? Have a chat with Andy and discuss the duration of the piece that you would like to commission, discuss the choice of instruments/voices, leave enough time for all this to happen (it takes a lot of hours to compose music!), then you are given a fee quote and you say yes or no. Easy.
http://www.andyscott.org.uk/
Anna Brooks
Anna Brooks is a composer, arranger, music copyist, musical director and saxophonist. She gained a first-class honours degree from the Birmingham Conservatoire, where she is now a visiting tutor. Her first composing commission was for Carlton’s ‘First Cut’ film series in 2000. This was followed two years later by the Jerwood Foundation’s request to compose and perform for the Cheltenham International Jazz Festival’s ‘Rising Star’ series. Subsequent commissions include a suite for jazz Septet by the British Arts Council. Whilst performing at the Brecon Jazz Festival, Anna was spotted by Red Kite Records and signed to their label, releasing her debut album 'My Time' in 2003.
Anna’s arranging and music preparation skills can be seen and heard on stage, television and film. Recent copying projects include BBC's 'Torchwood' and 'Doctor Who' and the films ‘Hoodwinked II’, ‘Angus, Thongs..’ and Ridley Scott's 'Robin Hood'. She has arranged stage shows for The Drifters (for which she was musical director for two years), The Magic Of Motown, and Roy G Hemmings’ ‘Dictionary Of Soul’ and ‘Reach Out To Motown’, for which she is currently musical director / saxophonist. She has also prepared click-tracks for large stage shows.
Anna’s performing career to date has been rich and diverse, and has spanned classical music (touring Paris as a saxophone soloist), jazz, big band, indo-jazz, pop, soul, Motown, even glam rock (a stint with Roy Wood’s band). She has been fortunate enough to tour many countries. |
