Cellist and arranger Samara Ginsberg visits the Scoring Notes podcast to talk about her multi-part cello arrangements of TV and movie themes that have taken over social media in the past few months, and how her experience as a working instrumentalist informs her approach to arranging. To that end, she divulges the secrets of how to succeed when writing for cello and the practical nature of getting music ready for a session. More broadly, we discuss Samara’s perspective on using music notation software and other tools to create her arrangements and videos and even listen in a bit on the music that’s caused such an internet sensation.

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