Why is there a fee for making a custom music arrangement?
When a musical selection is requested, and it is not already for our instrumentation, then we have to rescore it to fit. Often the music might have three lines that we can just read off of a score and no further arranging is necessary. There would be no charge for that. If the original is too complicated though, and we have to rescore it to fit our instrument ranges, etc., then THAT takes time, sometimes a whole day. As most of us work numerous other jobs (teaching, etc.) a whole day may not always be available and it has to be done in our spare time. Then the parts have to be printed out. Our standard arranger’s fee covers this extra work. Keep in mind, when you are hearing music on the internet, etc, and it is for full orchestra, or other instruments, it MAY not be the sound you are looking for. Many of the more modern popular songs are not even available yet in sheet music form. You may just want to have a recording of it played instead of us trying to “make it work”. We won’t be of
