"All Of The Lights" is considered by many to be one of Kanye West's great masterpieces of music. With its detailed production and many layers of instruments, vocals, and effects, the powerful song was critically acclaimed upon its release in 2011 and ended up winning two Grammy awards. Many people have no idea how to translate this song for strings, resulting in charts that make no musical sense or "abridged" versions that just repeat the first minute and call it a day. This is NOT one of those charts! This Cellobat chart for string quartet is a full arrangement of the entire 5-minute album version of "All Of The Lights," manifesting even the rap sections and interstitial passages into a driving, harmonious, great-sounding, and fun-to-play arrangement. This was originally commissioned for a wedding, but you won't regret having it in your gig binders for any occasion! This epic chart will be playable for intermediate to advanced-intermediate students and sightreadable for professionals.

?Lovely? by Billie Eilish and Khalid was released in April 2018. Written and produced by Finneas O?Connel, brother of Billie Eilish, it was used as the soundtrack to Season Two of ?13 Reasons Why? - a drama on Netflix. The song went Platinum in New Zealand and USA, and reached the top five in the New Zealand and Australian Charts.

I think that it lends itself beautifully to a String Quartet Arrangement and very much enjoyed working on it. At the moment I have only a computer version of the Score but will be recording it with Capriccio Quartet once lockdown restrictions are at an end.

Feel free to change the bowing, especially in the eight-quaver accompaniment bars. These do need to be heard, but very much as a background texture. I envisaged the song as played with a great deal of delicacy and subtlety, though this is hard to achieve with Sibelius software. In this arrangement the cello has less to do than usual, but there are some sudden shifts of position and that deep presence is vital to the overall effectiveness of the song. The double stopping usually includes one open string.

I experimented for a long time with different octaves for the violin to play at Letters C and E. You may like to change the score at this point if it feels easier, or just prefer one or the other. I opted for the high octave at times because the unison with the viola two octaves below seemed to have a lot of emotional power. However one octave apart also sounds good so younger players could easily tackle this song.

My Youtube Channel has many of my arrangements for String Quartet, most recorded by Capriccio Quartet, and all but two available as Sheet Music Plus products. Please visit me there :- Helen Marple-Horvat, Songwriter, Arranger, Composer.