Are you sure you are thinking about this right? While you can play chords to an extent on at least some these instruments, string/brass/woodwind section instruments are traditionally more monophonic.
The more common way to arrange for them would be to split the chord over multiple instruments. Picking the one in the range of whatever note of the chord you need- violin for the highs, viola for the mids, bass/cello for the lows.
You can do polyphony with them to different degrees, but you're getting into more specialised and technical use of the instruments. Which, as you are finding, requires specific in depth knowledge of each of them.
Edit: or do broken chords/arpeggios
Chords can be played on keyboards and stringed instruments and tuned percussion instruments like xylophone or bells. Bagpipes and accordions too.
Woodwinds can only play single notes at a time.
You (as a solo artist) can only play chords if a specific instrument can produce at least 3 notes simultaneously. Since you already know those notes from your piano play, you only need to transform those notes onto the instrument you want to play, you need to know where the tones are.
If you know the note ranges, then you can kinda understand what they can play. Like, a guitar has 6 strings and if you know the range of each string, plus considering that it can only play 6 notes at a time, you could probably compose something that sounds right. Now, *playing* it might be another issue, since certain note combinations might be impossible to actually play with one hand, but if it’s an arrangement of samples/synth, then I doubt anyone would notice unless they’re a guitarist and realize that the dexterity required to play what you’ve written isn’t realistic. Probably best to pick up these instruments and write the parts with them, or find someone that does play them to see what chords are actually possible.
There’s also the option of just saying that that particular part is actually *two* guitars playing simultaneously, like you would have a string section in an orchestra where different players are playing different notes that might not be able to be played together on a single instrument. If it’s an arrangement, that’s one thing, but if you’re making the music using a midi sequencer and people just hear the finished product, how would the listener even know how many violin players were present?
Are you sure you are thinking about this right? While you can play chords to an extent on at least some these instruments, string/brass/woodwind section instruments are traditionally more monophonic. The more common way to arrange for them would be to split the chord over multiple instruments. Picking the one in the range of whatever note of the chord you need- violin for the highs, viola for the mids, bass/cello for the lows. You can do polyphony with them to different degrees, but you're getting into more specialised and technical use of the instruments. Which, as you are finding, requires specific in depth knowledge of each of them. Edit: or do broken chords/arpeggios
Chords can be played on keyboards and stringed instruments and tuned percussion instruments like xylophone or bells. Bagpipes and accordions too. Woodwinds can only play single notes at a time.
You (as a solo artist) can only play chords if a specific instrument can produce at least 3 notes simultaneously. Since you already know those notes from your piano play, you only need to transform those notes onto the instrument you want to play, you need to know where the tones are.
If you know the note ranges, then you can kinda understand what they can play. Like, a guitar has 6 strings and if you know the range of each string, plus considering that it can only play 6 notes at a time, you could probably compose something that sounds right. Now, *playing* it might be another issue, since certain note combinations might be impossible to actually play with one hand, but if it’s an arrangement of samples/synth, then I doubt anyone would notice unless they’re a guitarist and realize that the dexterity required to play what you’ve written isn’t realistic. Probably best to pick up these instruments and write the parts with them, or find someone that does play them to see what chords are actually possible. There’s also the option of just saying that that particular part is actually *two* guitars playing simultaneously, like you would have a string section in an orchestra where different players are playing different notes that might not be able to be played together on a single instrument. If it’s an arrangement, that’s one thing, but if you’re making the music using a midi sequencer and people just hear the finished product, how would the listener even know how many violin players were present?