How to Orchestrate Classical music in a DAW- Recreating Mozart's Lacrimosa
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มิ.ย. 2024
- By popular demand, here's how I orchestrated Mozart's Lacrimosa from his last work, Requiem using Cubase and just two libraries.
Iconica Sessions and Players : new.steinberg.net/vst-instrum...
Hollywood Choirs: astoundcommercecorporation.sj...
Check the harmonic analysis here: • The GENIUS harmonies o...
Enjoy!
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00:00 Intro
01:33 Preparation
02:53 The libraries
03:35 The Dorico score
05:24 Planning the phrasing
05:45 Create Expression
06:28 Orchestrating the viola
07:21 Second violins
08:37 First violins
10:00 Basset Horns
11:40 Bassoons
12:51 Trumpets
13:24 Timpanis
13:48 Basso Continuo
15:43 Tenor trombones
17:49 Bass trombones
18:39 Sopranos
20:12 Altos
21:07 Tenors
21:54 Basses
Some of you asked for this:
Libraries that I used :
Iconica Sessions and Players : new.steinberg.net/vst-instrum...
Hollywood Choirs: www.soundsonline.com/hollywood... - เพลง
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Wow!
Daniel my man! :) :) :)
I'm without words. Imagine being able to sit at your laptop with a basic controller and being able to re-create one of Mozart's great masterpieces from scratch. What a time to be alive.
“A laptop and a basic controller”
Don’t forget the thousands of dollars that laptop costs and thousands more for the libraries.
@@FreakieFan You can run this stuff on $800 laptops and you can use free or cheap libraries to do this. You don't have to use exactly what he used in this video.
@@lenglain
If you're going to run shitty free/cheap libraries, you don't even need an 800 dollar laptop, because those libraries are extremely light on RAM, CPU and storage space. So if you want to go that route with your argument, 800 is way too much.
But if you want to create high-grade stuff like in this video, you'll need to invest a few grand in VST's and a grand or two on a proper PC.
(He only uses 2 libraries in this video, and those two alone cost 1500 dollars combined)
@@FreakieFan BBC SO Discover is free and sounds awesome, there are other free VSTs that sound good, it's all about the voicing you put into the instruments and how you eq them.
But all that aside, I never said it was cheap. Though even if you wind up spending $3000 on a laptop, DAW, and Orchestral libraries (many music hobbysists wind up spending that much even on limited funds), the ability to do this is amazing and is still a very, very low cost.
@@lenglain
But you can easily run BBCSO on a much cheaper laptop than 800 because it's very light on internal resources.
It's certainly awesome. I never said it wasn't.
The vocals are unbelievably good. Listening to this would convince anybody it's a full orchestra with choir. Amazing plug ins
The technology is only as good as the musician using them though Mark.
Mozart's spirit has entered in you for the entire video.
You should turn this into a series! This is absolutely crazy
Dom. You remind me why I saw the movie Amadeus in the theatre two days in a row. You have a broad range of talents. Many take professional tools and make them sound limited. You take limited tools and make them sound professional.
I am impressed by your knowledge and your willingness to share it with the world, by your kind presence but I am also impressed by the emotion that characterizes your presentations and the love for what you do. I am learning so many things from you. I declare that I am a big fan of yours.
@Brayden Maddux
No we (normal people) don´t care -and this ain´t the forum for that kinda thing.
I mean, Come on man, grow up.. if you feel the need to hack your girlfriends instagram account combined with wanting to share how you did it with the rest of the world, i would strongly suggest you and Clyde Russell get some professional help ex. at a psychologist…
You nailed his character in this video beautifully. I concur.
The joy you take, Dom, in making music, is infectious and awesome.
Bleh.
You nailed it in so right words... It is my words too for Dom... Dom I am your big fan....
I subscribed after seeing this. I am a pianist with severe cerebral palsy. I will never be able to play Mozart and the like except via computer and synths because my hands do not work well. I have a classically trained teacher and I want to compose music for film as I studied filmmaking in college. Lacrimosa is one of my all-time favorite pieces. I am a huge Mozart fan but my teacher prefers Bach so I enjoy your t-shirt. Even though you play with such passion and emotion which I appreciate. I like to watch other people use cubase because I will never be able to afford it. I use Reaper, have an Akai MPK Mini and use whatever free VST's I can find. Thank you for inspiring me.
You're welcome Christina :)
I feel like I'll never get this smile off my face having watched this. So awesome, more please.
Same feeling here!
Lacrimosa always gives me goosebumps. Even more when you play this masterpiece! You are great talent!
East and west is truly a gift and a treasure for it’s time
The hand of God guided seems to have guided Mozart’s music. This highly emotionally charged passage is transcendent in its power. You can tell Dom felt it as he worked through it. This video has taught me to avoid the short cut of just inputting midi notes and then wasting endless time trying to breathe life into them.
OMG, I'm at work (orchestra teacher/violist), just saw this pop up, and it's killing me that I can't watch it until I get home! Thanks in advance, Dom!
There's so many recreations of Hans Zimmer's Time in many DAWs, and NONE is even close to the real thing. I wish you pulled it off. Great work, beautiful. Can't wait for more.
I was playing this at 1.25x speed by mistake, and as soon as you started to talk, I thought you were on heavy duty drugs. Everything in this video is totally awesome x)
Hahahahah I will try this now for sure (the speed - not the heavy drugs 🤣🤣🤣)
🤣😂😆
This is the most insane clip I have seen in TH-cam.
My most heartfelt congratulations Dom. Not just for the wonderful way you are mastering your craft in every possible genre, but mostly for such a rare sense of respect towards this music. You are one of these very, very few contemporary musicians who are actually blessed with a real, multi-level musical talent, combined with such integrity. You have my full respect
It's amazing to see how much passion you have for music. Very Inspiring!
WOW...first time I've seen anything like this...I am stunned
when I studied music at uni, I became obsessed with the orchestration in this piece, when you hear the individual parts and them building up slowly, it just makes me appreciate mozart's genius even more, wow!
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you doing these videos on Mozart's Lacrimosa. You're going to influence a lot of young people who are just getting into songwriting and DAW production. I remember when I heard Bach's Invention 13 on a Commodore 64 commercial. It changed my life...I put away my trumpet forever and shifted over to the piano. 😁
Thank you Troy! I would really like for young people to get exposed to classical music as much as possible. There is so much to discover...Bach changed my life too!
Bach, wuz da bomb!
Trizzledog.... Pick ur trumpet back up! We must preserve da old wayz, azz well. They r organic, take skill & e4t 2 learn, & we must not lose da knowledge, simply bcause we have toolz of CONvenience.
Dat said...... Can u guyz imagine Mozart, wit a DAW?!?
WOW!!!
(Source: I'm a classical trombonist) Trombones were absolutely in the original composition by Mozart*, and to me, they're one of the most uniquely important orchestration elements of the requiem. Trombone was actually the first chromatic brass instrument (before trumpets had valves), so in the baroque and early classical era, they could be used to double choir voices because they were the only brass instruments that could. In the requiem, you see Alto, Tenor, and Bass trombones almost exactly mirroring the alto, tenor, and bass vocal parts throughout the entire piece (it's an amazing part to perform). There's also an incredibly famous tenor trombone solo during the Tuba Mirum movement.
Trombones fell out of style pretty quickly after Mozart (very minimal trombone in the Beethoven era, for example), and didn't become a major part of the orchestra again until the late 1800's with people like Tchaikovsky. I admittedly don't know a ton about the history of how the Requiem was performed, but my guess would be that there was a period of time where many orchestras did *not* include the trombone parts - they mostly double the choir, and many orchestras during the early 1800s did not have strong trombone players (and it's a really difficult part). But since the past 100 years, trombones are an incredibly major part of the orchestra again, and I've never heard of a modern performance of the Requiem that doesn't include trombone.
Awesome work by the way - I love seeing classical music represented in the DAW world!
*to be specific, the orchestration was largely done by Mozart's student after he died, based on sketches and notes by Mozart, which did include multiple references to how the trombones should be used
The celebration after every clip is gold! :D
One of the things that I loved was how happy Dom was everytime he finished hearing the 8 bars! And believe me, I too felt that!
GENIUS. Nothing else. What a piece of work! Mozart for sure liked the video and subscribed
Thank you ❤️❤️❤️
I'm seeing your video only now... 2 years after you made it. I've wished I'd seen it 2 years ago. I could've incorporated the valuable knowledge you taught here in my works back then. I will correct that now. Thank you so much for this!
One last thing - Many years ago, I sang in choirs in high school and college. Of all the pieces I sang, Mozart's Requiem has always been one of my favorites.
This is absolutly mind-blowing
no words.. simply this is too much. you are the best
Pff every time you play it I got goosebumps! You are epic
You are a genius of pedagogy! Thank you!
Letting us ear-focus on every distinct instrument and voice part like this has to be the best "educational tribute" to Mozart's music ever!
Excellent tutorial. And I love that it gives a little insight into Mozart's genius for those who aren't so familiar with his work. Specifically, the use of what looks like very simple notes and motifs brought together to make something that makes the hairs of the back of your neck stand on end.
I realy enjoyed to see how you played and recorded the parts....very emotional....Thanks for sharing this with us. Great job!!
Absolutley Stunning Dom
@DomSigalas your satisfaction face at 18:31 says it all!
You not only know what you're doing, but you truly enjoy it (we can tell) and that my friend, inspires many of us. As always: THANK YOU!
It's .....crazy🤯!!Bravo Maestro!
You speak from my heart as you talk about Mozart and the Requiem.
Wow! You've made my soul fly!
See this video was life changing for me in the musical sense! I have since enrolled in Berklee College of Music's "Composing Music in Cubase" class!
I little back note, I have been writing and recording Drums for Classical Music for a few years now but this was eye opening!
Thank you for the inspiration!
Bravo! Wolfgang would be amazed that his music is still being appreciated all these years later with these technologies he never knew would ever exist. He probably would expect us to take full advantage of what we have to create the best art we could! Thanks Dom for doing this video.
Mein Lieblingsstück aus dem Requiem, danke für das wunderbare Tutorial!
Tempo change is routine in much of classical music. I think that is a fundamental attraction to the human ear and mind, that the clock (the one on the wall) does not unduly intrude on our feeling for a melody and chord progression. An unaccompanied singer or player is free to impart tension, then relieve it as part of their storytelling. Pop music has always been a simple affair by comparison but even it shone with subtle tempo changes, often unintentional, that gave music a life now routinely choked out of it by the convenience of computer recording. Dance has driven quantization primarily for obvious reasons.
Every classical piece ever written indicates a base tempo but is riddled with markings for accelerando, ritardando, rubato as well as abrupt change to the base tempo. It is a signature quality of music written before the advent of machines that we can enjoy even a gigue, or dance, with a radical tempo change. Mozart’s fantastic writing uses tempo changes relatively subtly, but is rife with the markings of his intent, of which Dom makes full use to build to a melodic climax. Without them, it would sound downright odd.
Dom! So you do read! Forgive me but I see so many videos of "experts" who cannot read music. You have always been one of my go to guys, but NOW! Oh man. WELL DONE!!! You are SO talented!!!! Respect!!!!!
LOVELY
I loved your video, it has solved many doubts about the composition, I loved it. Thank you so much ❤
Man, this is unbelievable!
"This Mozart, ladies & gentlemen!"
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Great work, Dom. Great work.
Respect. This is so inspiring
Truely wonderful video/tutorial. I had no idea my controller could deliver so much expression. Thank you SO much for sharing your knowledge. You've changed my world.
A lot of thanks for this video.
At university, between 2002 and 2005, when I was student in Music, at Bordeaux, I never had a teaching with this quality.
I use Cubase Elements and Musescore and it's very interesting to learn with you for a long time.
I discover Holywood choir. Thanks. I think I'll buy it.
What a powerfull soundbank and software for DAW.
Very nice work and nice lesson (I'm choirist too and music teacher in France)
Beautiful!
Just perfect!!
Amazing Work! Thank You!
Amazing, thank You!!!
Outstanding!!
Love this !
Great video Dom, thanx !!
Fantastic!
Splendid! Great! ❤️
Great work!
Brilliant!!!
Incredible!
Absolutely marvellous!
Many thanks, great video!
Extremely inspiring. Thanks Dom !
Amazing !
Awesome!!
Just fantastic...
I can already imagine the impact this information is going to have on my compositions. Thanks 👍
This is one of the best videos on orchestral music composing I've ever watched. You should be proud of this!
Just excellent!
Very informative and also inspirational. Thanks!
Love it , awesome Dom !!
Remarkable work!
We need more like this. Amazing!
Great video. Thank you so much.
Very helpful work. Thank you
Good Format!
Incredible! 👏👏👏🎶
So much fun!!
Wow so great! Thank you)
😊 😊 🙏
amazing! thanks for sharing.
Thanks Dom 💞
Thanks for such a wonderful session
so cool! so helpful! so useful! thank you!
Absolutely fantastic! Thank you....
Amazing Dom!
Awesome work. You are the man.
Impressed ♥️♥️♥️
Thank you!!!
More videos like this 🙏
This is truly fascinating! Would love to see more!
This is incredible ! Thank you so much.
Amazing work, Dom! Wow.
Double like!! As impressing as entertaining... Thanks a lot, Dom!
Nice work Dom!
Very great helpful tutorial today and well done
Damn the detail! Respect
Dom, Excellent!
Wow, I am impressed!
so cool and emotional man!