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This is honestly the first tutorial I've seen that isn't just Step 1: Create atmosphere with a few instruments Step 2: ??? Step 3: Beautiful track made. Awesome stuff.
The counter-melody has to be my favourite element of this whole piece, I can't believe I never thought of using one in my own compositions until now! Great work.
Same here- I never knew there was a name for that concept. When I listen to a song I always fill in the space in the melody in my head and just thought of it as a call and response. Counter melody. Good to know
I maybe not in school anymore, but when I discovered composing in the last few semesters of college before dropping out, I’ve been trying to compose, but it has been difficult since I’m always used to just doing my own thing. This is the first video that has actual given me clearer tools and steps to make it easier. I can now compose to my hearts content and make things easier for myself
As a self taught musician / producer I found this super helpful and easy to follow. I've always been the type of person to just play what I play and haven't bothered too much with accessibility or trying to replicate specific genres / styles, but I'm starting to see the utility in having templates like these as starting points. Great tutorial.
U said it bro me too. Now I know I can make touching music with the needed spice for the inner man. We need such goodies in life. In my 42 yrs God is opening doors to such valuable information. Great
I just took a massive interest in orchestra but had a really tough time finding a video that went through every single layer. Your video is just what I was looking for. Thank you so much for the breakdown. This is so helpful to listen to every single layer sounds. You got a subscriber.
Is there a contact email ? An internet search for Composing Academy keeps directing me to different websites. I would like to enroll but no information ?
@@K_J_Coleman_Composer well, historically I find the sound and then I just let it take me where it goes with the cord progression. I actually have a hard time making darker music. I just don’t get the vibe of it. I need those high vibrations.
Hi Michael - yes I'm a big believer in showing notation. Midi/Piano Roll can be good, but I think showing that alongside notation can really help when teaching. Thanks for watching!
My MIDI keyboard just arrived, I've always loved cinematic music, and you're the first video I've watched to dive into producing music. You've given me a solid starting point for my journey, your example sounds incredible and I couldn't be more hyped to start playing! Subscribed.
This is absolutely incredible! Exactly the tutorial I have been longing for! It’s just perfect. Thank you Simon for sharing your valuable knowledge with us. Please keep these videos coming...
@@composingacademy8270 Hi again Simon. Was just wondering, when mixing instrument channels do you EQ each instrument or do you leave them pure (in terms of EQ) as they come out of the sample libraries. I appreciate it may be difficult to answer this in a comment as it is quite a vast subject. It’s just that I don’t think I have heard you mention this subject in any of your previous videos!? Or you have and I didn’t pick up on it. Thanks again for all your time & help :)
This is a BRILLIANT teaching tool! Thank you so much! This is a very easy, formulaic way to learn to compose with sample libraries. So appreciate this one!
I have only just started creating music on my PC with Acid Music Studio, but what you have done here is, frankly, jaw-dropping. This short composition sounds amazing. I am looking forward to more of your tutorials.
Do you know the name of the software he is using here? I'd like to learn how to do what he's doing but he doesn't mention anything about the studio he's using. Thanks in advance.
I appreciate the score you provided. So often I see videos on how to write for strings with no reference to a score which is very hard to follow. Excellent job!! Thanks!
As I'm beginning to explore composing this kind of music for my amusement, I find content like this highly valuable - thanks for sharing and keep it coming! :) cheers
I wrote two similar tracks by accident just by playing around and trying to pass time. I uploaded both. Good to see there is actually a right way to do this. I did it totally by ear.
Fire 😍💕💕💕💕💕🇸🇿🙌 Watching for the first time Sir. Thanks for sharing your rich knowledge to the world for free. Just subscribed from Eswatini/Swaziland 🇸🇿💕🥰. As a musician and lover of the music world, I have learnt a skill that is rare in this part of southern Africa. Thanks a million times. God bless you sir. Keep up with your channel.
That counter french horn emotionally touched me. It made me cry. Thank you for helping me understand emotional drive with self and music. You are a life changer.
Please make more vids, love ur channel. Concepts like counter melody are so eye opening for people like myself who have basic music composition skills. Your vids simplify things in a way not many others do, thank you.
This is the clearest and simpliest explanation of the whole magic behind orchestral music. I was searching the entire TH-cam for this blessed video and it appeared when I was about to give up.
This is such a great tutorial. Nicely explaining the ideas and touching on the theory too. Even though I don't read music much, it was nice to see the sheet music at the end instead of just showing the DAW playing through it again. Really nice 10/10 👍
Simplistic in a way but it works absolutely fine 👍 Sometimes I struggle with the compromise between what I want my music to sound like and what works. Especially when trying to do something a bit more experimental. But oh well, that's something that gets easier with time.
Thinking how to go about creating an orchestra effect for a soundtrack has gotten me stocked for some week but somehow I bumped into this and indeed, my answer is here. Thank you so very much for such details.❤❤❤
Great tips, just have to remember for myself not to feel bummed due to my lack of sample/synth libraries, and instead just take the lessons from it, and apply it to my best ability.
This is cool man. As someone just getting involved into making my own music I really appreciate you putting the time into this. I may only ever produce one full song in my entire life, dudes like you make that happen. Thanks again bro, love., Your colonial cousin,
Thank you, the video mentioned a few crucial moments and music terminology that I was missing. For me as a total amateur, the flow usually is different. I'm taking a walk and whistling some melodies, and then suddenly I have something that feels exciting to me. So I start thinking about what mood, rhythm, and general vibes I would want to have for this melody. It gets fleshed out in my mind, I come up with some possible alternations and breaks, and it feels so nice in my mind. But I have no idea about chord progressions because, well, I can't read notes. Technically, I can but they just don't "sound" in my mind. So, I get home, enter the melody in my DAW, and, knowing the basic theory behind minor/major three-note chords and their "extended editions", I create the basic progression that "feels right" (as in - feels similar to what I'm used to enjoying in other cinematic pieces). And then I usually get stuck. I don't know how to develop the idea further. Sometimes the melodic pieces that sounded nice together in my mind lead to clashing chords that do not want to smoothly progress into each other creating strange-feeling gaps or jumps, as if I suddenly have changed the key of the song without intending to. However, sometimes my experiments lead to something beautiful that I could not imagine in my mind. I had an uncle who plays violin in an orchestra. He listened to one of my "best" pieces, and at one moment he said: "Oh, that was an unusual chord transition, but it sounds so nice. How did you come up with that?". And I had to admit I had no idea what I was doing, I was just dragging chord notes around until they caused the emotional response I wanted to have when listening to that particular fragment of the song. 😄
Some of my favourite pieces are a result of an 'accident' - I have found in the past that when composing on my keyboard midi controller, I fall into the same patterns/chord progressions etc. But if I draw notes into my midi editor , without thinking too much behind the 'theory', I'll frequently come across new harmonic combinations etc. I find it liberating when I'm not sure how I achieved a certain melodic feel or harmony! With regards to developing your melodies, try stripping it down to a set of 3-8 notes, which will hopefully be your motive. Then try and develop that motive further, through techniques such as repeating the rhythm, but changing the notes. Or transposing the motive up or down (so the relationship between the notes remains the same, but starting on a different pitch).
There will almost always be a chord (harmony) in play, and the melody needs to be related to the notes in the chord. The prominent notes in the melody will usually also be notes in the chord, or at least be leading to a chord note. Any nonchord note in the melody will create dissonance. Dissonance can be a beautiful tool but it must be managed correctly to work. If you write the melody first, then identity the most prominent notes in the melody and use them to build a chord. Learn about the art of suspensions and anticipations. A suspension is when a note from the previous chord continues playing into the new one, creating a dissonance, then resolving down a note into the current chord. An anticipation is when a note plays before the chord that it fits into. In a suspension, a note stays too late after the chord - in an anticipation a note comes in early before its chord. Mastery of these and many more concepts can take a long time but can make for beautiful music.
Superb video, so much content in 12 minutes, really enjoyed watching and feeling inspired to go write something. So thank you for the video, it's fantastic.
Thanks a lot. Thanks to you, I overcame the fear of orchestral parts and learned to work better. I did according to your lesson and already wrote my compositions. It's great to grow professionally with you.
this is how content must be made for teaching. this one the most helpful tutorials i have gone through. i have no words to say. thank you for this capsule of guided knowledge.
I just discovered you yesterday. I can't wait to start. I've loved your content so far. I've always wanted to be able to compose but have never known where to start. I don't even own a keyboard yet haha.
@@composingacademy8270 Inspired by this video I tuned my own Cubase look a little :) I think it's somehow reminds me Bitwig Studio in it's work area :) Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this!!! I'm still in my first year composing and this is so very very valuable and straight forward. This is a lesson for a lifetime
Amazing, it contains all the elements of film music and those that you have been explaining in other previous tutorials, achieving an increasingly complex piece.😀
You are one of the best teachers in orchestration, you explain in great detail which is very difficult to find, other teachers speak so fast, but you take the time to pause for the student, very informative, thank you, more on orchestration please.
Thank you so much for your feedback. I've been trying to find the balance between talking fast to keep engagement, but also not too fast to make it hard to understand........its a balancing act!
thank you for this tutorial. I've been trying to figure out how to do these type of music since ages. Infact, cinematic music (videogame and prog metal too) is the reason why i started making music
Interesting how that piece is so reminiscent of Hans Zimmer's "Time" orchestration from Inception. As a huge Zimmer fan, I wish I could compose music like that piece you just illustrated. Maybe someday I will be that good.
Great observation there.... as I was going through the video... couldnt stop thinking about the song "Time". Thanks a million Simon to simplify and show us all how easy it can be done (when you have talent of course :)
I've been learning to play the piano and music theory for quite some time now and recently got very interested to compose cinematic piano driven music. I could start deep diving into it with your content! Great videos and a massively underrated channel! Keep up the good work!
Simon - this is it! Nothing to add here. I mean there could be some percussion, but overall, its exactly the structure we all use. Really liked your video! Keep it up. Always a pleasure to learn from you. Happy New Year
Ah thank you so much! Yea I was thought long and hard about adding percussion and choir, but then wanted to keep it on the simple side. Happy New Year!
Wow!! Listening to this literally just made my hairs stand on end, about 20 years ago I used to make EDM, DnB, Chill Trance, with Music Maker 7 and i had a great passion for it but in one foul swoop my crappy pc decided to blow up!!! And I lost EVERYTHING! Teaching me that life suck’s and NOT to rely on technology to store your life’s work on! Well now twenty years later I’ve decided to stop dwelling on what i lost and get back into it by making something new and kick start my passion again
@@composingacademy8270 thanks for replying Simon 👍 I forgot to write this in my first comment but obviously my musical taste has changed drastically over the last twenty years from lots of fast paced drums and 808 to lots of layered instruments that gives you a shiver when you open your ears and listen to them all playing together thats why I’m binge watching all your videos now 😂 thanks mate 👍
Great stuff but a step showing how you were using dynamics with MIDI cc messages or automating with the mouse would be really helpful. So much of the emotion is coming from the cresc swells
Thank you Simon, an Excellent 7 Step Presentation. This I thoroughly enjoyed. Someone down below mention a small Master Class, exactly my thoughts. You explained your process very well. I might change my process a bit after watching this? I generally struggle with the Melody / Counter Melody portion. My rhythmic core seems to collapse when I am attempting to create a Melody in itself. This is something I am doing my best to overcome.
Amazing song instruction. This has inspired me to take a different progression I’m hearing from the string portion. I definitely will be watching your videos so that I can grow. Again, simply amazing.
One of the best videos I have seen. I am in awe of this. Just an incredible piece to listen to. And being taught how it is put together is GOLD. Thank you.
Just what I needed and a really nice finished piece. I came to this after watching Simon’s writing a melody and writing a piano song videos which helped with all but the reverse piano which I also found he had done a vid on. Thanks lots. Like your delivery off to watch more.c
Thank you for the tips! You helped me transform a piece of music I had written into my first cinematic score. I have a big appreciation for how straight forward and practical your tutorials are.
You can check the Audio Imperia Freebie, and for the reverse sound: grab a piano, add a delay, render it out and play it backwards :) Atleast this is how I would do it
Hi Michael - I have to admit I'm not completely sure! It was a sample which I tweaked to my own liking years ago that I have in a separate 'custom' folder which I use regulary. There's a chance it might be one the Omnisphere Booms but with some EQ tweaks? Also with the reverse piano, I just played a simple eighth note repeating pattern, then rendered it to audio, before reversing that audio. I hope that helps!
Wow.. thanks a lot fir such informative tutorial. Way better than tons of unclear videos on youtube. Just one question please, where is the percussion?
Thanks for this helpful video. Furthermore, it would be nice if you could explain in brief why you choose a particular instrument/ pattern to convey a certain mood. I am particularly eager to know the latter part.
Thank you very much for these amazing videos , it is very true that" any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple." You are a GENIUS!
Oh wow, thank you so much for your kind words! I'm on genius, but hopefully I'm helping to breakdown the composing process a little bit for people. Glad you're enjoying the videos!
It's been a few college quarters since I was doing scoring, and I've really wanted to get back to it. THIS video is exactly what I needed to revive the knowledge and inspiration and desire! 😃👍Thank you SO very much! I shall be a devoted visitor to your channel! 🙏 #subscribed
You could add step 8. Little touches go back over it. Put timpani’s, cymbals, chimes, lots of orchestral stuff. And noting that the little touches can be applied specifically for moments in the video , to help heighten the music and the score to video. Just thoughts. I found this helpful on my journey. Thank you😊
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This is honestly the first tutorial I've seen that isn't just
Step 1: Create atmosphere with a few instruments
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Beautiful track made.
Awesome stuff.
Or "Step 1: Hire John Williams"
@@PutItAway101 or "Step 2: Pay 5 Million dollars to Hans Zimmer for Sound Track"
Would you be able to help me transpose this to a midi?
what app is this
@@proboanimations3767 Fl studio
This is the best video on entire internet about it. In 12 minutes you taught me what I have not learned in 4 years. Literally wow!
Wow, thank you so much. I am so pleased you have enjoyed it!
Same here
Agreed! This was phenomenal!
actually, 9 minutes because the last 3 mins was the final piece (who knows maybe you could learn from that too)
The counter-melody has to be my favourite element of this whole piece, I can't believe I never thought of using one in my own compositions until now! Great work.
Thank you so much, really appreciate it & Happy Composing!
Same here- I never knew there was a name for that concept. When I listen to a song I always fill in the space in the melody in my head and just thought of it as a call and response. Counter melody. Good to know
I legit cried it’s so beautiful
I maybe not in school anymore, but when I discovered composing in the last few semesters of college before dropping out, I’ve been trying to compose, but it has been difficult since I’m always used to just doing my own thing. This is the first video that has actual given me clearer tools and steps to make it easier. I can now compose to my hearts content and make things easier for myself
Composing is way hard for sure don’t ever think about giving up on your journey :)
Hi, this is an awesome comment to receive. I am so pleased this video is helping you on your composing journey! Thank you so much for sharing!
As a self taught musician / producer I found this super helpful and easy to follow. I've always been the type of person to just play what I play and haven't bothered too much with accessibility or trying to replicate specific genres / styles, but I'm starting to see the utility in having templates like these as starting points. Great tutorial.
So glad you found it helpful, thank you for watching!
U said it bro me too.
Now I know I can make touching music with the needed spice for the inner man.
We need such goodies in life. In my 42 yrs God is opening doors to such valuable information. Great
I echo this - self taught, catching up doing this on my DAW after a 20 year break 🙂 - Thank you Simon
I just took a massive interest in orchestra but had a really tough time finding a video that went through every single layer. Your video is just what I was looking for. Thank you so much for the breakdown. This is so helpful to listen to every single layer sounds. You got a subscriber.
Is there a contact email ? An internet search for Composing Academy keeps directing me to different websites. I would like to enroll but no information ?
When I add big strings and brass and piano those are probably my favorite beats I make. I’m going to start doing scores tho
Don't forget to give your music your own flavor. Find an inspiration and use that to pave your own path.
@@K_J_Coleman_Composer well, historically I find the sound and then I just let it take me where it goes with the cord progression. I actually have a hard time making darker music. I just don’t get the vibe of it. I need those high vibrations.
I really appreciate that you show the music notation at the end. It’s a great teaching tool for voicing and chord progressions.
Hi Michael - yes I'm a big believer in showing notation. Midi/Piano Roll can be good, but I think showing that alongside notation can really help when teaching. Thanks for watching!
How do you produce the notation? Could the current version of StaffPad do all this without the DAW.
Thanks for the wonderful teaching
Thanks for the mini-master class. Great start to 2022! I shall be playing this over and over to get everything out of it.
My pleasure - I hope you find it useful!
My MIDI keyboard just arrived, I've always loved cinematic music, and you're the first video I've watched to dive into producing music.
You've given me a solid starting point for my journey, your example sounds incredible and I couldn't be more hyped to start playing!
Subscribed.
This is absolutely incredible! Exactly the tutorial I have been longing for! It’s just perfect. Thank you Simon for sharing your valuable knowledge with us. Please keep these videos coming...
Glad you liked it! Thanks so much for the support!
@@composingacademy8270 Hi again Simon. Was just wondering, when mixing instrument channels do you EQ each instrument or do you leave them pure (in terms of EQ) as they come out of the sample libraries. I appreciate it may be difficult to answer this in a comment as it is quite a vast subject. It’s just that I don’t think I have heard you mention this subject in any of your previous videos!? Or you have and I didn’t pick up on it. Thanks again for all your time & help :)
@@OutandaboutWalkingyou should EQ each instrument to make sure they fit well together in the mix but you don’t have to go crazy with it
@@thisoneguy7096 Excellent, will try that. Thank you :)
This is a BRILLIANT teaching tool! Thank you so much! This is a very easy, formulaic way to learn to compose with sample libraries. So appreciate this one!
I have only just started creating music on my PC with Acid Music Studio, but what you have done here is, frankly, jaw-dropping. This short composition sounds amazing. I am looking forward to more of your tutorials.
Thank you so much for your feedback and I am pleased you have found it useful!
Do you know the name of the software he is using here? I'd like to learn how to do what he's doing but he doesn't mention anything about the studio he's using. Thanks in advance.
@@MrEdwinBarbosacubase
This is so good! You explain things so clearly. great channel!
Thanks so much! I'm glad it proved useful!
I appreciate the score you provided. So often I see videos on how to write for strings with no reference to a score which is very hard to follow. Excellent job!! Thanks!
So pleased you liked the video, you are welcome & thank you for watching!
As I'm beginning to explore composing this kind of music for my amusement, I find content like this highly valuable - thanks for sharing and keep it coming! :) cheers
I'm glad you found it useful! More videos to come!
I wrote two similar tracks by accident just by playing around and trying to pass time. I uploaded both. Good to see there is actually a right way to do this. I did it totally by ear.
Fire 😍💕💕💕💕💕🇸🇿🙌
Watching for the first time Sir. Thanks for sharing your rich knowledge to the world for free. Just subscribed from Eswatini/Swaziland 🇸🇿💕🥰.
As a musician and lover of the music world, I have learnt a skill that is rare in this part of southern Africa.
Thanks a million times. God bless you sir. Keep up with your channel.
This is such a great video. Not only is it simple and effective, it allows tons of room for individual creativity! Thank you so much for this!
9:28 is sooo good 😊
That counter french horn emotionally touched me. It made me cry. Thank you for helping me understand emotional drive with self and music. You are a life changer.
Wow thank you so much for leaving a comment. I am so pleased you enjoyed the video, it is amazing how music can make you feel isn't it?
@@composingacademy8270 indeed it does
I got into music not so long ago, but I’ve never realized it’s THIS simple
2 years later and that is still the best cinematic music tutorial in the internet
I really appreciate that, thank you!
Please make more vids, love ur channel. Concepts like counter melody are so eye opening for people like myself who have basic music composition skills.
Your vids simplify things in a way not many others do, thank you.
You are welcome, I am so pleased you have found it useful! Thank you for watching.
This is the clearest and simpliest explanation of the whole magic behind orchestral music. I was searching the entire TH-cam for this blessed video and it appeared when I was about to give up.
I'm glad you found the video/channel! Thanks for your feedback and I'm glad you found it useful!
The drone sound really captured my attention in a unique way..🙌🏽⚡️ like how do you initially think ah, I’ll need a sound like this?!! Marvelous
This is such a great tutorial. Nicely explaining the ideas and touching on the theory too. Even though I don't read music much, it was nice to see the sheet music at the end instead of just showing the DAW playing through it again. Really nice 10/10 👍
Thanks so much! Yes hopefully showing the sheet music is helping to reinforce the concepts for people watching
Simplistic in a way but it works absolutely fine 👍
Sometimes I struggle with the compromise between what I want my music to sound like and what works. Especially when trying to do something a bit more experimental. But oh well, that's something that gets easier with time.
THIS IS BEAUTIFUL, I made a piece using these techniques I didn't know about and its making sense why people liked it.
Thank you! So glad it has helped in your work too.
Thinking how to go about creating an orchestra effect for a soundtrack has gotten me stocked for some week but somehow I bumped into this and indeed, my answer is here.
Thank you so very much for such details.❤❤❤
Hi, thank you for your comment. I am so pleased that it has helped!
This is fucking amazing, be very proud of yourself for this
Wow thank you, really appreciate the positive feedback and so pleased you found it useful!
Great tips, just have to remember for myself not to feel bummed due to my lack of sample/synth libraries, and instead just take the lessons from it, and apply it to my best ability.
This is cool man. As someone just getting involved into making my own music I really appreciate you putting the time into this. I may only ever produce one full song in my entire life, dudes like you make that happen. Thanks again bro, love., Your colonial cousin,
I am so pleased you found it useful, thank you for watching & happy composing!
@@composingacademy8270 so... what do u use as an Programm?
Hi, I am so sorry for delay, I did not see this comment pop up. My DAW is Cubase Pro 11, hope that helps!
This is how you have art teached with art! Thank you!
Thank you, the video mentioned a few crucial moments and music terminology that I was missing.
For me as a total amateur, the flow usually is different.
I'm taking a walk and whistling some melodies, and then suddenly I have something that feels exciting to me. So I start thinking about what mood, rhythm, and general vibes I would want to have for this melody. It gets fleshed out in my mind, I come up with some possible alternations and breaks, and it feels so nice in my mind. But I have no idea about chord progressions because, well, I can't read notes. Technically, I can but they just don't "sound" in my mind.
So, I get home, enter the melody in my DAW, and, knowing the basic theory behind minor/major three-note chords and their "extended editions", I create the basic progression that "feels right" (as in - feels similar to what I'm used to enjoying in other cinematic pieces).
And then I usually get stuck. I don't know how to develop the idea further. Sometimes the melodic pieces that sounded nice together in my mind lead to clashing chords that do not want to smoothly progress into each other creating strange-feeling gaps or jumps, as if I suddenly have changed the key of the song without intending to.
However, sometimes my experiments lead to something beautiful that I could not imagine in my mind. I had an uncle who plays violin in an orchestra. He listened to one of my "best" pieces, and at one moment he said: "Oh, that was an unusual chord transition, but it sounds so nice. How did you come up with that?". And I had to admit I had no idea what I was doing, I was just dragging chord notes around until they caused the emotional response I wanted to have when listening to that particular fragment of the song. 😄
Some of my favourite pieces are a result of an 'accident' - I have found in the past that when composing on my keyboard midi controller, I fall into the same patterns/chord progressions etc. But if I draw notes into my midi editor , without thinking too much behind the 'theory', I'll frequently come across new harmonic combinations etc. I find it liberating when I'm not sure how I achieved a certain melodic feel or harmony! With regards to developing your melodies, try stripping it down to a set of 3-8 notes, which will hopefully be your motive. Then try and develop that motive further, through techniques such as repeating the rhythm, but changing the notes. Or transposing the motive up or down (so the relationship between the notes remains the same, but starting on a different pitch).
There will almost always be a chord (harmony) in play, and the melody needs to be related to the notes in the chord. The prominent notes in the melody will usually also be notes in the chord, or at least be leading to a chord note. Any nonchord note in the melody will create dissonance. Dissonance can be a beautiful tool but it must be managed correctly to work. If you write the melody first, then identity the most prominent notes in the melody and use them to build a chord. Learn about the art of suspensions and anticipations. A suspension is when a note from the previous chord continues playing into the new one, creating a dissonance, then resolving down a note into the current chord. An anticipation is when a note plays before the chord that it fits into. In a suspension, a note stays too late after the chord - in an anticipation a note comes in early before its chord. Mastery of these and many more concepts can take a long time but can make for beautiful music.
This is the best video on TH-cam. Thank you so much.
Superb video, so much content in 12 minutes, really enjoyed watching and feeling inspired to go write something. So thank you for the video, it's fantastic.
Hi Danny, Thanks so much for your kind words. I'm glad they inspired you!
Thanks a lot. Thanks to you, I overcame the fear of orchestral parts and learned to work better. I did according to your lesson and already wrote my compositions. It's great to grow professionally with you.
What a lovely comment, thank you so much. I am pleased that you are finding these videos so useful.
this is how content must be made for teaching. this one the most helpful tutorials i have gone through. i have no words to say. thank you for this capsule of guided knowledge.
Wow, thank you so much for your positive feedback, I really do appreciate it!
I just discovered you yesterday. I can't wait to start. I've loved your content so far. I've always wanted to be able to compose but have never known where to start. I don't even own a keyboard yet haha.
THIS IS AMAZING!!!! As A Trance producer I am so interested in cinematic music for my breakdowns. This is so great!!!!
Thank you! Hope it helps!
Nice Cubase look with beautiful colors! And very useful tutorial. Thank you! ❤
So pleased you enjoyed it, thank you!
@@composingacademy8270 Inspired by this video I tuned my own Cubase look a little :) I think it's somehow reminds me Bitwig Studio in it's work area :) Thank you!
you have my humble respect for making this video clear probably so much people started playing thank's to you, that is a humble cause. respect
Thank you! Yes I've been pleased with the response to the video!
Thank you for sharing this!!! I'm still in my first year composing and this is so very very valuable and straight forward. This is a lesson for a lifetime
I am so pleased you have found it useful, thank you for watching!
Best tutorials on TH-cam. Thanks Simon.
Wow, thanks! So pleased you are enjoying them.
Amazing, it contains all the elements of film music and those that you have been explaining in other previous tutorials, achieving an increasingly complex piece.😀
Thank you!
You are one of the best teachers in orchestration, you explain in great detail which is very difficult to find, other teachers speak so fast, but you take the time to pause for the student, very informative, thank you, more on orchestration please.
Thank you so much for your feedback. I've been trying to find the balance between talking fast to keep engagement, but also not too fast to make it hard to understand........its a balancing act!
thank you for this tutorial. I've been trying to figure out how to do these type of music since ages. Infact, cinematic music (videogame and prog metal too) is the reason why i started making music
Glad I could help! Thank you for watching!
Interesting how that piece is so reminiscent of Hans Zimmer's "Time" orchestration from Inception. As a huge Zimmer fan, I wish I could compose music like that piece you just illustrated. Maybe someday I will be that good.
Great observation there.... as I was going through the video... couldnt stop thinking about the song "Time". Thanks a million Simon to simplify and show us all how easy it can be done (when you have talent of course :)
I've been learning to play the piano and music theory for quite some time now and recently got very interested to compose cinematic piano driven music. I could start deep diving into it with your content! Great videos and a massively underrated channel! Keep up the good work!
Thanks for watching and your kind words! Hopefully the videos will be helpful to you!
Yeah massively underrated channel im lucky i found out
Simon - this is it! Nothing to add here. I mean there could be some percussion, but overall, its exactly the structure we all use. Really liked your video! Keep it up. Always a pleasure to learn from you. Happy New Year
Ah thank you so much! Yea I was thought long and hard about adding percussion and choir, but then wanted to keep it on the simple side. Happy New Year!
Wow, hope this channel keeps making content this good. I’m speechless
Thank you so much!
Wow!! Listening to this literally just made my hairs stand on end, about 20 years ago I used to make EDM, DnB, Chill Trance, with Music Maker 7 and i had a great passion for it but in one foul swoop my crappy pc decided to blow up!!! And I lost EVERYTHING! Teaching me that life suck’s and NOT to rely on technology to store your life’s work on! Well now twenty years later I’ve decided to stop dwelling on what i lost and get back into it by making something new and kick start my passion again
Hi Tim, many thanks for reaching out. Wow that's a hard lesson you learnt! Great to hear that you've come back to it though. Good luck!
@@composingacademy8270 thanks for replying Simon 👍 I forgot to write this in my first comment but obviously my musical taste has changed drastically over the last twenty years from lots of fast paced drums and 808 to lots of layered instruments that gives you a shiver when you open your ears and listen to them all playing together thats why I’m binge watching all your videos now 😂 thanks mate 👍
Excellent content! Thank you. You’ve been very inspiring while I’m working on my prog rock album!
Thanks so much Wayne! Good luck with the album!
@@composingacademy8270 thank you. I’ve been working on it for an embarrassingly long time! Lol.
Fantastic tutorial! I subscribed and will be watching all of your videos.
Sir, this is a very beautiful composition!!
Great stuff but a step showing how you were using dynamics with MIDI cc messages or automating with the mouse would be really helpful. So much of the emotion is coming from the cresc swells
Thank you Simon, an Excellent 7 Step Presentation. This I thoroughly enjoyed. Someone down below mention a small Master Class, exactly my thoughts. You explained your process very well. I might change my process a bit after watching this? I generally struggle with the Melody / Counter Melody portion. My rhythmic core seems to collapse when I am attempting to create a Melody in itself. This is something I am doing my best to overcome.
Amazing song instruction. This has inspired me to take a different progression I’m hearing from the string portion. I definitely will be watching your videos so that I can grow. Again, simply amazing.
Thank you so much & Happy Composing!
You created such an emotional piece of art with this Tutorial.
Thank you so much and HAPPY NEW YEAR🤗
It's wonderful when you can compose and even better when you know how to do it right.
Thank you so much.
Hi Darren, thank you so much! Glad you liked the video!
@@composingacademy8270 I did, thank you.
Demonstrated in a very simple and easily understandable way. Thank you so much. My first video on cinematic and Orchestral music.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching!
@@composingacademy8270 Absolutely. Thank you so much Simon. I will compose one with the help of your video. I will let you know.
Stunning, I'd like to learn myself.
You should! Check out some of my other videos, I believe anyone can learn to write music! Happy Composing!
One of the best videos I have seen. I am in awe of this. Just an incredible piece to listen to. And being taught how it is put together is GOLD. Thank you.
Wow thank you so much for the feedback, I really appreciate it! And thank you for watching!
Utterly brilliant! Can’t wait to give it a go!
Thanks for watching!
Just what I needed and a really nice finished piece. I came to this after watching Simon’s writing a melody and writing a piano song videos which helped with all but the reverse piano which I also found he had done a vid on. Thanks lots. Like your delivery off to watch more.c
Thanks for watching, I really appreciate the positive comment!
This is awesome as someone wanting to learn this style. Beautifully taught and executed
Very simple to understand and straightforward. Thank you for the lesson!
Hi, really appreciate that, thank you!
Super easy to understand. Thank you! Keep up the good work.
Thank you - glad to hear you're enjoying the content!
all videos are helpful and great. Please explain about key change modulation one key to another key .
Great idea - I'll add it to the list. Thanks for watching!
Great explanation of the basics :) I’ve wanted to get into cinematic music for a while
Thanks so much and thanks for watching!
Just immense! Thanks a lot. Now to add some Bulgarian choir samples as a topping.
Enjoy! Thank you for watching!
Thank you for the tips! You helped me transform a piece of music I had written into my first cinematic score. I have a big appreciation for how straight forward and practical your tutorials are.
Hi, so pleased to hear it has been useful for your work! Thank you so much for the kind comments.
Great class as always!! Question: Were did you get your "boom" sample at? What did you use for the "reverse piano"?
You can check the Audio Imperia Freebie, and for the reverse sound: grab a piano, add a delay, render it out and play it backwards :) Atleast this is how I would do it
Hi Michael - I have to admit I'm not completely sure! It was a sample which I tweaked to my own liking years ago that I have in a separate 'custom' folder which I use regulary. There's a chance it might be one the Omnisphere Booms but with some EQ tweaks? Also with the reverse piano, I just played a simple eighth note repeating pattern, then rendered it to audio, before reversing that audio. I hope that helps!
Thanks for the replies!!! :)
Rise & Hit from Native Instruments or Damage by Heavyocity is great. They sound massive.
This is great! You did a wonderful job making it easy to follow. Well done!
Thank you so much! So glad it was useful.
Heye und herzlich willkommen bei mir danke. Melde dich bitte nochmal mit der Telefonnummer
It's beautiful. Thanks you for making complicated things look easy.
Thank you for watching! I am so pleased you have found the video useful!
the essential in 10 min ! very good - thank you !
Thank you - that was the aim!
Excellent Tutorial. Thanks a Lot. ✨✨
You are welcome! Glad it was useful!
I have learned so much from this channel. This piece blows me away, thank you so much.
That is great to hear, thank you so much!
Thank you so much for sharing your workflow on this. It will be a great help on my next composition.
Thank you very much for seeing you on my way of self-study
Just... fantastic. Excellent video.
Thank you for watching!
Thank you Simon! Nicely explained and demonstrated. Your work much appreciated.
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You're welcome and thank you for the comment!
What a wonderful piece of tutorial. Please keep making more of them!
Hi, thank you for watching! A new video coming soon!
Dios mío, eres un Dios. Algún día espero tener ese talento que tienes.
Wow, thank you so much, what an incredible comment.
Wow.. thanks a lot fir such informative tutorial. Way better than tons of unclear videos on youtube.
Just one question please, where is the percussion?
Excellent clarity, thank you.
Thank you !
The counter melo
So peaceful💜
So pleased you like it, thank you for commenting!
Best orchestration Strings Design Tutorial video iv ever seen . wonderfull carry on brother. much love from INDIA❤
Thank you so much, I really appreciate the feedback and am so pleased you have found it useful!
Thank you, I use to make a much more simple music , but it is very good class.
Thank you for watching, I am pleased you found it useful!
Wieder ein sehr hilfreiches Tutorial !!!!
Thank you, so pleased you are enjoying them.
This a wonderful, I've been listening to this for 8 hours
Wow, thank you! I am so pleased you like it.
Simple...Effective...and understandable I couldn't have found a better tutorial 👍 It's just perfect 👌 a big thank you for this video 🙏🎶🎹 🎻🎶
Wow thank you for the feedback, really pleased you found it useful!
Thanks for this helpful video. Furthermore, it would be nice if you could explain in brief why you choose a particular instrument/ pattern to convey a certain mood. I am particularly eager to know the latter part.
Hi, appreciate the idea, thank you! One to add my list of future content!
Thank you very much for these amazing videos , it is very true that" any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple."
You are a GENIUS!
Oh wow, thank you so much for your kind words! I'm on genius, but hopefully I'm helping to breakdown the composing process a little bit for people. Glad you're enjoying the videos!
Thanks, for me is perfect to start with a simple music scoring!!
Glad you found it useful, thank you for watching!
Please make more videos on how to write such music! I especially like the way violins play!
Hi, thank you for watching. I am in the process of putting together some future video ideas so will take this on board.
@@composingacademy8270 Thank you, I will be waiting
It's been a few college quarters since I was doing scoring, and I've really wanted to get back to it. THIS video is exactly what I needed to revive the knowledge and inspiration and desire! 😃👍Thank you SO very much! I shall be a devoted visitor to your channel! 🙏 #subscribed
Wow thank you so much, really appreciate the support and I am so pleased you found the video useful! Happy Composing!
Brilliant !! Nicely done.
Thank you!
You could add step 8. Little touches go back over it. Put timpani’s, cymbals, chimes, lots of orchestral stuff. And noting that the little touches can be applied specifically for moments in the video , to help heighten the music and the score to video. Just thoughts.
I found this helpful on my journey. Thank you😊
Great tips, thank you for sharing! Really appreciate you watchng!