Such a huge difference moving the sketch from piano to brass. It really makes imaging the full orchestration much easier. BTW for anyone wondering that keyboard program is called ChordieApp.
Yes, it can be hard to hear what the orchestration might be when sketching with just piano, but it’s a great way to build a solid structure before diving into orchestration. Though a piano sketch works for most pieces, especially for writing themes, for some scores I’ll make a six stave sketch with woodwinds, brass, strings etc. For TV it was such a fast turn around schedule that most of the time my sketch was just some chords and shorthand ideas scratched out in pencil on a piece of paper.
I really liked the video! I'm a music student exploring the world of composition, especially with an orchestra. However, I still have some problems with harmony. I think I don't have a great confidence with the chords that I use, probably because I still have trouble understanding it. Can you make a video explaining the way you harmonize a melody or just explaining what you know about harmony without just focusing on a piece? Thanks a lot! I love this series!
I’m glad you’re enjoying the videos, my hope is that people will find the process useful in their own compositions. Great idea to make a video on how to harmonize a melody, I’ll make a video that focuses on just harmonization after I finish this Chess Pieces series. Until then “The King 1 Theme Compose” video touches on some ideas including using diatonic chords, secondary dominants, and borrowed chords/modal interchange. Your confidence with chords will come with time, early on I found it intimidating too. An app I use with some of my students is “Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro from MDECKS Music. It’s a very good representation of functional tonal harmony laid out in an interactive map. They have some excellent explainer videos on reharmonization and it’s very much the way I was taught in school. Thanks for following along and keep composing!
Wonderful harmonies!
Thank you!
Such a huge difference moving the sketch from piano to brass. It really makes imaging the full orchestration much easier.
BTW for anyone wondering that keyboard program is called ChordieApp.
Yes, it can be hard to hear what the orchestration might be when sketching with just piano, but it’s a great way to build a solid structure before diving into orchestration. Though a piano sketch works for most pieces, especially for writing themes, for some scores I’ll make a six stave sketch with woodwinds, brass, strings etc. For TV it was such a fast turn around schedule that most of the time my sketch was just some chords and shorthand ideas scratched out in pencil on a piece of paper.
I really liked the video! I'm a music student exploring the world of composition, especially with an orchestra. However, I still have some problems with harmony. I think I don't have a great confidence with the chords that I use, probably because I still have trouble understanding it. Can you make a video explaining the way you harmonize a melody or just explaining what you know about harmony without just focusing on a piece? Thanks a lot! I love this series!
I’m glad you’re enjoying the videos, my hope is that people will find the process useful in their own compositions. Great idea to make a video on how to harmonize a melody, I’ll make a video that focuses on just harmonization after I finish this Chess Pieces series. Until then “The King 1 Theme Compose” video touches on some ideas including using diatonic chords, secondary dominants, and borrowed chords/modal interchange.
Your confidence with chords will come with time, early on I found it intimidating too. An app I use with some of my students is “Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro from MDECKS Music. It’s a very good representation of functional tonal harmony laid out in an interactive map. They have some excellent explainer videos on reharmonization and it’s very much the way I was taught in school.
Thanks for following along and keep composing!
@@GlennScottLacey Thank you, very much! I will indeed try that app.