Instruments of the Orchestra
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- It is important to note that the instruments you hear in this video are created using high quality sample sets. They are not true live recordings. I did not have the monetary means to hire a full professional orchestra (I certainly would have if I had the means to do so) as I have no intention of making money on this. My goal is purely to help people with this topic. This is meant to be a beginning basic guide to understand the differences between the instruments of the modern orchestra.
To hear live instruments individually, and in far more depth, I highly recommend checking out the Philharmonia Orchestra (London, UK) channel.
Here is one of their videos: • Video
This video serves to educate people interested in knowing more about the instruments of a standard orchestra and how they sound individually. Through the years of my teaching career I have found that many students have trouble differentiating between instruments when listening to them, especially in the string section. In this video you will hear a melody played by every major instrument in the orchestra at all of their available ranges. Though, you will probably grow very tired of the melody by the end, you will have a better understanding of the sound quality of each instrument at various ranges. By the end of this video you will have a better aural knowledge of these instruments and you will have an easier time picking them out of an orchestra with just your ears.
Violin 1:56 multiple violins 2:29 Viola 3:13 multiple Violas 3:31 Cello 4:20 multiple cellos 4:47 double bass 5:39 multiple double basses 5:57 flute 7:01 Oboe 7:34 clarinet 8:10 bassoon 8:45 Horn 10:41 multiple horns 11:08 Trumpet 11:58 multiple trumpets 12:17 Trombone 13:02 multiple Trombones 13:21 Tuba 13:59 Timpani 15:36 Xylophone 16:03 Marimba 16:50
Thank you for doing this! I should've done it when I made this...
Music Theory & Aural Perception No problem!
Yamcha the wolf p
Thank you for doing this, it helped me a lot
I appreciate the kind words from everyone! I created this video while I was teaching a high school AP Music Theory prep course and it became clear to me that this needed to be made. Many times we need to be able to A/B compare sounds to truly get a sense of the differences, especially if you're fairly new to this. Hopefully I will be able to make more videos available to everyone soon. I'm glad it's helping people!
My music teacher told us to watch this for homework :)
Music Theory & Aural Perception What's the tune name cause I want to play this tune on my violin.
i will use this to choose what instrument to play in school. is this a good way to firgure it out?
I actually never got tired of that tune.
While there are many videos of this nature out there on the internet and TH-cam, this particular video demonstration of the instruments of the orchestra is excellent. It is highly and very recommendable by me. It is very useful to my students. I find it to be very professional, effective, and well produced. Many thanks to the publisher
As one who is studying the orchestra I found this quite helpful to listen to both solo and group versions of each instrument playing the melodic motif you gave us. I definitely appreciate this video, and please keep sharing information and such about orchestral subjects.
I wish I can play every song instrument in this video! 🎻🎺🎷😊
Veerryy appreciative of this. ....my lecturer gave me an assignment to identify each family of orchestra in the "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" and I must say, after watching this I will b better able to carry out the assignment
The best presentation of "Instruments of the Orchestra".
Thank you, this is wonderful. As an older 'student,' I found this very helpful. Thank you for taking the time to create and share this with us!
I've been looking for something like this for years, thanks a lot!
guys, there is actually a piece of music that talks about and demonstrates the different instruments of the orchestra. the piece is called The Young Persons Guide To The Orchestra
Thanks for posting this. It's something I had always wondered about.
Love the fact that you can create the same tune with different instrument!
Why would you not be able to lmao
Truly a stellar video! Super helpful, Thank you so much!!!
i'm about to write a symphony now. i only have 1 question. can someone show me where middle c is on my keyboard?
I think It's the Black one to the far left.
Looool, actually its next to the F# furthest to the left, down the hall and to the right. hope this helps
I am no expert but it must be somewhere in the middle of the room
this is what i need to learn as a beginner/ amateur composer, thank you so much for your effort making this video! :D :D :D
I'm really grateful for your effort, it was very useful.
thank you for the great upload!
I actually enjoyed the tune throughout. Anyways, good video.
I have no idea why I watched the entire thing. I don't play any instrument nor do I have anything to do with music xD
You are not alone.
Great Video for music education! Clear and thorough.
I am preparing for my basic music theory test and I find your video! Helpful and enjoyable!
Excellent! Thank you for this lesson!
good job! i'm planning to use this in classroom! thank you!
thank you this is the perfect primer i needed for my logic pro x composition training.
Thank you so much for uploading this video! It helped so much as I always have trouble recognising the sounds of instruments! :)
Fantastic video, really, really helpful, thank you!
Great tutorial... very good one. Keep up the good work
Hello! Great video. Thank you for uploading it. I would like the Acoustic version of Instruments, but I know quite well that maybe it had been difficult to work with a whole Orchestra about this.
It was a very understandable explonation and I absolutely enjoyed! :)
+Stenaldo Mëhilli thank you! Yeah, it would have been far too complicated logistically and too expensive for little ol' me to arrange, especially with the time crunch I was on. Originally, I made this for my Music Theory students, but I decided to release this for everyone once I saw how much it helped my students. I haven't seen another video that does this so I felt it was good to fill that void. I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
+Music Theory & Aural Perception That's true. There's no other video to explain such thing. Sir, you've done a great job! Infact, i'm interested to have a discussion with a professional music teacher. Please, may i have the chance to ask you about my questions? I've looked so long for finding someone who can help me. thank you!
Thank you sir for sharing such a wonderful video... Hats off to you... :-)
Excellent... Thank you!!!
we need more cowbell.
+miguel ortiz Don't forget the triangle
What do they remind me of Dora the explorer
Thank you for this video.
Thanks for this!
Thank you, this really helps for my music test in 2 days and this is worth 25% of it. However I have not managed to find how to revise it and yet everything else I know inside and out! THANKYOU!
Well done!
Thank you for this wonderful video. Learned a lot. Love from India
Great video, thanks a lot! I was actually looking for the differences between first and second violins, but this was very interesting as well.
+Jacob Ras thank you! I could have done violin 1 and violin 2 separate as well, but I chose to just do violins 1 (mainly because of the time crunch I was on). I don't know how much I could help you with words on this but, there wouldn't be a huge sonic difference. Of course, there are different players in the two sections so the sound is a little different, but the blend of a group washes the sound a little more than with individual instruments. Also, there are sometimes more players in the violin 1 section (there are exceptions to everything, of course). Ex: 14 violin 1 players, 12 violin 2 players. It varies from orchestra to orchestra. Something else that could make a sonic difference is where the groups sit on stage. There are a variety of seating arrangements for the strings. Most orchestras (and probably the most traditional arrangement) have the strings left to right: violins 1, violins 2, violas, cellos, double basses. A common alternate seating is: violins 1, violas, cellos, violins 2, and double basses behind the violins 2. (This is what you see in the video, though, sonically you're hearing them in the first arrangement I mentioned.) My hometown orchestra has been using the alternate arrangement lately, and they're actually putting the double basses on the left behind the violins 1. The different arrangements change the sonic character and if you think about it in a stereo field, the violins 1 & 2 would sound more stereo panned left and right than the traditional setup. I hope this helps a little. Thanks for watching!
+Music Theory & Aural Perception that helps indeed. It confirms my understanding of the differences I have been developing lately by watching several videos like this one. I am currently playing and recording arrangements for string quartets (like Adagio for Strings) just to get a better grip on how the first and second violins are commonly used. Thanks for your reply!
very good and paramount!!! thanks 🇵🇷
Great job, helped a lot.
i subscribed man u saved my grades
These instrument sounds are top of the line. If I may ask, which program/music software are you using?
Sounds pretty bad tbh, the high register on all these instruments sound like stretched samples, not real ones
Very Informative
thank you my good man!
If I may inquire, what is the name of the source of the samples sets that you used in this video? I am new to this and want to find something that may help my compositions.
Regards,
Sahil
Wheres the triangle??😫
Why Guitar is not included in an orchestral setup?
Information was excellent but was this done in Garage Band? Even if it was still an amazingly informative guide.
+1NiceHamster No.
hi I'm using your video for homework
My best intrude the is the cello and the violin.
we have a saying in puerto rico, a town without music is a death town, a soul without music is a death soul...🇵🇷
Whats the tittle of the song
What's the name of the music piece being played
Esther Jackson The melody that's played is something that I came up with to show step motion and jumps going both up and down. It's not from a larger work.
I'm pretty sure this guy is a horn player that's had some beef with a clarinet player, and is married to/dating a percussionist/timpanist.
+Kearsen Erwin Ha ha, that's great! To clarify, though, I am actually a guitarist that's had some beef with a bassist, and I'm married to a singer :P
No piccolo? How sad ):
There's the French horn just like there is the English horn. I don't see why it shouldn't be called French?
Lol, my partner ran away from the room after getting tired of hearing the same tune. 🤣🤣
The tuba plays A major instead of C major
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Hey, I may sound stupid asking this but why do u need 14 violin players, all playing the same notes . So why not chorus it digitally. ? this may be economical .
It's an orchestra, totally unplugged. Since you depend on acoustics you only can achieve higher volume by using more instruments playing the same thing. Of course there are another variations, like the room where people are playing (that's what acoustical architecture is for).
When it comes to classical music nothing is better than a totally natural sound, you'll get a fuller sound. This videos shows it perfectly, if you only had one and only instrument each you would get a somehow empty sound when compared to the fuller group one. It is totally normal that if you're not into music that much you won't spot the difference. Practice makes you perfect.
Cheers!
Thanks Christiana. So in an orchestra , no mic or speakers are involved and the room is acoustically padded? So when all the instruments are played together, that should somehow supress the the sound which wind chimes or xylophones produces!
+Snehal Samar This is not a stupid question. Cristiana made some good points, but there's a little more to it as well. It's true that volume is definitely a major reason. It'd be hard for a single stringed instrument like a violin or cello to even be heard when brass is playing or loud percussion regardless of whether it had any kind of chorus effect on it. Certain instruments just aren't that loud in comparison to others. Just look at high school marching bands as opposed to the next level. College drum corps often don't even have woodwinds because they'd never be heard over the wall of sound from the brass and percussion. As Cristiana said, an orchestra is acoustic so digital effects aren't typically used, at least in a live setting (film scores can have just about anything...). Actually, in most big orchestral live settings there can, and often are, microphones and speakers. These are usually just used as accent mics to isolate a soloist or small group that needs to cut through the orchestra. You'll often see one on the concertmaster (first chair violinist) as this player often has solo lines. In a classical guitar concerto, the guitarist would have no chance of being heard throughout the piece if he/she is not amplified in some way. There's no shame in using modern technology to accomplish the desired mix. You better believe that if Bach, Mozart, etc. had access to what we do today THEY'D BE USING IT. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't know their music history. These composers and others were using new methods and technology (for their time) all the time.
Outside of the volume solution, the sound of multiple violins playing together sounds almost nothing like a solo violin with a chorus effect. Quite simply, it would sound fake and nasally. To get the "strings" sound as opposed to just a solo stringed instrument, you need at least three or four violins playing in unison. Trust me when I say, a solo violin digitally chorused would not have the same effect. Keep in mind, a chorus effect is meant to be just that. An effect. Orchestras typically strive for the most natural sound. Orchestras can be many sizes. A smaller chamber orchestra may only have six players per string part (or even less depending on the group) but they'd still have the "strings" sound, although it would not be quite as full. Hope this helps! Thanks for watching!
1:58 4:22 7:02 7:35 8:11 10:42 11:59 15:36 16:04 16:51 4:22 16:04 1:58 4:22 10:42
Why are the instruments computer generated?
Because that's a lot easier than arranging an entire orchestra ;-) And it serves the purpose here.
+Christian J Because you would need too many people and too much money to pay them all for participation.
What Jacob Ras and Soundofmusic777 said is exactly right. As I mentioned in another comment, I made this video for an AP Music Theory course I was teaching. Sure, it would have been more desirable to use a live orchestra but, as Soundofmusic777 stated, it would cost an obscene amount of money to arrange and record that. Computer generated is not exactly how I would think of it. The sample sets I'm using are top of the line, I assure you, and most certainly help in understanding the subject matter. My goal with this, once I realized how much it helped my students, was to release it for everyone since this hasn't really been done much before. Thanks for watching!
Xylophones and marimbas are different. Marimbas are big xylophones.
I GOT SCARED WHEN THE BASSES WERE PLAYING.
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French horn 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
Bassoon 😁😁
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Bass and flute... guilty!!!!!
No one ever cares about the harp :(
It's sad, I know... I could've included the harp, but it has such a unique sound and character that it didn't seem necessary given the time I had to do this. The point of this video was to compare instruments (and instrument groups) within their respective sections. I believe it would be difficult to mistake the harp for any of the other instruments. I would say the same for the piano as well. If I did an extended version I would include the piccolo, english horn, the various clarinets, the various styles and sizes of trumpets, trombones, and tubas, more percussion, harp, piano, guitar, etc. But, there's only so much time in the day to make free videos, unfortunately.
I do
I do but not as much as the bassoon
Thank you sir for sharing such a wonderful video... Hats off to you... :-)