Fundamentals of Orchestration Part 1 -- The Harmonic Series
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2024
- Part 1 in my new series on the fundamentals of orchestration. I explore the harmonic series and how it is useful to composers and orchestrators.
0:00 Introduction
0:40 The Harmonic Series
5:56 Orchestrating Chords
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Anyone willing to start composing for orchestration, don't skip this first lesson. I first thought "oh, it's too detailed for my level, I don't need that". But it's actually something that you'll keep in your head ALL THE TIME when you'll be composing. You'll need to choose how your chords are spread amount the various instruments, and this lesson explains how all the notes frequencies work to get an harmonious result.
I never understood how to apply the harmonic series with the orchestra. Your demonstrations are extremely clear and fascinating. I love how you show a good balance chord, and then you show a bad balance chord. I saved the entire playlist, and I'm taking a lot of notes from this gem. Thank you so much
You're very welcome!
Perhaps the best explanation of the harmonic series I’ve seen. You’ve provided the fundamental “what” and “why” but extrapolated to “how” this impacts the way these fundamentals can be used…all with great examples. Just great! Thank you!
I'm glad you found the video helpful! I hope you enjoy the other videos in the series!
Just found your videos, using this alongside Piston's "Orchestration" which is helping fill in gaps that didn't stick at university. Muchly appreciated for you time and effort.
Thanks for watching! Glad the videos are helping!
Although I feel like I ve been doing this intuitively right because I have been playing in symphony and large brass orchestras for decades as a trombonist - this video is extremely well explained! As always the sole knowledge doesn't make much of a difference: You have to try and try and try again :) Wish you all a lot of fun experimenting with this knowledge
Best explanation on TH-cam - big fan of all his videos!
Thank you!
thank you sooo much! I started my "self learning' with you today!! =D Cheers from Jakarta, Indonesia.
Wonderful!
These are some of the better orchestration videos I've found on TH-cam. I especially appreciate how you show notation and MIDI at the same time, rather than one or the other. Your pacing and speaking is also very easily to understand and learn from.
Best of wishes for this channel taking off.
Thanks so much!
Master Alex. Fantastic video! Thanks for share your knowlegde. Regards from Colombia
My pleasure!
Thanks for that!!!! 😍
Very well explained.. which shows your "handle" on the subject!!👍🙏👍👏
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So good...
Awesome lessons thank you very much 🙏
This is a great gift you’ve given us! Thank you so much! Going to have to study this in detail. 🙏🏼👌🏼
Thanks for your time bro Sir, much love and God Bless.
This series is wonderful. There's so much information, really well presented and it covers aspects I haven't come across, even in paid courses. Thank you so much for making this... the only thing that would make it more perfect would be to make the midi available for the examples that you play.
Thanks so much! If you're interested, I have a Patreon page where I upload MIDI files for all new videos, as well as old videos if a patron requests it
@@AlexHeppelmann Ok, thanks for letting me know. I just just signed up (starting with Bronze for the moment) and will have a look around Patreon. I've just bought OT Woodwinds in BF sales and was watching your excellent Woodwind tutorials... it was those I thought the midi would be great.
@@Banquet... Thanks so much! Just send me a message on Patreon requesting a particular video's midi files if it's not already on there!
@@AlexHeppelmann The value of your videos is worth a lot more Alex, thank you :)
Really enjoying your channel, Alex. Keep up the good work!
Thanks!!
thank you. this is very helpful.
You're welcome!
really useful information!
Glad it was helpful!
I have just discovered your channel and I love it. I've just subscribed. Coming from Ableton and now Cubase Pro there is something that puzzles me and I am BEGGING for help: how do you manage at 8:28 to have Bass/Cello/Viola/Vln1/Vln2 SOUNDS on the SAME midi track and at the POSITION (on the scale) you want the instrument in question??!! My experience: I have to create a midi track for EACH instrument !! Please Mr. Alex if you could explain... thank you so much.
Thanks for subscribing! These instruments are actually on different midi tracks, but you can select any number of midi events on different tracks and view them simultaneously, as I'm doing in that moment. I don't think there's a way to have one track with different routing, although you might look into Divisimate. I've not used it, but I think it might do something close to that.
@@AlexHeppelmann Yes I 've just tried... now I understand !! I was afraid I had missed something. Thank you so much for your faster than light answer :)
@@lyskmusic You're welcome! Let me know if you have other questions!
Thanks very much for doing these videos. They’re very well done. At 9:24, you mention doubling the top two notes up the octave because they are a large interval away from the next note[s]. I’m having trouble seeing this in the notation. Do you mean the F# / G# high above the A / B? Are you saying it’s not shown here, but that you could double the F# / G# up an octave?
Hi Bryon -- thanks for watching! You're right that what I stated was a bit confusing, since the top notes are doubled a sixth, not an octave, above the lower notes. I think in this case, the larger interval between the pairs of notes sounds OK, because we're used to hearing a similar configuration with octave doublings. But in this case, I'm just mimicking that kind of spacing -- and the results are somewhat similar, I think. I hope that somewhat answered your question. Sorry to be confusing!
How do you do it when you don't have the divisi option in your virtual orchestra?
It depends entirely on the library, but often you want to adjust CC11 (expression) to compensate for fewer players on each note. It won't change the timbre though, so it only gets you part way there. Lately I like to use several different string libraries with different section sizes, so you can use the smaller section sizes for divisi parts.
@@AlexHeppelmann Thanks