5 Tips for Writing Epic Orchestral Music
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Writing epic orchestral music is more straightforward than you think. In this first episode of a series of Logic X tutorials, I share 5 tips to speed up the creative workflow when writing epic music, regardless of what software you're using. No expensive VSTs were used to make this, just in-built Logic X samples.
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I didnt understand any of it. Not a musician.
Then why are you watching this video? If you don't understand music why do you want to compose something?
@@Marshal-SO2 Because i want to be one
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The way A Tale Of Sea Dragons was written pulled me in, it remains my favourite work of yours.
I'm a year late but I totally agree. It's so reminiscent of How to Train Your Dragon which is an orchestral masterpiece.
yeah first piece of his i heard and now i'm hooked with his music
I barely know anything about instruments or sounds, or musical programs for that matter, but I love watching you create music. 10/10
You are so talented and inspiring!
This is so good! Could you PLEASE make more? Maybe a tutorial on just percussion, or horns?
Oh yeah PLEASE!
Your song ( in collaboration with Claudia White) "The Calling" is my most favorite song ever! The last part beginning with "Let the world hear your voices calling the sky..." is absolutely amazing.
This composition sounds as if you are currently working on "back to africa" or something like that! And I love it as much as I do all your other masterpieces, which always seem to have these wonderful ingedients called "love" and "peace". Considering other composers with their heavy and dramatic kind of epic music, you are in my eyes a "composer of light".
Hopefully you keep on forging this one!
Thank you for all your beautiful work!
Pls more tutorials on how to make better orchestrations. Can you also disect one of your projects like White sails or A tale of sea dragons :D
I'd love to see that tbh
MARCUS!!!!! Hi… can you do tutorial videos again? Please? I love your music and id love to learn more about how you orchestrated more of your incredible pieces.
I reaaaaaally like the style of that
I just listened to this song while Tokyo Rain played in another tab and tbh your voice fits really really well over it, now I need to rewatch this video tho so I can actually take in what you say
Wow...fantastic! Thanks for the inspiration! I think I can...I think I can......!
You can!
Thank you for taking the time to make this! Like seriously 👌🏼
hahaha, nice close-ups xD
Thanks for the tips Marcus!
Your tutorial is good ! Continue please 👍👍👍
Oh yeas
Yes I would love to see more of these.... would it be possible to do a video about what softwares and tech stuff you use. What would be recommended for advanced all the way down to beginners. Thank you very much for these videos
My biggest inspiration and my new favorite UA-camr. The perfect combination 👌👌
I found your channel because Telescope became one of my favorite songs and I wanted to see if there is more from you. I adore your music. It's exactly what I wanted in so many ways. I am not a musician but was hoping to get into music one day and I am very happy that you put that video up. I don't really understand a lot right know but it will be of use later. Please keep making them. They are helpful and also kinda motivational.
Awesome video, But I think I'm gonna learn how to play piano before make some music !
Thanks for sharing this, Marcus! It was very helpful.
6:24 - The way you change the timbre of the horn there is really cool. I'm a total beginner (only ever really dealt with midi so far), and I don't think I've ever used EQ like that before.
Nice video
Hope you make this music official!!!
"Bras" and "strings" are always good x)
Thank you Marcus, you're amazing, thank you for sharing this with us, i didn't understand anything but i enjoyed it so much anyway!!! 😀💖love from Colombia. Also you've got a really beautiful pair of eyes! 😍
This was a cool video. Do you think you could do any videos on mixing or mastering? I always like to hear what different people do on the production side of things for orchestral music and you definitely have a very electronic-inspired sound in your arrangements and mixing (even when not using electronics)!
City of Sails got me into orchestra I like a lot of your music :)
Thanks, James Franco!
Your skills are absolutely fantastic I don’t even make music and I watched this with joy ! I want to congrats you for sharing such well made videos with such great Image quality ! Well done Marcus !
I only play the piano and I'm not a composer, but I found this video so interesting. It's a behind-the-scenes kind of look that is quite cool. Thanks!
"Sounding.... acceptable. I think, I hope..."
Knowing damn well it sounds amazing 😂😂
Thank you brother
this really helped with my composing. Thanks so much for this.
I am currently making some huge pieces, and this this amazing :)
What's missing from this tutorial is that in order to create all these amazing textures that blend with the melodies so well is first A musicians ear. 2.) A talent for music and composition and 3.) Years of practice seeing what works and doesn't and having a keen eye for melodic arrangement. All of these things don't come easily. But what anyone can do is just to begin and have fun with what you have as that's what the very basis of music should be. If you're enjoying what you create and you put passion and love into so will it translate into the music itself and the audience will relive that as pure emotional connection and enlightenment through pure notational symphony.
Omg you use Logic!! My sister loves to make music too and she has logic too - should show this to her!
I understood absolutely nothing of this. Still watched, and loved, every second of it!
This is the coolest video EVER!! Orchestral music is so fascinating
Wow and yesterday I was thinking why you haven't done a tutorial or something yet. Thanks a lot!
Great video! Very informative, to the point, and easy to follow. Would love to see more in-depth videos. Keep it up Marcus!
That is soooo helpful !!! Thank you so much for this, I hope there will be more tutorials like this one !
Thank you! Cool to see inside the mind of one of my favorite artists!
11:56 When you fall in your music!
It would be really cool if we could send in our songs and have him give us feedback on how well we did.
Underrated
Would love to see a video on how to write more interesting percussion parts. There aren't too many good videos out there that touch on that!
It is one of my favourite parts of the process - would be happy to do a more in-depth tutorial at some point, thank you for the suggestion!
-MW
I absolutely love it! Thank you for the very useful tips.
didn'tunderstand much ... just wow!! you rock!!
Where is the LOVE button? :D UA-cam does not offer that, like Facebook does, but no worries. This is very good advice. I myself have produced electronic music (positive breakbeat mostly), so can relate. But I am moving to that direction in creating new music. At least this is what I am dreaming about doing in the near future :)
PS: I am a great fan of your music! This is absolutely amazing (I mean the many-many pieces of music you have created)! Enjoyable and powerful!
A thankful delighted enjoyer of your music.
Amazing tutorial, thanks à lot from France Marcus
Amazing
Hey, that sample piece worked out really nicely, but why would you say that it's bad? Could you perhaps explain what could have gone better?
Plus, you should continue to make these tutorials; yet I'd also like to see some of your own works of epic at once in a while as well.
Hi Liam,
If I could have done it again I would have made sure to turn down the levels of everything by a lot, having not done a tutorial whilst making a piece of music before I did not think about the mix until it was too late and so ended up having to put a limiter on everything which results in the mix sounding very squashed. I would also say, as I mentioned at 4:02, that whilst this kind of orchestration gets the job done if you're in hurry, it isn't necessarily the most creative of approaches.
Thanks, I will definitely be looking at some previous tracks in the future!
-MW
Very nice, Marcus! Can you do a tutorial on variations around a theme please? Now that you have a hook (or you could call it part A), let's do a proper Intro, another part (B), then Outro. Always had a challenge coming up with this stuff.
Good idea, my only thought is that the further you go with a piece from start to finish, the more potential variations there are. Sort of like one of those multiple choice games. Even this one section of music in this tutorial was one example of hundreds of subgenres of 'epic music'. The more of the piece I do from start to finish, the more specific it becomes, and I don't want these to be 'tutorials on how to write like Marcus Warner'.
-MW
Hi Marcus ... appreciate that I am a little late to the party. Any chance you can make the midi available? Also, what fx settings were you using in this example? Thanks
just what i needed thanks very much!
Cool video! You are so talented, its always nice to see what you are up to :)
Definitely epic music. Can you do a tutorial on more intense fast paced orchestral music? I'm thinking something kind of like Makko Shobu from Haikyuu.
Even tho I don't know much about music (none about composing to be exact lol), I enjoyed this tutorial and it's amazing you can do such a good job in such a short time wow (and I liked the lil bits of humour you sneaked in hahah)…I've noticed that the music you came up with does sound like a fusion of your other tracks hehe (though sadly I can't really pinpoint which)
Awesome video definitely a subject that needs to be covered ,to see how you make your wonderful music is brilliant to get a look in . I've come up with a melody and it is pretty good from what people have been saying you should check it out and see if you can make something from it
Thanks bro really useful!
Hi Marcus not gonna lie this really helped a lot in getting me some ideas and inspiration. I've been thinking for awhile about writing my own music, but didn't really have the drive, know where to start, have enough insight about orchestration and how to write for each instrument or means to do it. Seeing something like this has atleat given insight. I would love to continue to see tutorials for advice on this sought of thing for compositon. I'm using Sibelius which i realisenis not the same programme buti wonder if you would have any sought of tips for that
The final output was so good that I wanted it to be a part of some medieval kinda video. I wish I could understand the basics of music like octaves and strings. Currently using the mixcraft, any suggestions for that?
Beautiful 😍
Marcus, have you ever used FL Studio?
Wow, I will not understand all the words. For Thai people may be accent faster. But not a problem I like very much. This language is really beyond words.
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You r a genius!!!
Seeing this makes me want to try it myself. My question is: approximately what percentage of your music do you produce using only "virtual" instruments? Because I love just about all of your music, and it boggles my mind to think that you can create a sound like yours using only computers.
Also because I would like to produce my own music one day, but expect to have very limited resources. :P
Without a doubt it's 95% or above virtual. You don't need to have tons of live instruments for it to sound real, just one or two tracks over the top to blend it all together. Most of the time for me it'll be irish whistle or guitar! But good music can be made 100% virtually.
You got a template for download for this
I actually never knew about Logic until now. I work on musescore. Is that ok?
What program to make the music and can used on window?
Hello Marcus, thanks for sharing some great tips. Would you be kind enough to tell me a list of 'the greats of epic music' that you were referring to? Starting of course with Number 1. Marcus Warner. Subscribed
Haha very kind. As far as I can make out, Hans Zimmer popularised the genre and the orchestration/pop writing techniques which have taken over from the more traditional John Williams scoring style, but TSFH really were the first to put it on steroids and make what we know as the 'epic trailer music' of today. There are tons of them around today now, anything by Audiomachine, Really Slow Motion etc.
-MW
Hi can I rap on your epic orchestra music? can we calibrate?
Hey Marcus I really appreciate the tutorial !
Do you think it is possible for a completely new beginner who doesn't have music basis to make epic musics?
Hi, yes it is. You have the world's vastest resource of knowledge - the internet - at your disposal! It's worth learning orchestration and production techniques + listening to a lot of your favourite artists to work out what you want your style to be.
Best of luck!
-MW
Greetings~ I very much enjoyed the tutorial so to speak. I also compose and was seeking out some orchestral writing tips, hit sort of a brick wall myself with some thing. Very helpful~ I feel like we may be on the same level, feel free to reach out sometime, I'd love to exchange ideas and give some feedback on each others work!
Do you have any inspiration?
What interface are you using to get the notes of your keyboard to the computer?
Hi Time, most keyboards now come as standard with a USB socket on the back so they double as a MIDI keyboard, as is the one I was using in this video. I have one that is solely MIDI and normally sits on my desk right in front of me but did not have room for it as I had to make space for a camera!
-MW
What white keyboard were you using?
Molto interessante!
6:24 Kind of sounds like a synth almost
I was wondering if you mastered your own material?
I do! Again something learned through practice, suggestions from people I have met and UA-cam tutorials.
-MW
GOOD GREIF PLZ POST IT
Keren Abiss
わぁーっ、嬉しい❤
Prazer te conhecer Marcus Warner e obrigado por vc postar um pouquinho do teu tempo fazendo explicação para todos nós maravilhoso Deus te abençoe muito a inspiração que Jesus te dá
afdsfdssf you have a very relaxing voice
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I don't have any library,I can't want to spend money on library
How to train your dragon inspired. I think..xD
Wow you're handsome.
Its stupid that american english pronounces template as "templit"
These kind of “tips” make all epic music sounds like the same.
What do you suggest then, just don’t make epic music? Dumb comment.