Don' take the "Dork" part seriously! That's just tough love. Also: Hans's Percussive tone definitely evolved and changed throughout the various films he scored. This example specifically is from Pirates of the Caribbean, but if it gets enough attention I might do a part 2 with another score from the man.
@Alex Moukala Tutorials For some case, I can get those really EPIC percussion ("Cinematic" as shown in this video) sounding like this even on Logic Pro X or not?
"otherwise you just wasted 5 minutes of your live, bye bye" - I don't think anything else has ever motivated me quite like this. Brb. I got some epic percussion to write.
Over the past few days, I struggled to write a good percussion line. It felt lifeless, dull and synthetic. I thought, maybe Alex has a tutorial on percussion, then I watched this video. Today, I rewrote all my percussion following what you said and the improvement is massive! I'm amazed that such simple tricks can make an enormous difference like that. So I just want to say thank you for making this video and for sharing this gold-rated knowledge :D !
Hi Alex, My name is Antonio and we met in a Subway station in London (I was playing the piano). I said I'd leave you a comment and here it is! I like your videos, a lot of cool music!
This is really helpful in learning how to write huge epic percussion parts. I now understand why it's important to use mid and high pitched percussion in addition to low pitched percussion. Using all three types provides a wider frequency spectrum. I'll be applying what you said in this video.
Immediately went to apply this to my own arrangement that I'm working on. Especially fun after picking up 8dio's epic perc libraries during a flash sale.
MATE....loving your videos...Love this stuff. would love to produce these kind of big sounds...Hanz is my hero man. Thanks so much for the helpful tips and breakdown of these epic tracks. Thanks bro
The skill talk at the beginning is very true. I made a very basic synth arpeggio with a very basic synth in 3x osc. Yet somehow it doesn’t sound like I only changed the wave shape in the full mix.
lol I was just looking for what those really loud and epic cinematic drums that sound kinda like really echoey reverby low low toms with a bit of high enoo idk how to describe it to help with my pirates of the caribbean arrangement but this was even more helpful
Practice makes the master. I'll try the percussive pattern knowledge in my compositions next week (I don't know if I would be able to write five though xD)
Is it just me or doesn't the armageddon Damage ensemble or the Albion One percussions have any cymbals??? I seem to only hear drums. No cymbals or any high frequency percussion. Am I not seeing something or could you recommend an affordable (200$ range) percussion library that has everything? Thanks!
Not gonna lie, I was really hoping to see some shots of taiko being recorded because of the thumbnail and was disappointed since I play taiko but did still enjoy what you talked about here especially since I'm making the move into music making.
I have recently bought UVI Orchestral Suite. Do you have a tutorial to achieve this brass sound with that plugin? I find it very difficult. Don’t know if that plugin is not good enough tho
Brother, i gotta say lately ive been watching a lot of your videos. But I notice one thing that you need to think about - and that is to slow down when you talk. Sometimes i really cant figure out what you're saying cause youre talking so fast. But either way, thank you so much for these tutorials, they've taught me a lot so far, keep it up!
I believe there is a way there and a way back on the instruments and composers skills relationship. But true is that if you believe in limitations, they become real.
Hans Zimmer actually said himself that he is only a friend of layering if it's really necessary, as it destroyes the transients of just a single drum / hit. This is only the case of course if two similar sounds fight for the same or similar frequency range.
That's also why I recommend layering stuff with (at least slightly) different timbre. If I need just a specific timbre to be stronger, I'd just incrase the volume.
Another useful video Alex! Straight to the point! Dissecting the percussion like this is really helpful. Sometimes I try to recreate the percussion by ear, but it's difficult. This does help! Anothe question: what do you use to record your videos? And especially your audio from your DAW? I use OBS to record my Cubase projects, but I really don't like the quality, even though I set it to max. Thanks for the vid!
As I understand it, Pirates Of The Caribbean score is by Klaus Badelt, not Hans Zimmer. Zimmer produced it and gave input and helped write a some of the main themes. He was writing the Last Samurai at the time and said he wouldn't work on anything else until that score was done, so Klaus was hired.
Indeed! That main theme we all love is from Klaus Badelt. However, this specific Arrangement was written by Hans Zimmer for the third film (name of the arrangement is Drink Up Me Hearties Yo Ho).
That's the official credit, because of the contract as you say, but the theme is 100% Zimmer. He said years later in an interview(s) that he ended up going home, writing 5-6 of the main themes/suits and sending them over to his team and going from there. You never get a "Theme by Klaus" in the credits of later movies/sequels to my knowledge. It was Hans.
@@AlexMoukala Thanks for the clarification. Hans is one of my favorite composers, up there with John Williams and Howard Shore. He elevated the Pirates score when he was able to devote his full attention to it. Keep up the great work Alex.
@@drifthero6608 Seems so. I was researching and apparently he wrote some themes on synths in one night and sent them over, as you stated. The scoring for the film seems to have been a mess, with multiple composers and conductors working on it. Thanks for your input. The first films score has some interesting history.
@@TheMontoya76 It certainly does, but it's definitely got that distinctive HZ sound, despite his overlap with the last samurai...seems like a lot of composers were involved and that it was a crazy turnaround!
oh man i'm not a native english speaker and i had to turn on the subtitles to understand some things. i would really love having a longer video than a rushed 5 minute video because your information its really nice, but i don't get it completely sometimes.
Don' take the "Dork" part seriously! That's just tough love.
Also: Hans's Percussive tone definitely evolved and changed throughout the various films he scored.
This example specifically is from Pirates of the Caribbean, but if it gets enough attention I might do a part 2 with another score from the man.
Hi Alex, listen to KGF movie music. It is amazing dude🤓
lol, I cracked up atthat part. You have some of the bets sounds though, jeebus!
You are so good at this sir 🔥🔥🔥
@Alex Moukala Tutorials For some case, I can get those really EPIC percussion ("Cinematic" as shown in this video) sounding like this even on Logic Pro X or not?
@@sadheeshkumar7302 lol you must be kidding!
I like how this guy uses the pirates of the caribbean theme for literally every example. This theme really is a masterpiece.
"otherwise you just wasted 5 minutes of your live, bye bye" - I don't think anything else has ever motivated me quite like this. Brb. I got some epic percussion to write.
I just rethought my entire life after he said that one sentence.
TAIKOS ON TAIKOS ON TAIKOS ON TAIKOS ON TAIKOS
I’m somewhat surprised to see you here...
me too....
Needs more taiko 😁
You should be making cinematic music for hollywood!
Gi Mi!!! 🌮🌮🌮
4:59 When your DAW doesn't obey. "I said percussion......."
sudo perc
Also when your ram says no
Me: mmh sounds good
Alex: “This is shit!”
5:55 both hands up in the air - mouse still moves
magic confirmed
Davie Dood hope your joking. Also this guy is very obviously not Nigerian
@@MiloMcCarthyMusic if he's a scammer he is. 😂
@@daviedood2503 i think he pre recorded it
@@daviedood2503 he prerecorded it dude, btw why are you bringing race to this? look at his other video man he definitely made it himself
He's Italian and he's not a scammer what the heck xD. He actually drops gems for people like you ;)
Over the past few days, I struggled to write a good percussion line. It felt lifeless, dull and synthetic. I thought, maybe Alex has a tutorial on percussion, then I watched this video. Today, I rewrote all my percussion following what you said and the improvement is massive! I'm amazed that such simple tricks can make an enormous difference like that. So I just want to say thank you for making this video and for sharing this gold-rated knowledge :D !
"Chaos in the right way". Amazing!
I'd take Man of Steel as the prime example. 14 drummers at once.
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Hi Alex, My name is Antonio and we met in a Subway station in London (I was playing the piano). I said I'd leave you a comment and here it is! I like your videos, a lot of cool music!
Yo dude! Welcome to the channel. :D
Eager to hear your compositions man!
dude, 3 words: you are awesome. Best tutorials ever in this subject. Short, powerfull and clear. Love this!
This is really helpful in learning how to write huge epic percussion parts. I now understand why it's important to use mid and high pitched percussion in addition to low pitched percussion. Using all three types provides a wider frequency spectrum. I'll be applying what you said in this video.
I absolutely love your attitude. :) You're spot on, as usual, and your delivery remains the plain, pure, unapologetic truth. :)
this video came right as I'm working on the next Pixel Mixers track :P thanks bro! I love percussion like this
Bro you’re the only person on UA-cam that puts out great educational orchestra videos!!
Excellent sounding mockup! Great video!
Awesome tutorial. This is super inspiring - will work on applying these lessons.
Holy S***! Best "no bull" video on percussion I've seen in a while. Straight down to buisness and rock solid info!! SUBSCRIBED!
"You're a dork" classic
Love that u mentioned muse! Best band ever! Best drummer ever
Thanks for the info.
Thank you! Love from Brazil
Immediately went to apply this to my own arrangement that I'm working on. Especially fun after picking up 8dio's epic perc libraries during a flash sale.
This is very informative man... I always struggle with percussions... Thank you Alex... You do a great Job.... All the best man
0:26 "It's about drive, it's about power..."
Bro I was looking for this comment 🤣
Im glad subtitles were made
This is surely the BEST percussion tutorial in 5 minutes !! You make it look easy :D
thank you man, nice
"You're a dork" hahaha love it. Thanks for the video man
I laughed so hard when he said 'youre a dork'
thank you sir ... i learned so much
Thanks Alex!Great video man!!!
You are just super awesome man!!!
YEEEY finally a cinematic composer who uses Fl studio :D I'm not alone lol Great video, I love this theme! New subscriber here
"its not about the library, but the skill."
As always Alex, fantastic video!
Thank you for your videos!
THANK YOU !!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! ALEX!!!
This is insanely helpful...
What library were your cymbals from?
Rhapsody Orchestral Percussion.
MAN OF STEEL PERCUSSION!
Thank You!
Well, he's probably talking about some very interesting things.
MATE....loving your videos...Love this stuff. would love to produce these kind of big sounds...Hanz is my hero man. Thanks so much for the helpful tips and breakdown of these epic tracks. Thanks bro
Great work! thanks for advice!
Great Video!
Brilliant analysis. Clear, concise explanations. Stunningly well done video, thank you for this.
My dude, thank you- being reminded of the purpose of cymbals helped me see through the wall I made out of all my bass
your music is awesome!
Thanks.... It's so useful... Can u make a tutorial of mixing and mastering of this.... It will be very helpful.. Thanks.. ☺☺
Hey Alex, I'm glad that you're in my 2019, Thank you thank you thank you so much
Just at the moment, that i stuck on writing drums line in my song. Thank you!
That percussion!
5:00 ahahahah you are the king alex!
You are incredible ❤️
Great tips on filling up the high register of the percussion orchestra ❤
Please please pleeeease someone tell me what kind of drum is it the mentions as the accents ( from 01:43 )?
The skill talk at the beginning is very true. I made a very basic synth arpeggio with a very basic synth in 3x osc. Yet somehow it doesn’t sound like I only changed the wave shape in the full mix.
*_Beautiful tutorial_*
This ❤️🔥❤️🔥
This tutorial is really great! I used your tips for my own compositions and it helped a lot to make them sound huge and epic! 😃🙏🙌
"you're a dork" ...I love it when you say this
lol I was just looking for what those really loud and epic cinematic drums that sound kinda like really echoey reverby low low toms with a bit of high enoo idk how to describe it to help with my pirates of the caribbean arrangement but this was even more helpful
Nice all creation 🔥
Nice and quick tutorial :)
Loved it. ❤
good video Alex lot of thanks dude¡¡¡
2:28 low end percussion only
5:01 layered percussions
The man i have searched for years gotcha!!!!! Thanks Alex, you have showed me the way of my career.!!!!! #Alex Moukala Tutorials
2:14 Anyone tell me what drums these are??
I love the statement anyway...at 0:47
Practice makes the master. I'll try the percussive pattern knowledge in my compositions next week (I don't know if I would be able to write five though xD)
Then write 25.
Great tutorial, Alex!
Which library used you for the Epic Dhols?
8Dio Epic Dhols.
It's about drive it's about power
tks so much
Where can I find more links for drummer of muse. 5:20
"it has a lot of drive, it has a lot of power" this dude predicted the Rock's song
Is it just me or doesn't the armageddon Damage ensemble or the Albion One percussions have any cymbals??? I seem to only hear drums. No cymbals or any high frequency percussion. Am I not seeing something or could you recommend an affordable (200$ range) percussion library that has everything? Thanks!
Not gonna lie, I was really hoping to see some shots of taiko being recorded because of the thumbnail and was disappointed since I play taiko but did still enjoy what you talked about here especially since I'm making the move into music making.
I love how he can still make a pretty cool outcome with stock FL plugins. All them FabFilter hoes fell of right at 2:52
I have recently bought UVI Orchestral Suite. Do you have a tutorial to achieve this brass sound with that plugin? I find it very difficult. Don’t know if that plugin is not good enough tho
Brother, i gotta say lately ive been watching a lot of your videos. But I notice one thing that you need to think about - and that is to slow down when you talk. Sometimes i really cant figure out what you're saying cause youre talking so fast. But either way, thank you so much for these tutorials, they've taught me a lot so far, keep it up!
ohhh... cannot be more right ! Love what you do but...MAN ! are you epileptic or what ???
Hi Alex, could you make a video talk about how make music to match the que point of video？
i use ableton 10 and im new to composing, would anyone recommend a good library for orchestral sounds?
I believe there is a way there and a way back on the instruments and composers skills relationship. But true is that if you believe in limitations, they become real.
So far did one..it sucks i assume thats why you said do ten I might need twenty we shall see! thank you for another great tutorial!
This was great. Thank you so much! Can I ask, how'd you learn all your tricks? Surely not by ear???
You have to study the tremendously complex vastity of music theory
Just found your channel. Fucking awesome. You’re a composition and FL wizard.
Hans Zimmer actually said himself that he is only a friend of layering if it's really necessary, as it destroyes the transients of just a single drum / hit. This is only the case of course if two similar sounds fight for the same or similar frequency range.
That's also why I recommend layering stuff with (at least slightly) different timbre.
If I need just a specific timbre to be stronger, I'd just incrase the volume.
@@AlexMoukala how do you clean the frequency after the layering ? because the percussion will fight with the strings
Please tell some free hits or precursor sample pack or vst plugins. Please make a vedio on it
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0.75 speed for him to talk normally
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Why you keep some tracks in midi ? consolidated audio files cost less cpu, right ?
love your stuf
Is flex a viable library ?
Another useful video Alex! Straight to the point! Dissecting the percussion like this is really helpful. Sometimes I try to recreate the percussion by ear, but it's difficult. This does help!
Anothe question: what do you use to record your videos? And especially your audio from your DAW? I use OBS to record my Cubase projects, but I really don't like the quality, even though I set it to max.
Thanks for the vid!
I use Xsplit for tutorials, or OBS when I stream sometimes. Never had huge issues with its quality though.
As I understand it, Pirates Of The Caribbean score is by Klaus Badelt, not Hans Zimmer. Zimmer produced it and gave input and helped write a some of the main themes. He was writing the Last Samurai at the time and said he wouldn't work on anything else until that score was done, so Klaus was hired.
Indeed! That main theme we all love is from Klaus Badelt.
However, this specific Arrangement was written by Hans Zimmer for the third film (name of the arrangement is Drink Up Me Hearties Yo Ho).
That's the official credit, because of the contract as you say, but the theme is 100% Zimmer. He said years later in an interview(s) that he ended up going home, writing 5-6 of the main themes/suits and sending them over to his team and going from there. You never get a "Theme by Klaus" in the credits of later movies/sequels to my knowledge. It was Hans.
@@AlexMoukala Thanks for the clarification. Hans is one of my favorite composers, up there with John Williams and Howard Shore. He elevated the Pirates score when he was able to devote his full attention to it. Keep up the great work Alex.
@@drifthero6608 Seems so. I was researching and apparently he wrote some themes on synths in one night and sent them over, as you stated. The scoring for the film seems to have been a mess, with multiple composers and conductors working on it. Thanks for your input. The first films score has some interesting history.
@@TheMontoya76 It certainly does, but it's definitely got that distinctive HZ sound, despite his overlap with the last samurai...seems like a lot of composers were involved and that it was a crazy turnaround!
Where can I find these sounds
oh man i'm not a native english speaker and i had to turn on the subtitles to understand some things. i would really love having a longer video than a rushed 5 minute video because your information its really nice, but i don't get it completely sometimes.
Great