How to Compose exciting Orchestral Textures
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- In this tutorial I show you a great orchestration technique called “Multilayered Block Orchestration” which will help you to write more interesting and cinematic textures for your pieces.
I will explain the concept with 3 different examples from my piece “The Queen's Escape”. If you want to compose film music and are looking for a classic and immersive sound, then this video will show you how to achieve it.
If you like my music: My first album with cinematic orchestral pieces is now available on all major streaming services. It's called "Awakenings" and also contains the piece "The Queen's Escape". Here's the official link: listen.music-hub.com/KfX4IU
For further information you can also check out my homepage:
hirchemusic.com/mainpage-eng/
My Name is Gary Hirche and I am a film composer from Germany. On this channel I want to analyse the film music of great composers and also make interesting tutorials on the topics composition and music production.
Topics:
0:00 Intro
0:33 What is Multilayered Block Orchestration?
1:23 Filigree Orchestration (Example 1)
5:25 Strong and agile Orchestration (Example 2)
9:08 Maestoso Orchestration (Example 3)
12:12 Bonus Tip
13:05 Summary
13:42 Album Announcement
14:10 Ending
Thanks for watching!
Really well done--beautiful orchestration/arranging and wonderful explanations!
People say texture is my biggest strength, so this is personally very helpful. Good video 😊
Beautifully orchestrated theme - thanks for sharing! I was delighted to hear you have a whole album of this kind of thing and immediately went to listen. :)
This channel has a certain flair as a music youtuber since it doesn't have stuff in your face about sponsors or their product line. It's pure in a way, I like it
Thank you for the knowledge and inspiration. I am in the midst of taking a Cinematic Composing Course right now. Just like you advised, always keep your melody in the forefront. That is what we just learned. All other instruments are to support the melody. I Love this approach, a bit different from what my instructor is teaching, but I truly enjoy it. The idea of story telling by building a full orchestration with the instruments slowly sounds amazing. Also, thank you ! I was wondering if I always have to keep my melody in the highest register ??? I appreciate you proving that it does not. I hope to become as good as you one day.
Wow! Such a strong first tutorial video! I turned on the bell notifications right away! Can’t wait to see what’s next!
Such a great video! I’d 100% pay for a Patreon or full course from you. Looking forward to more videos.
Hi RaisinFlakes, cool that you enjoyed the video and hopfully got something out of it. Right now, I am planning to keep the channel as uncommercial as possible. I really learned a lot from inspiring people on youtube during the last years, thus my goal is to give some value back to the music community on this platform.
@@hirchemusic So proud to hear that from you. Not everyone has a heart to give something invaluable free of cost. People like me who couldn't afford much will benefit from you. Thank you, Gentleman. Keep up the good work. Waiting to learn a lot from you.
Great video, I look forward to your future tutorials.
Super helpful! Thank you!!!
2:30 notice that his pizzicato functions as counterpoint and has a very precise gesture, not just filling harmony, and complementing the void of the melody with an exclamation (exclamatio). This is proper of well educated composers
Very well done!!
Very insightful! Thank YOU!
Fantastic composition and video, I learned a lot!
Thank you!!! Verry useful !!!
Really. Enjoyed the video!
Great video! I look forward to more. Thank you.
Fantastic stuff. Very helpful. Please do more !!!
Great !!! Both the composition and the explanation.
Absolutely wonderful content! Really appreciate it
Great! There's a lot of interesting ideas here ! Thanks
Really great video, with great advices! Huge thanks!
It's so beautiful. U're gifted!
I've been watching videos about orchestration for a few years, and your approach was very helpful for me. I liked this one, I got subscribed with the bell, and now I am looking froward to seeing your next tutorials. Good luck.
Thanks a lot for your positive feedback. I very much appreciate it! Due to some deadlines and traveling I couldn't start working on the next video until today, but I will do my very best!
Excellent breakdown and advice on orchestration. Very helpful examples! I look forward to seeing more!
Where have you been on my life hahaha! Great video, this really helps!
Fantastic music there! Bravo!
Sooo Good! Thanks for the tips. I haven't seen any advice like this online so far. Thanks!
amazing!
Yes, keep these episodes coming. I just subscribed, looking forward to the future.
Thank you, it was really informative and also - great video production!
Absolutely awesome video - So much information - thank you!
This was very informative. And you, my friend, are a very talented composer!
Terrific writing. Incredibly well orchestrated. Great job and good explanations.
Thanks a lot! Have a nice day!
Very nice. Lots of energy. Great sound
First time ever I clicked on the bell...
Enjoyed your videeo! Thanks
Brilliant!
great video!!!
Thankyou so much for the Tutorial.helped a lot.
Beautiful composition and arrengement, brilliant explanation! Thanks!
Brilliant video! I will absolutely try out these techniques. If you have the time and are happy to do so, I would love to see more videos from you. Thanks
omg, thank you so much, a huuuuuuge thank, so helpful!!
Thank you so much for this video. Liked and Subscribed!
Excellent. 14 minutes of solid learning....thank you!
As a beginner this is great, so glad I found your channel. Please make more videos like this!
I watch a lot if technique and orchestration videos but you do a great job of breaking it down and showing examples using your D.A.W. and samples. Nicely done!
Amazing stuff Gary! thank you for the great video! I can only hope to write at least one piece like this in my life! i loved this, it was such high production video for your first video, clear concise, made great sense, musically amazing! keep up the fantastic work!
Your video is inspiring, and I'm happy to see someone who would like to share the experiences!!! Very helpful, Thank u!!!
Extremely well done and well presented. Thank you for your insight, your explanations and the excellent music.
Many thanks for putting this together, very detailed and informative which I appreciate and I enjoyed how you painted it all coming together - it is exciting to see and hear it all coming together and how you use the instruments.
I look forward to your next episode many thanks again and wish you all the best !
Brilliant! Great explanation and excellent ideas here. Plus the composition and the sound you get are both wonderful. Especially liked your mention of Horn Fifths and the detail in your notion of storytelling here. I frequently hear composers say the word ('storytelling') but rarely hear them specify what they mean for a given instance. Looking forward to many more installments like this one!
I just came across your channel and watched Mutilayerd Block Orchestration, Fantastic explanations of your work. Thank you I have subscribed, Sean in South Africa.
This is some quality content right here. I think a video about dynamics would be perfect, you give this whole Powell vibe
what the hell! this channel is soooo underrated.
nice video btw
Subscribed and added bell icon . Waiting for more videos like this :D
Great Video ! Thanks ;)
Very useful tips thank you 😃 😃 😃
Thank you master 😊 i just listened 5 min and I amazed by the quality of the arrangement
Great
Wonderful writing and mockup. Also this must have been a ton of work to video edit! Thanks!
You bet it was. :) It's really nice, if someone who knows what he is talking about, also appreciates the editing details. Have a great day!
By chance I came upon your channel and glad I did. This video is most excellent and very well put together. All the layering details come together very well and clearly described. A lot of work went into making this video and it really shows.
Muito bem. Obrigado.
The best and most informative video I've ever seen on orchestration (not that I've seen many) and the music from which the illustrations are taken makes me want to hear the whole piece plus other pieces by you. Great presentation. Keep 'em coming.
This is superb instruction, thank you. You show us what you're doing, then explain both the how, and (most importantly IMHO) the conceptual thinking that lies behind the decisions you make. Subscribed.
Bitte mehr davon. Vielen Dank. Ich hab es sofort abonniert.
Subscribed! Thank you so much for this specific tutorial. If there is one thing I absolutely struggle with in composing/orchestrating, it is adding these textures. It just seems no matter what I add, my textures don't seem to fit well; this helps explain things more clearly. Love to see more of these types of orchestration videos if you ever have the time!
Don't get discouraged by the amount of views. Just think of it as you helped out nearly two thousand people get one step closer to there dream.
Found your channel through a recommendation on VI-Control (thanks Ed Buller). This was really clear, interesting and informative - great video, and like others' said, please do more! Thoroughly enjoyed this. Now subscribed.
The melody is a folkstune modal/celtic type, orchestrated romantically, this gives the „epic/cinematic“ signature , that looks neo-medieval. Well done !
Greaaat video! I didn't know your channel. Subscribed! 😁
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Thank you so much! This was very helpful. I smashed the like and subscribe buttons in the first 2 minutes:))
Thanks a lot, it makes me happy when I read comments like yours which show me that the knowledge shared in this video is actually helpful. Have a nice day!
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Great video... Suscribed!
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Thanks for sharing. Any possibility of sharing the pdf of the score? Beautiful melody gives RV Williams and Holst vibes in some areas.
Superb! Great content and great tips, thank you! May I ask you, which libraries do you use?
Hi, don't stop posting, a kind request from me
What The Hell? How can such a good UA-camr have so few subscribers???
By the way, I am preparing to apply for a Masters in Film and Television Scoring, do you have any suggestions? Will they prefer an industrial portfolio or a more personal portfolio?
Sorry if my English makes you confused, I'm a foreign student.
Fantastic video! Thank you for sharing! Which libraries did u use?
Hey Gary, this is a great video. I am very impressed by your music! It reminds me a lot of John Powell’s writing - one of my favorite writers.
It seems like you might live in Germany, but do you ever make it out to Los Angeles? I’d be interested in paying for a lesson or two with you to show you my writing and get your opinions. Thanks!
which orchestral libraries are you using in this mock up? They sound very good.
Amazing! It was very helpful, are you planning to do more tutorials?
Thanks a lot! I am planing a bunch of videos about different aspects of film scoring in the next weeks. (This first tutorial took me quite a while, but I hope I will get faster with the next ones) :)
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this is just pure gold... if i may ask, what is your academic background? how did you learn all this stuff?
Hi Marco. I've studied music education and worked as a teacher for bassoon, piano and music theory for several years. Then I studied film music in the masters program of a film university. But most of my life I was an autodidact. The two best ways for me to learn all these things were: 1) analyzing the scores of great composers (+ some theory knowledge) and 2) showing my own pieces to other people and get their reactions (friends, teachers, concerts etc.).
Great video! May I ask how you edited it with notes, your face and Cubase in such a great and flowing way? 😊
Sure, I use Da Vinci Resolve as my NLE and in these tutorials I stack several video Layers on top of each other and apply masks to them, e.g. my head gets the hexagonal cut-out. My DAW and my face are recorded live with OBS (screencast) and a camera, my voice is recorded with OBS too. The notes are created in Sibelius and edited afterwards to match the video, here I use keyframe animations in order to make it more flowing. Editing always takes me at least a week for these videos. I hope that answers you question. :)
@@hirchemusic It does! So do you duplicate the video because you have your face in the front layer and DAW in the back layer? How do you create those white notes, super nice! Thanks for answering 😊🙏
@@hazylightsaudio The camera recording of my face is the top layer (often with the aforementioned cut-out), the second layer are the notes, then comes the blue background (often cropped at the top) and the last (back) layer is the screencast of my DAW. The trick with the notes is, that I invert their colour and use a composite mode called "screen" in Resolve, which let's only the white parts (notes) come through, the rest is the blue background.
I’d love to know what equipment and software you use!
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Thanks man! What libraries are you using?
Hi mybiggrin. For crisp and clear strings I use Spitfire Chamber Strings, for the broad and lush brushstrokes I use Spitfire Symphonic Strings (occasionally doubled with Cinestrings), for brass: Spitfire Symphonic Brass and Cinebrass by Cinesamples, for tutti woodwinds: Berlin Woodwinds by Orchestral Tools, for some solistic woodwinds: Berlin Soloists, Perussion: Spitfire Percussion, and from time to time I use some Omnisphere or Zebra2 for subbasses.
Thank you! But "layering" means use other libarys, right?
Layering means combining instruments in an orchestration. You have to take decisions through the composition, whether a trumpet or a trombone or a horn would fit better in a section doing what
Where can we hear this full track?
It will be released in a few days. You will find the Album "Awakenings" on spotify, Amazon music and some other platforms. (If all goes as planned) (^_^)
@@hirchemusic waiting 🥰. Good luck for the release and keep sharing these tips with us, they are great.
Did you start by harmonizing your melody?
This was extremely instructive and has added to my inspiration as a newbie composer. Thank you so much. I just listened to the full piece at ua-cam.com/video/t0o_14AGnbM/v-deo.html and was interested to hear sections that were obviously inspired by Holst's Planets as well. Great stuff!!
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Why is is this called block orchestration?
Block orchestration in jazz big band it's totally different. Like in the 1950s
Hey, good question. First of all, "Block" in this context doesn't refer to "Block Chords", "Thickened Line" or section writing as we know it from a Jazz/Big Band context. It's the same with many musical terms that can have a pretty different meaning depending on the context and genre that you use them in, just think of words like "cadence" or how "horns" and "changes" mean a different thing to jazz and classical musicians. Albeit the technique I describe in the video might have at least some distant resemblance to classic Big Band writing.
The term "Block Orchestration" in film music means that you combine several layers into a homophonic texture that supports the melody (which is the main focus). Unlike in polyphony these layers often consist of rhythmized chords and arpeggios and not of individual melodic lines. These chord groups are the building "Blocks" of the orchestration I described. Why it's called "Block" can be seen best at 6:30 min where I describe a "Wall of sound" in the woodwind instruments, and that's just one of the "Layers".
But for me, the term "Block" is not only about grouping instruments into block-groups, it also describes that the harmonic rhythm in these pieces is often rather slow, more like a pop song then a baroque fugue, thus the chords can be seen as harmonic blocks that are textured by this orchestration technique (an interestingly orchestrated chord can keep the listeners attention much longer than a plain long notes chord).
Last but not least "Multilayerd Block Orchestration" is a tool that works especially great if you want to organize larger ensembles and compose heavy dramatic music. That's why I prefer the term "Block" instead of "line" or "point" (like in counterpoint), because it describes something bigger, that is also three-dimensional.
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