Composing Documentary Music is HARD

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[@GavinNellist]

Always so interesting watching a composer at work and great to see that problems are encountered and overcome, a good lesson for many of us

[@ZachHeyde]

Thanks Gavin!

[@perttutarvainenp-tunes6924]

I `ve never learned this much in 29.30. You sir, are great. Thank you!

[@evi1boxman]

I just finished scoring this one. It was alot of fun. I went with a completely different vibe and its cool to see someone else have a different approach

[@stormlord620]

I can't stop watching all of your videos, you are SO good at this

[@ZachHeyde]

Thanks very much 😁

[@DanielMartinez-ot9cn]

You are amazing and truly inspiring. Loving your channel. I consider you a new teacher for me. Thank you for your hard work and showing us how you put all this together. So inspiring!

[@yvanroustan4426]

thank you very much for all these videos and musical inspiration ! Happy new year Zach !

[@jsnell126]

Every one of your videos is like a mini masterclass. Great stuff.

[@ZachHeyde]

Thank you, very kind :)

[@TrevorWesleyOfficial]

Awesome bro! You mentioned I think you said "Quetube? Where to go to get content to practice scoring, I didn't find it in the description. Thanks for sharing!

[@soundguydon]

I love watching these vids. I had a ton of ideas in my head, and now I have more; none of them tracked lol. Excellent work as always!

[@RunarLundvall]

Great stuff Zach, you always deliver! Also so nice to see some love for the TEC Breathcontroller

[@nathan.rodrigues]

This was spectacular! I would love to see more of walkthroughs like this.

[@creativemadnessproduction8590]

This was very inspiring!!! It makes me want to do something like this myself one day… very well done buddy. Keep up with the phenomenal work. 👍

[@zaharishtonov]

Nicely done! It is always great watching you craft music in real time!

[@ZachHeyde]

Thank you!

[@dietrichdietrich7763]

my eyes were opened up with this video. this is what I was looking for exactly (Thanks)

[@genevievesulway830]

Thanks! Fascinating for me as a documentary filmmaker watching your process. Selecting music and getting it composed is critical and can make of break your film. ❤

[@Audiowallpaper]

On my journey as a composer I'm always looking for outlets/opportunities to score for film. :)

[@ivantorrent495]

It is really working! Great job! Just found your channel and watching every single video! Thanks man!

[@GnuSCello]

Amazing job!!!!

[@davewestner]

Nice man....thanks for opening the window to this world. Really enjoyed watching the process. I really dig you Logic template (at least I assume that's what we're looking at). Really smart set up.

[@tomfrancis4398]

Wow! Just so fun to watch and learn. Thank you Zach.

[@merlin.g]

thank you for this good video!!!

[@piyasirimusicproduction]

I'm learning so much from your channel that I can use in my own music. Thanks!

[@janetbmusic]

This video was great!! Thank you for sharing your process. I just finished a similar project and your approach validated the ideas I had about how the music should fit.

[@musicproducer10]

Very inspiring! thanks, Zach!💯

[@milo7849]

Hello Zach, great work, you have a lot of knowledge on the subject, your videos are always very interesting and the subjects are relevant. Thank you a little French musician

[@CyrilBellem]

Amazing music, it fits so well! A pleasure to watch this, thank you 🙂

[@mustechnology]

It's really great work! And thanks for all resources you applied for this video! Now I know where I can take a video for exercises😀 Happy New Year!🎅

[@ZachHeyde]

Thank you!

[@nickvareymusic]

Sounds awesome!

[@maciej74174]

Very inspiring. Thank you.

[@romanponomarenko3099]

Thank you for this, super cool and informative 🙌bravo!!

[@ConstantinPhillipou]

Amazing music and video tutorial

[@Erminelezovicmusic]

22:05 uhh, that color is great (that movement)

[@Darqice]

If you don't mind the question, what is that mouth piece "controller" you are using? Is it something you can buy on its own or does it come with particular MIDI keyboards? Look really wonderful to control expression and dynamics!

[@Darqice]

Oh, wait. Never mind. I see you did an entire video on it :D

[@oldfarmpottery]

Love that crazy wind/ flutes bit! Loved watching this. Very inspiring. Thank you for sharing your process.

[@Med2402]

Inspiring

[@lluisrafalessole-classical5068]

Fantastic 🎶🎶👏👍

[@nbenyair]

Sounds great! Is the breath controller just assigned to CC 11 or are you using plugins/libraries that are made for it?

[@Larsmannetje66]

Amazone piece you made there!

[@Imagineyourmusiccom]

Hello, thank you so much for this, it's brilliant! in case you could, please, would you do a tutorial for an underscore for comedy?I have to do that for a friends short film underneath funny dialogue and I struggle, you know adding bassoon, xylophone, glockenspiel, tuba, cello glissandi , strings pizzicati, chimes, woodblock, harp and so on, like, for example ,in "why women kill" season one.., thank you, greetings from Switzerland and happy new year!

[@ZachHeyde]

Great suggestion! In the meantime, check out around 6:45 in this video (I chat about scoring comedy): kzbin.info/www/bejne/b37Zhaere79-Y6c Happy New Year :)

[@Imagineyourmusiccom]

@@ZachHeyde oh wouaouw, , thanks Zach ! yes I will take a look, and thank you so much for your reply, have a great and safe week end, take care!

[@LeDrummerDu88]

1:00 This voice...... Hans Zimmer is that you ? 😅

[@GlynRBrown]

Very impressive!..What's that blowie thing you use ?

[@wissemmakni2569]

Piano is good whats vst please?

[@ZachHeyde]

Keyscape!

[@kentonanderson561]

Where can i take a great in person workshop or class to learn this electronic composing, from scratch, I wonder?

[@msdandan9744]

Zach you're fantastic! I think I couldn't find the resources you mentioned, is it Q-tube? where to find the documentary videos for free? thanks so much!

[@ZachHeyde]

Thank you! Here's the link for you: thecuetube.com/

[@msdandan9744]

@@ZachHeyde you’re super!! Thank you!

[@maxuno8524]

❤🔥

[@BendikHustadnes]

What is the thing around your neck/in your mouth? Do you use it to control velocity/expression? Seems like a great tool! Love your videos by the way! :)

[@dksellou]

hi Zach, what is the Sub hits (SS) library? Great percussion sounds!

[@ZachHeyde]

Splash Sounds :)

[@romanponomarenko3099]

Btw what wind controller you using?

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

is there any reason why you don´t use the gain plugin as send? cause then you can see how much you added. I just use on intrument to decrease. I find funny that you also use this plugin like me, not much fader. I use the faders in the final stages. Only thing that annoys me now is the low latency mode affecting gain staging for the recording, so i do the cc with a bad reference for levels

[@ZachHeyde]

That's an interesting idea--I usually keep sends exclusively for reverbs, as my effects buses are routed by stem group (so all winds are using the same sends for reverb, for example). But gain via send seems useful too!

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

@@ZachHeyde so i have an overview of the gain adjustments (at gain stage level, not mixing). But i don´t know if this is a good practice, or the consequences for latency/phase. Unfortunely it doe snot work for gain reduction ; otherwise i would have two sends (boost, and reduction).

[@jensjensen4038]

Hey Zach. I was wondering if you have the problem where logic deletes your channel strip name? When loading a project or channel it replaces the name you gave it yourself with inst or kontakt? Or is it just me ty

[@ZachHeyde]

File>General>Project Settings>Audio, go to "Channel Strips", and de-select "Automatic Naming of Channel Strip Objects" 😁

[@jensjensen4038]

@@ZachHeyde i will do that thank you so much!

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

very well done this one. You found the right sine synth very quickly. Now I have an excuse to watch such annoying docs kk

[@Makerkiddo]

has anyone ever told you that you look really similar to Smallant?

[@iMobinator]

GothamMusic

[@danielbeach7177]

Hi, just wondering what the shortcut is for pulling up the time signature pop up like you did when you went to 7/8? :-)