FROM PIANO TO FULL ORCHESTRA IN 15 MINS - How to orchestrate a piano chord progression

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In this video, I show you how to go from a simple piano progression with a melody on top to a fully orchestrated segment in a few simple steps. Combinations are endless and the sky is the limit when it comes to the options available to you so use this as a starting point and let your imagination guide you from there on! Have fun!
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I love this "from piano to full orchestra" type videos. They are always great and I'm always looking forward for more of them :)

[@grmusicnyc]

Glad you are enjoying them!

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Totally agree. These are packed full of useful info. Always look forward to them

[@RickatSonyRed]

Love your stuff, I think I’m this piece, a high flute, mixed with a few other instruments might have worked better that the female vocal, just a thought, but I love the way you present your work, very understandable, clear, and, I’m a big fan

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Exactly what I've needed. I have my discs full of music, tons and tons sheets, ideas... but never be able to do more with them. Now I must find a way how to obtain all those programs, libraries and how to use them - and begin!

[@amarug]

Particularly magical is the part where it goes from G major to D minor where the melody hits the 3rd of the chord, boosting its color. Sounds incredible

[@amarug]

Damn that was amazing, loved the track too!! Very beautiful and haunting melody.

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[@stevekelly3033]

I love orchestral music and hope to create something myself using FL Studio DAW. This video has helped me enormously. Being a DanceSport teacher I am used to dancing to orchestral strict tempo so it is in my blood so to speak. But I hope it isn't too big a leap from that to full orchestral arrangement with varying tempi.

[@pascalbriere9014]

Another great tuto, Gabriel. Your "from piano sketch to full Orchestra" is a genius idea, and you have real qualities in pedagogy, such as adding the staves below the tracks, or offering for free your midi file, which you're the lonely one to do. Un grand merci pour ton temps, ton talent et ta générosité.

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I was literally waiting for your video. Just loved it.

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Great work, thanks!!!

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Great video! Thanks for sharing your work!

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Beautifully done. Subscribed.

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This is awesome. Thank u for such tutorials. I learned a lot from you

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Thank you great video

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Just Wow!!! Thank you so much👍👍

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Thank for tutorial Gabe... Good jobs!

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Absolutely brilliant. Good job bon boulot !

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amazing work. your work is really inspirational, well explained and eye-opener

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I like the way you present these tutorials. Always something new to learn from your music. Keep up the good work. I'm already looking forward to the next one.

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Another really useful video, thank you for sharing

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Love it . Very rich and upfront with full spectrum. Beautifully done . Thx for sharing.

[@LernGuru]

So far my favourite piece. As always simple yet very well explained. I love Your tutorials. You rock, Gabe!

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Thank you Gabe for this helpful video!

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Thank you again ! I can hear Nobuo Uematsu here Ah ah

[@nobbymorph]

Awesome contribution, Gabe. Always a breath of fresh air, thank you.

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This is wonderful sir

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Very helpful! Thank you so much for posting. You are a very good teacher!

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Very useful lessons for me,Thank u ! so much Gabe.

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Great, thank you!

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Impressive. Really love this content, have to say thank you for this.

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great music and video... instant fan!! 🔥

[@parm0198]

Sir, You are so humble ❤️❤️

[@jonabbott7538]

Another great tutorial on orchestration. You have helped me to understand the concept and separation of the instruments involved, as well as when/where to use them. Yes, as you say, it is somewhat difficult, however you are helping to remove the mystery behind it. BRAVO.

[@JoseMariaColomina]

Great tutorial! Very well explained and in a very clear and understandable english :)

[@satyabratapanda5630]

The piano melody is just so catchy👍👍.........love the orchestration too........ thanks for tutorial

[@ys4448]

One of my top 5 KZbin channels . Great work Gabriel

[@pierrebl8070]

Top tes vidéos 👌 ! Merci

[@Przemkoski]

Hey Gabe! Greetings from polish fan :) Your videos are always so helpful for me (beginner composer). Thanks for Your willingness to share this knowledge with us! Regards, Przemek

[@fggmusic7]

Excelente trabajo amigo y muy educativo, gracias por compartirlo

[@LaurinaHawks]

Very good tutorial very simpel

[@onefleetingglimpse]

Thank you Gabe for this helpful video! I really like your piece and your clear explanations :) I’d love to see more content like this ☺️

[@grmusicnyc]

So glad you enjoyed it! More coming very soon!

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You just become one of my gods with these videos

[@rafarzad400]

Simple and educational presentation of the principles of orchestral orchestral instrumentation. I was looking for it and found it. Thanks a lot :)

[@grmusicnyc]

I'm really glad you enjoyed it!

[@Julzantoine]

Hello. Avec cette série Piano to full Orchestra, je pense que tu tiens le bon filon pour ta chaîne. Lâche rien, c'est vraiment une bonne idée !

[@AlberBosque]

Thank you

[@colkbassad]

Thanks for the midi files, these help a lot. I brought them into BBC Discovery and the free Luminous Choir Kontakt patch in Ableton and it sounds great, with some adjustments...mainly to percussion notes. It helps to have the .wav files as well for stuff like the risers that might be hard for me to replicate. I really like that you start with piano as I do. Looking forward to more like this!

[@njous1990]

Great video, thank you!

[@grmusicnyc]

You're are most welcome I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@davidsetford5805]

Hi Gabriel, many thanks for your videos...I'm just starting out on creating orchestral music...up to now I've just played the piano. Cheers! Dave S

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Great video, thank you very much, came from facebook and immediately subscribed :)

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Super helpful video, I love it. Definitely referring back next time I'm trying to orchestrate something

[@grmusicnyc]

Thank you for watching!

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Yes we like this type of contents... Really ur osm ...

[@PeterBatah]

Hello Gabe. Obviously, I am a little late in finding your YT channel and this particular episode. Thank you for sharing your time and experience with us. Merci et à bientôt !

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excellent tutorial :)

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Thank You for this video, for sharing You'r knowlege with Us!:)

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awesome tutorial! simple et claire

[@grmusicnyc]

Thank you Yvonnick!

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Very good work .. Thank you

[@grmusicnyc]

Glad you enjoyed it!!!

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Merci !

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lovely....❤

[@parm0198]

Btw, I try the techniques you taught I learnt a lot.

[@TIGUFSUPMET]

Well presented and informative. A touch of rubato would add realism.

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Great video. Well done.

[@grmusicnyc]

Thank you Terence!

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Gawd i love to zanarkand gives me hardcore chills to this day

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I like this

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great

[@M4T]

SImple et efficace! 15 minutes pour le draft et 15 heures pour donner de la vie à la pièce ensuite, il faut pas oublier de le dire :)

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I'm sorry, KZbin allow me to give only one Like per video, not more.. :) love it

[@grmusicnyc]

Really glad you enjoyed it!

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Hats down.

[@glynnhodgesmusic3140]

Thank you Gabe. A very useful video. Keep up the good work please. Can I ask please - when you assign another instrument to play the melody, do you copy and paste to the new instrument track or do you actually play it through again using the new instrument? Merci bien.

[@zmmayer]

Carillo would be so proud!!

[@jpierre05]

Un grand merci pour ce tuto vraiment super, simple et efficace merci, quel reverb utilises tu et pratiques tu un remix dessus? encore bravo!

[@Luis_Orlando01]

great tutorial, my mind in all moment was expecting the song from FFX to zanarkand, but i like with some minor changes sound another entire song :D

[@sanczykleopoldo]

Excellent Tutorials, thank you very much for helping so much those of us who have just started with this exciting world of Music Production. I wanted to ask a big favor, if there is a possibility to share MIDI tracks, it would be of enormous use to be able to analyze them. From already thank you very much.

[@Woodwind58]

Would love to see a video like this using notation software like Finale.

[@GiorgosLysigakis]

Nice video, thanks for sharing. I would like to know how you approach each instrument fx wise, like reverb, delay etc. Thanks again.

[@nikozeff3424]

I really love this song ! it looks like "To Zanarkand" a little bit :p

[@Martinbeef]

So, this is my next stage, after completing your last project. I have such a difficult time with Quantization in Logic! I don’t know why. So the strings, for me, are just off the beat. It still sounds great though! Also, I have a great book called ‘Midi Orchestration’; it’s big but very helpful.

[@johnbubu8310]

If you could do the same with Logic that would be a great video. Thank you for your videos and your time in making them

[@GreenHope42]

These Piano to orchestration videos are great, and so was your Caminandes score for The Cue Tube competition. There are so many more videos on The Cue Tube site now. Would love to see a piano to orchestration on one of the videos or even create a score from scratch.

[@grmusicnyc]

I'm planning on it. I'llblrobably use the Ocean video Bryan has up there! More on that soon !

[@GreenHope42]

@@grmusicnyc sounds like a great idea 😀

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Parfait.

[@grmusicnyc]

Merci :)

[@yohanesrealino3104]

Hi Gabriel..

[@DanzelDangleben]

thanks alot, this is awesome. what scale did you use? and any modulations? think i heard one. might be wrong (just getting into theory)

[@josduyduc]

rất hay hi vọng anh hướng dẫn cách đánh và sound nữa là ok

[@silasmupure882]

Which plug in is playing the choirs.they sound so real

[@chrisbutcher5131]

Very Nice Gabe! Was that C# on the A maj from the Picardy region of northern France?

[@grmusicnyc]

Thanks Chris! Absolutely! In French "la tierce Picarde". I had totally forgotten the name of it eventhough I use it super often. And now that you mention it, I think it could be the subject of a neat little video in a near future! Thanks for the idea! Take care my friend!

[@TheSoulOfLincoln]

Do you still recommend Rise and Hit by Native Instruments? For someone looking into rises/hits/orchestral FX?

[@malahamavet]

is this a pre existing song or did you just made something up for the tutorial? I really like this song and want to find it

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You are so lucky your ARK1 are Kontakt and not SINE ... - great video too :)

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FFX?

[@bernardmarzullocompositeur]

T0p merci

[@alanyost4061]

Hi Grabiel - this is great stuff. Could you please tell me if the midi representation is quantised for display only (so real timing may be different) or was entered as a proper score? Thanks

[@grmusicnyc]

Hi Alan. I usually play and record all the parts and then make adjustments. In this case I did a lot of quantification and lenght adjustments (through the very powerful and practical Cubase MIDI functions menu) to clarify the score in notation. Without doing that its almost unreadable. I would probably do less of that of i didn't need to show the written parts and just needed the audio as the final product. But it doesn't hurt. A lot of this is also a work in progress for me and i keep Discovering new things when making these tutorials so i might just keep doing it since it seems to be good practice. Hope that answers the question. Cheers!

[@alanyost4061]

@@grmusicnyc That answers the question thanks. I did exactly the same last night on a song I am working on after seeing your score. It is time-consuming but does make the score readable. Thanks again.

[@sheilaking3163]

Can you do for my melody? How much do you charge? Can do deliver sheet music along with audio? Thank you for your reply

[@UltraNova]

Hey! Love this video! I am actually working on a score so can you help me out with it’? I can email you how it sounds! Please reply back if interested!

[@grmusicnyc]

Hey @UltraNova send it over! my email is listed in the about section!

[@UltraNova]

@@grmusicnyc Also can you quickly send a link to your discord? That would be a better way for me to send it

[@fedorvoronovcomposer]

How do you work with notation, what is your workflow in creating sheets

[@grmusicnyc]

I used to do a lot of jazz arranging. Mostly in sibelius. I've created a lot of charts in that software so the use of the keypad became natural with time. For orchestral I usually import the MIDI from cubase into sibelius after cleaning up the note lengths amd quantization. It really makes created the sheet music much faster after the music is already written.

[@maxbouttaz]

Hello. I follow with great interest your videos which bring me a lot of knowledge. Could you make a video in the style of music from the James Bond movies. Thank you so much. Max.

[@grmusicnyc]

That sounds like a good i'll put it in un my to do list! In the mean time you can check out this track I wrote in that style and take a look at the logic session kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3etmYadp82Ih6s

[@maxbouttaz]

@@grmusicnyc Thanks

[@salaamhiggins4557]

I can't play any instruments. However, here's a listen to some strings I did after using your techniques, and I can't play any instruments all. Thank you so much. Let me know what you think... @adNM