10 Orchestration Techniques You Should Use Now! Episode 3

[@brianbergmusic5288]

I appreciate this series. This is the most comprehensive masterclass of leitmotif I have yet encountered.

[@MiketheNerdRanger]

The 24th one is the kind of achingly gorgeous sound I've been trying to recreate for years, and I never seen a clearer breakdown of it until now!

[@InventorZahran]

This whole series has been so informative! Your orchestrations are making me think about arranging music in ways I would've never thought of before. I'm even inspired to completely re-orchestrate one of my older compositions using the techniques I've learned from these videos!

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thank you! This comment makes me very happy. I’m glad you’re trying some new stuff

[@NikolaiMusicChannel]

I love this series! Really interesting to learn by you reorchestrating your melody/composition with different textures and techniques, and the results sound great :-) I can hear the Herman-isms, Williams-isms, Sylvestri-isms and so on, and really cool to get to look under the hood and se how you make the magic happen so I can try these things myself! Keep it up, really love your stuff :-)

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks Nikolai! Glad you enjoy it!

[@ajcampbellone]

Mattia! This is really great. I think my favorite orchestration has to be #24, so lush and beautiful. Keep up the good work!

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks Drew, that one was great fun

[@MoonhareStudio]

Very inspiring for those of us coming to orchestral music from other musical backgrounds (touring with folk and rock bands in my case). Great style and clarity of delivery makes it a delight to learn from you.

[@MattiaChiappa]

Hi thanks! I have a pop ock background too

[@scottfoster3643]

Such valuable information! I am now a proud Patreon supporter thank you good sir for creating such useful content and providing the files! Also, great job on the video editing putting all these together.

[@MattiaChiappa]

Hi Scott thanks! Glad to see you are enjoying the contents and decided to support me on Patreon. Hope you’ll have a nice time there 😀

[@gabegabe5345]

Thank you so much for your generosity in sharing your knowledge. I hope for your success.

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks Eric!

[@garygimmestad4272]

Your tutorials are a wonderful resource! Thank you SO much. As an exercise, I'm currently doing a mockup of the Psycho Prelude so I immediately recognized the violins' chromatic third pairs in your #22. I will also be borrowing that and many other Hermmann techniques. I love your 50s TV noir piano line too. Your best secret sauce, of course, is your musicality. The orchestrations are wonderful but they would lie flat without the truly idiomatic musical gestures you give each instrument. Your harmonic language is another secret sauce you deploy to wonderful effect. After I finish the Psycho project, I'm going to create my own short melody and imitate your orchestrations. I'm going to steal it all and learn! Thank you!

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks! I love Bernard Herrmann's score for Psycho there is so much to take away from it. I transcribed the Prelude piece a while ago and enjoyed every moment of it

[@raulbondarev1160]

Thank you for your work. I enjoy watching your content

[@eniorubens9712]

Mattia, you has been making a wonderful working in orchestration mockups and composition. For me that studying such subjects it is a inspiration. I m waiting forward for the next video. Congrats !

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks, glad it was helpful :)

[@Love-music-Alain]

Your harmonics are fabulous! Thank you for this tutorial! you are the best !

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thank you Alain!

[@adameusmusic]

I think i have never been so happy to see a a video in my subscription box before :) really great!

[@MattiaChiappa]

ahahah thanks!

[@adameusmusic]

@@MattiaChiappa i think i finally found my musical style after watching your videos like your Closure walkthrough, i´m very thankful for it!

[@JackMcKenzieComposer]

I’m loving these videos Mattia! Would love to see more of your use of CC controllers (expression, modulation) and mic positions especially with BBCSO!

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks Jack!

[@chrismeyers7487]

Mattia, you Sir, are amazing. Thank you again for such an abundance of information and education.

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks man, I’ll try to keep it going 😀

[@chrismeyers7487]

Mattia Chiappa - dude, if there is anyway I can help, let me know. Not joking at all :)

[@MattiaChiappa]

@@chrismeyers7487 Thanks Chris that's very kind of you! It would help a great deal to spread the word, share with anybody who you think could benefit from this :)

[@BillyPalmerMusic]

Genuinely amazing tutorial, thank you so much :)

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks, glad you enjoy it 😀

[@TrendOrchestra]

Your knowledge of harmony is impressive. Definitely interested to learn a little more about your approaches. Another fantastic video, Mattia.

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks you!

[@raymondspagnuolo8222]

Hi Mattia! I've finally gotten around to listening to this and wish that I had done so sooner. So helpful! Thank you!

[@L_M_M_Official]

Every new video in this series is another gem of enjoyment that I can't stop watching. A musical masterclass again my friend! 😁 One question - what is the piano that you are using during the chord progression examples etc? It sounds amazing!

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thank you!

[@doomboogie315]

I couldn't be more grateful for this series. I joined the patreon!

[@MattiaChiappa]

Hey, I’m glad you’re enjoying this and thanks for becoming a patron!

[@jaywu8268]

Awesome! I guess only a few people can do this, good orchestration and a great sound library using skill!

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks!

[@kob79jd]

@@MattiaChiappa y👌

[@64guatemala]

Man! Those are all beautiful. Number 24 .. HOOCHIE MAMA!!!! BEAUTIFUL chord structure... Beautiful! 🙂

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks!

[@ceschitti]

Bravissimo Mattia, complimenti!

[@MattiaChiappa]

Grazie!

[@alessandromanara9693]

very interesting...So much clear how you explain the various musical ideas and the development! Good job!

[@MattiaChiappa]

Glad you liked it!

[@peterreynolds8146]

Excellent series keep going

[@MichaelPilipp]

One thing is clear, you are a genius! A VST orchestra has never sounded so real. It's just a shame you switched to CSS as I find BBC's sound much livelier and smoother.

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks! I felt very limited with BBC

[@davidheymann7741]

Love the content! Can you add time stamps to each orchestration number in the description?

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks David! Yes I can, will do later

[@paulackerman2800]

Hello ! thank you a lot for these explanations about orchestration techniques.Very good !

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks Paul!

[@kevinthebeagle]

love it, fantastic. thank you!

[@MattiaChiappa]

thanks!

[@joshuaday914]

Thanks for the tips!! This is really helpful, especially your nod to the ET song! Any suggestions for how to keep things from getting messy? Seems like the more instruments I add, the less clarity I have and I really want the notes to have space around them. My trumpet library from Cinebrass is also extremely shrill. I’m writing a march that has a nod to Superman. Do you take submissions and give critiques?

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks Joshua! I would advise to stay away from the melody register and to not have too many different parts going on. Yes, I do take submissions for my second tier on Patreon :)

[@joewatkin2114]

Amazing stuff Mattias! For no.21, how did you get the crescendos to sound so legit? Which articulation were you using?

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks! I always do crescendos with both expressions and mod wheel. The articulation is just the regular longs

[@johnsrev08]

Hey Mattia, I just discovered your channel. Great work! Which virtual instruments are you using for this series?

[@ajcampbellone]

He uses mostly BBC Symphony Orchestra from Spitfire if I remember correctly.

[@MattiaChiappa]

Hi John, thanks! I use BBSO, Sample Modeling brass bundle, CinePiano and a couple of instances of Bernard Herrmann Composer Toolkit

[@ricgus3]

Wow that 24!! So Beautiful! Nintendo + Disney vibes

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thank you!

[@mimosa-music]

Wonderful!

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks

[@MrArtist1971]

Great, great job!!

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks!

[@RoRo-nf9ib]

Mattia, the content you are creating is amazing. Thank you! Would it be too much to ask if you could share the sheet music in orchestral pitch, but written all out? In many cases you write horns+ trumpets, or different combinations and I am not sure how exactly voices are doubled. Also if you could add the dynamics. Would be amazing. I know this is a lot to ask, maybe I could ask just for one example so I can understand more? Let me know. Thanks so much for everything

[@MattiaChiappa]

Hey, thanks for your feedback! I’m sorry if the explanations are not clear enough. I figured between me explaining the concepts, seeing the the midi and having score/piano reductions you’d be pretty much covered without me spending weeks on a single video 😀 If I were to talk in detail, these videos could easily be hours long, and I don’t think many people would want to watch them. I appreciate your feedback and sorry if it doesn’t fully satisfy you

[@jameseverett4976]

I think he has all that stuff available for paying patrons, including MIDI files which would basically give you all the info you asked for there. I could be wrong, but I plan on subscribing at the beginning of the month, so I'll know better after that I guess. And if that isn't enough for you, there are 2 more higher tiers, for more personal attention, apparently.

[@41Fingers]

Excellent content

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks!

[@journey624]

Mattia - is there a way you can add an 'index' as the first comment to the posting. to quickly go back to one example. Many thanks. Excellent series. (same request for all similar postings.)

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks, sometime the video chapters don’t show up. Later I’ll try to add it again

[@journey624]

@@MattiaChiappa wonderful thanks again for all the good work you do

[@alexl3208]

cool orchestrations

[@williamgeorge719]

Amazing……Nice Work！

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thank you William!

[@christopherstanichar1705]

You sir, are brilliant!!! Would love to program any orchestral music you have available. Bravo!

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks

[@telaim]

Fantastic work! (already Patreon)

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks!

[@sherpa59]

Hi, Mattia! Your channel is a musical treasure. I'm in awe! What are you using for your sounds? They're impressive. Thank you!

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks! I'm mostly using BBCSO and SM for brass

[@hongjinghu2673]

amazing！！

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks!

[@armansrsa]

Hi Mattia. For the opening swell in 21 you basically have a 6 note voicing of Abm chord swell and you have 8 instruments playing this. How are the instruments divided? I guess the basses play the lowest note and the celli play the second bottom note playing the bassline in octaves right? What about the tuba?

[@mustechnology]

You are a real Artist! 24 - for me is WOW! It would be very interesting to see all your automatizations! They make the sound so live! How many of them do you use for one instrument?

[@MattiaChiappa]

Thanks! I have a cc controller and play them in live. For SA I use expression, modulation and vibrato, for SM just modulation.

[@mustechnology]

@@MattiaChiappa Thanks, just to clarify, SM - Sample Modeling, SA - BBCSO or...?

[@MattiaChiappa]

Yes that’s correct

[@alex-joker5980]

29:17 reminds me of Back To The Future ^^

[@MattiaChiappa]

you're not wrong :)

[@Max-122]

Awesome tutorials even if I have to finish watching it! Will you do some video about mixing orchestral pieces? I mean pieces like this played with vst sound and midi keyboard...

[@MattiaChiappa]

Hey! I'm not really an expert on that but maybe in the future I could talk about my approach.

[@Max-122]

@@MattiaChiappa you are for sure more expert than me! I'm at beginning.. :)

[@bazenastevski2576]

Beautifully done amico ..... Very helpful, would you mind sharing what libraries are you layering together like for example when the horns play. I see BBC but couldn't figure out the second one

[@MattiaChiappa]

Sample modeling horns as always. Watch my template walkthroughs 😉

[@bazenastevski2576]

@@MattiaChiappa Tank you I just saw them they are amazing but do they play together with BBCSO in your first example. You have reached the sound that I'm chasing, that's almost reality man very good

[@MattiaChiappa]

It sounds like it’s just sample modeling in the 1st one

[@bazenastevski2576]

@@MattiaChiappa I have been searching for this sound so long. I can't thank you enough I got the sample modeling brass they sound so REAL now let me spend a year learn how to properly midi program and then top ahahahahah Thanks, bless up buddy

[@MattiaChiappa]

Ahah yeah it’s not the easiest to use

[@user-xk2wb1jf1m]

5:26 John Williams smiles :)

[@MattiaChiappa]

😀

[@w12337]

What piano library do you use? I have Bbcso too but I don’t have the piano sound you have

[@MattiaChiappa]

I use quite a few different ones. Often CinePiano

[@ogpsyche4043]

🔥🔥🔥

[@MattiaChiappa]

😀

[@jaketanner109]

Great videos! Wondering how much of other libraries other than BBCSO you're using? I see SM brass, but is there anything else? Also, if I may ask what piano sample that is? Thanks.

[@MattiaChiappa]

Jake Tanner SM is my main workhorse but other than that I just have a few instances of BHCT. Piano is CinePiano

[@jaketanner109]

@@MattiaChiappa I have been thinking about Cinepiano for a while now as well...I have the Walker by Embertone, and it's very realistic but I like the character that Cinepiano has...besides I have several other cinesamples libraries that I think as a whole will work. Thanks aging for making these videos. BTW, dies note: I tried to go on the patronage to get the mid level for some feedback. I thought it was your site alone, but then realized it's a community site and you're just "renting" space off it..sort of, is that correct? So following your link, I should be able to join as a start and stop right?

[@MattiaChiappa]

I’m not too sure what you mean. My personal website is for promoting other kind of services. For things more related to YT I’m using Patreon where I’m offering 3 tiers each with different benefits.

[@jaketanner109]

@@MattiaChiappa right but Patreon is not YOUR personal site right? I was confused because it seems your are just one of the "creators" on it. In other words, if I go straight to the Patreon site, I would have to search for you...but if I use the link your provide, it's directly to you correct?

[@MattiaChiappa]

No it’s not my website. It’s a very popular platform amongst KZbinrs, if you follow the link in description it should direct you to my page

[@jazzalen]

Do i get notation for these techniques as patreon?

[@MattiaChiappa]

Hi, I don’t have the full scores, just the reductions as you see them then the videos

[@jazzalen]

@@MattiaChiappa Yes, that i was hoping. Notation examples from videos are great. Tnx

[@MrTobiBase]

Which reverb do you use for Sample modeling Brass ?

[@MattiaChiappa]

2 instances of Chroma

[@mariorichter]

Bravo. Your email?

[@MattiaChiappa]

thanks! for general enquiries please fill out the form on my website www.mattiachiappa.com

[@Steger13]

I've been watching many vdo on youtube about composing for movie exetera and realized that they all have the same things going on, they all use the same technics all the same sounds. We need to find a new way to compose music for film.

[@sikoor166]

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