The Hidden Depths of John Williams' ET Flying Theme

[@tskolits]

Amazing breakdown! Great work! I enjoyed the study. Thanks

[@sound4mations]

Thank You Samuel Your hard work is Much Appreciated!!❤

[@corrosive135]

Awesome breakdown. Thank you. It all goes by so quickly that it's great to see exactly how intricate it is.

[@gianni1646]

Thanks Samuel! Your presentations are better and better with each one. Loved this one, Gianni❤

[@SamuFL]

Whoop whoop!

[@gacleite]

This was absolutely great! 👏🏻👏🏻

[@SamuFL]

Thank you!

[@ronnyb5890]

as always, great tutorial Samuel, there are some great composers, John Williams is one of them my favorites are, John Williams of course, James Horner, Danny Elfman, Klaus Badelt, Bear McCreary, and Stu Phillips cheers mate

[@SamuFL]

Big Danny Elfman fan here as well! All the masters you named are great!

[@lawrenceodonnell7484]

Yep, interesting work, but also takes ages! I did the complete Star Wars ('77) score in Sibelius. 9 months 😂 When you think Williams had probably weeks to write it! He's a legend. Nice breakdown, Samuel!!

[@SamuFL]

Yes, it is a lot of work. And yes, it is for sure much more work to come up with the original ideas and orchestrate them from scratch. And then probably adapt them a few times, make changes etc... until you have what you want. Remember, when JW wrote this score, there wasn't such a thing as orchestral sample libraries that resemble anything we use today.

[@lawrenceodonnell7484]

@@SamuFL Absolutely. In fact, he still uses pencil and manuscript paper. I find the opposite tho, when it comes to original stuff. Just seems to jump out, whether for small band or orchestra. Something I'm thankful for every day!!

[@N-JKoordt]

Nice work - sounds great.

[@SamuFL]

Thank you!

[@inteira2002]

wow, good and interesting work!

[@SamuFL]

Thank you!

[@zaharishtonov]

Wow! Phenomenal! Thank you for taking the time to go over this score!

[@SamuFL]

You are highly welcome. (To be honest, I did it because I got more and more curious -- this is "just" the sharing part. The heavy lifting I did because I wanted to understand it).

[@micwarren21]

Great job. Thank you how long did this take for you to do?

[@SamuFL]

Longer than I want to admit.... So, I started playing in the midi. And then at some point I was like: Wait a moment -- what is going on here? How is this not sounding cluttered or anything... and then, well, I spent a lot of time studying the score and playing all the parts. It's a really good exercise, though. And I didn't just want to google an analysis by someone else... Had the motivation to understand it by myself.

[@paulmatthews2057]

Great as always Samuel……where did you get the score from please?

[@SamuFL]

Hi Paul. There are different transcriptions you can find on Musescore.com . However, none of them are "official". So my process was to take a recording I liked (orchestrations between recordings variy also depending on the available musicians) and worked with the recording, the scores and my ears.

[@paulmatthews2057]

@@SamuFL Thank you for this…..have looked at Musescore and trying to decide if the subscription is going to be worth it…having said that, I do try to record a lot of classic orchestrations, so,probably would be!

[@CraigRodmellMusic]

I thought you're mock-up was pretty good.

[@SamuFL]

Thank you!