How to write ACTION MUSIC in 60 minutes

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Get access to the full-length video and download the Cubase project file, a MIDI file and the final music here: thinkspaceeducation.com/signup/action-in-60-minutes/

[@evanlane1690]

Hey! I was just watching your BBC Orchestra Discover video for like the tenth time and this notification popped up. Thank you SO MUCH for the content you produce. I'm a hobbyist and I would never have been able connect the dots to get to get into symphonic composition without your work. A ton of KZbin is the blind leading the blind, or just DAW tech tutorials. Having a real composer teach every aspect of music creation has helped me a ton. It helps you're a bit off your rocker too. LOVE the energy you bring to your work and teaching. Thanks Guy!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

You are very welcome - Discover is cool isnt it?

[@evanlane1690]

@@ThinkSpaceEducation It's been great for me, and I have a project saved out similar to yours with the separate articulations. Enough voicings to get my ideas across. Not enough to confuse or distract me during composition. I'm trying to find a good reverb to use with it. There are some convolution reverbs I tried out but haven't found one I like yet.

[@Fastvoice]

@@evanlane1690 I use Valhalla Vintage with that Discover library. Works great IMHO.

[@striverfor7628]

0:29 Get the full version of this video 0:44 Start 1:04 Template 1:35 The tempo 2:37 Time signature 3:29 Couple of instances of Kontakt 4:10 Percussion 4:57 Action prep 5:30 Track delay 6:10 Adding low moving stuff 6:53 Tyrolean Harp 8:37 A little extra something. Col legno 9:21 Something really low and dull 10:28 Building on percussion 11:05 Diddley-Ump 12:16 Add reverb 13:45 Picking up the action. Changing time signature 15:00 Add low strings 16:00 Velocity 16:57 Adding brass 18:10 Low cello 19:00 Word from sponsor 19:43 Brass 20:36 Violins 21:00 Adding piano 22:48 More percussion 23:58 Section 2, step time 25:35 Keep the pulse up 27:44 Up a minor 3rd 29:10 Bring brass back in 30:20 Timpani 30:35 Violins / Harp 31:43 Back to 4/4 32:00 Muted brass 32:35 Basses 33:00 Performance 35:23 Points to take away

[@thedirectorcompany]

Thnks!!

[@striverfor7628]

@@thedirectorcompany As a learner, I like breaking long videos down

[@thedirectorcompany]

@@striverfor7628 Good tip!

[@sabrinakingsoundworks9897]

Omg, you remind of me! Lol! "50 micro-thingies", "Jason, did you hear a noise behind the shed?"...the internal dialogue. So upbeat and playful. Super educational and informative. Love it! I want to create with the wonderful tools you have shown! I love film scoring...and more! Great job! Thank you for the giggles here and there!

[@raymondspagnuolo8222]

@ 20:52 - "You get the money, the drugs ...the fluffy toys...." You almost had me rolling on the floor!!!! Oh, Guy... Thank you, thank you, thank you for being you and making videos so we can learn and laugh at the same time!!!

[@Soulonos]

You are one bad man!!! You wake up that creative part of my brain every time I watch your videos. Thanks for the content!

[@ChristopherSiu]

Lovely work as usual, Guy! Just wanted to encourage you to keep it up, you're doing amazing things!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

will do

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

you're welcome

[@mrprisbrando]

Second that!

[@kurttomlinsoncompositions1067]

27:22 - this is such a great tip that I never even thought of. I often find that the deeper into writing a track, the balance of each section can become very confusing and messy and simply rendering but to audio and increasing my volume or compression rate is such a simple way of allowing an instrument to stand out in certain parts of the cue!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Better writing is the real answer. Weirdly when you play with a real orchestra all those inner voices stand out clear as day

[@joshgiesbrecht]

Sometimes learning this stuff can be tedious, if not boring at times. I struggle to get in the mood to learn more often then not. But with your personality and the way you approach music, the utter chaos it turns into, the hilarious remarks, the fact you have conversations with your virtual instruments... It makes it all so easily digestable and fun. I've been binging your channel as much as possible. Learning a lot and having a blast. Thank you for the vids!

[@Pergamenttv]

Thank you for letting me share your ideas again, your perspective, your way of understanding music, how you motivate people. And all that, in an extremely likeable way. More, please. Thanks Guy.

[@HarshRyan]

I'm really thankful for these tutorials sir. You are sharing top industry level musical knowledge. Watching people like you motivates me and pushes me to learn and create more music sir. THANK YOU SIR :)

[@nightnoodler812]

I like the term you used "Density of the piece" very interesting way of putting it..always a pleasure to wach and listen to you Guy Thank you.

[@savvysounds6063]

These tutorials are amazing, thank you so much! As a self-taught hobbyist composer I get into writing slumps very often. Your tutorials are so helpful and inspiring.

[@WayneParker]

I'm truly hooked on all your videos. You instruct/compose in such a way the is super easy is to follow and emulate. Thank you for what you do! :D

[@menacerisamir198]

it is so comfortable to learn with this master that it quite difficult to change it , and by the way this guy named Guy make you happy each time because you are sure that you will learn something new without complications, less is more

[@jonatau]

It is so helpfull to see everything step by step!! your video's are always great! Many thanks!

[@JosephSnode]

These are my favorites videos you make. Thanks for all the helpful information!

[@mageprometheus]

36 mins of joy on a dull windy afternoon in Brum 😃

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Yeah dull and windy west sussex too

[@dannyboyblue1111]

Thank you so much for the content you produce. I’ve wanted to dabble for so long but never had the confidence. My 12 year old son has written a mini script he wants to film with his friends and he’s asked me to write a score for it 😰 with the teachings of Guy I may just stand a chance!!

[@Superduperond]

Thank you for once again creating great content. You and Christian at spitfire audio are the ones who opened my eyes for realistic and fun orchestral programing. So inspirational! I'm just a hobbyist who program music for the fun of it, but your videos are a huge inspiration for me. Thanks!

[@johopbeyond]

Guy, thank you so much for all the amazing content. I've started producing music as a hobby for a short while, but recently came across your channel! I'm already learning so much and having ridiculous fun! I can't wait to start building knowledge and more sample libraries with time ☺️

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

keep writing!

[@PendelSteven]

33:31 It all depends where it's for. If it is specific for a film that harkens back to the old films somehow, it's good to know how to make this. And it's the basis of a hybrid score as well.

[@RobertSwitzer-ck6mj]

Thanks again Guy. These are so helpful . And glad to hear more are on the way.

[@Razz_Putitin]

You do a phenomenal job teaching music, its workings and composition, thank you very much!

[@stuffa01]

Wow that was really well done Guy! Your videos and programs are so valuable for people trying to learn the craft...Thank You!

[@iansturgess8913]

Hi Guy, addicted to your videos - so amusing and educational. My speciality is guitar-based library music which gets used on TV a lot but I was inspired by you to get my hands on the free Spitfire stuff and I used it to write my first piece with orchestral instruments - a patriotic type of American thing with a trumpet-based theme. It got accepted and has been added to a US catalogue for election time over there - so thanks for being so inspirational. Loving Spitfire - like a new palette of colours to play with.

[@rrsimonetti]

Mto bom seus vídeos meu amigo. Ganhou um fã, aprendendo mto com você. Obrigado.

[@adamjeszenszky7460]

This would take me like 12 hours just to get to this point and then another few days to make to it all sound just right. Your pace is amazing Guy!

[@DaveDickens]

Another absolutely awesome master class in film music composition, thank you! Cheers Dave

[@royalhawk2721]

I really needed that , trying to compose for one action movie scene and this gave me some tips I could use ! Thanks Guy

[@kurttomlinsoncompositions1067]

I have a suggestion guy, It’s be cool if you could do a small video on counting irregular time signatures like 7/8 etc

[@Bakerspinzz]

You’re Amazing really

[@Stonefieldmedia]

So enjoyable just hanging with you in your studio. Thanks for posting.

[@IanSchofieldTV]

Love this! And thank you for introducing me to BBC Discover too! You have such an infectious presenting style that has me wanting to compose now even though I'm at work 'listening'!

[@beliyrabotyaga]

thanks you father 💚

[@johnmcvicker6728]

Good tune result but a question comes up. Is it done at this point for you? Also, what are your next steps for doing things like track mixing, adjusting bits of fx sends and mastering to specific loudness, etc? I have to suspect you don’t just export audio from this point and ship it to the producer. Would be nice to see a video of the final prep stages.

[@The-Weekend-Warrior]

Of course it's not done yet, that's a rough draft... a huge amount of work still has to go in there to make it suitable. Unless of course you'll be having it played by an IRL orchestra, in which case, I guess you would be done here and "just" have to work on the sheet music you'll be giving to the players...

[@mariomichel5074]

Awesome ! Please make a video about your Kontakt libraries

[@64guatemala]

OMG!!!!! After watching this video, I'm happy to be stuck in the 80's, cuz, MAN!!!! That's AWESOME! Just to say.... You are an INSPIRATION to continue on in this new, for me anyway, journey!!! 😁 Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!! K

[@timcorns9351]

You’re a talented Guy! 👏🏻

[@LindaMissad]

Thank you, Guy. very fun and some new ideas. I really loved the Action unit in the Composer's Blueprint Course. Reversing the piano is still a surprize for me, even though I've seen you do it before. Thanks again!

[@johngrant5749]

Terrific as usual Guy. Gives me inspiration.

[@msoundz]

Great video Guy... as always, informative and inspirational to watch.! You changed time signatures for effect. Could you do a video explaining how and why sometime in the future?

[@LeeGee]

This is very encouraging. I've missed your posts, Guy.

[@GaboRossini]

Great content, as always! Thanks, Guy 🌿

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

thank you!

[@BrandLmedia]

I love making filmmusic and TOTALLY LOVE your videos!!

[@Markrspooner]

Thank you for this video and giving us the midi/cubase project to study. Very much appreciated. It would be great if you could talk a bit about the harmony. I noticed that the chords are quite unusual, and there is also quite a bit of chromaticism in the piece. It would be good to explain how that adds tension to the music.

[@electrifyingct4303]

Playing some Competitive Overwatch games while listening to this video... much action... and I must say... my team won both games during the length of this video lol very inspiring

[@GreasyBirb]

Its Beltrami and Powell and Davis all rolled into one. Very cool.

[@music_creator_capable]

My favorite kind of music. I like to compose this style!

[@R2165-Official]

These videos are so helpful and funny. When I say hello to my mixer he eventually answers "drop out";-). But very useful hints of making the workflow getting better and better.

[@benrijkmans8983]

Great work thank you for those insights ❤

[@MaxTooney]

This piece reminds me of Paul Haslinger from the motion picture 'Vacancy', for some reason. Enjoyed the tutorial!

[@kayembeemusic2394]

Hey my friend love your work Iam a music producer making hip hop trap music with orchestra. I love orchestra music so your work inspires me to further my production into making videos now thank you

[@simonjohansson248]

Came for the music, stayed for the exciting narrative!

[@clearlight3201]

Hey Guy! Could you please make a video that is all about the different quantization options in Cubase and how you use them? I notice you rarely quantize what you record even though you did in this video a few times but I'd love to know what your Cubase settings are set to when you begin. I don't see Auto-Quantize selected in the bottom. I'm new to this and I run into timing issues a lot when I try to improvise record tracks on the fly like you do. Thank you Guy

[@victormanjarinsala2253]

Aaaahhh so that's how the Bourne saga soundtrack was written xD Great vid!

[@Carnyx72]

Love it! Feels almost Murry Gold esque.

[@beardsteve1718]

That's soooooo cool ! And huge ! Thanks for being such a funny and powerful composer ^^

[@djmileski]

I am now hyped up for my action packed day lol

[@AfonsoComposer]

I like a lot your video of scoring an action sequence back on the day you used Digital Performer. I think it was 6 years ago

[@mrprisbrando]

Hello Guy, can you do more film scoring stuff. Really appreciate what you do. I’ve jump from Ableton to Cubase because of you. Thank you again Mike from Texas

[@AnymMusic]

7:20 I....was that the Dune motif?

[@FlatTire]

27:49 I agreee… Indeed, if you want to last a bit longer, it’s preffered for it to go up 😂

[@PeterBatah]

Hello Guy. Thank you so much for sharing your time and knowledge with us. I am following along and absolutely loving the presentation. I realize that the SF template that you are using was in all likelihood tailored to suit the project. Would you mind telling us exactly which template that you started with. Much appreciated. Peter

[@hobodivine5776]

This was amazing! Thank you.

[@fredmorgan996]

Guy, this is so educational and more exciting and thrilling than any action movie starring Jason and what's his name!

[@dchackett]

God, I really love this man.

[@decemberswitch]

fantastic, thank you Guy

[@allaboutbookbinding8339]

Interested in what you said about the way it looks. Long, long (long) before computer-based composition, I was an advocate of drawing a big picture of an arrangement (even a 3 minute pop song) in order to see what was right and wrong with it. Much easier now, of course - just zoom out, scratch your chin for a bit and then cut and paste. BTW - I think you need some bongos played with beaters 😙

[@noobclown2910]

Hello Sir Michelmore, I watched you turning a motif into a 3 minutes piece video and this one- as well as tons of other tutorials, and I have noticed that most of us struggle with development, I can have a good idea but struggle with developing it into a 3 minute piece like you did. I followed that video with my own motif and it taught me a lot. Thank you for the hardwork that you put into making these videos, but, would you be able to make a tutorial on development?😅 like maybe taking a single motif and developing it in different ways,whilst sharing a few techniques or Something.We would highly appreciate that, thank you🙏

[@ikemmanuel-audu363]

This man is too talented

[@bionno78]

nice work , your video is so good man !!!

[@JFrenchman]

Wonderful video, definitely some great lessons in this. I was curious if you were planning a review of Musio? I would love a comparison to Composer Cloud!

[@FLH3official]

Hello again, Guy. Do you plan to do a video about the use of time signature changes. And also a video about tempo changes.

[@Ivanski]

i just love him

[@paulpisoni2496]

Great Tutorial!!

[@aramstudios3646]

Love 5:10 and 13:52

[@ralphwiggum1999]

Very cool Mr Guy, very cool indeed!

[@gkgyver]

It would be amazing if you could do a Video on the most important instruments of the Orchestra and what they can and cannot play, so the music sounds more natural. Especially the timpani. Most people don't understand what timpani cannot play in real life

[@mattystuartsydney]

Brilliant. I followed along, without the files, and made a version. Can I upload it?

[@pjdahmen]

Thank you for the very good tutorial.😀

[@unexpected8166]

"Get the bag, get the money, get the drugs, get the ... ah fluffy toys - im gonna see you in the Aston" 😂😂

[@Jedislayer_]

sounds very professional like arrow from the cw

[@MassiveCompositions]

This man has skills 🔥

[@news-oko-plus]

Superbbbbb !!! Thanks !!!!!!!!

[@grobinson9352]

Love it--thank you

[@machietheapachie7214]

Really enjoyed that. Need to get back into recording and get educated on the new toys out there. That software sounds incredible! Anybody have a list of what Guy's using?

[@markholland505]

Hi Guy, thank you for these types of tutorials. I just took your advice and moved to Cubase from Logic. You said in a previous video, Cubase would take about 3 months to get up to speed. Do you have any tutorial suggestions to facilitate the learning curve?

[@pamelalynngr]

Always inspiring! Imjust learning about Cubase - What is a Stem? Why do I need them?

[@mickimarbhmusic]

Wow this is excellent 👏

[@thes4030]

LIKE YOU RE EFFORT FOR GIVING US THIS LESSONS AND MORE INSPIRATION LIKE YOU RE VIDEOS FROM MOROCCO

[@ZaBruhBn]

You make it look so easy & expensive

[@jupitor919]

It’s so amazing watching you construct this..It makes pictures form in your mind. My question is this. I could see where a film editor could benefit from your natural timing in the piece. But will they? Won’t you have to recompose to picture? Thanks for showing us your method.

[@Slynell1]

It's just a demonstration

[@elierouhana1181]

Thank you guy 💐👏👌

[@PendelSteven]

11:16 Ah, qui ça! 11:31 Oui, je vois que tu veux dire. C'est très _nice_ . And thanks to that my French is refreshed now. Merci? :D

[@g3cd]

@Guy Michelmore Here's a little challenge for you: write a piece of action music using only MAJOR chords 😇

[@FLH3official]

Excellent video, as usual. One question, a crucial one: Why we can't keep moving our belly and our shoulders when we play modwheel with our thumb on long and emotional strings phrases? I exactly do the same, as our master, yes!, and I'm not sure this could improve the sound which come from 0 & 1 in a quality orchestral library. But maybe it could. I wait for a answer from our revered Master Guy. 😉

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

My shoulders are a break-away region applying to the UN for recognition as an independent state. Ill let you know when they start a KZbin channel

[@FLH3official]

@@ThinkSpaceEducation As long as they're not on war with your belly everything is fine! 😉

[@candoraudio3159]

That was great Thank you

[@sylvaindodane341]

Hello Guy, I love your videos. They help me to progress in music and to work on the English language. I would love to see you do a collaboration with KZbinr guitarist Ola Englund. Adding Swedish metal guitars to this production would be wonderful. And that might make meeting two audiences a little different. Thanks for sharing all your knowledge. It makes the world a better place. Best regards

[@AMB666]

Those thumbnails :)!! Great great video Guy!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

How long does it take to go? God knows

[@AMB666]

@@ThinkSpaceEducation Keep it up! We enjoy everything you do!