Writing Orchestral Music Quickly: Tips, Principles & Mindsets

[@Evenant]

A little challenge to try out: - Go into the project of a recent track you're pretty happy with - Delete the midi in there, turn it into a blank project - Limit yourself to 4 elements: Melody, Counter Melody, Harmony and Texture/Rhythm - Resist editing/deleting/tweaking for the first 10 minutes, and set a timer. - Just start creating! Just test out putting down the first ideas that come to mind, without overthinking or editing anything. It might not turn out great, but you never know!

[@Shadow-nx4yl]

something that I struggle with is including sounds that I don't think you would even be able to notice, but when you take them out, you notice that they're gone, and you lose that depth and texture. this video was super helpful and insightful in explaining that, thank you!

[@Evenant]

Glad to hear! I LOVE those textures and elements that are more felt than heard, lots of fun to play around with.

[@musicbyq5260]

Looking forward to the course. So much content in this short video to run with.

[@Evenant]

@@musicbyq5260 Glad to hear, me too - over 100x more in the course!

[@maja6213]

Love the clarity in your demonstrations!

[@Evenant]

Thank you! Trying my best to make it as clear as possible!

[@roymitchell5894]

Absolutely Stunning! You've made your composition sound like John Williams is at Abbey Road with a full Philharmonic Orchestra!!

[@Evenant]

@@roymitchell5894 wow thanks that’s high praise, appreciate it!

[@MrJazz-yp9wg]

I love your ideas and how they come together and becomes such a beautiful composition. Thank you for making this video.

[@Evenant]

@@MrJazz-yp9wg thank you 💙

[@adambarnesmb]

Saw the email about this video and glad I checked it out. Feel in a bit of a rut at the moment so this has helped me refocus on whats important - thank you Arn.

[@Evenant]

Glad it's helpful! It's normal to feel like that sometimes, these things help me a lot in those cases. Doing a live stream at 7pm CET today if you can make it, talking more about these topics!

[@jenstornell]

I see forest, butterflies and dinosaurs. Nice one! 😅

[@Evenant]

@@jenstornell haha thanks, love that!

[@MrJazz-yp9wg]

Soooooo right on...I totally agree

[@georgetsiokris]

Man we need more content like this. I love your thought process and it gives me so much inspiration. Thank you !!

[@Evenant]

Thank you, really glad to hear that it's inspiring!

[@EvgeniyPetukhovMusic]

I really like the idea to start with orchestral instruments as a contrary to starting with a piano sketch. The latter never worked fine for me. When starting with a piano sketch, it feels less creative and more mechanically-scientific, while using orchestral sections from the start immediately gives a lot of ideas and teases the imagination. Good luck with the course!

[@Evenant]

@@EvgeniyPetukhovMusic Agreed, I mean I had great results with piano sketches too - but they sound far less inspiring. These days I have pre balanced templates ready to go instead, but I still keep a minimalist mindset focusing on the essentials which I learned from writing on the piano! I also love the spontaniety and creativity as you mentioned. Cheers!

[@jamescalvey5273]

This is a wonderful lesson thank you!

[@Evenant]

Thank you, glad to hear you found it helpful!

[@doggbloodz9640]

Looking forward to the course!

[@Evenant]

Cheers, me too, definitely my favorite so far out of all the ones I've done!

[@jakobolofsson7780]

Thank you for this Arn! Semi off topic, what hardware/software do you use to record this tutorial?

[@Evenant]

@@jakobolofsson7780 pleasure, just Screenflow and my Sony a7iii camera! And cutting it in Davinci - hope that helps!

[@jakobolofsson7780]

@ Thanks!

[@FuzzekeMusic]

That track was sick asf bro

[@Evenant]

Thanks a lot!

[@brunocoliveira89]

Excelent!!

[@Evenant]

Thanks Bruno!

[@Flowee141]

Thank you, im so excited about new course, i feel that it might help me a lot. Btw i like your shirt, looks like couple grams of shrooms😂😂

[@Evenant]

Me too!! Hahaha so spot on

[@Itscirosantana]

Great video! Would you do a video about how to compose for picture with Ableton?

[@Evenant]

Thank you! Great suggestion - I might, Ableton's pretty well, a bit sub par for working with picture but I have done it for sure!

[@peterd99999]

Building up from an initial harmonic bed makes a lot of sense to me, that's how I write. Do you always write this way or, for Action music for example, do you start with melody or percussion bed etc? cheers

[@Evenant]

@@peterd99999 It really depends! Sometimes harmony first, sometimes melody, sometimes sound design or rhythm/ostinato etc - and in the course I’ve demonstrated 6 different angles of starting ideas for each of those starting points as well, so lots of possibilities!

[@taromuzikpie]

if i got a random velocity,and had written CC1, is that necessary to add CC11?

[@Evenant]

@@taromuzikpie I rarely use CC11, mostly as a last resort if CC1 is not giving me everything I want

[@fercomposer]

I have a problem... which is the main melody line?

[@Evenant]

@@fercomposer mostly the violins here, except the first cello line. But the cello is answering a lot with cpunter melodies so it’s a little blurred (intentionally)

[@paulegavin]

Discount for Composer Master Tools owners? 🤔

[@Evenant]

@@paulegavin reach out to [e-mail]!

[@MaestroStefanoPetrini]

hi : )

[@taromuzikpie]

[@taqiymh8064]

1st comment 😂

[@Evenant]

Whoa you even beat me!