@17:50 - Indeed. Orchestra is basically a big analog synthesizer, where you blend the various timbres to create the right emotional setting or just something totally new. I think this was more or less what Vangelis believed and it's true.
Being good at something and then being good at teaching it are two entirely different worlds. You dominate both fields graciously. Thank you so much for these videos. I look forward to them all the time!
A huge thank you from the bottom of my heart Anne-Kathrin for graciously sharing this invaluable knowledge and workflow with us 🙏 This is some of the most edifying content I've come across in a long long time. I truly hope you consider doing more of this if time permits.
This is gold! I finally completed my first orchestration of a sketch I did a while ago. Next I‘ll try different orchestrations and variations heavily inspired by this and other videos of yours. I’m only doing this as a hobby, so I got no pressure, but also, my time is limited. Your videos are so amazingly good, they answer all the important questions and enable me to do things I only dreamt of not long ago! Thank you so very much! 💙
@@AnneKathrinDernComposerDo you happen to have a tutorial on how to use the half trill articulation? For example, I really liked the soundtracks for the game Fable: The lost chapters by Russell Shaw. It really turns out to be a very fabulous sound.
For a fledgling student of orchestration like me, this video is an absolute gem. The way you explain the reasoning behind your choices is incredibly helpful. Your idea of "not focusing on the composition, but just focusing on the orchestration" really clarified things. I hope you find time to make more "1 Theme - 5 Orchestration" videos in the future. I'm truly grateful for your generous spirit!
This is musical cocaine: I can't get enough of this channel. This channel's doing two things: teaching me new stuff, and explaining things I've done that I've done 'intuitively', but had no language to describe why or how I made my decisions. Thanks A.K. :) ...Also, I know this OT, but your lighting and make-up was killer :)
Hi Anne, I was a bit confused when my algorithm just showed me a video from someone I recognise from real life... 😃 We used to study together in Arnhem (I'm Paul, J&P cellist). I'm very impressed, keep up the great work! 😊
Great example in slow-waltz motion. Great Orchestration choices Anne-Kathrin ! This single video teaches students tons about “initial decision-making” ! Very often students struggle with “how to begin? What to do?”. You provide an immediate answer : “choose something to begin with ! Assign melody line to this and this instrument or group of instruments, and everything else follows like domino effect”. Bingo ! You provided solutions for different registers, doublings, moods etc. Honestly - this single video is like 10 Orchestration lessons in a world class college (with $$$ tuition) ! Thanks for taking time and making those incredibly informative videos :-) You explain everything so thoroughly and precisely !
Raw beginner here. This is helpful. Somewhere I read that beginning orchestration students practice on Bach chorales, and I was practicing on Wachet Auf when I found this video. The results are nothing I would share with the world, but they're *better* as a result of watching this video. So thank you! My favorite video so far. As for the variations -- I think the final version with voices has the potential to be the best version -- the accappella part on its own has a haunting ethereal quality.
The action adventure one seems to retain the Danny Elfman aesthetic especially with the horn parts! Great work and inspiring to see. You always make it look so easy! Thank you.
I love your honesty and humility. Real talent and skill all rolled up into one very thoughtful musical Samaritan. Shirley Ann Walker would have loved you! Everyone can learn from you without intimidation, and that is half the battle of being a student. Bravo! PS... Yeah I'm a fan...God bless..
I feel like all 5 of these versions could have been used in the film in 5 different contexts, like leitmotifs, and they all would have been effective...thanks for the masterclass in color, variety and taste in orchestration!
‘Why don’t we do it in the DAW?!’ 😀 So grateful for this video that brilliantly illustrates how orchestration can change and enhance a melody. Great advice about IMSLP at the end, and yes, that pipe organ doesn’t half take up some room.
Thank you for this amazing video. Your comment about orchestration being problem solving was a lightbulb moment here.magnificent content delivered brilliantly.
I really needed a video like this, as I was never quite sure what to do when I want the melody low, or how exactly to use organs. For the most part I only managed to do well with very busy action orchestrations. Thank you so much!
This has to be one of the most informative videos I have ever come across. I am in grad school for collaborative piano but have always had an interest in composing film and video game music. These kinds of free resources existing outside of a university setting is absolutely unbelievable. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your wisdom and experience with us!
Thank you, thank you, and thank you even more. I always come up with melodies then give up with orchestration but this video has given me a new insight, so thank you
Like Dennis Klampanis said: Thank you soooo much, this is the BEST exercise ever for me, as pianist and composer I´m struggling with where to start with orchestration... So I´m following your examples step by step and learning loads of things :-)))
This is the type of content that sets you miles apart from other creators here. Thanks a lot for the effort! Would love to see one recording of you actually entering those notes and curves, it's amazing the dynamics you get with such "simple" velocity/expression curves.Your mockups sound great. Beautiful eye makeup as well. :)
Your skill & technique are beautifully melded together. You are also a natural instructor. Some of your side comments regarding doubling of instruments are a great insight for me since I did not study orchestration. Thank you again for a wonderful video!
This has been on my watchlist since it appeared, but I only had the time to watch it now. Long story short: you are amazing. What an educational and entertaining video about practical orchestration! The quality of the whole thing, and the effort you put in it is just great. Keep up the good work, I wish you a lot of success in your career, you really deserve it. (My favorite video is still the "Ghostwriting" one!)
Whoah! Most educational! I am quite surprised that we can find these gems for free! Thank you Anne, you are a talented composer and a wonderful communicator! Edit: I found the way to buy you a cofee... finally.
Great video..!! As usual. What I admire the most is your selfless attitude to share all these valuable insights, and advices about arranging, orchestrating and more. Thank you, Anne. I will certainly buy a coffee. Grettings from Chile.!!👍🏻👍🏻
Really nice, I love this kind of exercise because it really helps you build an internal library of options that you can use in the future which helps a lot with speed on the job. Might write a halloween-ish melody and try doing it myself as well
THANK YOU! This is super helpful, to the point, and easy to understand. You have a very effective teaching method - the iterations of each version are super beneficial. One thing to make this even more helpful would be for you to occasionally pop up a shot of the score of what we are hearing rather than just looking at the midi tracks.
Anne-Kathrin, I’ve been really enjoying your videos. I’ve spent the last three hours binge-watching them! I’ve seen in many places places where you’ve programmed expression and modulation curves. I’d love to hear more about how you do these. Hope I’ve not missed something from a previous video.
This is by far the best orchestration tutorial I’ve seen, including all the online courses I’ve paid for. Thank you Anne and hope you make more videos like this ❤️
Lots of online courses give students only vague information without getting really deep into the subject. Here you have a great example of different approaches to the same melody and harmony (without any major compositional alterations of the initial material). Check out also Mattia Chiappa RUclips videos. Especially the series “10 Orchestration Techniques You Should Use Now”. Also a gold mine of ideas. Thomas Goss posts incredibly deep and valuable lessons and analysis. These two in addition to Anne-Kathrin’s magnificent output are best around. Cheers :-)😊
That's the best idea for Halloween!!! Your channel is wonderful and by the way I really liked your score for Fearless! Exciting, memorable and old-fashioned. I like such scores much more than the hybrid electronic ones. Can't wait to see the video :)
Great content! I'm an amateur musician and have a little to none knowledge with regards to orchestration. Your channel is a blessing for me. Keep it up! 👍
Anne, thanks so much for what you do. Your videos are so informative and inspiring. As a hobbyist, I’ve been learning so much by trying to recreate mock-ups like this by following along and putting my own spin on.
I was looking forward to hear you 'live' in the choir version, but hey... I get it. :) Thank you very much for your insightful demonstration of orchestration. I need to watch this video again a second time and take notes.
This has been one of the most elucidiating episodes you have created, Anne. Very much "subcribed" to your approach to music. Thank you for this! (btw, your treatment of this *theme* is quite hypnotic, very much like what I want to write... I'm actually hearing it in my sleep)
Thank you from France! I learn a lot with this vidéo. You really should do more of this, cause from all the videos i have seen, its definitly the best way to learn orchestration on internet, you are great! Thanks so much! (and sorry for my bad english 😝)
Your videos are so pragmatic and helpful compared to others I've seen. And THIS one is incredible; I have learned a ton. It's impressive how different each style turned out. Can't imagine how much time you spent preparing it. Thank you!
Thank you for the time and information you put into this video. As someone with a lot of library's and not much understanding about how to arrange ideas, your video has so much insight for someone as myself. I would hope that this type of Information could be an on going series (or at least occasional) of you educating our community. Again thanks so much.
This is probably best suited for a Q&A-type video - I wouldn't mind a full video, though, if there's enough to talk about; I've noticed that sometimes composers conduct their music themselves, whereas other times, an 'actual' conductor, so to speak, does it instead. I've seen your music being conducted by both you as well as others. Could you talk about why this is? Also, you're a champion for doing these videos! Thank you! 🙏
Stop Anne ! or the Berklee college will be forced to close its doors !😄 thank you for this great value video !
Thinking the same thing! Thanks for your generous gift of time and talent. I’m learning a lot!
God damn it, I was meant to be cutting the grass but just could not stop watching this, and my wife is about to pull in!!
@17:50 - Indeed. Orchestra is basically a big analog synthesizer, where you blend the various timbres to create the right emotional setting or just something totally new. I think this was more or less what Vangelis believed and it's true.
I love that you actually went for the sleighbells there. It's so cheesy, but damn, it works.
Being good at something and then being good at teaching it are two entirely different worlds. You dominate both fields graciously. Thank you so much for these videos. I look forward to them all the time!
A huge thank you from the bottom of my heart Anne-Kathrin for graciously sharing this invaluable knowledge and workflow with us 🙏 This is some of the most edifying content I've come across in a long long time. I truly hope you consider doing more of this if time permits.
Thank you it’s extremely valuable. Get out of the way cello is coming! The concept of allowing cello to breathe is an epiphany for me
Excited for this, thank god I work from home, means and can listen while working the watch it another 20 times to digest it :)😀
This is gold! I finally completed my first orchestration of a sketch I did a while ago. Next I‘ll try different orchestrations and variations heavily inspired by this and other videos of yours. I’m only doing this as a hobby, so I got no pressure, but also, my time is limited. Your videos are so amazingly good, they answer all the important questions and enable me to do things I only dreamt of not long ago! Thank you so very much! 💙
Special thanks for playing the parts separately♥
My pleasure!
@@AnneKathrinDernComposerDo you happen to have a tutorial on how to use the half trill articulation? For example, I really liked the soundtracks for the game Fable: The lost chapters by Russell Shaw. It really turns out to be a very fabulous sound.
For a fledgling student of orchestration like me, this video is an absolute gem. The way you explain the reasoning behind your choices is incredibly helpful. Your idea of "not focusing on the composition, but just focusing on the orchestration" really clarified things. I hope you find time to make more "1 Theme - 5 Orchestration" videos in the future. I'm truly grateful for your generous spirit!
This is musical cocaine: I can't get enough of this channel. This channel's doing two things: teaching me new stuff, and explaining things I've done that I've done 'intuitively', but had no language to describe why or how I made my decisions. Thanks A.K. :)
...Also, I know this OT, but your lighting and make-up was killer :)
Fantastic! Thank you very much.
Hi Anne,
I was a bit confused when my algorithm just showed me a video from someone I recognise from real life... 😃 We used to study together in Arnhem (I'm Paul, J&P cellist). I'm very impressed, keep up the great work! 😊
Great example in slow-waltz motion. Great Orchestration choices Anne-Kathrin ! This single video teaches students tons about “initial decision-making” ! Very often students struggle with “how to begin? What to do?”. You provide an immediate answer : “choose something to begin with ! Assign melody line to this and this instrument or group of instruments, and everything else follows like domino effect”. Bingo ! You provided solutions for different registers, doublings, moods etc. Honestly - this single video is like 10 Orchestration lessons in a world class college (with $$$ tuition) ! Thanks for taking time and making those incredibly informative videos :-) You explain everything so thoroughly and precisely !
Surely the most concise, informative and engaging video on arranging to appear on the internet, ever!
Raw beginner here. This is helpful. Somewhere I read that beginning orchestration students practice on Bach chorales, and I was practicing on Wachet Auf when I found this video. The results are nothing I would share with the world, but they're *better* as a result of watching this video. So thank you! My favorite video so far. As for the variations -- I think the final version with voices has the potential to be the best version -- the accappella part on its own has a haunting ethereal quality.
Greetings from NZ Anne. I so appreciate these tutorials , thank you so much🙏 You deserve every coffee .
The action adventure one seems to retain the Danny Elfman aesthetic especially with the horn parts! Great work and inspiring to see. You always make it look so easy! Thank you.
I love your honesty and humility. Real talent and skill all rolled up into one very thoughtful musical Samaritan. Shirley Ann Walker would have loved you! Everyone can learn from you without intimidation, and that is half the battle of being a student. Bravo! PS... Yeah I'm a fan...God bless..
You have a gift for instruction. You’re vids are more informative than almost every teaching course I have ever taken.
Thank you Anne, can't actually thank you enough for the knowledge you so freely share, Sean from South Africa
elfman zimmer who else ?? How was this possible ?!?! You are so much better !!
I feel like all 5 of these versions could have been used in the film in 5 different contexts, like leitmotifs, and they all would have been effective...thanks for the masterclass in color, variety and taste in orchestration!
‘Why don’t we do it in the DAW?!’ 😀
So grateful for this video that brilliantly illustrates how orchestration can change and enhance a melody. Great advice about IMSLP at the end, and yes, that pipe organ doesn’t half take up some room.
what a great master class !!! Chapeau !!! 🎩🎩🎩
Thank you for this amazing video. Your comment about orchestration being problem solving was a lightbulb moment here.magnificent content delivered brilliantly.
Bless you for this breakdown. I have learned soo much!
The best and most beautiful YT teacher! 😊😀
one of lovely cinema themes ever…Danny Elfman…and you, beatiful… Estetic Harmony…
You should put together an online orchestration class. This is invaluable input and so thankful its free. Thank you!
Amazing quality here.
Love seeing how you build the layers. Thank you for this video.
Nature in the beginning! Don't skip that, you have to set the mood first.
Love your content.
Thank you very much Anne for sharing your gifts to us😊. More blessings to you.🙏
I really needed a video like this, as I was never quite sure what to do when I want the melody low, or how exactly to use organs. For the most part I only managed to do well with very busy action orchestrations.
Thank you so much!
This has to be one of the most informative videos I have ever come across. I am in grad school for collaborative piano but have always had an interest in composing film and video game music. These kinds of free resources existing outside of a university setting is absolutely unbelievable. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your wisdom and experience with us!
Thank you, thank you, and thank you even more. I always come up with melodies then give up with orchestration but this video has given me a new insight, so thank you
Melody in the tenor is beautiful, I've got to utilize that register more! Fantastic video and orchestrations as always Anne :)
Thanks for making these midi files available! I feel like I'm really learning a lot from them in conjunction with the videos.
Happy to hear that!
Like Dennis Klampanis said: Thank you soooo much, this is the BEST exercise ever for me, as pianist and composer I´m struggling with where to start with orchestration... So I´m following your examples step by step and learning loads of things :-)))
I can't imagine the amount of work to compose all this in like 100 layers. Really inspiring !
An incredible display of talent from someone beautiful, inside and out. Thank you for sharing.
You are an incredible inspiration, even for beginners. Thank you.
This is the type of content that sets you miles apart from other creators here. Thanks a lot for the effort! Would love to see one recording of you actually entering those notes and curves, it's amazing the dynamics you get with such "simple" velocity/expression curves.Your mockups sound great. Beautiful eye makeup as well. :)
My new favourite teacher. Thanks Anne. Amazingly good content - a musician speaking.
Thank you so much Anne, another valuable video to get inspired 👏🏼👏🏼
Glad it was helpful!
Your skill & technique are beautifully melded together. You are also a natural instructor. Some of your side comments regarding doubling of instruments are a great insight for me since I did not study orchestration. Thank you again for a wonderful video!
This is excellent, thank you, I've been wanting to add this piece to my holiday lounge shows
This saved me a lot of time on other Videos. Great work! And greetings from Germany
Amazing stuff here
That was spectacular, I learned so much! The 4th action variation was my favorite too.
I marvel at your talent.
Thanks for this, inspiring and very informative.
This has been on my watchlist since it appeared, but I only had the time to watch it now. Long story short: you are amazing. What an educational and entertaining video about practical orchestration! The quality of the whole thing, and the effort you put in it is just great. Keep up the good work, I wish you a lot of success in your career, you really deserve it. (My favorite video is still the "Ghostwriting" one!)
Whoah! Most educational! I am quite surprised that we can find these gems for free! Thank you Anne, you are a talented composer and a wonderful communicator!
Edit: I found the way to buy you a cofee... finally.
Absolutely fascinating - thanks so much for this!
Fantastic video! Will be watching on repeat. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
A great lesson!
Great video..!! As usual. What I admire the most is your selfless attitude to share all these valuable insights, and advices about arranging, orchestrating and more. Thank you, Anne.
I will certainly buy a coffee. Grettings from Chile.!!👍🏻👍🏻
Danny Elfman is always pleasant to analyze. Huge fan of his Corpse Bride themes. Very well put together Anne!
Really nice, I love this kind of exercise because it really helps you build an internal library of options that you can use in the future which helps a lot with speed on the job. Might write a halloween-ish melody and try doing it myself as well
THANK YOU! This is super helpful, to the point, and easy to understand. You have a very effective teaching method - the iterations of each version are super beneficial. One thing to make this even more helpful would be for you to occasionally pop up a shot of the score of what we are hearing rather than just looking at the midi tracks.
That was amazing!! Thank you very much!! What DAW do you use?
Great content Anne-Kathrin, thank you for sharing! 🎶
The most powerful and useful video I’ve ever seen on RUclips on orchestration.
I really enjoyed it.. thank you!
Thanks Anne, I always learn a lot from your videos.
Anne-Kathrin, I’ve been really enjoying your videos. I’ve spent the last three hours binge-watching them! I’ve seen in many places places where you’ve programmed expression and modulation curves. I’d love to hear more about how you do these. Hope I’ve not missed something from a previous video.
Youre a wonderful sound designer. So thoughtful!!!
Hallo, ich habe gerade deinen RUclips-Kanal entdeckt. Vielen Dank für die guten Videos - ich lern sehr viel dabei!
This is by far the best orchestration tutorial I’ve seen, including all the online courses I’ve paid for. Thank you Anne and hope you make more videos like this ❤️
Lots of online courses give students only vague information without getting really deep into the subject. Here you have a great example of different approaches to the same melody and harmony (without any major compositional alterations of the initial material). Check out also Mattia Chiappa RUclips videos. Especially the series “10 Orchestration Techniques You Should Use Now”. Also a gold mine of ideas. Thomas Goss posts incredibly deep and valuable lessons and analysis. These two in addition to Anne-Kathrin’s magnificent output are best around. Cheers :-)😊
That's the best idea for Halloween!!! Your channel is wonderful and by the way I really liked your score for Fearless! Exciting, memorable and old-fashioned. I like such scores much more than the hybrid electronic ones. Can't wait to see the video :)
Great content! I'm an amateur musician and have a little to none knowledge with regards to orchestration. Your channel is a blessing for me. Keep it up! 👍
I bet those samples are worth lots of $, btw your lessons are always inspiring , keep them coming!
mad dough
You are very good at this.
So much magic in the air when I hear such music!
I'm speechless. Great insight into this. 👏🏾 Thank you so much for enriching us with your knowledge!!!
You continue to inspire and amaze. What a practical and useful video! Thank you so much.
Anne, thanks so much for what you do. Your videos are so informative and inspiring. As a hobbyist, I’ve been learning so much by trying to recreate mock-ups like this by following along and putting my own spin on.
Thank you for this excellent video. I am all ready thinking of where and how to steal your ideals!!!
Amazing content! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise.
One of the best videos of this channel!!! Congrats, Anne!!!
Thank you!
Great video. Very educational. Thanks.
I was looking forward to hear you 'live' in the choir version, but hey... I get it. :) Thank you very much for your insightful demonstration of orchestration. I need to watch this video again a second time and take notes.
Thank you Anne! An excellent video as usual! I always learn a lot and your videos inspire me to write more music and try new things!
Thank you for sharing this! You show great diversity in your examples, and I like the way you explain your choices in each.
Really enjoying your videos. Lovely to see someone who loves doing music for the love of doing music.
This has been one of the most elucidiating episodes you have created, Anne. Very much "subcribed" to your approach to music. Thank you for this! (btw, your treatment of this *theme* is quite hypnotic, very much like what I want to write... I'm actually hearing it in my sleep)
thank you so much for the effort, how beautiful and useful, love from Egypt
Thank you from France! I learn a lot with this vidéo. You really should do more of this, cause from all the videos i have seen, its definitly the best way to learn orchestration on internet, you are great! Thanks so much! (and sorry for my bad english 😝)
This was great! Your videos always inspire me to open my DAW and play.
Great idea Anne-Kathrin Dern. I’ll catch this after the school run.
thank you so much Anne for this great and detailed information about orchestration and your mockups sounding so amazing 👍
Thank you. Excellent !
Your videos are so pragmatic and helpful compared to others I've seen. And THIS one is incredible; I have learned a ton. It's impressive how different each style turned out. Can't imagine how much time you spent preparing it. Thank you!
Thank you for the time and information you put into this video. As someone with a lot of library's and not much understanding about how to arrange ideas, your video has so much insight for someone as myself. I would hope that this type of Information could be an on going series (or at least occasional) of you educating our community. Again thanks so much.
This helps me tremendously...wait...you supplied the midi too? > Amazing.
Totally gave me inspiration
This is probably best suited for a Q&A-type video - I wouldn't mind a full video, though, if there's enough to talk about; I've noticed that sometimes composers conduct their music themselves, whereas other times, an 'actual' conductor, so to speak, does it instead. I've seen your music being conducted by both you as well as others. Could you talk about why this is?
Also, you're a champion for doing these videos! Thank you! 🙏
Thanks for another superb video. I love how you explain why you make the choices that you do. Again - as always - I learn so much from your videos.