@@AnneKathrinDernComposer True that, and I figured a long time ago that if I'm passionate enough about my own compositions to hear them that often, I'm probably on to something and that others might enjoy it too. Otherwise, they might not be that good if I can't hear them often. But when I'm done, I don't want to hear them for a loooong time haha
I think the hardest thing is that after a while you can't see the forest for the trees anymore. It's like when I put post-it notes on my door frame to remember to do something every day. After the 5th day I don't even see the note anymore. It's just part of the scenery. How do you find a way to listen to something you've heard 300 times "for the first time" again. You can get someone else's opinion, sure, but they don't have your intentions.
This is like a college level course. Amazing! It's not the technical stuff--anyone can learn that. For me the nectar is the insight you give, whether intentional or not, into your thought process. GOLD!!
Wow. Literally within the last couple months I was trying to find a good video exactly like this. Someone showing their full process without a buncha stupid crazy editing or anything. And it was pretty much non existent, at this level of depth anyway. Thank you!
That was something extraordinary. Really hard to describe for me how much i love this video. You seem to know a lot, but when you watch a professional at work, you realize how many things can be done better, faster, more effectively ect. Incredibly helpful video, thank you very much Anne. And I won't hide the fact that I secretly hope that, this is just the beginning of a series of videos in this format with long arrangements from piano to orchestra, and who knows, maybe we'll see some composing someday ;) Greetings from Poland!
@@AnneKathrinDernComposer Your long rambling is… fun to watch. You’re intelligent, use advanced vocabulary, and explain musical concepts clearly and articulately. Why wouldn’t we want more? You should seriously create actual courses! I’d buy one. (I know basic music theory and compose with that… but I’d love to learn more advanced concepts.)
Seconded! Just hearing about your process and considerations when faced with that awful blank page would be valuable. For me, at least, it's easy to forget how different my mindset is from someone who's composing for the first time.
Hey Anne-Kathrin, great video. Please do more of these. I think it's very helpful to see, how the pro does it. You are really good. I think one day, when you get your hands on big Hollywood production, you're gonna totally kick ass. 👍 If you take suggestions for next videos, you could do mockups of: Meet Joe Black - ruclips.net/video/2zmaZ19ufZU/видео.html The River Wild - ruclips.net/video/41h0SLD7qIs/видео.html (up until 1:48)
I was really impressed with how you managed the dynamics and expressions when working on the string section. Having them all play to the same "waves" was really insightful. And it makes sense to me now upon reflection, of course, the conductor in a real string section would be instructing the strings to play together dynamically. Love the video.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time to do this (so I'm going to buy you a coffee and show you lol). This was incredible to watch: informative, entertaining, genuinely helpful. You're the best. Thank you so much!
Hallöchen Anne-Kathrin, ich wühle mich hier gerade durch deine ganzen Videos und komme mir vor wie im Schlaraffenland. Auch deinen Werdegang mit den Hindernissen an den verschiedenen MuHos in Deutschland und überall kann ich total nachvollziehen (Ich wurde auch in Mannheim an der MuHo als talentfrei abgestempelt --> mittlerweile bin ich selbst Dozent und gebe "Masterclasses" überall). Jetzt mit 37 (gleicher Jahrgang :D) und 2 Kindern im Gepäck werde ich auch den "Sprung" zumindest nebenberuflich ins Filmmusik- und Videospielmusikbusiness wagen. Deine Videos sind echt eine Top Motivation und Unterstützung (gerade die negativen oder nachdenklichen Zukunftsaussichten für die Branche motivieren mich mega ^^). Ich melde mich mal mit nem adäquaten Mock-Up in Zukunft :) . Grüße aus Butzbach (irgendwo in der Nähe von Frankfurt am Main)
That theme from World's End is my most favorite piece of film music ever. I've been starting my mockups with the UJAM piano plugins... I make a chord progression and let the virtual pianist rip. Then I find the melodies inside of the phrases and use it for string and brass instruments
Thank you Anne! I was waiting for your comeback. Great tutorial! Yes, it was helpful. Obviously I do want more. I also see you got more comfortable with youtube and you let out a lot of your character. I enjoyed it a lot. But to the point: I especially would like to see how you use different voicings and doublings between sections and why. It would also be great to see how you make mockups of different types of cues if you have time and feel it would be interesting. And how you mix all this. That last stage is the worst!
Thank you for sharing your working method on this beautiful work of orchestration with such humility. We see everything. The things that work, the ones that work less, it's a great video. I learned a lot from it.
master class. Thanks for taking the time to do it. Agree with the mod wheel workflow. I have been drawing the dame thing with the million of vertices in the curve.
Great video Anne. I always find watching other people work sometimes give you a new way to approach something you may have done differently and not as effective. You may already know that when you select the events to copy instead of then selecting the mute tool you press Shift M it will mute the selected notes without having to re-select.These days I forget as many shortcuts as I remember. Keep up the good work!.
I am so grateful to you, if only because you are giving the most precious example as a fellow professional musician! You are so authentic, naturally open-hearted and you are sharing your insights, workflows, opinions and, most of all, your experience! What else one could have asked for, let alone receiving all your content free of charge? I suppose it must also make you feel so fulfilled too … Thank you for everything and especially for being You!
I watched this one in two parts. I didn't want to miss anything. It's cool to get an idea of your thought process and the way you hear things. Very enjoyable video.
Thanks for a great video, Anne! I also appreciate your thoughts on the amount of writing you do per day and what you expect of your additional writers. There are often numbers thrown around of how much you 'should' write per day, but it's very insightful to hear some thoughts on this, as well as seeing how your workflow helps you with the amount you are able to write yourself!
Last year, I watched the movie Ghosts of Christmas Always. I like cheesy Christmas movies, but this one surprised me. I took notice of the soundtrack, especially the theme. A little research on the composer led me to your RUclips channel and I was hooked. Thank you for sharing your talent and skills.
Hmmm, so richfull sound from just few lines... I'll pay more attention for layering from now, for sure. I learned a lot useful shortcuts here. Awesome video.
Very interesting. I may be a totally different kind of musician but I can tell how much time and experience goes into this. I'm gonna finish it and see what I can do with the newly aquired knowledege. Thank you Anne. God bless.
36:38 You can make a shortcut for that with the Logical Editor: Type is Equal to Controller, and Controller is Equal to 11, and with value 2 underneath, you can add, subtract, divide, multiply, etc, and it will apply the changes for everything CC11 in the Key Editor 😁
Thank you I’ll check it out. I have a shortcut on my Metagrid but I’m not sure why sometimes it only affects the active part and other times it does it for everything selected in the key editor.
@@AnneKathrinDernComposer It is possible in the LE you have a line that says: "Property is set when event is selected" if you remove that, it will affect the CC of all the tracks in the Key Editor. Hope that helps!
@@PanagiotisLafkaridis Ooooh this may have been the culprit why sometimes my shortcut would edit all the parts and sometimes only the selected part! Thank you so much, I've been mystified by that for a while. 😅
Funny thing is I was watching this movie just the other night. What a coincidence. I think the hardest part is to actually mix the orchestra with the choir because the low bass voices from the males is what really makes that piece stand out. And also the constant changing and blending of the articulations in the strings from sultasto and back to normal bows.
I haven't watched all this through yet as concentration trashed at the moment but the 40 mins I have watched I'm finding so valuable, mainly how you tackle cc 11 and modulation so thank you!
I primarily write for my wind band (in Sibelius) and watch your videos for education and entertainment. Other than the different software, the process is pretty much the same. Grüße aus Baden-Württemberg
I really enjoyed that! Always a treat to watch a pro at work, and I enjoy learning about everyone's work flow. My method is to compose/arrange everything in Sibelius until it's completely finished, then I prepare a special midi export to Reaper for mock up production. I learned a lot in this video about the production end as far as quality of realism. It's also interesting for me to watch composers/arrangers fluently work in midi view, since my preference is notation software. Cheers!
Thanks so much, Anne-Kathrin, for this wonderful content, until 3 years ago I lived in Baden, bei Wien, jjust nearby the Beethoven Monument, you defineltly hear the music playing around in this area!
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As a noob your string modulation was an absolute breakthrough for me
same here, game changer
Non-musicians have no idea how many times a composer will hear the same line just to get it right. Kudos!
Or how often we’ve had to listen to our own scores by the time it gets released. 😅
@@AnneKathrinDernComposer True that, and I figured a long time ago that if I'm passionate enough about my own compositions to hear them that often, I'm probably on to something and that others might enjoy it too. Otherwise, they might not be that good if I can't hear them often. But when I'm done, I don't want to hear them for a loooong time haha
I think the hardest thing is that after a while you can't see the forest for the trees anymore. It's like when I put post-it notes on my door frame to remember to do something every day. After the 5th day I don't even see the note anymore. It's just part of the scenery.
How do you find a way to listen to something you've heard 300 times "for the first time" again. You can get someone else's opinion, sure, but they don't have your intentions.
@@AnneKathrinDernComposerUh… if our walls could talk!
“Play something else!!!!”
so true
I just went ahead and “liked” this now to get that out of the way. Can’t wait for this.
Thank you for this Masterclass. The CC-Automation is pure gold.
This is like a college level course. Amazing! It's not the technical stuff--anyone can learn that. For me the nectar is the insight you give, whether intentional or not, into your thought process. GOLD!!
I'm really glad you're giving us practical examples here. It makes a big difference for me in information-absorbtion.
Same! I learn so much better like this myself ❤
Wow. Literally within the last couple months I was trying to find a good video exactly like this. Someone showing their full process without a buncha stupid crazy editing or anything. And it was pretty much non existent, at this level of depth anyway. Thank you!
That was something extraordinary. Really hard to describe for me how much i love this video. You seem to know a lot, but when you watch a professional at work, you realize how many things can be done better, faster, more effectively ect. Incredibly helpful video, thank you very much Anne. And I won't hide the fact that I secretly hope that, this is just the beginning of a series of videos in this format with long arrangements from piano to orchestra, and who knows, maybe we'll see some composing someday ;) Greetings from Poland!
Y’all really wanna suffer through my rambles for hours on end… 😅 Fine by me, I’ll make some more.
@@AnneKathrinDernComposer
Your long rambling is… fun to watch. You’re intelligent, use advanced vocabulary, and explain musical concepts clearly and articulately. Why wouldn’t we want more?
You should seriously create actual courses! I’d buy one. (I know basic music theory and compose with that… but I’d love to learn more advanced concepts.)
Seconded! Just hearing about your process and considerations when faced with that awful blank page would be valuable. For me, at least, it's easy to forget how different my mindset is from someone who's composing for the first time.
Your casual irritation is really funny. 😅
Thank you for uploading this! Super informative.
Hey Anne-Kathrin, great video. Please do more of these. I think it's very helpful to see, how the pro does it. You are really good. I think one day, when you get your hands on big Hollywood production, you're gonna totally kick ass. 👍
If you take suggestions for next videos, you could do mockups of:
Meet Joe Black - ruclips.net/video/2zmaZ19ufZU/видео.html
The River Wild - ruclips.net/video/41h0SLD7qIs/видео.html (up until 1:48)
An almost 2 hours video on your approach to composing?? That's precious, thank you
Anne-K Dern...my favourite youtube presenter !!! Thx again
I was really impressed with how you managed the dynamics and expressions when working on the string section. Having them all play to the same "waves" was really insightful. And it makes sense to me now upon reflection, of course, the conductor in a real string section would be instructing the strings to play together dynamically. Love the video.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time to do this (so I'm going to buy you a coffee and show you lol). This was incredible to watch: informative, entertaining, genuinely helpful. You're the best. Thank you so much!
Thank you! Will definitely make more of these!
So incredibly generous of you to do all your videos, but this one in particular.
this will be resourceful..thank you soo much..
This video, for free?!? Insane.
I think she monetarized her videos. But despite this, it's still generous from her.
Glad to know I’m not the only person who narrates every action in a weird singsong voice while I’m orchestrating lol.
Hallöchen Anne-Kathrin, ich wühle mich hier gerade durch deine ganzen Videos und komme mir vor wie im Schlaraffenland. Auch deinen Werdegang mit den Hindernissen an den verschiedenen MuHos in Deutschland und überall kann ich total nachvollziehen (Ich wurde auch in Mannheim an der MuHo als talentfrei abgestempelt --> mittlerweile bin ich selbst Dozent und gebe "Masterclasses" überall). Jetzt mit 37 (gleicher Jahrgang :D) und 2 Kindern im Gepäck werde ich auch den "Sprung" zumindest nebenberuflich ins Filmmusik- und Videospielmusikbusiness wagen. Deine Videos sind echt eine Top Motivation und Unterstützung (gerade die negativen oder nachdenklichen Zukunftsaussichten für die Branche motivieren mich mega ^^). Ich melde mich mal mit nem adäquaten Mock-Up in Zukunft :) . Grüße aus Butzbach (irgendwo in der Nähe von Frankfurt am Main)
Yes! looking forward to seeing more on how to draw in those expression curves
That theme from World's End is my most favorite piece of film music ever. I've been starting my mockups with the UJAM piano plugins... I make a chord progression and let the virtual pianist rip. Then I find the melodies inside of the phrases and use it for string and brass instruments
This is the greatest video on the internet.
Wow.
Soooo generous
And entertaining
You have all my respect
Hi Anne-Kathrin, thank you so much for this content, is gold for all the aspiring film scorers and incredibly helpful and inspiring. Thank you!
DEFINITELY do more of these. I liked watching this and I learned so much.
These always inspire me to open my DAW and get to work
same
I get to work regardless. But… I’m sure Anne’s videos would really inspire me to try new ideas. That’s the magic of it all… the new information!
Absolutely brilliant in depth video.
First time seeing your content and work and I was engrossed.
Anne, this is so generous. What a gift to those of us still working out how to do it! I send a couple cups of coffee.
It is always a great pleasure to watch a real professional at work. You don't even have to have a great affinity for the genre. Kudos!
Ridiculously helpful. I'd love to see a similar video with a composition that's centered around shorts or an ostinato!
I am mesmerized watching you do this. So fluid, so skilled, so amazingly competent and knowledgeable. Thank you!
Honestly, so thankful for all you share! Learning so much! 🙏🙏🙏
thanks for the privilege of watching you at work!
Have a coffee on me.
Thanks for all you do, Anne. You offer my favorite tutorials and insights on RUclips. 😃
Thank you! Will definitely make more! ❤
Thank you Anne! I was waiting for your comeback. Great tutorial! Yes, it was helpful. Obviously I do want more. I also see you got more comfortable with youtube and you let out a lot of your character. I enjoyed it a lot. But to the point:
I especially would like to see how you use different voicings and doublings between sections and why.
It would also be great to see how you make mockups of different types of cues if you have time and feel it would be interesting.
And how you mix all this. That last stage is the worst!
What an incredible video! Thanks for sharing it with all of us!
This is so great. Thank you! Also a big thank you for providing a most excellent excuse to purchase more libraries. 😊
Can't wait... Love your videos AKD!
Thank you for sharing your working method on this beautiful work of orchestration with such humility. We see everything. The things that work, the ones that work less, it's a great video. I learned a lot from it.
I love it! I would love more tutorials like this it's amazing! And very informative to see in real time you create it.
I’ll definitely make more of these considering you guys apparently love sitting through lengthy rambles of mine. 😂
More these long full process videos please! Really educational to see the whole process.
This is wonderful. Thank you for sharing your process. You are inspiring a lot of people.
This is pure gold. Thank you!
another wonderful , detailed video. You are very generous with your time and knowledge. Thank You!
master class. Thanks for taking the time to do it. Agree with the mod wheel workflow. I have been drawing the dame thing with the million of vertices in the curve.
Great video Anne. I always find watching other people work sometimes give you a new way to approach something you may have done differently and not as effective. You may already know that when you select the events to copy instead of then selecting the mute tool you press Shift M it will mute the selected notes without having to re-select.These days I forget as many shortcuts as I remember. Keep up the good work!.
Loved it! Thanks for your time and dedication on helping others, it was really enlightning
Very beautiful composition and arrangement, excellent sounds design....thanks so much...❤❤❤
I am so grateful to you, if only because you are giving the most precious example as a fellow professional musician! You are so authentic, naturally open-hearted and you are sharing your insights, workflows, opinions and, most of all, your experience! What else one could have asked for, let alone receiving all your content free of charge? I suppose it must also make you feel so fulfilled too … Thank you for everything and especially for being You!
Yesss the long awaited video
Your sharing is wonderful, thank you very much!
Thanks. Extremely good to see the process and thinking.
I watched this one in two parts. I didn't want to miss anything. It's cool to get an idea of your thought process and the way you hear things. Very enjoyable video.
Thanks for a great video, Anne! I also appreciate your thoughts on the amount of writing you do per day and what you expect of your additional writers. There are often numbers thrown around of how much you 'should' write per day, but it's very insightful to hear some thoughts on this, as well as seeing how your workflow helps you with the amount you are able to write yourself!
Wow, this is lots of work. It sounded so good at the end, and it did beat my expectation. The mix is good too!
Having the template set up in a way that lets you just copy/drag everything is so simple. Made me go "Fuchs"
Exceptional! Thank you for this amazing watch you work.
This was awesome. Thank you for making this.
This is really amazing. Fantastic programming, perfect arrangements with the mouse and shortcuts. Wow 🙏🙏Beautiful!! Congratulations.
Excellent and meticulous attention to detail. Looking forward to more!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!
Last year, I watched the movie Ghosts of Christmas Always. I like cheesy Christmas movies, but this one surprised me. I took notice of the soundtrack, especially the theme. A little research on the composer led me to your RUclips channel and I was hooked. Thank you for sharing your talent and skills.
Danke für die mühe . Das war ein interessanter Einblick in ein mir eher fremdes Genre.
Love the idea of using the vibraphone to double the harp for clarity. Also picked a few other great tips from this. Thanks
Just amazing, thank you for sharing!!!❤
Thanks Anne-Kathrin. Lots of great ideas and insights.
Hmmm, so richfull sound from just few lines... I'll pay more attention for layering from now, for sure.
I learned a lot useful shortcuts here.
Awesome video.
My deepest appreciation for your time and effort. This was very helpful and generous of you. The CC applications were of particular interest. 👍
This is amazing! Content like this is rare, thanks a lot for this!
Very interesting. I may be a totally different kind of musician but I can tell how much time and experience goes into this. I'm gonna finish it and see what I can do with the newly aquired knowledege. Thank you Anne. God bless.
beeen waiting for this !!!! Thank you !!!
Great stuff Ann ❤ love the sound & craft!
This is really beautiful.
I cant change my opinions in with someone else, and this is really the fact. You are very good teacher keep on go.
Thanks Anne-Kathrin, all your videos are extremely helpful. Thanks again for your time and dedication. It is very much appreciated
I feel calm when I watch this. Thanks.
36:38 You can make a shortcut for that with the Logical Editor: Type is Equal to Controller, and Controller is Equal to 11, and with value 2 underneath, you can add, subtract, divide, multiply, etc, and it will apply the changes for everything CC11 in the Key Editor 😁
Thank you I’ll check it out. I have a shortcut on my Metagrid but I’m not sure why sometimes it only affects the active part and other times it does it for everything selected in the key editor.
@@AnneKathrinDernComposer It is possible in the LE you have a line that says: "Property is set when event is selected" if you remove that, it will affect the CC of all the tracks in the Key Editor. Hope that helps!
Additionally, in order to affect every track, the option "All Parts" in the key editor Part Editing Mode, needs to be active
@@PanagiotisLafkaridis Ooooh this may have been the culprit why sometimes my shortcut would edit all the parts and sometimes only the selected part! Thank you so much, I've been mystified by that for a while. 😅
@@AnneKathrinDernComposer Anytime 😄
Thanks for the video. This might be one of your best
Fantastic !
Funny thing is I was watching this movie just the other night. What a coincidence. I think the hardest part is to actually mix the orchestra with the choir because the low bass voices from the males is what really makes that piece stand out. And also the constant changing and blending of the articulations in the strings from sultasto and back to normal bows.
Thanks for this video! All the little tricks are priceless.
Just discover your channel and watch the whole video... Loved your work. Thanks for a video like this. Amazing content!
I just learned at least 3 new copy-pasta's in Cubase!
This is amazing! There's so much to learn here. A big heartfelt thank you!!
Amazing, thank you. As a pure hobbyist, I now know I'm doing a few things right and have learnt so much more!😃
Good job. I'm sure she'll slob your russian knob for supporting her.
You look wonderful and what you did on this content was amazing. Very helpful for my project.
I haven't watched all this through yet as concentration trashed at the moment but the 40 mins I have watched I'm finding so valuable, mainly how you tackle cc 11 and modulation so thank you!
I primarily write for my wind band (in Sibelius) and watch your videos for education and entertainment. Other than the different software, the process is pretty much the same. Grüße aus Baden-Württemberg
It's incredible to watch you work. Gives me so much inspiration! Also makes me want to switch over to Cubase!!
That was helpful indeed!
Great video
Thank you! Very nicely done!!
Incredible as always! Definitely would love to see more video's like this.
I really appreciate this video. It was enormously helpful to see what you do and to hear what your thought process is. Danke schön!
I really enjoyed that! Always a treat to watch a pro at work, and I enjoy learning about everyone's work flow. My method is to compose/arrange everything in Sibelius until it's completely finished, then I prepare a special midi export to Reaper for mock up production. I learned a lot in this video about the production end as far as quality of realism. It's also interesting for me to watch composers/arrangers fluently work in midi view, since my preference is notation software. Cheers!
Bier und CopyPasta.
Läuft bei dir. Und Danke für das Video. Absolut mega hilfreich.
Thanks so much, Anne-Kathrin, for this wonderful content, until 3 years ago I lived in Baden, bei Wien, jjust nearby the Beethoven Monument, you defineltly hear the music playing around in this area!
Beautifully done and very educational...thanks so much 😊
Absolutely great video Anne-Kathrin , super interesting to see your workflow . Greetings from Germany 👋
Thank you SO much!