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"If you got a carrot and paint it green, it wouldn't make it a cucumber." As a non native english speaker, I am considering to add this to my repertoire and use it all the time.
Ha! Add to the phrase book - yo never know when it'll come in handy. Some crucial EU Brexit negotiation and silence falls across the room. The you chip that in...
@@ThinkSpaceEducation You are perfect as an instructor. I'm honored to have discovered you on RUclips. You fill my mind with endless possibilities when it comes to composing!
@@ThinkSpaceEducation your videos are absolute delight , guy , thank you so much for this content , i feel like every time i m watching your vids i am more and more enthused and go on and compose ! thank you so much!
I've been a full time producer and composer for three decades and i've never seen so much useful information in one hour or in one place EVER. I'm actually a superfan now. i will be experimenting with this template. I'm having spats with logic and protools lately and feel like cubase might be the next era. This is an astounding display of creative and educational expertise shared with humility and taste. I can't tell you how rare all that is . I'm a canadian working in west hollywood. i don't need to say much more. :) bravo maestro and thrilled and honored to meet you. AJR
"This is such a long video, oh god!" DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT. I watch your videos every morning with my cup of coffee, and to be honest I love it when the videos run a bit long. It's one of the main ways I "decompress" before I get to work.
Omg the layering thing with the shorts and longs. Genius. I’ve been trying to get that attack out of my long lines for a couple of years now. Thank you
I loved that you were conducting behind your desk while the virtual orchestra was playing. I also do this, and I always feel like a crazy person. Good to know I'm not alone, hahaha
Watching videos like this is very humbling. Many times while trying to compose music I think "Oh the top artists do so well and my ideas fall through" but seeing you make mistakes and correct them, or go a different route that leads to something better is awe inspiring and confidence boosting. A lot of times we forget that its okay to make mistakes, because through those failures we find success.
Thank you for your honesty in composing and being unafraid to show us the missed notes, the chord exploration, and the constant refinement of ideas of varying levels of 'goodness' until we arrive at something that really works.
I love your 'warts'n all' style of videos. It's nice seeing you tinker around and questioning yourself whilst also showing us the mistakes as it's all part of the process
To give you a time-stamp i’d have to either watch or skip through the video, again, just to find the place. So perhaps you might look for yourself. I’d recommend watching the whole video, though 👍🏻
In order to use all these amazing virtual orchestras you need to know counterpoint and harmony. I am glad I found an educated composer on this platform that know his craft. Is even rarer in Hollywood. I bought the BBC Discover library and I did a mockup with Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe on my channel and it sounds amazing. Thank you for the video.
I love this guy! No garish splash page/thumbnail, no annoying two-tier ads up front, no begging to subscribe or hype, he just jumps right into the subject and away we go learning. I'm a first-time viewer, a novice orchestrator and thanks to Guy, I'm a new fan of his. Anyone else?
I love “that’ll do”! 😆 It’s great to know that a composer like yourself can be so ‘random’ and ‘trial and error’ as we rock musicians! Honestly, it’s made my day!
I just got mine copy yesterday, thank you cut this, for hours to write music which I also bought as only online class ever and its pretty good so far, you have charming personality that resonates well with what you teach. I never would though of myself as being able to event start comprehend orchestral music as only played guitar before. You and Adam Neely pushed me to start going into music after work, buy a DAW and have fun with music, and also to understand it. You opened while new world for me and for this and delightful entertainment I thank you very much, you are wonderful human. Please never change that :)
Guy, I’ve been an owner of the “Pro” version of BBC SO since the pre-order and this was STILL beneficial to demonstrate how little you really need to make great music! Thank you!
I still have nightmares from time to time about playing a piece for the Clarinet that went without breathing. When parts were in unison myself and a couple of the other clarinetists would secretly mark out the notes each of us would skip to breathe so we didn't drop out of the score completely at the same time.
Not sure if it was a Guy quote on another video or someone else - but I remember the hint of "when playing wind instruments on a keyboard, take a deep breath and slowly blow all the air from your lungs and then release the note". A good wind player will be able to blow longer/harder than us non-players but it means we're not playing things beyond what a good player can actually play!
Can we take a second to appreciate the studio and it's surroundings completely is sync with nature, blending like a beautiful orchestra .. This man takes a lot of inspiration from nature for sure.. Wonderful!!!
Hi Guy! You should not be too worried about the lenght of the video. I could sit here for hours to see your workflow and to hear your piece come together. Amazing! It's much more educational, funny and satisfying than you might think. Thank you for your time and effort that you put in to these videos. And thank you for sharing your experience and expertise.
Guy you madlad. I was looking for a video like this from someone using the free version of the orchestral library all morning, good job at getting to the punch first!
I have watched some videoes using this free library and you blew the others away! Conclusion: it is not the tools, it is the man using them! I love this video!
Such an emotional composition - it beautifully tells the tragic tale of father; dehydrated; needing only the nourishment and warmth from a cup of tea, yet betrayed by his offspring
Guy, you are a joy to watch and truly inspirational. If you will excuse the vernacular: "You have zero f's to give". So many streamers are styled to imperfection, so their jams and sessions are so nailed they may as well be a pre-recorded piece. What you give here is some true honesty! "Ah... Dodgy note, wehay lets make a joke and keep going!" - such a gorgeous personality trait that many of us can learn from besides all the additional music knowledge.
I love that you posted this. Not only because It inspired me to immediately shoot over to spitfire and pick this up, but because we ALL have these days where we've got the big picture worked out in our head and silly little things keep tripping us up. Namely for me, my sub-par keyboard skills being a professional guitar player, vocalist and even session drummer, but NOT so much a keyboardist.
Man...I just downloaded this and am completely in awe. I have all the LABS stuff as well and I honestly think Spitfire is the best company out there for free plugins. Great sounds and customer service. Very clever people as now I feel I owe them...nice. And then there's Guy. What an inspiration you are! These are truly amazing times for musicians wanting to get into composing. I mean free DAWs, free instruments, effects and libraries like this and free instruction to boot! No more excuses now, buddy!
God bless the RUclips algorithm bringing me to this video. I've been looking all over the place for a decent orchestra VST but instead went down the rabbithole of cinematic soundpacks with pretty cool one shots, FX, and construction kits. But I've been hankering for a good VST for a while now. What a step up from FLEX.
I've enrolled on your How To Write Music course - it's brilliant! I've learned more in a few minutes than a lifetime strangling a guitar and torturing a piano. A very happy bunny 👏😷🎶
1 minute into the video and you get the energy you can conquer the world with your music Made my day, 27:54 - 28:30 basically describes my whole life! I've been using this library since my early studying days and still do. I love it and I want to say a million thanks for making this.
Just found this gem, I've been using notation software to compose but was unsatisfied with the sound, this is a great tutorial for how to use a daw to compose.
Suggestion for a course that I would like to see: String arrangement and production for pop and rock music. I think there could be a lot of guys like me who like orchestral elements, but don’t intend to become a media composer or do full orchestral scoring. I mostly do singer-songwriter stuff myself and have tried doing a string arrangement to a song once, but without prior knowledge it was a pita and took ages. So a short course on how to arrange strings in a song context , how to make them halfway decent with MIDI and mix them would be great. I’d buy that immediately. And if that works out, why not continue with brass for funk/soul or woodwinds for , eh, folk? As far as I can see that is a niche in the market that hasn’t been occupied, at least I haven’t found anything. Most orchestral course are overkill for me.
Being in the same boat as you, (I produce mostly singer/songwriter etc) I would definitely find some value in a course like that! But in the meantime try using the same techniques but applied to the more conventional chord progressions of pop music. And maybe lean a bit less on some of the more orchestral elements. Perhaps trying Mellotron strings in place of ‘real’ ones, and glocks/Rhodes/synth plucks in place of some more percussive orchestra sounds.
Watching this guy (Guy) compose and orchestrate is a real joy. Rather than an expertly polished edit, we get to see how he really thinks and works in real time. This is priceless for us composers.
It is a noble idea, but it really depends on how well your inner ear is. I sometimes don't hear Hi Hats in funk tracks and add them waaaay too late, wondering what is missing for the whole process. Nothing wrong with experimenting a bit and adding things, that you might have not heard in your ear before. If it sounds better, it's better, no matter how you came there :)
In programming, we call it iterative design. If we look at something a second time and see something in the code that we don't see in the product, we remove the code.
@Wilfred Design I'm in the waiting period as well, 5 days left. You may as well wait, at least then you can know for definite and you can always buy it later. There's no need to jump the gun for this short of a waiting period.
There's probably a registry key somewhere it added when you install it (assuming it comes with an installer) that keeps track of when you started using it that you could try to find and modify use it longer while you try to figure out whether or not you want to pay for it or not, probably not the most legal but definitely pragmatic especially if you dont have much time to use it during the initial waiting period :)
"So, what have we got in an hour", err, how about more than I could achieve in a month of Sundays ? LoL Your enthusiasm and humour, really are top notch Guy, pleasure watching you have some fun with a new library.
I subscribed after 5 min. The reason is your energy you created for me. There's one principle I'm trying to follow is to answer the question: "what kind of energy I want to transfer to the one who interacts with me?". And if I can describe it, it would be yours: stimulating, sincere, passionate, fun. You're my new mentor from now on. Keep posting new content. Cheers.
I started diving into MIDI orchestration a few weeks ago and I'm happy to discover that some layouting techniques I started using are the same explained in the video. Then I'm not that dumb and noob. Anyways this video is definitely good and useful.
The basis of incredible things is often passion (and then hard work). That passion of you is contagious dear sir! What an enthousiast and excellent teacher are you! Thanks for your vids!
Love it, his sense of humour is just regular daddying out in his little summer house. I've just bought a NI midi keyboard and just getting into this for the first time, I love what spitfire does, simply amazing!
Just a little tip (which I need to double-check in Discover - works in Pro) for anyone with Discover that’s concerned with track count if they double articulations, you should be able to Shift-Click both articulations (long + short) in a single instance to add, say, attacks to trombone longs.
@@LeeGee Lol. This was just on a whim that I tried it. I wanted a stronger, “tongued” attack. Normally, I would double the track with a separate articulation or in Kontakt, load both articulations. This just so happens in the two versions of BBCSO, you can shift-click multiple articulations. This may get hairy if you’re using Keyswitching, though. And, I’m “that guy” that tends to read the manual because I don’t want to miss out on any functionality that might not be intuitive to find.
Just got this library and felt a little overwhelmed by all it could do, so this tutorial is very inspiring for me to just create a bunch of tracks and make something!
You’re the very best! I’d love to spend a day in the shed, just soaking in all your positive energy As a non keyboard player, i usually write via mini synth and trackpad, adding strings and such to my guitar based heavy metal Your videos have made a huge difference in how i approach layering Cheers!
I got my "own" BBCSO one week ago and it's the first orchestral sample library I use. And there are so many new possibilities for me! It's great! ... and btw. Your Videos are very inspiring for me! I like they very much!
I signed up for the download of this about a year ago and then forgot about it. Installed it today and holy wow. The sounds are so good I was inspired to write some brand new pretty epic music. Thank you for showing this to us.
Wow! Great vid. Opened my eyes to a form of composition, I have always been curious about. I make EDM, but I think some of these techniques can be applied to making more interesting floor bangers.
Just had someone random sitting with me who had no interest in composing but was mesmerized by and laughing with Mr Guy Michelmore. Also got her finding interest in the composing aspect. I've not seen anything similar. I don't know if it is true but to her it was like "This must be a professional teacher" which he obviously is. I just don't know the history. Fun and inspirational. I'm waiting my two weeks. :) If I got really good and wanted to show other people outside of my closest then there might be something about going larger.
Hi Pieter, Have you gotten the keyswitches working with Discover? I have enabled keyswitching in the options but there's no keyswitch options on the keyboard in the UI, and no change when anything from C-2 up is pressed. Thank you!
Thank you ever so much, Guy, I enjoyed every minute of it! 😀 My goodness, this Library sounds absolutely amazing! Hard to believe you can get this for free. It's a must-have. And thanks very much indeed for the free template! 🙌🙏 Stay healthy!!
What I like the most in your useful Videos and tutorials is (beside your sense of humor) the fact that we see the whole process with all the failures inbetween! That's how it is in the real world and it gives me hope :-)
George, Guy is a delight to watch and to listen to. Hans.... my god. I can't stand listening to him. Nor looking at. HE got a great deal, did write some good music, had good push from whatever, took the right advantage of the opportunity. And that's it.
@@ThinkSpaceEducation OMG I've just clocked - was your Dad Cliff Michelmore? Wow, amazing man. This video is fantastic, thoroughly enjoying it. Thank you.
I can't express how inspiring your videos are to me. It's not just watching how you do things right, although that's highly instructive. It's also seeing you make mistakes, and how you go about fixing them. I love your playful spirit, and the fearlessness with which you cast off the sunglasses of doubt and come up with something amazing in such a short time. You make it look effortless, which anyone who's ever put two notes together knows it's not. Watching your videos is like sitting next to a world-class composer who also happens to be a good friend. Thanks and please keep doing what you do. :)
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You could assign different CC values to your switches (volume being CC11). This is how you do it on Logic Pro: ruclips.net/video/yfZO7faM8Eo/видео.html
Sharing this knowledge for young aspiring producers/composers, thank you ever so much. I dream of producing music for a living, and eventhough I'm making baby steps, your videos enriches my mind and opens the amount of possibilities that await me!
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Just got my copy of BBC SO Discover, and it's absolutely brilliant! Oh my goodness!
Anyone know if this free software is still available? I can't find it. Thanks for your help....
this guys chaotic energy is just the type i need to teach me music. i love it.
i'd buy him a beer
@@searchiemusic I’d make his cup of tea.
You do know the guy's name is Guy? 😊
@@skelligringphotographyandw7012 Guy's the guy
ADHD ftw 💪😉
"If you got a carrot and paint it green, it wouldn't make it a cucumber." As a non native english speaker, I am considering to add this to my repertoire and use it all the time.
Ha! Add to the phrase book - yo never know when it'll come in handy. Some crucial EU Brexit negotiation and silence falls across the room. The you chip that in...
I just laughed so loud right after this
Guy Michelmore 😅😂😭🤣🙃🤣🤧😅
+1 😄
Please do 😂👌
I love your enthusiasm, Sir. The best way to improve is by learning from someone who is passionate about their craft.
I do my best!
@@ThinkSpaceEducation You are perfect as an instructor. I'm honored to have discovered you on RUclips. You fill my mind with endless possibilities when it comes to composing!
@@ThinkSpaceEducation your videos are absolute delight , guy , thank you so much for this content , i feel like every time i m watching your vids i am more and more enthused and go on and compose ! thank you so much!
@@ThinkSpaceEducation for sure, it's obvious !
I've been a full time producer and composer for three decades and i've never seen so much useful information in one hour or in one place EVER. I'm actually a superfan now. i will be experimenting with this template. I'm having spats with logic and protools lately and feel like cubase might be the next era. This is an astounding display of creative and educational expertise shared with humility and taste. I can't tell you how rare all that is . I'm a canadian working in west hollywood. i don't need to say much more. :) bravo maestro and thrilled and honored to meet you. AJR
What a nice comment 🙂
Spats with Logic and Pro Tools...know that scene...I just moved to Studio One 5 Pro...well worth checking out. I'm sold on it.
Awesome comment.
Cubase is great - you'll love it! It's a way of life.
Funny i went from years of cubase to logic and i aint going back haha
I love this dude he's like that cool uncle that makes music, let's you sit with him and gets you involved in his music ...
For real 👍
"This is such a long video, oh god!"
DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT. I watch your videos every morning with my cup of coffee, and to be honest I love it when the videos run a bit long. It's one of the main ways I "decompress" before I get to work.
Omg the layering thing with the shorts and longs. Genius. I’ve been trying to get that attack out of my long lines for a couple of years now. Thank you
Simple little things like that make a big difference!
I loved that you were conducting behind your desk while the virtual orchestra was playing.
I also do this, and I always feel like a crazy person. Good to know I'm not alone, hahaha
I did this this morning
I almost think it helps you get into the actual atmosphere of the piece and should be done more!
@@greggeverman5578
For sure!
It'd be more crazy to not do it...
@@rox1601
Very true 😉
Watching videos like this is very humbling. Many times while trying to compose music I think "Oh the top artists do so well and my ideas fall through" but seeing you make mistakes and correct them, or go a different route that leads to something better is awe inspiring and confidence boosting. A lot of times we forget that its okay to make mistakes, because through those failures we find success.
Thank you for your honesty in composing and being unafraid to show us the missed notes, the chord exploration, and the constant refinement of ideas of varying levels of 'goodness' until we arrive at something that really works.
My man just composed the whole Wall-E soundtrack in front of our eyes for free in less than a hour.
I love your 'warts'n all' style of videos. It's nice seeing you tinker around and questioning yourself whilst also showing us the mistakes as it's all part of the process
200mb, you say? Blimey! Sounds really good!
And you win 'tip-of-the-month' for that gliss transpose trick.
Thanks!
My pleasure
Where was that?
I thought using string trems was an even better tip!
Time stamp?
To give you a time-stamp i’d have to either watch or skip through the video, again, just to find the place. So perhaps you might look for yourself. I’d recommend watching the whole video, though 👍🏻
Very Elfman-esque, love seeing a track like this created in basically realtime!
Doubling the short articulations with the tremolos for the string runs is a fantastic tip to keep in mind. Thank you!
In order to use all these amazing virtual orchestras you need to know counterpoint and harmony. I am glad I found an educated composer on this platform that know his craft. Is even rarer in Hollywood. I bought the BBC Discover library and I did a mockup with Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe on my channel and it sounds amazing. Thank you for the video.
I love this guy! No garish splash page/thumbnail, no annoying two-tier ads up front, no begging to subscribe or hype, he just jumps right into the subject and away we go learning. I'm a first-time viewer, a novice orchestrator and thanks to Guy, I'm a new fan of his. Anyone else?
I think this might be my fav video. The camera switching and fun nature keeps me from losing focus, it's like some kinda miracle
20:56 That glissando tip was great. Never thought about that before
I love “that’ll do”! 😆
It’s great to know that a composer like yourself can be so ‘random’ and ‘trial and error’ as we rock musicians! Honestly, it’s made my day!
I just got mine copy yesterday, thank you cut this, for hours to write music which I also bought as only online class ever and its pretty good so far, you have charming personality that resonates well with what you teach. I never would though of myself as being able to event start comprehend orchestral music as only played guitar before. You and Adam Neely pushed me to start going into music after work, buy a DAW and have fun with music, and also to understand it. You opened while new world for me and for this and delightful entertainment I thank you very much, you are wonderful human. Please never change that :)
Guy, I’ve been an owner of the “Pro” version of BBC SO since the pre-order and this was STILL beneficial to demonstrate how little you really need to make great music! Thank you!
Yeah, it sure looks boss!
This was very helpful, thanks! I can't wait to get my version and get stuck in.
Definitely an excellent addition
"I've always got to think of the player, think of them breathing." As a woodwind player, you might be the only composer who allows us to breathe...
Your kind must be dwindling quite rapidly.
😁
I still have nightmares from time to time about playing a piece for the Clarinet that went without breathing. When parts were in unison myself and a couple of the other clarinetists would secretly mark out the notes each of us would skip to breathe so we didn't drop out of the score completely at the same time.
#NOCLICK!
Not sure if it was a Guy quote on another video or someone else - but I remember the hint of "when playing wind instruments on a keyboard, take a deep breath and slowly blow all the air from your lungs and then release the note". A good wind player will be able to blow longer/harder than us non-players but it means we're not playing things beyond what a good player can actually play!
Can we take a second to appreciate the studio and it's surroundings completely is sync with nature, blending like a beautiful orchestra .. This man takes a lot of inspiration from nature for sure.. Wonderful!!!
Hi Guy!
You should not be too worried about the lenght of the video.
I could sit here for hours to see your workflow and to hear your piece come together. Amazing!
It's much more educational, funny and satisfying than you might think.
Thank you for your time and effort that you put in to these videos.
And thank you for sharing your experience and expertise.
"But not THOSE quarter notes. BANISHED!"
After watching this I have two thoughts:
1) I'm so excited!
2) I need to get good!
Umbral Chroma
You and me both, my dude.
After years of the cut down version of Ableton, I'm relearning Cakewalk. I need a 5 year old to help me. ;)
Stumbled on this by mistake and enjoyed the whole 51 minutes. I don't even make music or play an instrument. Thank you Guy, thoroughly enjoyed this.
Guy you madlad. I was looking for a video like this from someone using the free version of the orchestral library all morning, good job at getting to the punch first!
I have watched some videoes using this free library and you blew the others away! Conclusion: it is not the tools, it is the man using them! I love this video!
Love how transparent you are with the ups and downs of the process Guy, thank you. And by Grabthar's Hammer, what value!
Such an emotional composition - it beautifully tells the tragic tale of father; dehydrated; needing only the nourishment and warmth from a cup of tea, yet betrayed by his offspring
Guy, you are a joy to watch and truly inspirational.
If you will excuse the vernacular: "You have zero f's to give".
So many streamers are styled to imperfection, so their jams and sessions are so nailed they may as well be a pre-recorded piece. What you give here is some true honesty!
"Ah... Dodgy note, wehay lets make a joke and keep going!" - such a gorgeous personality trait that many of us can learn from besides all the additional music knowledge.
I love that you posted this. Not only because It inspired me to immediately shoot over to spitfire and pick this up, but because we ALL have these days where we've got the big picture worked out in our head and silly little things keep tripping us up. Namely for me, my sub-par keyboard skills being a professional guitar player, vocalist and even session drummer, but NOT so much a keyboardist.
Man...I just downloaded this and am completely in awe. I have all the LABS stuff as well and I honestly think Spitfire is the best company out there for free plugins. Great sounds and customer service. Very clever people as now I feel I owe them...nice. And then there's Guy. What an inspiration you are! These are truly amazing times for musicians wanting to get into composing. I mean free DAWs, free instruments, effects and libraries like this and free instruction to boot! No more excuses now, buddy!
Lack of creativity will always be the excuse number 1.
@@EdgardoPlasencia Not if you're writing clichés/genre music like this - just follow the formula
Five minutes into this video and I love this guy.
The first 2 minutes gained you a new subscriber. I’ve never heard songwriting so perfectly summed up 😂
God bless the RUclips algorithm bringing me to this video. I've been looking all over the place for a decent orchestra VST but instead went down the rabbithole of cinematic soundpacks with pretty cool one shots, FX, and construction kits. But I've been hankering for a good VST for a while now. What a step up from FLEX.
"Are you my clients or are you my friends?" LOL you Guy are the absolute best!
Looool... the difference between minutes and days 😂😂
❤️❤️
As a guy who doesn't know where to start if you want to arrange an orchestration music, this video really helped me A LOT. Thanks so much mate.
I've enrolled on your How To Write Music course - it's brilliant! I've learned more in a few minutes than a lifetime strangling a guitar and torturing a piano. A very happy bunny 👏😷🎶
1 minute into the video and you get the energy you can conquer the world with your music
Made my day, 27:54 - 28:30 basically describes my whole life!
I've been using this library since my early studying days and still do. I love it and I want to say a million thanks for making this.
Just found this gem, I've been using notation software to compose but was unsatisfied with the sound, this is a great tutorial for how to use a daw to compose.
Thank you so much for this video! You opened me a whole new world of possibilities!
Suggestion for a course that I would like to see:
String arrangement and production for pop and rock music.
I think there could be a lot of guys like me who like orchestral elements, but don’t intend to become a media composer or do full orchestral scoring. I mostly do singer-songwriter stuff myself and have tried doing a string arrangement to a song once, but without prior knowledge it was a pita and took ages.
So a short course on how to arrange strings in a song context , how to make them halfway decent with MIDI and mix them would be great. I’d buy that immediately.
And if that works out, why not continue with brass for funk/soul or woodwinds for , eh, folk?
As far as I can see that is a niche in the market that hasn’t been occupied, at least I haven’t found anything. Most orchestral course are overkill for me.
practice
I’d like to see this
Being in the same boat as you, (I produce mostly singer/songwriter etc) I would definitely find some value in a course like that! But in the meantime try using the same techniques but applied to the more conventional chord progressions of pop music. And maybe lean a bit less on some of the more orchestral elements. Perhaps trying Mellotron strings in place of ‘real’ ones, and glocks/Rhodes/synth plucks in place of some more percussive orchestra sounds.
The boat is big! That would be insane! 🙂
Learn a lot and then apply it to 'your thing'
Watching this guy (Guy) compose and orchestrate is a real joy. Rather than an expertly polished edit, we get to see how he really thinks and works in real time. This is priceless for us composers.
"if I wasn't hearing it before, I don't need it"
honestly terrific advice. delete that extra garbage if you don't hear it.
It is a noble idea, but it really depends on how well your inner ear is. I sometimes don't hear Hi Hats in funk tracks and add them waaaay too late, wondering what is missing for the whole process. Nothing wrong with experimenting a bit and adding things, that you might have not heard in your ear before. If it sounds better, it's better, no matter how you came there :)
In programming, we call it iterative design. If we look at something a second time and see something in the code that we don't see in the product, we remove the code.
I must agree with his advice totally
Your sense of humor and joyful demeanor is like fresh air on a very difficult time. Keep doing what you're doing and thanks for doing it!
You, Christian and Junkie XL's videos are the dog danglies, so much info and insight. Thank You 😎
Christian who? I'm interested.
Ola Olson - Christian Henson, my friend!
@@カーロス-w1g Christian Henson/Spitfire Audio
Thank you Alex, Jonah!
Y'all should take a look at Dr Mix. Great synths and a good vibe. And he's currently building his new studio.
This is the longest ad for a VST I've ever watched.
"What I've got is five chords, and one of 'em's wrong."
Well ain't that the truth.
Unless you're playing metal or jazz :D
"too many notes"...
Guy you are helping scoring musicians all over the world by making such videos. Thank you ! God Bless
Been hoping you'd make a video on this, currently in the 14 day waiting period but temped to just fork out the 50 quid
£50?...it's seriously worth it
No!... Just wait! :P
me too
@Wilfred Design I'm in the waiting period as well, 5 days left. You may as well wait, at least then you can know for definite and you can always buy it later. There's no need to jump the gun for this short of a waiting period.
There's probably a registry key somewhere it added when you install it (assuming it comes with an installer) that keeps track of when you started using it that you could try to find and modify use it longer while you try to figure out whether or not you want to pay for it or not, probably not the most legal but definitely pragmatic especially if you dont have much time to use it during the initial waiting period :)
the transposing a C or Am gliss legit blew my mind 🤯 TY SO MUCH
"So, what have we got in an hour", err, how about more than I could achieve in a month of Sundays ? LoL
Your enthusiasm and humour, really are top notch Guy, pleasure watching you have some fun with a new library.
I subscribed after 5 min. The reason is your energy you created for me. There's one principle I'm trying to follow is to answer the question: "what kind of energy I want to transfer to the one who interacts with me?". And if I can describe it, it would be yours: stimulating, sincere, passionate, fun. You're my new mentor from now on. Keep posting new content. Cheers.
I started diving into MIDI orchestration a few weeks ago and I'm happy to discover that some layouting techniques I started using are the same explained in the video. Then I'm not that dumb and noob. Anyways this video is definitely good and useful.
The basis of incredible things is often passion (and then hard work).
That passion of you is contagious dear sir! What an enthousiast and excellent teacher are you!
Thanks for your vids!
This guy might be my favourite guy on RUclips. Feels like I'm back in music class which was my fave back in sixth form lol.
Love it, his sense of humour is just regular daddying out in his little summer house. I've just bought a NI midi keyboard and just getting into this for the first time, I love what spitfire does, simply amazing!
Just a little tip (which I need to double-check in Discover - works in Pro) for anyone with Discover that’s concerned with track count if they double articulations, you should be able to Shift-Click both articulations (long + short) in a single instance to add, say, attacks to trombone longs.
it doesn't work with discover
What?! How did you learn that? Should I read the manual...?!
@@LeeGee Lol. This was just on a whim that I tried it. I wanted a stronger, “tongued” attack. Normally, I would double the track with a separate articulation or in Kontakt, load both articulations. This just so happens in the two versions of BBCSO, you can shift-click multiple articulations. This may get hairy if you’re using Keyswitching, though.
And, I’m “that guy” that tends to read the manual because I don’t want to miss out on any functionality that might not be intuitive to find.
@@keithgiosa I'm going to read the manual. Thanks for the tip!
Just got this library and felt a little overwhelmed by all it could do, so this tutorial is very inspiring for me to just create a bunch of tracks and make something!
You’re the very best!
I’d love to spend a day in the shed, just soaking in all your positive energy
As a non keyboard player, i usually write via mini synth and trackpad, adding strings and such to my guitar based heavy metal
Your videos have made a huge difference in how i approach layering
Cheers!
I got my "own" BBCSO one week ago and it's the first orchestral sample library I use. And there are so many new possibilities for me! It's great! ... and btw. Your Videos are very inspiring for me! I like they very much!
Spitfire's FREE orchestra is a great gift , i am waiting for it ,thanks a lot for your tip
What is the questionnaire about?
@@RodrigoTPHS it is about your musical taste and background mostly
Oh my... the mood of that piece is absolutely AMAZING.
Guy, your fantasy tracks are some of my favorites!! You're like Danny Elfman and Thomas Newman's secret triplet brother
I signed up for the download of this about a year ago and then forgot about it. Installed it today and holy wow. The sounds are so good I was inspired to write some brand new pretty epic music. Thank you for showing this to us.
Wow! Great vid. Opened my eyes to a form of composition, I have always been curious about. I make EDM, but I think some of these techniques can be applied to making more interesting floor bangers.
Just had someone random sitting with me who had no interest in composing but was mesmerized by and laughing with Mr Guy Michelmore.
Also got her finding interest in the composing aspect.
I've not seen anything similar.
I don't know if it is true but to her it was like "This must be a professional teacher" which he obviously is.
I just don't know the history. Fun and inspirational.
I'm waiting my two weeks. :)
If I got really good and wanted to show other people outside of my closest then there might be something about going larger.
A tip for keyswitching:
If you have a midi keyboard with drumpads set them from C-2 and up so you can easily keyswitch from there.
Hi Pieter, Have you gotten the keyswitches working with Discover? I have enabled keyswitching in the options but there's no keyswitch options on the keyboard in the UI, and no change when anything from C-2 up is pressed. Thank you!
I have the same question! I am trying to keyswitch on Discover to no avail. Would you know how to?
Well, I am not in the music business at all but I love music and watching you work is incredibly inspiring. Thank you for sharing Guy.
Thank you ever so much, Guy, I enjoyed every minute of it! 😀 My goodness, this Library sounds absolutely amazing! Hard to believe you can get this for free. It's a must-have. And thanks very much indeed for the free template! 🙌🙏 Stay healthy!!
Almost cant believe how good it sounds!
What I like the most in your useful Videos and tutorials is (beside your sense of humor) the fact that we see the whole process with all the failures inbetween! That's how it is in the real world and it gives me hope :-)
Honestly I prefer this guy rather than Hans Zimmer’s Masterclass
Absolutely!
What’s was hans’ masterclass like? Was thinking about checking it out but the subscription price put me off a bit
@@arthurswj2328 If you think there will be a tutorial on how to make music then you will not like it either. I liked it
lol... I have not been very impressed with Masterclass in general...
George, Guy is a delight to watch and to listen to. Hans.... my god. I can't stand listening to him. Nor looking at. HE got a great deal, did write some good music, had good push from whatever, took the right advantage of the opportunity. And that's it.
Everything about this video is pure gold.
Just what I needed Guy, thank you. Your Dad was a TV legend by the way, I remember him well. Stay safe. Glynn (Hands up, by the way)
Thank you - he was
@@ThinkSpaceEducation OMG I've just clocked - was your Dad Cliff Michelmore? Wow, amazing man. This video is fantastic, thoroughly enjoying it. Thank you.
Got it. Having a ball learning how to score. Wouldn't have known about it if your video had not popped up in my feed. Thank you for sharing this!
The last question in the required survey is "What does BBC mean to you"
And I'm like. ._.
Yeah that is a bit too much so I just filled it in as my childhood lmao
Big Black Choir
@@maurov2104 I said Doctor Who :)
I said "a free plugin"
I should've typed "Big Bruh Club"
I absolutely love how excited he is, it warms my heart 🥰
Very helpful! Thanks for posting. Your knowledge of scoring along with your comfortable company makes this RUclips channel a real asset!
I like how he is "picking up" the notes hehehe. I love how the brain says what's next.
I just received my free version of this discover library.
I am sooooo happy!!
Sound quality is awesome!
“Dodgy Notes” can also be a useful addition to ones lexicon. Maybe save your life one day!
I can't express how inspiring your videos are to me. It's not just watching how you do things right, although that's highly instructive. It's also seeing you make mistakes, and how you go about fixing them. I love your playful spirit, and the fearlessness with which you cast off the sunglasses of doubt and come up with something amazing in such a short time. You make it look effortless, which anyone who's ever put two notes together knows it's not. Watching your videos is like sitting next to a world-class composer who also happens to be a good friend. Thanks and please keep doing what you do. :)
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thank you for sharing the joy of making music -things I almost forgot lately.
Hey Guy, could you do a tutorial on how to properly use the wheels on the side of the keyboard as a volume fader? Would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Map It !!!
You could assign different CC values to your switches (volume being CC11).
This is how you do it on Logic Pro: ruclips.net/video/yfZO7faM8Eo/видео.html
Don't bother - spend £60 on since faders (or £600)
What a lovely place to compose... I have often seen your famous Shed but this time the look outside of your windows is really magical!
45:27 - the music suddenly went quiet and never returned to normal volume. Other than that informative and entertaining, thanks.
Seems to go to your microphone picking up the monitors rather than the direct sound. Comes back at 49:40
@@rhlutz at least it came back for the final "lets see how this worked".
it does tho, at 49:40 XD
where's the editor? :P
Part of the paid course lol
Sharing this knowledge for young aspiring producers/composers, thank you ever so much. I dream of producing music for a living, and eventhough I'm making baby steps, your videos enriches my mind and opens the amount of possibilities that await me!
And he's still waiting for that cup of tea...
I was wondering if she ever brought it lol.
I was thinking the same thing
i love Guy's video there so good and always enthusiastic he keeps you watching and you never get bored he's amazing 😄
Guy: Oh no, this is going to be a LONG video!
Me: You say that as if it's a bad thing.
Sublime as always and a fantastic way to start my weekend.
A coffee, pastry and an hour of organised chaos in the company of Sir Guy. Thanks.
When you already check out the finished demo after 5 minutes of demonstration because you're so exited about the final result...
I love how he puts markers on the video's navigation bar to help us find the places we're looking for.
Feels like I'm stuck in a level of Lego Batman listening to this.
this must be one of the most british music tutorials I have ever seen (and I love it)