How To Write Orchestral Music - Creating Great Melodies & Countermelodies By Ear
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- Опубликовано: 16 авг 2017
- How to write great melodies that sound efficient, remarkable and easy to remember + a bit of Counterpoint and harmonization basics. A set of basic, yet fundamental skills to have as a composer.
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Alex Moukala what vst do you use?
Great tutorial bro.keep it bro, love from India
what daw are you using for these orchestrations?
Alex, will you be doing lessons again soon?
Please please please in spanish
1:17 this "bad melody" is totally something Shostakovich would write. but it takes INSANELY good harmony to make it work ^^
I want to salvage it and make something wonderful. You know what? That’s going to be my next piece.
@@claytonr.young-music912 how did it go?
@@mistadude I kind of forgot about. I might try it again though. I've been getting into jazz lately, and maybe it will work in a jazz context.
@@claytonr.young-music912 what now
lol
>Countermelodies
Oh, neat! It's like a duet, but with instruments.
Exactly
@mark heyne they are two different things.
It may be a basic idea, but teaching it is a completely different story. And as always you made it extremely clear and easy to understand. Well done and thank you for your knowledge, experience, and expertise.
That I agree
someone took the Hans Zimmer class! Props.
Haha, I actually didn't take that one yet.
I keep delaying it for some reason, but eventually I will!
I have those master class with hans zimmer
All of your videos are GOLD!
"Melodies are sentences" well said.
i am a complete music noob, but these melodies + counter melodies remind me of Ocarina of time music when Link learns a new song from Sheik and they start playing together. best example for counter melodies ever!
Because of you I’ve made more improvements in making music in a single week than I did an entire year
Alex... your way of communicating the elements of music... even certain approaches to music... is super intuitive, whereas most who try definitely fail to put these things in terms that make sense. Bravo.
21:21 I do sing countermelodies on my own while listening to music since I was kid I think. It just always comes automaticaly xD Then hopefuly this will help me to slowly become a composer :)
You should really use this gift!
@@yuulian4776 I appreciate your support
I owe you so much. Thank you for everything you've uploaded over the years. I hope to repay you somehow one day.
I'm excited to watch this.
Thank you so much for your context Alex! ❤️
The best ever tutorial about how to write melodies. Thanks a lot, Alex. I loved it
Great video Alex; super helpful. Love the idea at the end of listening to songs and filling in your own counter melodies. Thanks.
easily the most interesting, easy to follow, and informative music tutorials I've watched on here. and I've watched a lot. thank you
Wow, amazing lessons, very clear instructions- like a perfect melody! Thank you!!
This video really did a great job stripping down these concepts and explaining them clearly. It's also encouraging to me to see that I'm already doing a couple of the things you suggested and the new stuff helped me see things a little differently. Thanks for putting this together!
Great explanations, and very helpful tips for melodies in general - not just orchestral music. Thx!
The last tip you gave of imagining new elements, progressions or patterns, is what I’ve been doing since I was 6 years old. I just started composing this year and thanks to that, I’ve been improving amazingly fast.
Great advice bro 👏🏻👏🏻
Awesome class! Keep up the great work, bro, while we musically and through rhythm change the World to a more harmonizing and peaceful existence!
Alex! You are a REALLLY good music teacher! These videos are so addictive! Thank you!
Alex you make excellent videos. Very helpful and easy to understand. Please keep it coming!!😉
I'm learning so much from your tutorials, thank you so much again, you're helping a lot!!!
Thanks for this tutorial, gold content, so helpful!
Dude thank you for these videos, SUPER HELPFUL!!
Great stuff! Thank you!
You are a hero without cape my guyyyy. Keep up the goood videossss !
You are helping so much! Thank you very much, This is the best things on youtube.
Awesome as usual...
Fantastic lesson. Thanks a lot!
awesome great insights, thanks a lot for your tutorials, it is of great help :)
Thank you so much Alex.
Just found your channel Alex, great content, thanks a lot!
Great tutorial, well explained! Thank you!
Thank you Alex for all your great Videos, there is alot to learn:-)!
You are incredible and I’m very glad I found your channel! I would definitely be interested in taking lessons with you at some point
Great videos and tips, like your style
Super helpful, thanks!
Thanks for this easy to follow tutorial!
beautiful melody
Excellent tutorial.
love yeww man yu are awesme thanx fr the tutorial ... please continue this :)
thank you very much alex
helped me a lot
So great! Subbed
Hey, I do that thing too. Pretending to create harmonies in songs where that tune/riff does not exist. Interesting. ^_^I joined this channel late, and I'm so glad that I have found this channel.
Wow this is amazing you really know what you do I would like to be lectured by you man you genius
Thank you so much . You really helped me . god bless you
Super helpful for a beginner. Thank you!
Great class!
This Video helps me a lot! Thank you. I need to tell my story now! :)
THANK YOU ❤
Very Interesting and important to know when writing music
Really nice tips for countermelodies :)
Most interesting topic in any compositions :]
And when you think of it, it's always the simplest melodies that account for the best pieces of music.
5 people where talking to their friend and then skipped over to bananas.
now 10 people did it too
@@nicc9798 Another guy decided to join in....
@@abishekraju8787 and another...
AND THEN THE GYM!
wtf are talking about
Thanks man!
Thanks man
I made a few songs for an animated movie that I am currently working on in the works called, "The RUclips Movie". 1 song I did is a motivation song called "The Start of Freedom & Justice", which is a song about finding the light & encouragement to become a true legacy.
You're young but a great music teacher Thanks for your valuable advices(sorry bad english i'm italian)
Your strings are brutal!
Ah, that’s a new one for me. Singing counter melodies, good tip.
funny how I got one of ur ads on your video (btw great stuff, I learned a lot!)
Cool, I'm famous. This was recorded for me :)
Enjoy your fame man. :D
Hope this helped you out more than the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star example, haha!
@@AlexMoukala If you haven't heard of it, you should check out Twinkle Twinkle Death Star.
Great composition. Humorous. But totally impressive (especially considering it was nearly all improvised)
I see Kane, I know it is a different Kane, but I upvote anyway.
wow. comprehensive but definitely not boring.
Perfect explanation, Alex, also clear examples, but could've been clearer if we use piano just for this one.
thanks man
Thanks :)
So much info..Thank you so much.. If possible, please do a video on how to convert potentially good ideas into implementation
That's something we all struggle with in the beginning, but it starts to come naturally with time and practice.
Alex Moukala : Thank you so much sir! Really appreciate you doing this for us.
2:05 This sounds almost exactly like Guild Wars 2's "Sea of sorrows" by Jeremy Soule
Subscribbed! looking forward to checking out your other content. Thank You!!
This gose for all songs
Why are you so awesome
Lol
Thank you so much for this tutorial, I hope it helps me out! Tell me, do these tips and tricks also work for if you’re trying to compose an angry sounding, fast paced battle theme?
Interesting 🙃 I like
You're a very good teacher.. I've been trying to find a way of allowimg my counter melody breath without clashing with my original melody each time I tried it either I choose the counter melody and just remove it. Thank you bro
Hello alex first of all thank you each video, I learn a lot of your videos but I find it difficult, could you make a video tutorial composing from scratch an orchestra epica of cinematic teaching the basics? thanks again :)
In the piano Roll Control "Rom" you have Dynamics showing. But i cant find that in my Fl Studio And its updated :/ Is it the same as Volume? Oo
Your tutorials are amazing ! Would love to collab on a song one day . I write for sync
Hi Alex, great tutorial. I have a question, what do you think of using Omnisphere 2 together with CS2 ensemble or it would be too much? Thank you and have a great day.
Great as usual. Captivating melodies. Where can I buy the finished piece? :)
gems
bananas😂 awesome bro 🙏🏼
That other person to who the melody sounds weird and directionless is yourself in the next day when you listen what you wrote the day before lol. Its weird how sometimes it sounds fine when you are watching it happen step by step in your daw, but later with fresh ears you notice how its not so good.
hell yeah its 12.41 midnight and im watching your videos
:D
Alex Moukala is this metropolis ark?
L.D. williams yes brother he mostly uses metropolis ark libraries
ark 1 for epic sound and ark 2 for bit smooth relax type sound
Oh, no I actually don't have Metropolis Ark 2 yet. :P
In this example, I used Cinematic Strings 2.
5:00 This chord progression in the first bar sounds like NF's song: "Time."
yes, it does
Even if we both break down tonight...
I like the chords, sounds like Halo Reach / Halo 3
Yah yah ..thanks
Any tips on writing leitmotifs for a character? Like, how to find that perfect sound that expresses that character through music?
You're very good Alex and your videos are gold. I'd like to ask you why you're using FL Studio instead of other DAWs or better, notation softwares like Finale or Musecore which is free but very powerful. I have nothing against FL Studio, just a question. For example, I really can't write music on a piano roll I prefer the classic notation system. By the way I'm italian too ;-)
i dont want private lessons but i want to make a movie with u my guyy
muito boa noite, meu nome é Rafael, sou do Brasil, me inscrevi a pouco tempo em seu canal, queria te perguntar algo, qual é a configuração do seu pc para rodar tantos instrumentos sem ao menos travar, porque sabemos que o FLStudio e meio complicado de ter uma boa performance na memoria, poderia me responder isso ? desde já agradeço e parabéns pelo belo trabalho !
Wow, actually was doing the same naturally with singing along, just didn't know what I'm doing
Hi
What strings do you use?
All my strings just sound edgy, either too high or too low.
I use string section and brass.
Audim0n0mer I believe it’s Cinematic Strings 2!
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Nice tutorial, what kind the strings are you using? Thanks
So, for intense if you have a lyrics you wanted to compose music for it, what will you compose first: melody (tune) or the chords and everythings that supports the melody?
I'm still a noob to this subject but happy to have discovered your channel! Quick question: what are all the spideweb looking lines connecting your notes as the melody and countermelody gets furnished?
I think you're referencing the expression control, I'm pretty new to this as well but it's essentially automation you can control to change how intensely the instrument is played throughout the pattern (or section)
Great video, I think it's the best way to follow your ears with what sounds good instead of worrying about rules (if you don't know them, the problem doesn't exist ^^).
But I think, if you would take the four bars of your bad melody, repeated and treated it like your one bar good motif, maybe it could also be turned into an appealing melody :). But I get your idea of course.
And maybe I'm also already contaminated with contemporary music ^^
Maybe. Although, if you want to nail it right, that's definitely some advanced shit right there haha. Definitely not something I'd advise beginners nor intermediates to mess around with.
Alex Moukala You're probably right haha ^^
Thank you for your time. Are you under label?
Hey Alex! I'm curious why you have two of every string patch from the same library? In this example you used two string ensemble patches and I'm wondering why you didn't just include the low bass notes from string ensemble #2 in the string ensemble #1 part? Thank you in advance!
I think so he can have individual control over the octaves.