Great work sir! Just a thought that for those of us who study theory, but dont read notation, it would be super helpful to see this kind of orchestral expansion for piano in MIDI, or even just with consistent chord names
Thanks a lot Ryan for your suggestion! I do have some videos where I focus more on MIDI, and I did deliberately made this video ONLY on the notation software : this is part of my education process with my personal students. I do believe that as modern composers, in all genres, we need to be familiar with MIDI (for like 80% of music production purposes, mockups, portfolio, etc), but most importantly with notation (working with real performers, analyzing scores from the repertoire, there's WAY more information you can get on scores than in MIDI and I understand why you advocate for people who don't read notation because of this). Of course I'm sure someone can do a similar or better orchestration only with MIDI. My approach of composing directly on the score and then listening to the MIDI is not necessarily the best. But, I do mention at 24:00 something important, I think that we should train ourselves very early to develop our inner ear instead of being influenced by the playback. Working directly on the score, studying orchestral scores without a recording, both of these allow us to do so, and I think this is something important that can allow us to access more easily our creativity. This could be a good opportunity for a student to pause the video and make sure he or she understand well every note I'm putting down, maybe it could be a good exercice to transpose this into MIDI! What do you think? 🙂
Wait. You are studying music theory without learning the musical notation?😯That was one of the big topics I had to learn from the very beginning in music theory and I'm still learning it. I was so happy that he uses the musical notation in his videos because it helps me exercising sight-reading while learning new stuff from him (to get another personal perspective). It's also fun too. For example, before he analyzes a score, I stop the video to analyze it myself first and only then do I see if my analysis matches his. 😁
Nothing wrong with being an amateur, you do it for the love of it. Professional people are fortunate enough to be getting paid. I have no problem with being an amateur.
Truth! I do love the first version also, it's not really a mistake, sometimes less is more, and sometimes more is more, and it's fine! But even personally, I prefer the second one as I think it's more subtle and clearer.
Très intéressant! Merci 😉
Merci, heureux que ça puisse aider!
Great work sir! Just a thought that for those of us who study theory, but dont read notation, it would be super helpful to see this kind of orchestral expansion for piano in MIDI, or even just with consistent chord names
Thanks a lot Ryan for your suggestion!
I do have some videos where I focus more on MIDI, and I did deliberately made this video ONLY on the notation software : this is part of my education process with my personal students. I do believe that as modern composers, in all genres, we need to be familiar with MIDI (for like 80% of music production purposes, mockups, portfolio, etc), but most importantly with notation (working with real performers, analyzing scores from the repertoire, there's WAY more information you can get on scores than in MIDI and I understand why you advocate for people who don't read notation because of this).
Of course I'm sure someone can do a similar or better orchestration only with MIDI. My approach of composing directly on the score and then listening to the MIDI is not necessarily the best. But, I do mention at 24:00 something important, I think that we should train ourselves very early to develop our inner ear instead of being influenced by the playback. Working directly on the score, studying orchestral scores without a recording, both of these allow us to do so, and I think this is something important that can allow us to access more easily our creativity.
This could be a good opportunity for a student to pause the video and make sure he or she understand well every note I'm putting down, maybe it could be a good exercice to transpose this into MIDI! What do you think? 🙂
Wait. You are studying music theory without learning the musical notation?😯That was one of the big topics I had to learn from the very beginning in music theory and I'm still learning it. I was so happy that he uses the musical notation in his videos because it helps me exercising sight-reading while learning new stuff from him (to get another personal perspective).
It's also fun too. For example, before he analyzes a score, I stop the video to analyze it myself first and only then do I see if my analysis matches his. 😁
Very insightful! Thanks so much for this video.
My pleasure, glad it could help 😃
Nothing wrong with being an amateur, you do it for the love of it. Professional people are fortunate enough to be getting paid. I have no problem with being an amateur.
Truth! I do love the first version also, it's not really a mistake, sometimes less is more, and sometimes more is more, and it's fine! But even personally, I prefer the second one as I think it's more subtle and clearer.