Composing Academy is the place to learn how to begin composing your own music. Here you will find easy to follow videos explaining core Music Theory concepts along with various tips and tricks to help you craft that perfect song or cinematic piece of music.
Hallo Simon, wieder mal ein super Beitrag für mich, der mir sicher helfen wird. Darüber habe ich ehrlich gesagt, gar nicht so drüber nachgedacht. Sehr hilfreich ist auch, dass Du immer gleich Beispiele dazu gebracht hast. Dies hilft enorm, die Sache zu verstehen. Also vielen Dank !! DK
How much strength of quantizing would you think is the minimum to fix timing errors, but not feel to robotic? Great video by the way, very easy to follow!
I'm no expert, but I understand that you need to create different tracks in your DAW set up with the same instrument but different articulations. So it's not like a stave where you indicate articulations with symbols (. > ^ etc) and words (pizz., arco). Also I think the expression slider affects some articulations depending on the instrument, but I've not worked this out yet.
So glad I found your page mate, I'm learning heaps. Though sometimes it is a little difficult to transpose what you are doing into the Reason Daw, I'm happy to persevere. Would it be possible for you to give the time signature and tempo when you are giving examples please? Many thanks, from Cornwall, UK.
Hi, many thanks for your kind words.....and yes I'll make sure to include the tempo and time signatures in future videos. Whereabouts in Cornwall?! I'm near Callington 😀
so, this is great, but, to me, (and I dont know music theory) these dont sound like song progressions, instead they sound like something that might come at the end of a phrase, or a section, maybe an intro, or a break, or maybe a turn around, but not like progressions that would be the basis for a whole song, like a repeating verse, or chorus...?
I really enjoyed this video. I found it incredibly helpful and inspiring. I was wondering if you could create a similar video analyzing the song "Over the Horizon 2015" by Samsung. I think it would be fascinating to see your approach to breaking down the melodies in that piece and how it can serve as a learning example.
Cubase is so user-unfriendly that we need tutorials like yours to find our way through the multitude of microscopic buttons and links. And how about that sh*tty small bar at the bottom? How do you make it disappear? It's always in the way and it seems to serve no purpose. Even when you think you've closed the program it's still there. Also, with every new version Cubase the volume seems to be getting lower. I have to crank up the speaker volume to hear anything at all. Having said this: thanks for your useful advice. Very much appreciated.
Just like bass drum and timpani, should we avoid playing too fast or complex rhythms on taikos and surdos? Or are they more similar to toms? Thanks for the videos that you make by the way, I always come back to them every now and then.
Really interesting idea but are the F and G not unfairly weighted compared to the other notes, using this method? They only have three letters while the others have four. Is there a way to equalise the distribution across the full scale? Thanks
This is handy but why do these chords work? I see that many progress upward, and span grand sections of the keyboard. Should I look at the circle of 5ths for a clue?
okay this was a good explanation but i have 3 questions. How do you do diminished chords? What makes the difference between majors and minors other than being reversed formula? and how do scales exactly play a role in chords? I understand this is a lot, so i am sorry but please explain as fluidly and easily as possible.
sir if you play surdos and takos sound separately then much useful for us. Play all percussion separately then paly together. Because we are beginner it's hard to understand jombo sound.
This was super helpful. Someone pointed out the trailer for Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom has the theme in this mode. I could sense something different but your video helped me understand much better.
Is there by chance a a possibility to listen to the track you have composed in the latter part of the video (14:11-16:22)? It sounds super amazing! Thank you!
Excellent vid: I like the way you described each instrument, its context and why you used it. I bought Fantasy Orchestra some months back and its an incredible package.
3:30 Is this a pure MIDI composing/arranging tutorial, or fo you intent to be played by a real orchestra later? That cello part with those chors sounds great here, but, in a real orchestra would sound very "dirty" and "fat", and it would be necesary to delete maybe 1 or two voices for clarity and clean sound. You've got violas there. You can double cellos by themselves (cellos playing same notes low and high), and then, violas playing the notes you removed from cellos. Nevertheless, you are already doubling notes there by the double bases, so mmm... The piece works, but I think the sound resulting is very very split. Down, bass and cello make it sound very gross at the end, and on the upper parts, they sound very distant from the lower voices. I would be more balanced if celli and viola are modified.
13:00 holy cow, everybody dings Cubase for the fact that the locators can be flipped the "wrong" way... I had no idea this had real functionality behind it!
