From Piano To Orchestra in 8 Minutes - How To Write Orchestral Music 

For those who feel this tutorial is too fast, 40 minutes "slow" version of it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--oDAVGFMiuY.html

quality ass content dude

thought i was watching in 1.25 speed

my man dropping actual *quality* content on april fools’! the madlad did it again

The violins’ run in 4:20 is actually quite an easy figure to play on a real string instrument - so no worries, and the “if it sounds good, it is good” philosophy is totally legitimate! 🙂🎻

Fantastic! Now I just need about $10,000 for those plugins.

"I'm not Mozart" *Proceeds to write an award winning score, good enough to amaze Vivaldi*

The hardcore followers of this channel might have a deja-vu with this tutorial. The reason for it is that I already made an analysis of this track last year. However, I decided to make a shorter version of it. I'm thinking of doing that for other tracks I made in the past as well to make the channel easier to browse and digest. What do you think of this new format?

Never been to this channel before. 3 minutes in and I'm pretty blown away by how simple and precise this guy is. Subscribed.

Love this, quick and straight to the point. Keep up the great work Alex! 👌🏼

I would just like to add my grain of salt to this community and state the difference between Adaptation, Orchestration, and Arrangement, which I think the term "orchestration" is used freely and frequently without much thought in what it really implies. Adaptation: Is taking the original idea, and passing it to the orchestra as loyal as it can be to the original composer´s intention, no doublings, no extra lines or counter-melodies, no change of key, etc... (like most of the work Hollywood Orchestrators do in the business today!). Orchestration: Is when you actually "translate" the piano nuances to the orchestra, for example, very fast arpeggios easily played on the piano would not work exactly in the same way in the orchestra in the strings, or the pedal of the piano will have to be "emulated" by sustained notes in the orchestra passed by several instruments, well balanced and in the same timbre. You might change the "key" of the piece to another one to be better suited for the character and register of the instruments of the piece. Doublings, fillers and slight extra lines might be permissible if the music and the character of the written score call for it (very important to be able to read a score and notation to understand what the composer wanted in terms of character and dynamics, which is written in the score, like a "piano", "mezzo-forte", "espressivo", "dolente", all this will AFFECT the shape, colour and instrument choice of the orchestration!). Arrangement: Is when you take most of the original composer material, but you re-arrange it, add melodies that did not exist before, counter-melodies, re-harmonizations, voicings, intros, transitions, development. Like a lot of today´s arrangements of live video game music or film concerts. (I really recommend you guys search for the work of Jonne Valtonen, he is in my opinion, one of today´s most impressive/creative/talented orchestral arrangers for Video Games!). The most important thing to take from this is, there are NO shortcuts or CHEATS for this, a GOOD adaptation, orchestration or arrangement is very hard to do, takes decades or more to be able to be good at this, takes a LOT of study, musical intuition and knowledge (which is gained by listening to a lot of music, learning a lot, reading a lot and playing a lot!). Every single piece of music is different, not all the same voicings and instruments can be used the same way every time, it´s very important to understand the music first, the character and the overall story of the piece as well as the technical pros and cons of every single instrument of the orchestra! Being able to read, write and do copying is not an option for an arranger or orchestrator, it´s called being professional, you have to do a fully orchestrated written score, parts, proofread and print all the music ready to be placed on the musicians stands to be played or recorded since you cant send the orchestra or conductor a midi file... This does not mean I am a really good arranger or orchestrator in any way, or saying Alex isn´t (loved his version of Sonic), I´m just sharing what I´ve learned and experienced in the professional world! Hope it helped anyone! :)

So much info in so little time... Precise and perfect... You go Alex!!!!

As a pianist since many many years, I am into this kind of processes very recently, and going through the exact hurdles and solutions. Thank you very much for your effort and this informative video.

Quick thing, many of the runs you refer to as "arpeggios" but they are not. An arpeggio outlines the members of a chord, (root, 3rd, 5th etc.), and you have created step-wise runs, or scalar runs. Excellent video regardless, you clearly know what you're doing.

Violinist here, I would say the run at 4:19 isn’t impossible, difficult like you said, definitely not sight readable. Doable, yes.

I really like your new teaching format. Thank you.

This video is art, you're a true craftsman. Never hit a subscribe button so hard.

Dude!!! You are a great composer!

"I'm not doing anything crazy" - Alex Moukala

Great tutorial! Answered so many questions I'm having in such a short time! Thanks!

This is the best tutorial I've seen on FL. Great work!

Damn, Umtiti, you’re talented bro

thank you indeed for your dissectible guidance, which is the clearest and best teaching that I've ever heard: it heightens my intuition when I begin to work on my own music arrangement! good job! keep it up!

Very compact and dense, very cohesive and instructive. Like a direct injection of inspiration.

Your video's are so helpful bro, I'm so glad I found this channel!!

Soooo cooool! Love the track, but also love the breakdown. :) Great stuff!

I am so thankfull for your work. The style of education here in RU-vid is very on point. Greetings from Finland.

Wow thanks Alex. I've just written some piano pieces looking for orchestra arrangement. This would be more than useful!

'I'm not Mozart, I'm not doing anything crazy' Hmm, i think you might be ! Awesome content, as usual, nice to see the return of this track. It was one of my favourites for sure :)

IDK about strings since I don't play strings, but I know for sure the flute runs are possible. It was sometimes all my part was. Dang freaking runs lol. Great content!

Wow I'm so happy I discovered you. Great job man!

man when i started to follow your videos i just wanna make simple trap beats and no more but now i really appreciate all aspects of the music and i want always more thank you

There is a lot to be learnt from this Sonic track you made, I have seen it in numerous tutorials and it is the only Composing from Scratch I've seen from begging to end. For anyone interested, I really encourage you to become a Patreon supporter and see it for yourself. For me, it really taught me to experiment. And experimenting during composition and orchestration has to be one of the most important aspects of production as it makes your track stand out way more.

I stumbled upon this video and really enjoyed it. Thank you for creating and sharing this.

Wow, you make this so easy. I've been using FLstudio for like 3 months and I still can't fully utilize 80% of the other functions. I recently saw your templates video and that's what I aim to focus next. What's really blows me away is how easy you know all the shortcuts. Everytime I look down at the keyboard I have to make sure it hit the right keys. Aghhh I am so far behind!

You are amazing! So much useful and incredible things in your channel

Always good tutorials..! thanks a lot!

Brilliant! Thank you Alex.

Just brilliant stuff!!

Wow this is really awesome, I actually do have a bit of experience in orchestral music, but this might take it to another level, thanks dude!

This is awesome! Hats off!

Great work man. So much info crammed in 8min. subbed

Wow! Fantastic job.

This was a dope explanation on taking a melody and orchestrating it to something bigger. And I like how you took the melody from Sonic the Hedge 2 game scene lol. Nice one. I always liked those composers from japan and how they created dope melodies and counter melodies to their compositions.

Exceptional video. Very useful.

amazing work!

Dude this is awesome! Great job

Love your tutorials💜

Loving the fast and the succinct format. That sonic cover is epic af

Great like always

so nice!! congrats

Amazing. Thank you mate!

Yo I just wanna let you know that I've never heard of BRSO before this vid and it's been a freakin' LIKE CHANGER so far, my dude. Keep up that good stuff

Man...these videos are gold, thank you. You've read my mind ahah

Holy.. dude thats what I need right now! thanks

Man, you're good! Super explanation. Thanks!

Wow, this is very interesting! Excited to try some of the techniques you suggest!

This is incredible. Thanks so much for this vid!

Seriously impressive stuff.

Awesome stuff! Very helpful!

This was very useful, thanks

You are one of a Kind, a BEAST🔥💯

THIS IS AMAZING

What a great video, thanks Alex :D

Great job buddy! Greetings from Barcelona 👍👍

Great work! Thank you!!!

First time I changed speed to 0.75x instead of going to 1.25x. Also, nice job, dude! That's amazing, and exactly what I was looking for! Will check the full version later. Thanks!!!

This is literally epic 👌🏼

Subscribed and liked your video , thank you for giving us a little insight of this, I’m trying to learn as much as I can

How I only found this channel now is a mystery 🙌🏼😕 super grateful.

Wow. Love this channel. Just subscribed. I am yet to do my first orchestral. Looking forward to it.

Beginning my AMT Tour. Wow! Mega mahalos!

Amazing ! Big respect ✊

Awesome content! Subscribed!

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan, you got a new fan/follower. Nice work =)

beautiful track sire

Thank you Alex, very cool.

You have got extraordinary Composition and Mixing skills. Really great work specialist in Orchestral Music 🎼 🎶 🎵

Maaannn...... this is crazy... love your songs

Impressive man!

Thank you, u are one of the best

Interesting channel. So glad i found you

I will view this video again but at 1/10th of the original speed to understand all the tricks you are using so fluently :-) Incredible efficient job !

That’s insane, you have an incredible talent

Dude!! Awesome!!

Impressive job.

some people are talented man!

one word, it is incredibly wonderful❤❤👏👏👏👍👍👍😀

love you man

this is sick!

thanks for the libraries list used man

Thannnnk you Alex, as always :D

My phone speakers haven’t done your work justice along with RU-vid’s compression. I’ll have to like and come back

You are the man!!!

Dope video bro

OK... I have no words... GREAT >A< !!!...

I've just discovered your channels thanks to your video about Daredevil from Ace Combat 7, I really enjoy what you're doing! I'm trying to know a bit more about music theory and your videos are both entertaining and useful in that matter 😁

Amazing

very coool! greetings from Brazil

Very good made. Top. 👍