I just stumbled upon your channel.. Your content is pure gold & your presentation is just top notch... Totally agree here as you stopping these will be a Crime for us composers... Urge you to keep these rolloing out more often... Much Love & Respect ! Subbed & shared as much as possible....🎻🎉😎🤗
I don't read notation and play music by ear. But I can imagine the sound and the dynamics I need to arrange a song. And then there's a time when we need to collaborate with our friends who depends on score notations to be able to play together. These video helps me a lot. Bcoz all I ever need is to play and write all the score with midi notes and convert it to score sheets.
😮These combination of strings blew my mind of peaceful feeling to another dimension. I close my eyes and I can see my wife and daughter beside me I walk in heaven. What a trip was this Simon😀🎌 Thanks Simon...Well done 👍 you deserve many tomzsp 👍👍👍
thanks for sharing bro, i wan looking to learn how to write cinematic strings but could not find how until i saw this video and i can see now how this maybe fit into my music.
Wow, i have played cello for over 18 years, the accuracy of the parts played are spot on. You even put in slurs, or slurs were generated automatically into the sheet music having everything played on one bow. Fantastic!
This was so much help. I was pretty much stuck in thinking celli are for bass notes, and the 2nd violins and at the lowest the violas should do the chords. This was eye opening, and your result is stunning!
I just stumbled upon your channel.. Your content is pure gold & your presentation is just top notch... Totally agree with others here as you stopping these will be a Crime for us composers... Urge you to keep these rolloing out more often... Much Love & Respect ! Subbed & shared as much as possible....🎻🎉😎🤗
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 😀
Hi.... I am highly inspired by your music & videos... I started learning piano but then eventually my interest in multi instrumental music evolved a lot... And hence right now i am working on my transcribing capabilities... Also i am wondering if i must sell off my digital piano and buy a midi controller because i feel the keys on a digital piano are not suitable to play everything... Would you help me with some suggestions/advice? Also i am confused between digital paino/midi controller and an arranger keyboard
Hi, yes that is something I could add to my future videos list. If you are just starting out, I would recommend going for a free DAW to start with, I have a video on Cakewalk, which is free and one of the best out there. Might be worth a watch?
Hello Simon! I just subscribed to your channel about 24 hours ago and am fascinated by how much you have to offer for composing! I was wondering though, is there a way to stop the “Subscribe” gif once a person is subscribed? It does pop up too often and is moderately distracting. But, if there is no remedy I will continue to watch and learn because you provide a wealth of valuable instruction. Thanks for you videos, Gianni❤
Hi Gianni, my thanks for subscribing and getting in touch. Unfortunately I don't think there is a way to get rid of the subscribe animation, once a video is uploaded. I'll admit that when I first started uploading videos, I watched others and saw that they often used a similar animation, but over time I can see that it is distracting. During my recent videos I've made sure to limit the number of subscribe animations, and I think in this String one, there aren't any? The more videos I make, the more I learn about what people/don't like. Thank you for your feedback and kind words!
hi Simon, this is such an amazing video... your videos helped me when i started my composing journey about a year or 2 ago and very thankful for your guidance. i am curious though about where you put each part of the strings section for your Stereo mixes (for headphones/speakers)? thanks
Thank you so much for your kind words! As you probably saw I was using mostly Cinematic Strings 2 - these come 'pre panned' so the various instruments are in their correct position in the stereo field, from a conductor in an orchestra's perspective. For libraries which have all of the instruments in the centre by default, I would pan the 1st Violins on the left hand side, the 2nds still on the left but a little more to the centre. Then the Violas I would keep in the centre, with the Celli off centre to the right and then the Basses further round to the right as well. I hope that helps!
Hello :) it would have been very helpful to point out which note in which measure in which instrument-track was wrong. i couldn't find any differences to the first video yet.
Hi-it was in the Cello part in bar 7. I have an A as the top voice in Cubase (for the F major chord) but had an Ab written in the notation :-(. Very annoyed at myself for missing it the first time!
@@composingacademy8270 ooh, that one ! thank you for the answer. But for me it does not feel like a mistake, it gives an interesting dimmed effect (this F 9#) to the F major ...
To an extent yes, but be careful with individual instruments. For example, I probably wouldn't write for the Trombones like I have for the first 4 bars of the Celli (although I absolutely would using the last 4 bars of the Celli!)
I guess, he does not use the BBC-Orchestra instuments in this Video. He is using CSS = Cinematic Studio Strings (not free, kind of expensive) and the Pacific STrings (also no free sounds) I tried to rebuild his sample with the BBC-Orchestra Instruments and it works too.
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.
