Why Your Epic Music Doesn’t Sound Epic-And How to Fix It!

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Struggling to get that grand, cinematic sound in your compositions? You're not alone! In this video, I dive deep into the common mistakes that might be keeping your tracks from sounding truly epic. From dynamic missteps to mixing mishaps, I've got you covered with practical, easy-to-follow solutions. 🎶✨
What we explore:
* Dynamic Range: Discover the secrets to using dynamics that will breathe life into your music.
* Mixing vs. Orchestration: Learn why good orchestration beats mixing tricks every time.
* Sound Layering: I'll show you how to layer sounds for a richer, more compelling track.
* Articulation Mastery: Find out how the right articulations can transform your music's expression.
This tutorial is perfect for composers at any level aiming to elevate their music to cinematic heights. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced maestro, these tips will help you add that epic flair to your compositions!
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👇 Comment below - What challenges do you face when trying to compose epic music? What secrets did you unlock that elevated your music production skills? Let's discuss!
-- CHAPTERS --
00:00 Introduction
01:42 Dynamics Yield Emotion
06:56 Arranging Beats Mixing
14:21 Layering with Purpose
21:34 Articulations
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@spokansas 3 месяца назад

Great tips, especially on layering and articulations. I hadnt thought of layering different mic setups and using solo and close mics for definition. And stop being lazy and use the proper articulations. And here I thought the secret to epicness was just placing OTT on every track.

@Ahmad-Mounir44 3 месяца назад

Although I have over 30 tracks in a non exclusive library and 5 tracks in exclusive ones, I still consider my tracks aren't epic enough. I do all what you talk about from dynamics, to layering, to articulations but the most important things before all that are the composition itself and arrangement. If you apply all these techniques on a poor composition and arrangement, you're not getting anywhere. Excellent arrangements with excellent panning actually won't need a lot of mixing or sometimes no mixing at all because you're already putting each orchestral instrument in its own place in the frequency spectrum. Great video mate :)

@SamuFL 3 месяца назад

Thank you, thank you. Yes, mixing can be a really hard craft. But, getting a decent and professional result for orchestral music isn't so much about mixing. Don't get me wrong, a professional mix engineer can make a huge difference. But no matter what and how, good orchestration is SO important. And no mixing guru will ever be able to fix flaws in the orchestration 🤷‍♂️

@androlyx Месяц назад

Just discovered your channel - I am exploring orchestral at the moment and these videos and shorts help so much! Just what I needed for my musical journey. Thank you so much for sharing your experience and wisdom! subbed

@SamuFL Месяц назад

Really good to hear! Hope you keep enjoying the content.... and: Keep Creating!

@PMaxTheKing 2 месяца назад

Very good video - Good tips where you teach about balancing the Frequency spectrum !

@SamuFL 2 месяца назад

Thank you very much

@Fullscore999 2 месяца назад

Thank you, good video. It'd be interesting to hear how the "before" and "after" in the layering section.

@sound4mations 3 месяца назад

I can’t thank you enough Samuel… This is exactly what I need to help me work on my compositions. You have such a great well seasoned approach! Excellent! Cheers Mate!

@ToniHennig 3 месяца назад

Your best video to date samuel.^^ Thanks for the tips, i'm running into that trap all the time, making things over complicated and eqing the hell out of them....but often enough it is the arrangement like you said.....fix it in the source.....i thought all the time mixing is the problem,btw the mix.^^

@seventearsofhope 3 месяца назад

Great tips in there. Also the intro is fantastic. Love the footage! Keep it up Samuel.

@SamuFL 3 месяца назад

Whoop whoop 👊 Thx for the feedback! I think, I'll try to learn this editing style even a little bit more...

@gigabruzinho 3 месяца назад

Thank’s for sharing your experience 🙏🏼😊

@bradheddinger9540 3 месяца назад

Excellent video as usual. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge.

@SamuFL 3 месяца назад

Well thank you! ☺️

@brettclarinmusic 3 месяца назад

Thanks, there's always something more to learn, or at least reinforce. Great tips.

@SamuFL 3 месяца назад

Really glad you like it :D

@KingVictorTheVII 2 месяца назад

Your an inspiration

@atticusakelly 3 месяца назад

Loved this video! I think you could edit down some of the parts where you're searching for sounds and stuff. Just a constructive tip, I subscribed.

@SamuFL 3 месяца назад

Thank you! And yes, I agree. I'm actually a bit surprised your are the first one to point that out. The pacing is a bit... Inconsistent? I'll work on my RU-vid Kung-Fu 👍

@omiguelfernandez 3 месяца назад

The video is amaizing! Thanks for sharing all these tips

@SamuFL 3 месяца назад

Thank you. Tried a little more editing this time... Do you like the style?

@omiguelfernandez 3 месяца назад

@@SamuFL I do. It's great!

@uffevonlauterbach 3 месяца назад

All great information. All your points were great, but I liked the articulation section the most.

@SamuFL 3 месяца назад

Good to know! Maybe some content on the most common and important articulations of strings, brass and woodwinds would be good? 🤔

@uffevonlauterbach 3 месяца назад

@@SamuFL I think so. There are probably composers like myself that don't understand how to compose for other instruments, because we don't play them. Overall, I think any subject for composers can help.

@pblais404 3 месяца назад

Samuel... great series. I look forward to you videos. Now, I still have a hard time "hearing" the difference between expression and dynamics. Can you point me to some place where I can get a better education on that please? Thank you in advance

@SamuFL 3 месяца назад

I will make a little video on the most most important aspects of virtual orchestration and midi programming. Coming soon! 👍

@ronnyb5890 3 месяца назад

thanx Samuel, this is a great tutorial to revisit when you forgot those things over time, btw, i have action strings and action woodwinds they are great in articulations wich are otherwise difficult to express with normal libraries because they are played a certain way i do however find it difficult to incorporate these action libraries into a musical piece, if you have those libraries can you do a tutorial on how to use them, cheers mate

@SamuFL 3 месяца назад

I don't own these libraries. But in my experience the NI libraries have a bit of a different approach. I would describe it as - they are more about crafting and producing music than they are about composing and arranging... If that makes sense. But yes, they usually sound phantastic for what they are intended for.

@ronnyb5890 3 месяца назад

@@SamuFL bummer you dont have them, the runs are played thats why they sound so good, making runs with short articulations is not the same, cheers Samuel

@SamuFL 3 месяца назад

@@ronnyb5890 yes! Programmed runs never sound as good as played runs. Well, kind of... Nothing Programmed sounds as good as played. But in runs (specially string runs) it makes a huge difference.

@minokos63 3 месяца назад

Hi Samuel, thank you for the video. I realized some sample library don’t have expression CC, just volume and modulation, do you treat the volume CC7 as expression?

@SamuFL 3 месяца назад

Hi. Yes, it's basically the same. More or less. What is important is that expression alone usually doesn't provide the full range of volume. So, combining volume/expression _and_ modulation is more effective, at least to my ears.

@HOLLASOUNDS 3 месяца назад

11:20 Sounds like its missing low end and mid to high frequency elements clashing, I'd improve that by changing the pitch, volume and panning of elements.