Thank you, sir!I'm impressed. great teaching work. might be I'll join, too...
Thank you, sir!I'm impressed. great teaching work. might be I'll join, too...
Correction, it should be free if you register.That member was me
And for those of you who aren't familiar with Mark's work, he wrote THE research paper on John Williams's composition style and his use of variation in themes. I don't think the paper is available for free but its worth paying for it like his courses. If he writes a course based on this, it's an instabuy.
The Use of Variation in John Williams's Film Music Themes
John Williams is perhaps best known for his film music themes, most of which are based on eight-bar models that divide into discernible halves of 4+4 bars, each half usually containing two short ideas of two bars each. Though this type of thematicwww.academia.edu
I just clicked "read paper" (below download PDF) and the whole thing popped up, no registration necessary.Correction, it should be free if you register.
The Use of Variation in John Williams's Film Music Themes
John Williams is perhaps best known for his film music themes, most of which are based on eight-bar models that divide into discernible halves of 4+4 bars, each half usually containing two short ideas of two bars each. Though this type of thematicwww.academia.edu
Right, so have I. But it's all about control and that is what this course is doing for me, allowing me to be in control of my composing in a next-level way. Which also makes it repeatable.It seems super interesting and I'm seriously considering buying the course.
I did write some action cues inspired by Williams in the past but it was totally random and without any knowledge of octatonic scales whatsoever. I'd be really curious to learn the concrete techniques behind it.
Ultimately we should all strive for this kind of knowledge. The more you know your craft in depth the more you can free yourself from mindless writing/repeating the few basic techniques that you understand well.
Thank you! I can't make any firm promises, but I'm aiming for a couple of months, so I hope to have it ready in June.Purchased, LOVE IT .
SO well implemented...When can we expect the next module to drop ?
Congrats on an awesome (and highly needed ) course
Thank you as well!Excellent class so far! Very glad I got it!
One question: it seems like the forum isn't working (?). That's an issue for me, mainly since I think that's presumably the only way to check the answers to the Exercise questions. Or is there another way to check the answers?
Actually, I think I fixed it now. Give it a go and see if you can enter any thread.Excellent class so far! Very glad I got it!
One question: it seems like the forum isn't working (?). That's an issue for me, mainly since I think that's presumably the only way to check the answers to the Exercise questions. Or is there another way to check the answers?
Yep, it's working now, thanks!Actually, I think I fixed it now. Give it a go and see if you can enter any thread.
Answers to Lesson 1 exercises are now available in the Lessons 1-3 forum under "Composition Exercises". Answers to the other lessons coming soon!Yep, it's working now, thanks!
I'm very glad to hear it! Thank you for the kind words.Super cool course, really enjoying it. Thank you for making it.
Remember there are in total 12 lessons. So I don't expect to create complete JW style works in 3 lessons. Lessons 1-3 are foundational and building blocks with small passages (4-6 bars) and at the end of lesson 3 just start to give you enough to do longer passages (6-8 bars). I am waiting for Lessons 4-6 to start putting together larger passages. For me, I am loving the incremental approach. Frankly, if I could buy a course for a hundred bucks and sound like John Williams in a week, I would be hugely disappointed and have a much lower opinion of JW.Has anyone used this to make something yet...?
Collecting knowledge is OK. Using it is what interests me tho and the example from the website does not seem usable...
Thank you for sharing your piece here! Despite being done in a short time, it's got some pretty cool things going on, especially the use of harmonies from octatonic 2 (Gm, Em) to harmonize the melody, which is kept in octatonic 1. And I do hear a loosely use of motivic material too, with the (014) chord - I hear two in a row at one point, F#-Bb-A, A-C#-C. And you throw in (013) as a nice variation of the chord as well, as in F-G-E. Nice job!I loved it, was basically a master class for octonic harmony.
I'll be honest I didn't do any of the practice things, just mostly went through the course at my leisure over a few days. That said, this sketch on just a piano track in my daw - took just under an hour.
On one hand its kind of incoherent - mainly because I didn't work out any real motif/subjects, just kind of winged it as I went.
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