My fav youtube educational videos:

[Manfred]

Hi

here in one place are my Fav Youtube videos. You can learn heaps from these babies and some of them have Patreon subscriptions for as low as $5 a month which will let you start a dialogue and ask questions.

Seth Monahan

www.youtube.com

Christopher Brellochs

DR. B, aka Dr. Christopher Brellochs (educator & saxophonist) has taught collegiate music theory for 23 years! He teaches saxophone at Vassar College and is ...

www.youtube.com

FilmScoreAnalysis

My name is Brad Frey, and welcome to FilmScoreAnalysis! Here, you'll find full score reductions and analyses of popular film scores, and other film score rel...

www.youtube.com

Inside the Score

Deepen your appreciation of Classical and Film Music! To get in touch for business enquiries, use the email below - Thanks! Video Essays, Quick Guides, and A...

www.youtube.com

tomekkobialka

www.youtube.com

Oskar Hrankowski Music

Hello, my name is Oskar, I'm 17 and I'm from Poland. I'm an aspiring composer and I really love film music. My favourite composers are John Williams, Hans Zi...

www.youtube.com

Alan Belkin

Music of Alan Belkin; online courses by Alan Belkin.

www.youtube.com

MangoldProject

Hi Everyone, My name is MangoldProject (well, it's really Assaf), and I'm here to help you become a better piano or keyboard player, and a better musician ov...

www.youtube.com

Alex Moukala Tutorials

Tutorials on How To Write and Produce Orchestral Music by Alex Moukala: Official FL Studio Power User, Trailer Music & Videogame Music Composer. Trailer Cred...

www.youtube.com

OrchestrationOnline

Free online tutorial for the craft of orchestration. Please subscribe if you want me to keep track of your progress.

www.youtube.com

Frans Absil

Music composition and arranging techniques. Tonal and modern harmony. Jazz and popular music arranging. Functional music for video and games. Schillinger Sys...

www.youtube.com

Byron Weigel Music Theory

www.youtube.com

J Flinn

www.youtube.com

Lukas Kendall

www.youtube.com

weeklypiano

Piano nerds, unite! For private lessons, and to help take this channel to the next level, join my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/weeklypiano

www.youtube.com

Scoring Arts

The mission of the Academy of Scoring Arts is to advance the creative and technical process of scoring visual media by bringing together composers, filmmaker...

www.youtube.com

Nahre Sol

Creative videos on music performance, practicing, and composition by pianist-composer Nahre Sol.

www.youtube.com

Adam Neely

Video essays, lessons and vlogs on new horizons in music and music theory. NYC-based bass player and composer Adam Neely brings you a new video every Monday ...

www.youtube.com

David McCaulley

Hello. My name is David McCaulley, and welcome to my channel! Here, you'll find a slew of analyses of popular film scores, video essays, and more! Please con...

www.youtube.com

John Powell

Welcome to the Official YouTube Page of Composer John Powell.

www.youtube.com

Paul Wilkinson

Youtube page for Musician/Improviser/Composer/Educator and Pianist Paul Wilkinson.

www.youtube.com

All the best

ed

Just discovered this thread. Thank you!

 

[Dom Sewell]

These are subjects I'm very interested in and yet it never showed up in my YouTube suggestions. Thanks for your work, I hope you keep at It

Thanks so much! I fully intend to! After Empire a break to do some Jerry Goldsmith stuff I think then Return of the Jedi plus composition tutorial things and quick tips

 

[aboinpally]

Hi

here in one place are my Fav Youtube videos. You can learn heaps from these babies and some of them have Patreon subscriptions for as low as $5 a month which will let you start a dialogue and ask questions.

Seth Monahan

www.youtube.com

Christopher Brellochs

DR. B, aka Dr. Christopher Brellochs (educator & saxophonist) has taught collegiate music theory for 23 years! He teaches saxophone at Vassar College and is ...

www.youtube.com

FilmScoreAnalysis

My name is Brad Frey, and welcome to FilmScoreAnalysis! Here, you'll find full score reductions and analyses of popular film scores, and other film score rel...

www.youtube.com

Inside the Score

Deepen your appreciation of Classical and Film Music! To get in touch for business enquiries, use the email below - Thanks! Video Essays, Quick Guides, and A...

www.youtube.com

tomekkobialka

www.youtube.com

Oskar Hrankowski Music

Hello, my name is Oskar, I'm 17 and I'm from Poland. I'm an aspiring composer and I really love film music. My favourite composers are John Williams, Hans Zi...

www.youtube.com

Alan Belkin

Music of Alan Belkin; online courses by Alan Belkin.

www.youtube.com

MangoldProject

Hi Everyone, My name is MangoldProject (well, it's really Assaf), and I'm here to help you become a better piano or keyboard player, and a better musician ov...

www.youtube.com

Alex Moukala Tutorials

Tutorials on How To Write and Produce Orchestral Music by Alex Moukala: Official FL Studio Power User, Trailer Music & Videogame Music Composer. Trailer Cred...

www.youtube.com

OrchestrationOnline

Free online tutorial for the craft of orchestration. Please subscribe if you want me to keep track of your progress.

www.youtube.com

Frans Absil

Music composition and arranging techniques. Tonal and modern harmony. Jazz and popular music arranging. Functional music for video and games. Schillinger Sys...

www.youtube.com

Byron Weigel Music Theory

www.youtube.com

J Flinn

www.youtube.com

Lukas Kendall

www.youtube.com

weeklypiano

Piano nerds, unite! For private lessons, and to help take this channel to the next level, join my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/weeklypiano

www.youtube.com

Scoring Arts

The mission of the Academy of Scoring Arts is to advance the creative and technical process of scoring visual media by bringing together composers, filmmaker...

www.youtube.com

Nahre Sol

Creative videos on music performance, practicing, and composition by pianist-composer Nahre Sol.

www.youtube.com

Adam Neely

Video essays, lessons and vlogs on new horizons in music and music theory. NYC-based bass player and composer Adam Neely brings you a new video every Monday ...

www.youtube.com

David McCaulley

Hello. My name is David McCaulley, and welcome to my channel! Here, you'll find a slew of analyses of popular film scores, video essays, and more! Please con...

www.youtube.com

John Powell

Welcome to the Official YouTube Page of Composer John Powell.

www.youtube.com

Paul Wilkinson

Youtube page for Musician/Improviser/Composer/Educator and Pianist Paul Wilkinson.

www.youtube.com

All the best

ed

This is an awesome list. One recommendation I have is another channel called Listening In. The channel is inactive now I beleive, but they still have left behind a pretty large database of very well made analysis of film-scores and also classical music. The visuals are also phenomenal and the whole channel overall is just really high quality.

 

[Guy Bacos]

Some orchestration tips:

 

[Dom Sewell]

Thought I would put this in here although I can start a new Howard Shore thread?
Spent ages doing this long Shelob's Lair cue from The Return of the King (Lord of the Rings)



A completely different style from JW and uses 'blended orchestration' ie everything doubled.

"This is the film version (or as close to it as is possible) rather than the 'complete score' version.

I've reduced by getting rid of extraneous 8ve doublings so there will be some inconsistencies with this reduction. Some aleatoric work was done presumably in the session as it differs a little from what you might hear in a live-to- picture version.

The style of orchestration is best described in Doug Adams' superb volume Called The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films.

'Rather than treating the orchestra traditionally as delineated instrument families, Shore worked with it as a single mass ensemble divided by its ranges'. Adams goes on to say that the orchestration was rather delineated in terms of ranges and degrees of low, middle and high.' (from Doug Adams The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films, prologue)

What I find almost unique about the approach is

a) it's expedient (there are fewer notes to write) and given the over 10 hours of content this is not a surprise and

b) it gives the film a special colour which is most unlike any other film.

The interconnectedness of the blends gave rise to a fair few other scores particularly in the games music industry (Elden Ring, Skyrim etc) which pays homage to this style of writing.

Above all though it's the thematic material which never fails to sway our emotions. (Gandalf revealing the light in Moria, the Lighting of the Beacons of Gondor and of course the Shire theme). In this cue we see Shore at his most atonal and oblique (atonal pitch collections, collections of 8 notes that represent the 8 legs of the accursed spider Shelob, the two sets of four pitches that also represent this and his aleatoric writing (also based on 4 pitch tetrachords). "

Would be interested in comments (as always)

Dom

 

[Markrs]

Great work @Dom Sewell

 

[BigMusicFirst]

Would be interested in comments (as always)

Dom

Subscribed Dom

 

[Dom Sewell]

Got a Hans Zimmer breakdown coming soon but will put in a new thread I think…

 

[BigMusicFirst]

Got a Hans Zimmer breakdown coming soon but will put in a new thread I think…

Wow..
Waiting for...

 

[alexlamy]

Hey everyone!
Just wanted to post up our season finale episode on the Virtual Orchestration channel. It's less 'educational' than the other stuff on the channel, and more experimental, but we hope you like it. And we're also giving away a free set of experimental cello patches that I use in the episode. The link is in the description of the video. Hope you enjoy the episode and the free 'Reverie' library!

 

[dcoscina]

I enjoy Thomas Goss’ Orchestration channel. Also David Bruce’s composition channel. And of course Sir Guy’s channel. Love his vids.