COMPOSING FOR CINEMATIC BIG BAND WITH GORDON GOODWIN AND THE BIG PHAT BAND
Spend five hours with Gordon and the greatest Big Band in the world! This course documents the recording of three brand new charts which are recorded in real time, with errors and corrections. Be sure to follow along at home with the included full (or piano reduction) score. After the 3 hour session, join Gordon and the principals in a detailed discussion of big band technique. The course is capped off by 10 featurettes discussing jazz composition technique and a 30 minute addendum which dives into fine detail on the entire process.
PREPARING SCORES AND PARTS WITH THANH TRAN
Music copyist Thanh Tran is one of the busiest and most in-demand copyists in Hollywood, and is also a professor at the esteemed University of Southern California's Screen Scoring Program. In this course he takes a delivered score, cleans it up, and prepares parts for Violins and Clarinet in Bb in real time. Paper selection, printing and taping are covered as well. The course includes free Sibelius score and parts templates crafted after Thanh's own.
COMPOSING FOR CINEMATIC PERCUSSION WITH BRIAN KILGORE
A veteran of hundreds of films and video games, Brian Kilgore is Hollywood's absolute first call percussionist. Watch him construct two new tracks from scratch live in the studio in a day of percussion overdub sessions (one of the most common types of sessions these days). Additionally Brian talks through some of the most commonly misunderstood elements of his kit and discusses what goes on in the percussion section during a big session. Featuring compositions by composer Adam Hochstatter.
THE SMART ORCHESTRATOR VOLUME 1
Why is it that almost all educational resources on orchestration contain no samples of a live orchestra? In a follow up to Michael Barry's popular youtube video tutorials (which can be found here) he goes into great depth about how to make smart orchestrational desicions. Best of all, the numerous musical expamples in the course are performed by a live 82 piece symphonic orchestra.
HARMONY: THE SYSTEMLESS SYSTEM VOLUME 1
Almost all composers reach a point where they harmonicaly "plateau" but only some of these composers are able to work through it. If you are aware of your own plateau, or simply want to become more harmonically fluent, this is course for you. Hosted by Michael Barry and narrated and edited by the one and only Anthony Parnther.
