The Smart Orchestrator - Volume 1
The Smart Orchestrator - Volume 1
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$186.75 USD
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$249.00 USD
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$186.75 USD
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- Style: Self Guided Tutorial w/82 Piece Orchestra
- Audience: Student to Professional
- Tutor: Michael Barry
- Materials: 100+ pages of included materials PDF
- Video Length: 2 Hours 12 Minutes
- Worksheet Length: ~3 Hours
- Total Course Length: ~ 5+ Hours
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Learn orchestration with an 82-piece orchestra
There is an obvious obstacle to learning orchestration from a typical static textbook — it contains no audio examples. Furthermore, traditional orchestration textbooks do not contain isolated musical instances of techniques they are discussing. Instead, the student is left to secure their own recordings and to sync up the few bars played in the book to the hour-long performance of Brahms or Mahler. Quite often, the discussed technique is hidden behind a series of additional thick orchestrational elements.
Focused musical examples
Therefore, a joint audio / visual platform naturally seems a better starting point for learning orchestration. Furthermore, the examples must be focused to demonstrate the techniques being discussed. If we are discussing three-note trombone voicings, it would be ideal to hear them with and without the orchestra. This is the approach we took in this course.
Centered on cinematic orchestration
This course is unique because it is specifically catered to symphonic cinematic music, not classical. All music examples in the course were specifically composed to demonstrate important cinematic composition/orchestration techniques. All examples were recorded using an 82-piece studio orchestra on a traditional scoring stage, recorded by a studio engineer, and mixed by a scoring mixer. This is critical, as there are substantial differences between the studio and concert hall sound and performance.
The musical examples have been composed to reflect commercially relevant styles in the modern media scoring market. All musical examples in the course are provided to the student in full (traditional) score in addition to an 8-line piano reduction score for further study. There are over 100 PDF pages of content included.
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A Note From Your Tutor
“Over the past five years, I composed a series of popular YouTube tutorials and a very common request was for more and more content. However, there was an obvious brick wall while using the music of others in lessons. I couldn't get inside their heads during the compositional/orchestrational process. The obvious path ahead was to compose my own musical examples, and then, and only then, would I have full access to the thought processes that went into the music’s creation. This course represents some of my best personal or orchestrational / composition secrets; nothing is held back or restrained. There were a few moments when I thought to myself, “Do I really want to share this?” but ultimately, in the spirit of education, I did. "
