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Indeed, overcomplicating is a very common tendency to fall into. Sometimes it's just the good simple things that are missing

been BINGE watching this channel for 3 days....Awesome content

I will take this advice and never do this again. Great stuff

reslove and add the last note on the brass ,it hurt 😂 9:57

Thanks for the video ! I manage to escape most of them but I'm full in the 3rd one ! I even LIKED your overcomplicated example... 😅

Great advice, Kevin. I still hear experienced composers forget to let wood and brass players breath. I think they're sometimes too used to playing awesome synths and piano.

Hey, thanks for this list! This seriously helps! Also, in regards to loops, I never actually use them because they sound so.... uhhhh... fake? I personally enjoy having control over my own original rhythm!

Hey Kevin, great tips for beginners. I think an important tip for beginners you missed would be how to handle reverb and how to make Samples from different libraries sit together in the same room. Early on in my music caterer my tracks sounded so weird and muddy, and finding the secret to correct reverb immediately made my music sound infinitely better.

Thanks Kevin, That's a nice lineup of composing mistakes. Hm, although, they are not only composing mistakes (like reverb). Dynamics, velocity, lack of articlulations and overcomplicating are my favorites. Nevertheless I would have mentioned a few other mistakes that are more important to me than rigid timing, reverb, no breathing pauses and ignoring mixing. There are for example strucuring motifs, themes, phrases, chord progressions, chord voicing (depending on instruments). There's surely room for a whole playlist of mistakes.

Brb saturation, TDR nova EQ, and Fresh Air. They’re amazing and free use them.

Thanks, great tips! I often struggle getting the dynamics right, or ignore them altogether...

I really love the way you explain things so clearly! I can also listen to you all day haha SO happy to have found your channel

Eyyyy you added the Jacob Collier 30/31 polyrhythm hahaha. Great video Kevin!! I think this video is immensely valuable for beginner composers 🔥

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Looks like Kevin "Terminator" Kuschel ;) great stuff

really need help with how to unlock dynamic scoring thanks

Excellent advice - thanks!

I really appreciate you bringing all these tips into one video. These are all things I've sort of picked up here and there across composer KZfaq, but it's nice to be reminded of all of them in one place. My biggest issues are rigid timing and mixing!

Thank you Kevin. I have just subscribed to your channel. Some really great tips in this video. As an intermediate composer some channels are very difficult to follow and are complicated. You present clearly and very well. You mention mixing and mastering, have you an easy to comprehend video for this? Again, most channels are very difficult to follow on this subject. I am sure you would be much better. Thank you again.

Awesome stuff kevin! Thanks for the tips ❤

Great video, great advice

awesome video

Great Video and True mistakes !

Very good Video :). I often find myself writing the melody with only one articulation. Do you often use expression maps? How do you handle different latencies in different articulations?

Great Kevin!

I love your channel, very useful advice

Good stuff

I just bought pacific and the new strikeforce 2. I am now waiting for Vista 2 and pacific brass. Might buy a VSL piano vst or another drum vst like damage 2 or truestrike. Bad VSTs or improperly used, doesn't sound as good for things like classical or neoclassical.

As far as mic placement, should all my strings instruments have the same mic settings if I'm not doing solo lines? Example: tree mic at -5db and outriggers at 0db.

In my opinion, one thing that takes away greatly from realism is using a scoring program for the sounds instead of a DAW. Myself, I do the composition using BBCSO Core in my DAW, and THEN I do the score in MuseScore. Or else, if I'm doing something for which the score already exists, I use that as the basis for what I do in my DAW.

Hi! Thank you for your lessons! Can you tell how to make it on cubase? ( mistake 5 ) How can i pick few midi keys and change them with different styles? i mean just like you did. Thank you!

Using female choral samples in sustained unnaturally high range

There is someone who make a video about kaboom anyone know his channel name?

Hi man. Blessings. How much ram and specs is you system to work with this large film scoring templates in SO? Thanks. I am working on that.

I saw a video of a concert flautist, and she showed a technique, where woodwind player is storing some of the air in their cheeks to make this infinite breath

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Hmm…the humanization doesn’t sound human