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Is it just me, or is Ashton a musical genius?!!! I can’t even begin to imagine what his skill set will be in 10 years and beyond. (May you have a long and, just as important, happy life, Ashton. Thank you for your hard work from which we benefit so greatly.)

Duude no way, I was just wondering last night if you’d ever do a behind the score for this movie!!!! Thanks for all your content, really appreciate it👊👊

I’ve been trying to find this type of video for years! So glad I found this!

I'm glad you did Hunger Games. Especially Rues Farewell is one of my favorite JNH Tunes

That suite was fking incredible. Even better than the original, still have chills

These are such generous gifts to those so fascinated by orchestral music. Your insights really add to my appreciation of the original score, and your mockups show what can be achieved with sample libraries these days make it a privilege to be able to have these tools at our disposal. Enormous thanks Ashton.

PLEASE do the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes as an update! They use so many motifs from the first 3 films throughout... ugh would love to hear your thoughts

I am convinced that one day you will be among one of the greatest film composer! Just keep pushing it

Always look forward to your uploads.

great great great ashton! Thx for this work

ashton, this is amazing. you’re amazing. thank you

KZfaq Musicians are the best KZfaqrs

I love this channel, super informative

Such phenomenal videos. The mockups are impeccable and the insight is priceless. Thank you!

Hey man I just wanna say I’m a big fan of your videos please never stop making these!! The effort u put into these are unparalleled by any youtuber and I wish you the best of luck in your journey :)

Incredibly amazing

thank you ashton for the chords explanation ! it's always a challenge not to forget notes in order to have a complete and beautiful harmony.

Freaking love these videos thanks for making them 😀

Beautiful ❤️

Just amazing. I have no words.

Thank you! This is so helpful, and you explain things great

Awesome vid (as usual!) :D

Happy to see on another Behind the score series !. Maybe if you have some time I would like to see one day: Behind the score : The Crown. One question: what piano library did you use ? As always I love you work and I'm also curious about Dune ;)

So sad that only 1 person/23 that subscribed your channel watch your videos... Really good work, as usual Ashton ! Thanks 🙏

MAN! I've been a huge fan of this movies since they came out. I´m now begining the post production process of my film thesis, and a big BIG reference of the music i want is based on THG and James Newton Howard, im not a musician but a film graduate from mexico, and THIS video has helped me a LOT to understand how a musician thinks, feels, and execute the music and analyzing this tremendous scores is even better, thank u thank u thank u for making this video

THANK YOU SO MUCH

i have goosebumps. im absolutely out of words. just found ur channel and its already one of my favorites THANK U FOR THIS MASTERPIECE U DESERVE SO MUCH MORE 😭🤍

i'll just pray for you to get major placements in really awesome movies

Brilliant series Ashton! Would love to watch a "Signs" (James Newton Howard) episode! Keep going. Cheers!

Thank you ASHTON! This is HUGEEE! edit: for future help, are you able to list some of the main libraries used (so I know how to spend my money wisely, lol)? Thanks again for doing the trilogy of The Hunger Games!

Production is incredible as always! Do you figure out the orchestration by ear, or do you reference published scores?

I loved this Behind the Score breakdown. It seems, from the many scores James Newton Howard has written, this is likely his best thus far. Would you be willing to break down the score of scores of some game soundtracks; e.g. Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Gareth Coker), Assassin's Creed Revelations (Lorne Balfe); Final Fantasy 13 (Part 1 & 2) (numerous artists)? These are some of the best game soundtracks I have ever listened to. To add, there are some genius composers like Steven Price. If you like emotional and beautiful music, him and Gareth Coker are your guys. Steven Price's A life on our planet (David Attenborough) is one of the most beautiful scores you could ever listen to, topping (I'm being honest) Narnia and others. However, a score that rivals that and is hard to find, due to release is: Diana: In her own words - Jasha Klebe (masterpiece of beauty). Aside from my ramble, Ashton, would you be willing to check some of these out and make behind the socres of them, please?

That track with the woman singing gave me chills. It was really well done. Also, side note but didn't you do one of these for John Powell's How to train your dragon? I can't find it but I thought you did one some time back?

Amazing breakdown! Hunger Games is by far my favorite of JNH too. I would have turned the background music up louder like 20% though, the only feedback i'll add

Amazing Ashton! At the 19:20 mark, it sounded like there were dynamics when you were playing, but I didn't see you use any expression controls. How did you accomplish that? Is it just the sample library you used?

I don't know if anyone saw that too, but the capitol theme is basically the waltz of the flower !

Congrats Ashton, It's amazing, and I so happy that LOGIC X again :). What kind og PADS do you use? (about 26.33) Many thanks in advance.

I was really looking forward to this video! Hope you had a great birthday. I think you never answered that question (sorry if I'm wrong about that) but do you have perfect pitch?

Great stuff! Quick question - at 30:55 is the female choir from Tallinn or Metropolis Ark 1? I have Komplete 14 CE and am slowly making my way over to Orchestral Tools and Sine (where thankfully, you don’t have to buy the whole collection) :)

Amazing orchestration! Thanks for this video! What string libraries did you use?

I love how you to a "vibrato" finger motion on a keyboard, even though it doesn't do anything. (42:31) I do the same thing, and I can't help it. It's just really compelling.

Don't know if you're into this but there are some amazing video game soundtracks. Some of my favourites: Skyrim - Secunda Skyrim - Ancient Stones Witcher 3 - Kaer Morhen Witcher 3 - Ladies of the Woods Witcher 3 - The Slopes of the Blessure

When KZfaq mentions copyright thing in your music composition, that tells everything.

Hey Ashton how ur controlling dynamics and expression? Is with daw or Midi? it will be helpful for me to learn! thank you :)

Hi Ashton, to add to my last message. Would you be interested in taking listen another insanely beautiful/emotional piece: Reflections on a hero by Trevor Morris (Vikings Season 5 series). The last time I heard something this beautiful from him was The Tudors Season 3: The death of Jane Seymour/A howling wilderness. Utter emotion an depth within these two pieces

Please look at Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes! I hear so many of the same themes :)

The Last Airbender. Terrible movie but James Newton Howard ATE! Great video man!

Which score did you utilize to recreate in the DAW? Looking for great study scores.

Whats the soundtrack's name for the one that starts at 12:27?

Did you transcribe this from scratch? Or do you have a score to follow?

Any reason as to why you don’t have the link for the stems along with the midi files? Just curious as to why you’ve stopped uploading the stems as well…