Build tension for your action cue: Metric modulation, time signature changes, ostinatos and more !

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Claudio Ragazzi, Grammy and Emmy-winning film composer and professor at the Screen Scoring Department of Berklee, is starring in this week’s episode of Virtual Orchestration - providing us with deep insights into how to score an action scene.
Claudio talks about form, building a temp rhythm track, and gives you some expert tools to hit the sync points of the scene, make tempo changes inaudible, and build rhythmical tension before orchestrating his simple piano sketch to a full Orchestral mockup.
Virtual Orchestration is a collaboration between Berklee College of Music (Boston, USA) and Orchestral Tools (Berlin, Germany).
Video creation credits:
Video idea and Script 📜 : Claudio Ragazzi
Script Consultation 🔍 and Director 📣 : Eduard Flemmer
Camera 🎥 and Editing ✂️ : Fabián Barba Hallal
Lighting 💡 and 2nd Camera 🎥 : David Kudell
Motion graphics 🎨 : Michael Logar

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@Lufade Жыл бұрын

Metric modulation looks like a perfect tool for composing! Can't wait to put it to use!

@excaptiveproductions Жыл бұрын

Oh wooow! Yeah that flowed so smoothly, mapping out the form with just piano seems so efficient and helped navigate those tempo shifts very well.

@richardmillingtonmusic Жыл бұрын

Thank you Claudio and Berklee, this was very useful - especially the concept of tempo modulation✌️

@robinbergstrom977 Жыл бұрын

Yeah I wrote a LONG piece that had connected scenes like crazy. Calm dialogue that entered a claustrophobic chasing scene that go interrupted by a courtroom scene and then back to the chasing scene in the woods. I think I used every time measure under the sun and switched tempo and notation. It was pure fun and the scene became like this 3 minute fantastic score.

@throwinglight2817 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful. Please do more videos like this.

@DavidKudellMusic Жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this lesson! Claudio is a great instructor and metric modulation is a really cool technique!

@crossrootsdoc Жыл бұрын

Great to see you still learning from KZfaq David Kudell. Very inspiring 👏🏾

@dpixvid Жыл бұрын

Wow! Very revealing! Thanks!

@R0bstar-YT 11 ай бұрын

By far, the best video of this series, and to have condensed this amount of information and insight to short of 15 minutes is just wild. Amazing job by all involved.

@ShivSagar010 Жыл бұрын

Thank You Very Much! 🙂🙏

@MaxTooney Жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this! 14:04 reminded me of something Bernard Herrmann would do.

@VeganKebabDoRuky Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you so much for these short lessons and insights into the workflow of accomplished composer/producers 😊

@virtual.orchestration Жыл бұрын

Hey noiz. Glad you like them! Claudio is a fantastic presebter and yeah, has a huge experience and expertise in making music.

@franciscoaragao5398 8 ай бұрын

Muito bom. Obrigado por nos oferecer tão útil presente.

@therantingboy Жыл бұрын

That tempo modulation trick was amazing.

@Jimmy.Williams Жыл бұрын

This is crazy good...still trying to "get" some of these metric modulations, lol. I understand the math and theory, but wow at how flawless the execution is here...bravo!!!

@Jimmy.Williams Жыл бұрын

Ah...ok it's the video is lagging behind the audio by roughly 1/8 note triplet that was throwing me off. Very cool stuff, thanks!

@brettclarinmusic Жыл бұрын

Thanks you Claudio! Great lesson. Metric modulation is overlooked and it was great to see in this tutorial.

@spokansas Жыл бұрын

Wonderful technique, and great result!

@user-zv3se8yo4d 6 ай бұрын

❤loved it!!

@user-zv3se8yo4d 6 ай бұрын

❤ perhaps five minutes of discussion on hit points, showing the vision clip? This would show the final product in its intended form to fit the emotional intent required.?

@Hassanimich60 Жыл бұрын

oh my mighty god, 09:00 this man is a rythmic wizard, absolute expert I wish I can do that

@crmusica Жыл бұрын

Now You can!

@mdue72 5 ай бұрын

That was.... awesome, great dynamics, great explanations, thank you 👍

@lukayz1363 Жыл бұрын

This was helpful!

@wisemank9904 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for a great technique! 👍

@phaeraofficial Жыл бұрын

Great lesson! Really inspiring and entertaining. ❤

@Bashanvibe Жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this I would love to live in this world!!!

@kappabravomusic2101 Жыл бұрын

Quite impressive, for such a quick piece to have so many various cues. Very nice

@jorgestramusic Жыл бұрын

Great video and break down of an action cue, metric modulation is a new concept for me, thank you!

@rodterrell304 Жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed the video sir. Thank you so much for sharing such valuable information.

@jorgeperez5067 Жыл бұрын

Felicidades Claudio, me ha gustado mucho la nueva tecnica, y todo el video. Saludos desde Sevilla, España.

@yaroslav_kniazev Жыл бұрын

Hello, guys. Thanks for the great lesson. A good example of how to overcome a creative crisis ) Good luck to you!

@crmusica Жыл бұрын

Inspiration is not always there and as professionals we need to deliver on time. But always try to reach for true inspiration and Magic.

@ulfsvensson9710 Жыл бұрын

Now when you know it, i can hear that metric modulation is used all over action movies. Realy cool!

@HamlinandJolliffe Жыл бұрын

Brilliant video. Lots of great information really clearly presented!

@orrinbynum5978 4 ай бұрын

Hello. I thought this video was very interesting. However; I do have a few questions. 1. When you make all of your tempo changes in your music are you actually looking at the film screen to make the various changes in the tempo of your music? 2. Do you have templates for your music for the action scenes? 3. What do you recommend for beginners to watch and learn from when trying to compose music for action scenes or cues? 4. How do you go about choosing what instruments to use in building the tensions for action scenes? 5. When you make another video would you be kind enough to show how you might watch a movie you are scoring music for and show use how you make some music for an action scene and how you pick the instruments the make the strongest impacts on the scenes. Please? This is all so very interesting to me. If you would just answer a few of my questions in another one of your videos, I would appreciate it very much? I do wish you continued success with all of your future videos and projects and I also wish you continued success financially as well. Thank you for making this video and opening my eyes to a new beginning of making music for scoring action scenes. Have a wonderful day.

@pjdahmen Жыл бұрын

Great tutorial and well done.

@garaiss Жыл бұрын

That was a crazy, so cool!

@Roberto-bu Жыл бұрын

I like it

@stepkabayan Жыл бұрын

Great! Thanks! But when does music get more difficult etc.? Maybe we need a traditional score before DAW magic?

@BIG_PASTA 5 ай бұрын

Awesome video! Confused about one aspect - Can anyone help me understand how he chose to use those particular tempo/metric modulations in order to hit the cue points though? Like is it a trial and error process using math to figure out how you should divide up the time?? I see him explain what he chose in the video but not exactly how he arrived there. Thank you for the excellent material :)

@felipemorenomusic Жыл бұрын

👊🏻👊🏻

@ejw1234 4 ай бұрын

Are you playing those other instruments and their individual melodies or are you using the loops to play over your main theme?

@ashokflash Жыл бұрын

give more pls

@cherrysound Жыл бұрын

AKAI ❤

@teja7217 Жыл бұрын

How long did it take to compose this piece?

@claudioragazzi9330 Жыл бұрын

The actual composition, very short (20 minutes) Think of this composition as an example and use the techniques and concepts for your own compositions if you like. Best & Good Luck!

@teja7217 Жыл бұрын

@@claudioragazzi9330 Thank you sir! But is there somewhere I can learn to choose the time signatures, tempo and note variations

@crmusica Жыл бұрын

@@teja7217 The Tempo will depend on how fast or slow your scene is; or how fast or slow you want your piece to be. Time signatures also will depend on what you are writing, in this case I change time signatures in order to get to some desired SYNC POINTS. After you write a theme then you will create variations based on your own intuition, your common sense, your musical knowledge, your musicality, what you hear , or a combination of all of the above.

@teja7217 Жыл бұрын

@@crmusica Thanks again! Where can I learn more on this?

@kvvnng Жыл бұрын

What software is he using?

@crmusica Жыл бұрын

CUBASE and mostly Berlin Orchestra Library

@arataka57 Жыл бұрын

I still can't write well using a daw, I wonder how most composers do. I guess it has to do with the fact I'm a guitarist and the keyboard is really unnatural for me.😔

@franciscoaragao5398 8 ай бұрын

(9:02) A parte da percussão automática não combina e não tem a qualidade da peça.