Needs a series be a great character study a great Comedy/Drama..I can relate to Spinal Tap only.

...but then they get to play in almost every movement, throughout, while the blasty instruments count a lot of rests ;-)

my man Mahler is actually the god father of film music

Hahahahaha.... 👍 Nice observation

@@homard6174 You can say that about virtually all romantic composers, and far more so about composers that actually wrote a lot of incidental or programmatic music, which Mahler, besides Das Lied von der Erde, didn't really do.

@@FreakieFan there is a programmatic nature in Mahler's symphonies especially 1,2, 3, 6, and 8. By the meaning of the godfather of film music, I mean Maher's usage of brass, post-romantic orchestral, and the excessive component of the choir. I also must admit that Mahler is the most popular one among this genre. Wagner and Berlioz, symphonically and musical influentially, have contributed to the style of film music the most

@@homard6174 Again, virtually all late-Romantic composers wrote reams of music that was programmatic in nature. So that's not a selling point. I absolutely love Mahler, but singling him out as the "godfather of film music" just because he wrote "epic" symphonies, seems a bit ridiculous to me, and dismissive of so, so many other composers.

Octaves are used at both ends of the pitch spectrum for bigger sound. Celli and Basses are often in octaves on the low end and a common use of violins in peak passages is doubling between the first and second sections at an octave. ...and piccolos doubling flutes when the drama heats up.

do you mean they behave similar like cello and ctb?

@@emanuel_soundtrack They don't have to be in octaves in all situations and they certainly don't have to play the same parts but if they are going to play the same line then they sound more powerful in octaves.

I heartily agree. Found the example in this video a bit too bombastic and that using octaves would have been a better choice.

In deed but don't forget that the timpanist will mute the timpani between notes to avoid a glissando effect, so it is important to keep that in mind if that if you have a thinner texture there will be a slight detached sound in quick passages that rely on one single tympanum. So overall, yes tuning pedals are the standard nowadays and should be taken for granted the same as low B on a double bass.

There'd be four, 99% of the time. I used to write timpani parts that followed the bassline, but it's simply not practical or really possible unless you know you have a really specialist timpanist in your session or performance. This bass part has seven notes, and that's unrealistic. Good idiomatic timpani writing has the timps set to four note, ideally in the centre of their range for best timbre, and then gives time for retuning. Off the top of my head, this bassline would be better tuned as: Root (G#), root (A#), 3rd (G#), 3rd (A#), root (F), 5th (A#), root (C) (my enharmonics might be incorrect) So four notes on four drums that encompass the entire bassline, emphasising roots at the start, the move to F minor, and the resolve to C where those are most important. An easy part that doesn't require extremely fast retuning but retains the power.

Or what you can do is you can write it for two sets of 4 timpani. One set plays four notes and the other plays three. Holst used this in Jupiter, when the two timpanists play the theme together.

He says he only used a little bit of reverb and nothing else. Just the bare sample libraries.

@@FreakieFan sample libraries on what?

I would like to know as well

Sounds like Cinesamples

You can get a free download from BBC Orchestra, my fave sound set.🤟😁

Well, brass is an alloy of mostly copper, and the rest zinc.

Such a joy to learn!

@@auldthymer hi alan what daw you use? Do you compose orchestral music??

@@GUPRPEET-Singh I'm using Finale with some VSTs. And I just scored my 3rd short movie for a buddy of mine.

@@auldthymer never heard of finale...i use fl studio. anyway plz share the link of your scores... how long you been composing orchestral music?

Not to forget Ravel! The king of the colorful orchestra as far as I'm concerned.

@@FreakieFan Yeah, Mother Goose suite and orchestrating Pictures at an Exhibition (originally for piano). Other composers dabbled in orchestrating it, but after Ravel's version it was Game Over.

@@KarlRKaiser Exactly! Daphne & Chloe: What a spectrum of orchestral colours!

Well the whole modern soundtrack genre is basically lifted from Gustav Holst's Planets

@@kloakovalimonada came here to say this. While it is true that one could argue romantic composers were the first to really shell out the foundation of sound used in film scores, it wasn’t fully solidified until Gustav Holst planets series came out. He has every movie genre in that suite.

also curious about this

I also need the answer

There's a variety of libraries. Look into Cinesamples, Spitfire Audio or Orchestral Tools. But those libraries are indeed pricey.

he's using definitely cinematic studio strings and brass, not sure what he's using for the winds and percussion.