How To Make Hans Zimmer's Epic Inception Brass in 5 Minutes

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5 жыл бұрын

In this Wednesday's quick tip tutorial, let's talk about how to write orchestral music: specifically, how I recreated Hans Zimmer's insane Brass section in "Dream Is Collapsing", explained in 5 minutes.
» Orchestrating Bass Tutorial: • Use These Instruments ...
» 1 Hour Analysis of This Track: • Analyzing Hans Zimmer ...
» Stems Of This Track: / 14140702
» Evenant Course: alexmoukala.com/go/cinematic-...
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🎻 LIBRARIES & SOFTWARE:
(For each module, the libraries are sorted based on how much I like them).
- STRINGS: Metropolis Ark 1 & 3, Nucleus, Cinematic Studio Strings, Fluid Shorts, Cinematic Strings 2, Jaeger
- BRASS: Metropolis Ark 1 & 3, JXL Brass, Nucleus, Twelve Horn Ensemble, CineBrass CORE, Century Brass, Jaeger, Angry Brass
- CHOIR: Oceania, Metropolis Ark 1, Stormchoir 2
- WOODWINDS: CineWinds CORE, Nucleus, Metropolis Ark 1 & 3
- HYBRID PERCS & LOOPS: Damage, PercX, Decimator Drums, Cerberus
- BIG CINEMATIC PERCS: Los Angeles Modern Percussion, New Epic Toms Ensemble, New Epic Dhol Ensemble, CinePerc
- ORCHESTRAL PERCS: CinePerc, Rhapsody Orchestral Percussion, Kontakt Factory Library
- PIANO: The Giant, Woodchester Piano, Spitfire LABS Soft Piano
- HARPS & OTHERS: CineHarp, Kontakt Factory Library
- SYNTHS: Juggernaut, Serum, Harmor, Jaeger, Evolution Atlantica,
- ORCHESTRAL SFX: Metropolis Ark 3, Palette Orchestral FX
- SOLO STRINGS: Tina Guo Solo Cello, Solos of the Sea, Cinematic Studio Strings Solo
- SOLO VOCALS: Jaeger, Vocalisa
- GUITARS: Basic Live Guitars & Bass routed into Waves GTR / Guitar Rig, Metropolis Ark 1, Heavyocity Atlantica
- TRAILER SFX: Custom / Private Samples, AVA Instinct, Cinematic Trailers Designed, Epic Sound Effects Quantum, Scenes From The Multiverse Vol.1, Juggernaut, Jaeger, Evolution Atlantica, AizerX Classic Trailers Toolkit, AizerX Trailer SFX Tools
- REVERB: ValhallaRoom, ValhallaShimmer
- MIXING & MASTERING: iZotope Ozone 9 Advanced, iZotope Neutron, FabFilter Pro-Q3, FL Studio Plugins
- DAW: FL Studio 20
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💻 HARDWARE & PC SPECS:
- Desktop PC: 3.7 GHz Intel Core i7 8700k / 32GB DDR4 RAM / 2TB Samsung Evo860 M.2 SSD
- Laptop PC: Asus ROG GLW752 (2.6GHz Intel Core i7-6700HQ / 16GB DDR4 RAM / 1TB Samsung Evo860 M.2 SSD)
- Audio Interface: M-Audio M-Track Plus
- MIDI Keyboard: M-Audio Keystation 49 MkIII

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@keithnextdoor 4 жыл бұрын

I had the Hans Zimmer Masterclass ad before the video started haha, so cool

@AlexeyFilippenkoPlummet 5 жыл бұрын

I like how you cut it all straight to the meat. Usually youtube means 80% of water and 20% of information for people to spam those videos afap. Have my like for this.

@qmillomadeit 5 жыл бұрын

This is amazing wtf you got alot of talent to do this by ear!

@treyxaviermusic 4 жыл бұрын

This is great stuff, really awesome thank you!

@WrektSK 3 жыл бұрын

Didn't expect to see you here lol. But yeah Alex's tutorials are super precise when it comes to cinematic stuff. He's a gem for us

@j_edwards6075 12 күн бұрын

While I don't understand any of the musical terminology that's being said I can appreciate your knowledge and talent that clearly comes across in this video. Pretty sure I was just trying to find out what instrument makes that iconic Zimmer sound in his soundtracks and found this video. Cheers

3 жыл бұрын

Hans Zimmer actually used 6 bass trombones, 6 tenor trombones, 4 tubas in the middle and 6 French horns above. Check out the making of the score.

@samthisam570 2 жыл бұрын

I think he may have meant that the tubas were seated in the middle, rather than strictly playing higher than the trombones.

@ABE2000 Жыл бұрын

If Spitfire Audio can make Hans Zimmer Brass, it will be possible.

@willy31121996 5 жыл бұрын

Why is Samuel Umtiti composing music and not preparing for the Champions League??

@itsvoogle 5 жыл бұрын

lmaoo

@romualdphillip666 5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@tommyakakomali8766 4 жыл бұрын

hahaha

@nezlo9612 3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

@ralphmarbler27 3 жыл бұрын

Again with the Samuel Umtiti jokes? We had too much of them on Instagram, damn 😂😂😂

@kappabravomusic2101 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting to see that HZ's music is in fact not superbly complicated if you break it down to particles. Thank you for this video. Very cool

@MitchellBroom 5 жыл бұрын

Quality video as always man!

@jonnyjonnyjonnyjonny 5 ай бұрын

'THE BRASS IS THE MAIN PROTAGONIST HERE'. You sir, were ahead of your time.

@brodiemarshall729 5 жыл бұрын

amazing video. succinct, useful and entertaining, thanks Alex !!

@ErikOrchestralTutorials 5 жыл бұрын

I find trying to recreate parts of a score very helpful for learning new tricks about composition and instrumentation. Super good ear excercise as well!

@fidesmartin 5 жыл бұрын

5 minutes tutorials are the best! keep going, maestro!

@tnbee 3 жыл бұрын

thank you!

@DacianGradaMusic 5 жыл бұрын

God, those basses from Ark 1 are *_TASTY_* :O great one bro, I really enjoy these how-tos for a specific composer's style!

@mcbigdick2671 5 жыл бұрын

I love this tutorial. Nice cuts and straight to the point.

@ArturoAlbero 5 жыл бұрын

Great tips! I would use them in my next compositions, thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience!

@davidklemencz 5 жыл бұрын

Great!! Thanks Alex👌💕

@quantumofburningsteel5881 3 жыл бұрын

Great! 🤟🏻Nicely deconstructed. Something to try out 👍🏻

@paulg3388 10 күн бұрын

I’m not sure whether to just be impressed or extremely envious :-) I’m very new to orchestration and trying to learn from all of you talented people. Thanks for such amazing videos you have such talent.

@C.D.J.Burton 11 ай бұрын

That sounds epic mate - awesome work

@vzm4663 5 жыл бұрын

Incredible analyzation 🔥

@Evangelionism 5 жыл бұрын

What a coincidence... Minutes before Alex uploaded this Brass topic, I was studying the brass in *Under a Burning Sky* (Shiro Sagisu/Shin Godzilla).

@ShawneX0007 4 жыл бұрын

ok you made this exactly ayear ago... i found it helpful... thanks alex

@chhau123 5 жыл бұрын

this channel is a gold mine

@d.r.w3783 4 жыл бұрын

Hiya. Enjoyed this vid and learnt some thing from you so thank you for that

@chrispantos3559 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Alex!

@FelipeQueiroga 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! There's one thing that's also really used by Hans Zimmer which really helps with creating walls of sound: synthesizers!

@RubinHenkel 5 жыл бұрын

Well done!!

@dreamsamir2769 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing Video, short and suer useful 👍👍👍

@BJAL4EVER 3 жыл бұрын

That's a lot of layer...sounds amazing!

@herono-4292 5 жыл бұрын

My favorite music of Alex Moukala is this one

@GreatGameGawd 5 жыл бұрын

Got Damn... ur good, no BS! I'ma watch everything you got bro. This is that other level I need in my arsenal... U good in a mufucr!!

@johnzachariahg 5 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I need.

@hotingrock 5 жыл бұрын

YES!! Thank u!

@vickemannen9276 5 жыл бұрын

An “in 5 minutes” vid by Alex? What?? - Naaaah, not possible

@herono-4292 5 жыл бұрын

I have a request for brass. Could you make a tutorial about how Zimmer made "oil rig - man of steel" This song contains good brass too

@lukdub 5 жыл бұрын

Nice. Thank you.

@fergucinestudios 4 жыл бұрын

Sounds Great

@conforzo 5 жыл бұрын

French horns can never achieve the strength of trumpets of trombones. In Mahlers 1st symphony finale 8 horns get the dynamic of 2 trumpets and 2 trombones.

@collinbrefka 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, from studying orchestration formally, I generally see people equate the sound of 2 horns to 1 trombone or 1 trumpet.

@kylejudkins754 5 жыл бұрын

modern composers dont care lol

@collinbrefka 5 жыл бұрын

@@kylejudkins754 What are you talking about? If they ever want to have their music played by a live orchestra, they better care! Certainly people who weren't trained formally like Hans Zimmer tend to have pretty basic/poor conceptions of orchestration, but any contemporary classical composer certainly needs to be an expert in all realms of writing and arranging! Any film composer worth his or her salt would also need to be well versed in balance and orchestration.

@gtizzle101 5 жыл бұрын

@@collinbrefka what does op mean by getting the dynamic?

@collinbrefka 5 жыл бұрын

@@gtizzle101 I'm assuming he means that the 8 horns achieve the same dynamic level as the 2 trumpets and 2 trombones, like I stated earlier. OP may have to confirm though!

@jackdeansohl 5 жыл бұрын

Perfect

@improvementTime10.3.17 4 жыл бұрын

0:50 large brass sounds are made of multiple instruments even tho they seem like just a French horn or a single brass instrument 5:39 vsts

@munavvarali9278 4 жыл бұрын

What u mean?

@murkdurk8961 3 жыл бұрын

You sir, are a boss.

@uncledrew7633 3 жыл бұрын

Love your channel bro love seeing brothas be in to film composition and orchestration. I thought I was the only one. I use Finale and Garritan library in VSL do you actually write every note in notation or is it more like FL studio?

@bigmoomusic 3 жыл бұрын

badass!

@notproductiveproductions9255 3 жыл бұрын

thx so much

@InternetMameluq Жыл бұрын

Great, this is exactly what I was wondering about forever... I thought it was the French horn, but not exactly...

@AakashRMusic 5 жыл бұрын

*Awesome*

@MJ-sy2en 3 жыл бұрын

Two videos and I subbed

@TerenceKearns 3 жыл бұрын

2:20 I suspect Hans didn't do that is because 5ths are "power chords" as used by heavy metal and hard rock. That's what's going on with this piece. It's literally metal music (brass) ;)

@mupicap7927 5 жыл бұрын

Need this library

@gerardoalanis4016 11 ай бұрын

What plug in is he using for the orchestra sounds?

@DavidEHarrisMusic 5 жыл бұрын

What sound libraries do you use?

@Afthalina 5 жыл бұрын

Best ever

@Basementkid-music 5 жыл бұрын

Niiice👌👌

@AJ-fj7rw 5 жыл бұрын

Please make "THE MOLE" by Hans Zimmer

@pintologia1 3 жыл бұрын

What library you are using?

@TheSoundbar 5 жыл бұрын

why did he say the basses play c 3 and c 4 but they played e flat 2 and 3 ?

@SunilMungur 3 жыл бұрын

heavyocity's forzo preset: "Gut Punch" has that massive feel right out of the box. Anyone have forzo?

@ryanbarryaudio 5 жыл бұрын

Gimme that first :P

@briandougherty9110 5 жыл бұрын

I should still be able to follow along with this if I'm using Miroslav Philharmonik to some degree, yeah?

@jlfcomposer7735 3 жыл бұрын

What DAW is this?

@abhir7823 4 жыл бұрын

Is Metropolis Ark 1 alone enough to start with? Or do I need any other libraries?

@bgranke 4 жыл бұрын

I’d start with it, but I began with EW symphony orchestra silver. I have it now and ark 1 with all the articulations and stuff is just amazing. It sounds so good. But it’s true, you need some emotional strings too, my EW satisfies that. Cinematic strings is great too.

@ndrake4091 Жыл бұрын

Program name ?

@Homieonice 4 жыл бұрын

yo the way your ear is set up is crazy LMAO

@user-me3hb7jf8q 3 жыл бұрын

쩐당

@benoitpiret9065 10 ай бұрын

I think he recorded the brass in a room where they had a grand piano open as well. the brass made the piano strings vibrate

@ziptidemusic5390 5 жыл бұрын

What packs/plugins do you use for the brass?

@herono-4292 5 жыл бұрын

He uses metropolis ark 1 French horn, tubas, cimbassi, trumpet, bass trombone

@herono-4292 5 жыл бұрын

@@DeviNuski I told you it's metropolis ark 1

@herono-4292 5 жыл бұрын

@@DeviNuski plus he said it in the video. Search metropolis ark 1 with kontakt and you will find it

@ziptidemusic5390 5 жыл бұрын

@@DeviNuski Kontakt player is the plugin - you're definitely going to want to invest in it sooner than later, as it supports NI instruments AND some incredible 3rd party plugins

@herono-4292 5 жыл бұрын

@@DeviNuski I didn't know that kontakt was a plugin i thought it was ark 1. But if looking for ark 1 you can see that it used with kontakt...

@Doty6String Жыл бұрын

It’s actually really simple

@EdwinDPZ 3 жыл бұрын

Wait minute... that's totally note for note the music used for Batman v Superman. I knew people accused Zimmer of reusing music but damn.

@julianamichaelia9760 5 жыл бұрын

Can you share MIDI files for learning？

@julianamichaelia9760 5 жыл бұрын

Just a little bit

@AlexMoukala 5 жыл бұрын

You can download the Stems and MIDI of ALL my KZfaq tracks here: www.patreon.com/alexmoukala/posts?tag=DOWNLOADS

@grapeshott 5 жыл бұрын

Why does it look so congested?

3 жыл бұрын

Damn

@dzikrieljavier 4 жыл бұрын

When i will got that kind of brass and choir with 2GB ram laptop specs :) Halusinasi. Great work alex.

@FEAROWNAGE 3 жыл бұрын

It’s a crazy little thing called reverb and echo.

@nyctus2024 5 жыл бұрын

idk how to make brass this powerful

@matteodaxxon5143 5 жыл бұрын

Buy a 549€ library

@TheLordsBread 4 жыл бұрын

@@matteodaxxon5143 🤣

@Evangelionism 5 жыл бұрын

What about the cimbasso? That has that really "phat" punch from the trombone family.

@Tsharkeye 5 жыл бұрын

I think when he talked about tuba he meant cimbasso

@jonkrindz7934 Жыл бұрын

try remake Calvin Haris-Giant :)

@dnicefilms8550 8 ай бұрын

thats great tho

@MarioBro15 3 жыл бұрын

Wish I could afford Metropolis Ark.

@rysbayev 5 жыл бұрын

Halakamalakaalakakakalalalal

@cakershake 5 жыл бұрын

weird how you say you don't know music theory in ALOT of your videos yet you clearly do. Why lie?. . . . or are you one of 'those' guys? Hope not 'cuz I enjoy your videos and philosophy

@AlexMoukala 5 жыл бұрын

I will not proclaim I know something unless I'm very good at it. With theory, I'm aware of the meaning of scales, names of intervals, maj/min/aug/dim/sus triads, 7th chords and inversions and watched a few counterpoint videos. However, I am not actively thinking of those subjects while I compose, as I rely most on my ear. If you play one chord progression and you ask me which chords are being played, it'll take me a bit to figure that out. A master of theory will figure out instantly, will tell you what's the exact relationship between the chords, how you can make it better etc.