How to Write Adventure Orchestral Music - 4 Tips for Happy & Uplifting Orchestrations

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6 жыл бұрын

In this tutorial, I give you 4 Tips on writing Happy Adventure Orchestral Music by ear in the style of How To Train Your Dragon / Sonic The Hedgehog & more.
Orchestral Stems: / 18600663
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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
Libraries used & PC Specs:
- Strings: Metropolis Ark 1, Cinematic Strings 2, Fluid Shorts
- Brass: Metropolis Ark 1, 8Dio Century Brass
- Choir: Oceania
- Woodwinds: CineWinds CORE
- Percussion: Rhapsody Orchestral Percussion, 8Dio Epic Toms & Epic Dhol
- DAW: FL Studio 12.5
- PC Specs: 3.4 GHz i7 CPU, 16GB RAM, 512 GB SSD + Extra HDD
Song: Green Hill Zone
Original Composer: Masato Nakamura
Cover artwork: Han Yijie

Пікірлер: 83

@AlexMoukala 6 жыл бұрын

This tutorial was packed with advice, but there's much more I didn't have the time to talk about in depth. If you're feeling lost or want to know more, here's some additional tutorials and resources I recommend: • Melodies + Countermelodies Tutorial: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m5lmdNlq09G3k4U.html • Chord Progressions Tutorial: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g9Wap5B916y8hJc.html • Orchestral Articulations Tutorial: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nrJ9eLJjp5uoqGQ.html • Epic Brass Tutorial: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oLx0pZCQ2cucfIU.html • Epic Percussion Tutorial: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hL6blMJqq87GmqM.html • Staccato Strings Tutorial: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y750g5Cd25_KoIU.html • Evenant - Full Orchestral Music Course: goo.gl/e7Yu70

@narasimhahm321 6 жыл бұрын

I would like hear your music in films man. You're really talented like heck man you're music unique.

@Roh0io 6 жыл бұрын

Man, recently discovered your channel and I'm gonna be honest, this channel is best for beginner orchestrators like me. This is channel has helped me a lot by far. Please continue your work and never stop making these type of videos.

@philippplein4974 6 жыл бұрын

Jeremy Soule x Elder Scrolls tutorial next please 🙌

@ChrisSchmidtComposer 6 жыл бұрын

Green Hill Zone has never been more epic.

@tridentremixes5449 6 жыл бұрын

This channel is a gem. This stuff really helps with my orchestral/pop hybrid music. ❤💚💜💙

@Weaklytune 3 жыл бұрын

Omg yeah that’s the type of music I want to make too :)

@pakkasaurus 2 жыл бұрын

holy. fucking. shit. wOW. in all serious, this actually helped me more than my actual music diploma. Thank you so much for such great tutorials!

@AlrotaMusic 6 жыл бұрын

Lovely arrangement :)

@flipperpitstudio 3 жыл бұрын

I'm second year into studying MIDI and have found you at the exact right time! This stuff you're putting out is GOLDEN! 🙏😊 THANK YOU! Subscribe/Like/Share

@donnycui997 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for these free tutorials man.

@eddietalanga7802 6 жыл бұрын

The part about the details really opened my eyes!! Thank you :)

@juliansolo1825 5 жыл бұрын

Love this tutorial! Nice overview and good tips here. Huge thanks for sharing! ;)

@iamfrankbiesta 4 жыл бұрын

Alex, you are an amazing composer! Merry Christmas and a great 2020.

@TomHawkComposer 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing tutorial as always! I need to experiment with fast string passages like this a lot more in this kind of music.

@marvinroggon3168 5 жыл бұрын

Idk why I didn’t found your channel earlier. Looks like a ton of great information I can look into. Thanks my dude! INSTANTLY subscribed and hit that bell 🔔!

@mateusnog 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing as always!!!

@olukz2529 6 жыл бұрын

Another great orchestration tutorial, thanks!

@arnoldtanjunhan 3 жыл бұрын

This was absolutely amazing and enlightening, from the perspective of a total beginner. You are brilliant!

@SengdaoBoutsivongsakd 3 жыл бұрын

Late to the party but happy to learn tips from this video Alex! With the contrast element, the minor key is use a lot in Uetmasu work when he compose happy tracks ie. Tifa's theme has a minor key right around the start as a transition back to the main key. Keep up the great work in 2021!

@sidneyscaccio 6 жыл бұрын

*How to use* more than 1 articulation in the piano roll and how to put parameters of the Kontakt in piano roll?

@davidg7136 4 жыл бұрын

Wow what a elaborate and detailed track. Very unique, sounds like a score to an epic movie. I especially like the part from sonic

@gianlucamilani7001 6 жыл бұрын

Alex, this is the best Finale I have ever heard!

@fabianahmed7452 2 жыл бұрын

Wow I finally found you! Finally someone who is teaching this I will finally be able to make the soundtracks Ive always wanted to make

@chrispantos3559 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Alex!

@J-A-Music 6 жыл бұрын

Top tutorial!

@GrvMUSIC4U 6 жыл бұрын

Really inspiring bro ❤️✌️

@jaywanimationz 2 жыл бұрын

I was moved to clap my hands to this piece. This is Beautiful man

@lobsterking858 6 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial as always Alex!! Btw can you do a tutorial on how to make orchestra music like Sawano Hiroyuki?

@CefMelodies 3 жыл бұрын

i really love this

@nilstarlight 6 жыл бұрын

Great strings!

@maximmovie6712 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@richarddunn367 6 жыл бұрын

Great vid

@musicoamante 4 жыл бұрын

Great music making and great tutorial! Very nice, easy to understand explanations. Even in this "happy" tune you used Metropolis Ark1, which is rather kind of hardcore?

@cineman8697 6 жыл бұрын

Alex , Alex. 🧐🧐🧐. Thanks 😁😁😁

@eds5709 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Alex, first of all let me thank you for your time recording your tutorials and sharing your knowledge with us. To limit my 1000 questions to just one: Could you briefly explain how I manage to NOT "blow up" a composition I'm creating? Mostly I start the right way. Selecting instruments and finding the right balance between tracks. One problem is (always) I want to "push up" (is this the right term?) a short part of an instrument, for example a French Horn. Often I end up with a over-enthusiastic track (of this Horn). Then I probably make the mistake of adjusting the volumes of the other tracks, and I don't think you need further explanation of the result. Thanks is advance for you reply ;-) Ed

@bubu2249 6 жыл бұрын

Cool channel, many thanks for your work, best, bye

@mullbeatz-whackraphip-hopi4493 6 жыл бұрын

Bro you are amazing, do you have own tracks too? I just see recompositions on your channel?

@prasadsvr 6 жыл бұрын

Yes

@skyfire3498 6 жыл бұрын

Damn you are seriously the best and should work in films

@MikeBurnsArrangedAccidents 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah! a Steven Wilson reference! He's got some happy pop songs on his new album.

@Gospelplaya1000 6 жыл бұрын

Love the tutorials! Can you talk about orchestrating African music. I.E. Black Panther

@CG-ln9gy 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing! What versión of Fl studio 20 are You using? Fl producer? Thanks!

@samssoniccanvas Жыл бұрын

What video game is that second melody from?! Beautiful song thanks for the tutorial

@Y0nex 4 жыл бұрын

Hey alex!, Great tutorial!, Is it efficient to do the things you've mentioned about movement with arps but gradually? Like introduce them gradually so the song / piece gradually gets bigger as well?

@AlexMoukala 4 жыл бұрын

For sure

@Y0nex 4 жыл бұрын

@@AlexMoukala Thank you for the response 😊

@stinhuffine4422 3 жыл бұрын

This music alone brings more emotions than the whole Sonic Movie

@onion69420 Жыл бұрын

Opens up video Sees around 100 instruments and tracks Looks at my dual core cpu I'll just stick to rock

@ThePianoSpeaks 6 жыл бұрын

Hey Alex! What do you think of CineWinds, especially after the 1.3 update? Would you still purchase/use it if you already had Berlin Woodwinds?

@AlexMoukala 6 жыл бұрын

It's not bad, but I'm not a HUGE fan either though, I don't really love its sound 100%. However, I like the way the legato automatically adapts to how you're writing. All in all it's a nice bang for the buck if one cannot afford newer and more expensive libraries. Also, as far as I know Berlin Woodwinds is the best Woodwinds library out there, so if I had that, probably I wouldn't buy CineWinds.

@MrPewPewCat 6 жыл бұрын

What is your thoughts on Spitfire's woodwinds?(or spitfire products in general?)

@AlEx-ro7kd 6 жыл бұрын

@paulchikezieomari 5 жыл бұрын

You re good when I'm gonna be as this good

@asongaday5920 6 жыл бұрын

Could you show a tutorial of how you start a track from scratch/nothing to finished? That would be awesome thanks!

@AlexMoukala 6 жыл бұрын

-> kzfaq.info/sun/PLXsgPw9BIOXE31NXH4OkXEEl85OpCjuCw

@Asiimov_ 5 жыл бұрын

HOLY FUCK you could easily work for insomniac composing Ratchet and Clank games.

@marius95ace 5 жыл бұрын

Man you should work on triple A movies. I just don't undetstand why people like you are not appreciated enough... 😔

@thuytienlives8487 5 жыл бұрын

The advice starts at 3 minutes and 53 seconds. You’re welcome. Great video, by the way! 🙂👍

@TheStillChillMimikyuOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

3:53 here it is for those who don't wanna go through the bar

@robdavis3670 4 жыл бұрын

I get what your saying about happy/sad/dark etc, I've always had difficulty explaining it. A really good example to analyse is the Sound of Music main theme. Whenever I listen to it, its difficult for me to tell if it sounds sad/happy dark/bright because it jumps around between the two quite a bit. With the addition of lyrics and their meaning, there's an extra element to tackle.

@interstellarginger5042 6 жыл бұрын

Alex I don't know if you've already done a video on this, or if its a patreon thing (if so someone please let me know), but do you have any tips on actually finishing a piece? 'Cause I feel like I get 4 bars down and then im stuck

@AlexMoukala 6 жыл бұрын

My answer in 1 minute: instagram.com/p/BjCZJOUg_RV/?taken-by=alex_moukala

@sasufreqchann 5 жыл бұрын

13:39 hahaha xD

@sasufreqchann 5 жыл бұрын

this happens to me sometimes

@likhithravichandra5994 6 жыл бұрын

Bro make a video on how to make a Orchestral music from scratch using fl studio.. that would be great!!

@AlexMoukala 6 жыл бұрын

I already made quite a few of those: kzfaq.info/sun/PLXsgPw9BIOXE31NXH4OkXEEl85OpCjuCw

@likhithravichandra5994 6 жыл бұрын

Ayee thanks man ... Will check it out!

@filipjonathan 4 жыл бұрын

It keeps amazing me how you can create all of this without knowing music theory that much. You are SO talented! One thing I'd like to point out though, and I know that English is not your first language, is that I had a hard time telling "fills" and "feels" apart cause you pronounce them really similarly, so yeah, that's one thing you could work on I guess, since you got everything else down :D

@animationspace8550 3 жыл бұрын

Orchestral SEEEEEEEEEGAAAAAAAA

@oommggdude 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tutorial man. I had to pause and ask, why a lot of your notes are not lined up or "snapped" to the grid? Especially when you were showing us the French horns part at 14:44. Does this help to add realism?

@randomcommenter6734 6 жыл бұрын

Andre M the attack of the instrument won't sycronize to the beat plus the true legato lines

@AlexMoukala 6 жыл бұрын

What Michael said, and having some loose notes also helps enhancing realism a bit. But I mostly do it for the attack times of the legatos!

@oommggdude 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you both!

@storytimesymphony5395 6 жыл бұрын

Interesting how the pop filter failed when Alex said pop music. :D

@Hyper5nic 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for sharing this video and your knowledge. By the way this very much reminds me of the original (1978) Battlestar Galactica theme. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rOCpe9uK3cmRfaM.html Probably some of the chords are the same but i really like this music because of it.

@donnycui997 6 жыл бұрын

I could be wrong, but to my ears the whole music sounds so far away,like drowning in reverb.Maybe you could combine wet sound with close mic sound,make some instruments close up to the audience while others remain far away.

@AlexMoukala 6 жыл бұрын

I already do. I think that very wide sound is a side effect of the Maximizer / Compression on the master. But if I don't use those, the music will sound super quiet. I'm still trying to wrap my head around this conundrum, I should probably study mastering a bit more. :P

@donnycui997 6 жыл бұрын

Or maybe it's simply because there's too much reverb on the low end that makes the whole track sounds muddy. I was comparing your track with TEST DRIVE in how to train your dragons.I found out that in TEST DRIVE the low end has heavy reverb too but it's a lot quieter,especially the percussion part.So maybe the key is that you can't have both heavy reverb and high volume in your low end.It's either clean or quiet.

@donnycui997 6 жыл бұрын

yeah keep it up man.

@nirshadchowthee7180 6 жыл бұрын

Not the dynamics or reverb, it is metropolis ark 1 that sound that way ^^

@sasufreqchann 5 жыл бұрын

listen to bts too .