As usual if you want to learn even more about every aspect of how to compose great Orchestral Music, check out: The Evenant Cinematic Music Course -> goo.gl/Cmbvhj The rest of my Orchestral Tutorials -> goo.gl/uGb39c

1:17 this "bad melody" is totally something Shostakovich would write. but it takes INSANELY good harmony to make it work ^^

>Countermelodies Oh, neat! It's like a duet, but with instruments.

It may be a basic idea, but teaching it is a completely different story. And as always you made it extremely clear and easy to understand. Well done and thank you for your knowledge, experience, and expertise.

someone took the Hans Zimmer class! Props.

"Melodies are sentences" well said.

All of your videos are GOLD!

I'm excited to watch this. Thank you so much for your context Alex! ❤️

Great video Alex; super helpful. Love the idea at the end of listening to songs and filling in your own counter melodies. Thanks.

Wow, amazing lessons, very clear instructions- like a perfect melody! Thank you!!

The best ever tutorial about how to write melodies. Thanks a lot, Alex. I loved it

I'm learning so much from your tutorials, thank you so much again, you're helping a lot!!!

Alex! You are a REALLLY good music teacher! These videos are so addictive! Thank you!

Great explanations, and very helpful tips for melodies in general - not just orchestral music. Thx!

Alex you make excellent videos. Very helpful and easy to understand. Please keep it coming!!😉

easily the most interesting, easy to follow, and informative music tutorials I've watched on here. and I've watched a lot. thank you

Awesome class! Keep up the great work, bro, while we musically and through rhythm change the World to a more harmonizing and peaceful existence!

I owe you so much. Thank you for everything you've uploaded over the years. I hope to repay you somehow one day.

This video really did a great job stripping down these concepts and explaining them clearly. It's also encouraging to me to see that I'm already doing a couple of the things you suggested and the new stuff helped me see things a little differently. Thanks for putting this together!

You are helping so much! Thank you very much, This is the best things on youtube.

Dude thank you for these videos, SUPER HELPFUL!!

i am a complete music noob, but these melodies + counter melodies remind me of Ocarina of time music when Link learns a new song from Sheik and they start playing together. best example for counter melodies ever!

The last tip you gave of imagining new elements, progressions or patterns, is what I’ve been doing since I was 6 years old. I just started composing this year and thanks to that, I’ve been improving amazingly fast. Great advice bro 👏🏻👏🏻

You are a hero without cape my guyyyy. Keep up the goood videossss !

Thanks for this tutorial, gold content, so helpful!

Because of you I’ve made more improvements in making music in a single week than I did an entire year

Alex... your way of communicating the elements of music... even certain approaches to music... is super intuitive, whereas most who try definitely fail to put these things in terms that make sense. Bravo.

Thank you Alex for all your great Videos, there is alot to learn:-)!

Great stuff! Thank you!

You are incredible and I’m very glad I found your channel! I would definitely be interested in taking lessons with you at some point

awesome great insights, thanks a lot for your tutorials, it is of great help :)

Great tutorial, well explained! Thank you!

5 people where talking to their friend and then skipped over to bananas.

21:21 I do sing countermelodies on my own while listening to music since I was kid I think. It just always comes automaticaly xD Then hopefuly this will help me to slowly become a composer :)

Just found your channel Alex, great content, thanks a lot!

Thanks for this easy to follow tutorial!

Fantastic lesson. Thanks a lot!

Great videos and tips, like your style

Thank you so much Alex.

beautiful melody

Awesome as usual...

love yeww man yu are awesme thanx fr the tutorial ... please continue this :)

Super helpful for a beginner. Thank you!

So great! Subbed

Wow this is amazing you really know what you do I would like to be lectured by you man you genius

thank you very much alex helped me a lot

Super helpful, thanks!

Thank you so much . You really helped me . god bless you

Excellent tutorial.

Very Interesting and important to know when writing music

This Video helps me a lot! Thank you. I need to tell my story now! :)

THANK YOU ❤

Great class!

Really nice tips for countermelodies :)

Most interesting topic in any compositions :]

Hey, I do that thing too. Pretending to create harmonies in songs where that tune/riff does not exist. Interesting. ^_^I joined this channel late, and I'm so glad that I have found this channel.

You're young but a great music teacher Thanks for your valuable advices(sorry bad english i'm italian)

Cool, I'm famous. This was recorded for me :)

Thanks man

Thanks man!

Perfect explanation, Alex, also clear examples, but could've been clearer if we use piano just for this one.

I made a few songs for an animated movie that I am currently working on in the works called, "The KZfaq Movie". 1 song I did is a motivation song called "The Start of Freedom & Justice", which is a song about finding the light & encouragement to become a true legacy.

funny how I got one of ur ads on your video (btw great stuff, I learned a lot!)

Your strings are brutal!

So much info..Thank you so much.. If possible, please do a video on how to convert potentially good ideas into implementation

Thank you so much for this tutorial, I hope it helps me out! Tell me, do these tips and tricks also work for if you’re trying to compose an angry sounding, fast paced battle theme?

You're a very good teacher.. I've been trying to find a way of allowimg my counter melody breath without clashing with my original melody each time I tried it either I choose the counter melody and just remove it. Thank you bro

2:05 This sounds almost exactly like Guild Wars 2's "Sea of sorrows" by Jeremy Soule

Hello alex first of all thank you each video, I learn a lot of your videos but I find it difficult, could you make a video tutorial composing from scratch an orchestra epica of cinematic teaching the basics? thanks again :)

Great as usual. Captivating melodies. Where can I buy the finished piece? :)

Hi Alex, great tutorial. I have a question, what do you think of using Omnisphere 2 together with CS2 ensemble or it would be too much? Thank you and have a great day.

wow. comprehensive but definitely not boring.

Ah, that’s a new one for me. Singing counter melodies, good tip.

thanks man

In the piano Roll Control "Rom" you have Dynamics showing. But i cant find that in my Fl Studio And its updated :/ Is it the same as Volume? Oo

Thanks :)

Any tips on writing leitmotifs for a character? Like, how to find that perfect sound that expresses that character through music?

Your tutorials are amazing ! Would love to collab on a song one day . I write for sync

Why are you so awesome

You're very good Alex and your videos are gold. I'd like to ask you why you're using FL Studio instead of other DAWs or better, notation softwares like Finale or Musecore which is free but very powerful. I have nothing against FL Studio, just a question. For example, I really can't write music on a piano roll I prefer the classic notation system. By the way I'm italian too ;-)

I'm still a noob to this subject but happy to have discovered your channel! Quick question: what are all the spideweb looking lines connecting your notes as the melody and countermelody gets furnished?

This gose for all songs

Subscribbed! looking forward to checking out your other content. Thank You!!

Interesting 🙃 I like

5:00 This chord progression in the first bar sounds like NF's song: "Time."

Hey Alex! I'm curious why you have two of every string patch from the same library? In this example you used two string ensemble patches and I'm wondering why you didn't just include the low bass notes from string ensemble #2 in the string ensemble #1 part? Thank you in advance!

muito boa noite, meu nome é Rafael, sou do Brasil, me inscrevi a pouco tempo em seu canal, queria te perguntar algo, qual é a configuração do seu pc para rodar tantos instrumentos sem ao menos travar, porque sabemos que o FLStudio e meio complicado de ter uma boa performance na memoria, poderia me responder isso ? desde já agradeço e parabéns pelo belo trabalho !

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First of all, great video, Alex. Second, I need some help. The past month or so, I've really been looking at DAW's and FL studio really caught my attention. I work with musescore (RIP) and the instruments sound horrible. I'm from South-Africa and I'm a very serious musician. Still young, but I want to study music after school next year and I definitely want to focus on composition (and conducting). Could you maybe make a very very very beginner tutorial for FL Studio? I tried REAPER and Cakewalk since they're free DAW's but I had no freakin' clue what I was doing and where I had to start. Thanks for your time and keep up the great content and work!!! Daniel

Nice tutorial, what kind the strings are you using? Thanks

Yah yah ..thanks

I like the chords, sounds like Halo Reach / Halo 3

bananas😂 awesome bro 🙏🏼

Thank you for your time. Are you under label?

Great video, I think it's the best way to follow your ears with what sounds good instead of worrying about rules (if you don't know them, the problem doesn't exist ^^). But I think, if you would take the four bars of your bad melody, repeated and treated it like your one bar good motif, maybe it could also be turned into an appealing melody :). But I get your idea of course. And maybe I'm also already contaminated with contemporary music ^^

hell yeah its 12.41 midnight and im watching your videos

Hi What strings do you use? All my strings just sound edgy, either too high or too low. I use string section and brass.

5:00 thats the first time I've seen a chord progression layed down with connecting notes. I dunno why I had this idea that a chord progression just had to be contiguous.

So, for intense if you have a lyrics you wanted to compose music for it, what will you compose first: melody (tune) or the chords and everythings that supports the melody?

Wow, actually was doing the same naturally with singing along, just didn't know what I'm doing