Libraries used & PC Specs: - Brass: Metropolis Ark 1 - Percussion: Heavyocity Damage - PC Specs: 3.4 GHz i7 CPU, 16GB RAM, 512 GB SSD + Extra HDD - DAW: FL Studio 12

Lesson Summary: * French horns are an instrument to write basic and clear melodic lines. It is the best instrument to write melody within the brass section. But it is not enough since the freq. spectrum isn’t full yet. * Bass trombone and cimbassi are brass instruments that broaden the spectrum and fill the low register. But bass trombones are cluttered so this is why we can’t write melodies with It. * Bass trombones are great to write root notes because they are cluttered in such a way that the French horns aren’t. * Double bass can help the brass section fill the low-mid register. Some times it is needed to be in low volume. * Beginners tend to forget that brass is played by humans and they need to catch a breath. Small pauses are needed inside the piano roll. * After every pause, the next note will sound huge thanks to the absence of the sound. * MOD - Usually determines how hard the player blows. EXP - Allows to fade the volume over time to make it sound realistic. * In high registers, the articulations should be versatile to add movement, contrary to the low registers. Single notes are the best choice as root notes.

Short summary (because I know I will come back to this video): -Layer your sounds. (f.e. root note of chords for a bassey brass, mind the sounds' frequency range/type to find a suiting melody or it will sound cluttered) -Small pauses (for breathing and making contrast to the next note) -Vary the "blowing" of the player (through volume and expression; change volume for accents, lower expression as the note goes on for imitating less air coming through)

Awesome stuff! Now I can be the next Hans Zimmer :)

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One of the best tutorials I have ever saw. You are explaining your thougths very well. These informations are very useful. You can be sure I'll watch every one of your videos from now. :) Great job sir! Keep it up!

Hey Alex, your tutorial is GREAT !!! I'm beginning in Epic music writing, and your tutorial is the best I've ever come through, thanks !! You won another subscriber 😁

GOSH i completely SUCK at brass and before watching this i had no clue how to do brass at all, thankyou so much god bless you man lmao

Man, all your videos keep showing up in my watch list, and i wasnt looking for them. But i havent been dissapoited even once. Youre awesome

Thank you. This was helpful. Learned a few basic things like the instruments and modifying the mod and exp wheel.

Your understanding of the dynamic interactions between instrument and player is amazing; I am amazed at what level you have taken FL Studio - - I HAVE DEFINITELY SOLD IT SHORT OF ITS POTENTIAL - - YOU'RE GRAND :)

You are a legend alex, i have watched all your tutorials, you are my favourite composer on youtube. Thanks for all your tutorials

These videos are truly instant classics of the education in this field.

My sincere compliments to you! You are very good at explaining things, especially nice for people who are beginners and not so technical yet. Interesting video's, interesting content, well explained. Congratulations!

Mean bro just opened my ears to what i've been lacking with my horns. Subbed👏👏👏

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You are my no.1 music channel. You always give us the best tutorials. Tutorials that come from the heart. Thank you, Alex!

thank you man! i really love your tutorials, i hope to see more vids soon! cheers :)

Dope explained about the breathing of the brass player, cheers!

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Really good information and lesson... Thank You!

Hey Alex, just wanted to let you know I really enjoyed this video. Thank you sharing, and I'll be checking out more of your videos and subscribing :)

never thought about the freq spectrum when arranging/choosing instruments! thanks for this man :) I actually prefer t-bones out of all brass instruments (aside from tuba but on that I'm biased because I play it xD)

I learnt a lot, thanks for teaching

I play the french horn and love its huge range, but bass and contrabass trombones are awesome, great video and channel

Thank you for the tutorial. Very informative.

dam your so on point. I've never looked at brass like that before. thank you for the tips! keep up the great work!!!

Amazing video once again.

I was looking to learn that today, done! Subscribed 😉

wow, thank you for the tutorial! 🤗

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I really learned a lot so thank you very much.

Basics are as important as advanced stuff. For ppl as me who never played on instrument from brass section its rly helpfull. Specialy how to make instruments pull together in lower and higher section.

Excellent... Thank You Alex!!!!

thanks for the tutorial man! Keep progressing

You are good man! Keep doing! I am on your side!!!

thanks man, learned a lot

Alex, thank you for the great video! They inspire me so much! Can you create more casts about the hybrid arrangement and using the sound design?

Thanks Alex I found this very helpful and informative. I'm considering adding orchestral sounds to a song of mine. Don't have any software as yet tho.

BIG inspiration brother! keep up the good work!!!!

I knew that but i like your approach

Your a Genius! Thanks!

good job

THANK YOU SO MUCH

I think trying to put breaths in your melody works great in many cases. Even a piano melody will sometimes sound way better if you just put some spaces in the melody to take a breath of air.

Root notes : Bass trombone or low octaves from french horn Chord melodies : French horn on high octaves

that sounds amazing!!! thanks a million!! +1 to subscribers 🙂 peace!

Hey Alex, great lesson as always. In the next lesson can you explain to us how to create space between instruments and place instruments in their own position?

iam new to orchestral kind of music but after that i feel like i can do much ...... that was so helpful bro......

thaanks man

Self-notes 1. Trombone: low-range + double bass 2. pauses (slightly) 3. Mod + Exp 4. Trombone: X chord

Damn, Metropolis Ark 1 for 550? That's damn expensive, but it sounds sooo good!

I was part of those who thought french horn are awesome and i'd put it everywhere xD. Thanks for your advice.

Heavy brass scores are the best, sound the most badass

Hey Alex if possible can you make a tutorial on structure of orchestral music. As a beginner idk when to add Melodies,harmonies,counter Melodies etc.

How do the buttons in the channel rack have numbers on them, thanks for spreading your knowledge sir.

maybe a tutorial about mixing orchestral music?

I would very much like to see a detailed video on how to allow some space for other instruments not to clash with each other in EQ. I find it weird that almost all the percussion I try to play, always sound good at high frequencies. So do I boost all of them at that same level? They would collide, right? I'm trying to come up with drum pattern like Junkie XL.

I love how your step sequencer is set up with the whole orchestra instrument sections layed out. How did you achieve this, as far not just adding samplers and changing names but do you already have plugins loaded in those areas or is it blank and you just add the plugins as you go. If so, either way, how are you able to run soooo many instruments at one time with no latency or cpu usage clipping? Are you like running an instance of kontakt or philharmonik or something and just have each midi output channel from each sound within kontakt attached to a step sequencer tab?

I just discovered you. I’ve been struggling with finding the sound in my head for a theme for my cartoon. Thank you. Also is this demo using basic tools or are you using expansion packs loops etc?

tanks for your video, as amateur i try to figure out how to do this kind of stuff, to be sure to understand everything, the modwheel effect is the dynamics on the bass trombone ?

Are there any special articulations that you use when switching the notes along with the mod wheel and expression, such as QLeg, Leg, or others?

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Put this in a Marvel movie because that sounded great!

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Hey alex great tutorial as always i just have one question. U said that u play in melodies with a midi keyboard what settings do you use when quantising the things that u play in?

how do i get those instruments?

I'm hvn trouble locating the instruments in kontact....in suggestions??

I'm making you my music teacher. I'm a complete beginner.

Sounds like a Christopher Nolan movie. Great video.

Hello Alex I have a lot of libraries which is making my pc slow so what Files i suppose to move my external hard drive can anyone help me too please..... thank you so much all

How do you mix the whole thing? You have a tutorial for that somewhere?

The problem I'm facing is, when I increase the sound of french horns over a certain threshold value, it starts distorting.. and it is starting to piss me off now. Any ideas? I use Bravura scoring brass

i am new to the fl studio so where should i start?

Alex I would love to take private lessons from you! How do I connect with you? I am a new hobbyist composer wanting to be a professional as well

I am a horn (french horn) player and I can confirm that I am human and I blow into the horn and must breath... joking aside, you can orchestrate separate horn parts to spell (fill in for) each other so breathing can be removed as an impediment. So horns 1 and 3 starts and doesn't play one of the other notes while 2 and 4 play that missing note. Alternatively, professional orchestras have assistant horns that help fill in and spell other horns for breathing.

also a good tip: get a good library :). Btw, how did you change the mod wheel and expression pattern inside the midi window? I dont find those parameters.

Ahm, Alex, how did you integrate those libraries?

Is there a chance of you producing and evenant course? I'd buy it for sure :)

can i know how you bring up those things in 12:20?

Great video, really appreciate it. What was the name of the song? I didn't recognise it

am i the only one that thinks 16:51 sound pretty cool

Um there is a brass instrument that's even lower than the Double Bass. It's called the _Tuba_ ! Depends on the orchestral color you're going for, of course, but it's worth being aware of. A great resource for instrument ranges: www.orchestralibrary.com/reftables/rang.html

Useful tutorial. Nice horns sounds from Metropolis Ark1!! I just got it. What kind of drive do you stream your MA1 samples from? HDD or SSD? Just wanna make sure my system is fast enough. Thank you

Hey Alex ! I'm 15 and I'm french. I was just find out your channel and it's great ! Could you make a training about fl studio to make commercial music 'cause i really will like begining about that.

How are you controlling the mod wheel within FL-Studio? My VSTs require a mod-wheel to be really effective, but I do not own a keyboard with one on it. Thanks.

yo man what vsts do u use to make orchestra.

Lmfao "pretty basic" that shit was amazing

Hey alex, what headphones do you use?

Hi Alex, what about the Trumpets? How would you layer the trumpets? 😀

6:46 I thought you were going to say Contrabassoon. Don't you think it would work best with the Brass section, or are you aiming at a bigger section that consists of several players instead of a one player playing the Contrabassoon? Or even better... Most of the Orchestral sheet music I read have the Bass Trombone playing a note and the Tube playing the same note one octave below it. Have you considered that?

I also want to use some orchestral instrument but I don't found what I want or need on fl studio

Immediately describes my mistaken belief that French Horns are the best and all you need.... yup this tutorial was made for me.

Do you always leave the fruity limiter on the master? Or do you change it the way you think is needed?

Man, I use Angry Brass by performance samples and it has literally no bass. But i'm gonna have to save up for metropolis ark 1.

Hey Alex,what was that plugin which displayed frequencies...? And thanks for this tutorial.

Hey Alex, from what library are you getting those instruments from??

Do you have a book or resource where you learned about all this?