Orchestration 1: Compose Orchestral Music for Strings

Course details

It's time to learn orchestration and use the massive sound of the orchestra in your compositions, while fully knowingwhat you are doing!

Do you want to use the power of the orchestra in your compositions? Do you want that big and full orchestral sound, but aren't sure where tobegin? Ever fiddled around with orchestral plugins, without truly knowing how to actually write for the instrument?

Orchestration is much more thanjust selecting aVSTand blindlycomposing away. There are many things you need to consider as the orchestrator.

How do you make this line stand out? Which instrument should you select to play the melody, which techniquefor the chords and harmony? How do you make this section softer without actually writingpianissimo?

Orchestration is the art of blending instruments and their techniques together. It is about careful selection of techniques, taking into consideration the instrument's natural strengths and weaknesses, tone and timbre. Which string should be used to play a mellowpart, what articulation will achieve thelightest accompaniment?

Orchestration often seems like a complicated anddaunting topic, but it doesn't have to be.This course will simplify things down and take you by the handin learning orchestration and instrumentation.

Orchestration and Instrumentationare two topics that go hand in hand, and we'll be studying both.

We will learn every articulation and technique available for the stringed instruments,with colourful examples to help you remember everything. You will hear audio samples and see the notation for each technique as we get fully acquainted with all the articulations the string family has to offer.

We will be studying real orchestral scores from the great composers so you can see the concepts and techniques in action, analyse and break them down.

Finally,in the practicalsectionof the course we willgo step-by-step and you will compose and orchestrate your own full composition forstrings.

By the end of this course, you will understand the string familycompletelyand be able to analyse string works, use anystring articulationand technique in your compositions, know how to orchestrate for strings, all the while composing through anorchestrator's perspective.

At the end of the course series you will be able to fully write for orchestra and useeach of the four families: Strings, Woodwinds, Brass and Percussion.

The Orchestra is a powerful tool, an essential tool in the arsenal of the composer or producer. Don't limit yourself by not being able to properly compose for orchestra.

Let's begin learning orchestration today, starting with the strings, and you will become a proficient orchestrator andorchestral music composer in no time.