A beginner's guide to writing your first piece of orchestral music using a wonderful free VST library. Composer Guy Michelmore shows you how to create a satisfying piece of orchestral music from scratch using a completely FREE orchestral library from Spitfire Audio, BBC SO Discover. He will talk you through a simple technique for visualizing, and then realizing an orchestral score and then show you how it works in practice. But things don't go entirely to plan! Watch out for the complete disaster.
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0:00 Start
0:55. A Free orchestral sound library
2:26 Building a simple template
3:45 Simple approach to orchestral composition
4:45 The writing process
5:15 Sketch before you orchestrate
6;54 Melody and accompaniment
7:30 String section doing everything
8:20 Woodwind + Brass
11:25 Woodwind Dovetailing
13:34 French horns and trombones
15:10 Strings in octaves
15:40 Building emotion and answering voices
19:00 Disaster!!!
21:15 Instrumental combinations
24:05 Piano ostinato
28:10 Summary and Conclusion