Orchestration Masterclass, Part 2: Brass, Voice, & Guitar

What you'll learn
Compose music for the voice, guitar, brass, and percussion instruments
The unique properties of every instrument in the orchestra
How writing for the orchestra works, including scores, parts, shared parts, and more.
Making your synthesized orchestrations sounds great!
How to write music for brass.
How to write music for voice and choir
How to write music for guitar
How to write music for harp

Requirements
Understanding how to read music, or the basic principals of notated music will be helpful but is not required.
Orchestration Masterclass, Part 1: The Strings and The Winds is very helpful to have completed prior to this course, but is not required.

Description
100% Answer Rate! Every single question posted to this class is answered within 24 hours by the instructor.

Are you a music maker, performer, composer, or aspiring songwriter looking to up your game? This is the place to start.

It's time to learn orchestration to give your music the power, the passion, and the prodigiousness that it deserves.

Orchestration is the study of each instrument in the orchestra, how they work, how to write for them, and how each instrument collides with the others to make new sounds. Think of it like painting: The orchestra is your palette of colors. But you don't want to just mix them all together. You need to understand some principles of mixing those colors together before you put your brush on canvas.

In this series of classes we are going to work on three things:

Instrumentation: Knowing how all of the instruments in the orchestra work, and how to write for them in an idiomatic way.

Composition: Using the orchestra to write powerful music. Learning how to blend the different sounds of the orchestra to make a new, unique, sound.

Synthestration: Using common production software (Ableton Live, FL Studio, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Cubase, etc.) to create a realistic orchestra sound using sample libraries.

In this class, "Part 2: Brass, Voice, and Guitar" we are going to focus entirely on instrumentation - learning how to write for the brass (trumpet, trombone, french horns, and tuba) the voice (soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, counter-tenor, tenor, baritone, bass), percussion, guitar and other fretted instruments, piano, accordion, and more.

If you don't know me, I've published a lot of classes here. Those classes have been really successful (top sellers, in fact!), and this has been one of the most requested class that my students (over 1,000,000 of them) have asked for. I'm really excited to finally be able to bring this to you.

Here is a list of some of the topics we will cover

How Brass instruments make sound

Dynamics in Brass

Breathing

Brass articulations

Types of trumpets

Types of trombones

Types of tubas

Types of horns (or French Horns)

Brass mutes

Brass forces in an orchestra

The pitched and unpitched percussion

Rolls and strokes

Bowed percussion

Percussion notation issues

Drum Kit

Tessitura and Range of the Voice

The soprano range and color

The alto range and color

The mezzo-soprano range and color

The counter-tenor range and color

The tenor range color

The baritone range and color

The bass voice range and color

Writing for the piano

Writing for the harpsichord, toy piano, and other keyboard instruments

Writing for the harp

Writing for the organ

Writing for the guitar

Writing for other fretted instruments

Dynamic issues with the guitar

Guitar and tablature

Writing for accordian

And Much, Much, More!

My Promise to You

I am a full-time Music composer and Educator. If you have any questions please post them in the class or send me a direct message. I will respond within 24 hours. And if you find this class isn't for you, I am more than happy for you to take advantage of the 30-day money-back guarantee. No questions asked.

What makes me qualified to teach you?

In addition to being a composer and educator, I also have a Ph.D. in music, I am a university music professor, and have a long list of awards for teaching.

But more importantly: I use this stuff every day. I write music professionally, I am an active guitarist, and I stay on top of all the latest production techniques, workflows, and styles. As you will see in this class, I just love this stuff. And I love teaching it.

Let's get started!

See you in lesson 1.

All best,

Jason (but call me Jay...)

Who this course is for
Anyone who wants to compose music for the orchestra
Anyone who wants to learn instrumentation and orchestration
Producers of any genre interested in getting the sound of a sampled orchestra into their music.
Musicians interested in how the orchestra works.
Anyone who wants to improve their tracks with brass.