Orchestration Masterclass, Part 1: The Strings and The Winds

What you'll learn
Compose music for the strings and for the winds
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!

Requirements
Understanding how to read music, or the basic principals of notated music will be helpful 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 first class, "Part 1: The Strings and The Winds" we are going to focus entirely on instrumentation - learning how to write for the strings (violin, viola, cello, bass/contrabass) and the winds (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and saxophone).

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

Transposition

Score Order

Tips for Reading Scores

Preparing Parts for Players

Page Turns and Cues

Bowing

Pizzicato

Double Stops

The Violin

The Viola

The Cello

The Bass

String Effects

Harmonics

Col Legno

Ponticello

Glissando

Vibrato

Scordatura

The Winds

Sustained Tones and Breathing

Tonguing and Rhythm

Types of Flutes

Types of Oboes

Types of Clarinets

The Break in the Clarinet

Types of Bassoons

Types of Saxophones

Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Bari Saxophone, and Soprano Saxophone

Woodwind Effects

Multiphonics

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.