Orchestration Masterclass, Part 4: Writing for Strings

About Orchestration Masterclass, Part 4: Writing for Strings

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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 and the passion 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 4: Writing for Strings" we are going to focus on the strings as a foreground, middleground, and background section. We will explore using the strings for melody, harmony, and texture, while also exploring the techniques that Beethoven used in his string writing. 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 classes 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:

Foreground writing

Putting the melody in the violin, viola, cello, or bass

Staying clear of the melody in terms of range

Putting the background above the foreground

Color as separation of foreground and middleground

Texture as separation of foreground and middleground

Middleground writing and Techniques

Texture and Rhythm

Rhythmic Variation

Background writing

Homophonic writing

Polyphonic writing

Monophonic writing

Monorhythmic writing

Looking at the masters: Beethoven, Symphony No. 1

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, am an active guitarist, and 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...)