Title 4:29 The Fear 5:00 1. Ensembles for Life 8:20 2. Articulate 10:55 3. Express(ion) 14:08 4. Timing 28:46 (notes starting) 5. Timbre 34:57 6. Empathy 38:57 (breathing/bowing) 7. Voices 43:05 8. The Lost Art of Tempo 48:22 9. The Glue of Life 51:29 (Splosh/reverb) 10. Listen 56:19 The Ear 57:58

@revilomichaels9347

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. We love Spitfire!

@ritzenhauf

3 жыл бұрын

somebody pin this

What I really like about Christian is that he is natural and away from any kind of formal talking. And on top of that, he can't read music while his music is placed on TV shows and video games which gives me an extreme HOPE of getting there without reading music. I am exactly the same person as him, music is a soul language more than a paper language.

@smkh2890

3 жыл бұрын

Reading music is not difficult and it is a notation we can share. The note-length symbols for example. How can we do without them? My only complaint is the staff is microscopic. Like really tiny handwriting!

@worthingtonproductions2579

3 жыл бұрын

@@smkh2890 I don’t think what he’s talking about is just the reading , it’s composition in general, where would a German 6th Chord go, how and when to use a neopolitan 6th how to voice it properly , what’s a chromatic mediant , what chords go to each mode , all the scales , how to chromatic modulation etc. ect. But your right reading music is easy.

@smkh2890

3 жыл бұрын

@@worthingtonproductions2579 Ok. It's like the grammar of music, but , similarly, older English grammar was really based on Latin, so some constructions were judged 'wrong'.

@cubaseequalspain3691

3 жыл бұрын

Knowing how to read and write music for orchestras, let’s face it, makes you a complete musician. There is no denying it. Kid yourself all you want. There are no shortcuts.

Thank u, Christian! I enjoy ur videos! I am a 50 year old composer, scoring my first movie. I had a rather successful career as a pop song writer but now I feel the need to score music. Love Spitfire and I am in awe of your seemingly unlimited knowledge of music.

Thanks a lot Christian, I’m 54 and just starting to get into orchestrating, really helpful advice and glad I already have FF reverb at least lol 👍

This was terrific. Could we have a tutorial on “dropping down a minor third and all those cheesy tricks”? I suspect for many, and certainly for me, just generating the primary material to apply all of these techniques to, rather than the techniques themselves, is the greatest barrier to getting started.

Great stuff. Thanks for a really interesting and helpful masterclass, and to the rest of the Spitfire team, too.

This is one of the best Masterclasses. Thank you so much. Answered many questions.

Thank you, Chris -- this was so helpful. Truly appreciate it!! I tried to sign up for the live version of this, but by the time I got the email, it was already sold out. So glad it was recorded

I must add that the pianist V. Horowitz explained how the instrument comes first, the piano evolved through history and inspired composers in different ways, in addition to the available theory and practices of the epochs. I experienced that myself: when I improvise on the piano and then change to orchestra, it may not work well, and when I play directly another instrument, I improvise something very different, and it works with this instrument. I must also add that Stravinsky was using the piano to compose, but very likely as a help, he would not compose for the piano and then do the orchestration. Others would compose without instruments. So to conclude, it's important to know the instruments of the orchestra, what their techniques and sound ranges and possibilities, and not necessarily start with the piano and being inspired by the piano.

Thanks Christian and Spitfire for a great production!

A great idea for a video would be to have Christian sit down with a novice composer to help them realise their simple piano melody into a full orchestral score. That would really help me visualise the process from start to finish. Thanks as always Spitfire team!

Thanks a ton Spitfire Audio and thanks Christian for this educational content.Spitfire is redefining the way of creating orchestral music.

Thank you very much Mr. Henson for sharing your knowledge with us. Great presentation. Thank you Spitfire as well.

very very helpful! I'm sorry i missed this. thank you Christian and thank you all!

Absolutely GOLDEN, these 10 rules and how Mr. Henson presents them! (I very much enjoy listening to him, exactly the right pace, energy level, tone of voice in presentation and KILLER content!) Thank you so much, I'm learning a ton here!

I'm so glad I found your video, thank you! I am pivoting from years of songwriting to composing and it is very intimidating. Your humor and ease are very encouraging.

Great tip re. the pre-delay function. I've always manually edited the actual midi notes of legatos to bring them forward in time, which is time consuming and also awkward when it comes to moving and copying MIDI sections. The pre-delay will save me having to do that so I've learnt something extremely useful from your video! :-)

@philh27

3 жыл бұрын

I'm a bit late to the party here, but this 'pre-delay' tip interests me too, but I'm not quite sure what to do with it? is this predelay on a delay or reverb plug in, or something along the lines of adjusting latency in the DAW? I use Reaper and haven't yet found a method of adjusting a dealy (not delay plug in) on individual tracks. Any help or advice would be appreciated.

@philh27

3 жыл бұрын

In fact, I think I have clarified it. Also known as Midi offset. Though it seems that Spitfire's 'Tightness' control is intended to do a similar job when playing in parts. Good stuff. I knew I was experiencing some kind of latency effect, but assumed it was something to do with my keyboard controller's velocity response. Makes sense now.

I can't wait to dive into these summer school courses. Many thanks!

Christian, having watched many of your videos now, you are an absolute inspiration and Spitfire brings the sounds to evoke it. A very genuine human being.

This was so helpful and straightfoward, thank you for posting it on youtube for free!!

Huge thank you Christian and all at Spitfire, for inspiration and entertainment, Labs ,Discovery, and Splosh !!

We are so lucky to have Christian, learnt so much from this, I hope more sessions like this are made available.

Thanks so much for the Summer school Spitfire. It`s so educational and fun. I love this film music thing.

This session is amazing! The fact that you are taking your personal time to do this shows your work is your love. Thank you for the inspiration and the passion you put into music. At the end of the day a person can seem boastful to ones observation but in actuality and with thought applied its obvious that someone that experiences joy from anything will find the same result from spreading it.

Fantastic CH! Looking forward to the next one.

Thanks Christian. I really enjoyed watching you put this together.

Wonderful presentation Christian you are a very skilled teacher. Relevant to so many different levels of understanding and skill levels. Loving my Spitfire libraries too! Looking forward to some more inspiration!

I came back to watch this 18 months after watching it the first time (and writing a lot, every day) and I have received a great deal of useful info having the eyes of someone who has been hard at work trying to get better at the craft. I'll be back in another year to see what the next level is. Thank you!

Thank you guys for the work and effort you made to provide us with this. I play by ear and enjoy recording music. I didn't do actual music training. I suspect I did this training in a past life and brought the gift into this lifetime. Love recording and creating orchestral tracks ❤🙏

That was probably the best instructive tutorial i saw about electronic orchestral programming, i will use all those rules for sure and it will be useful a lot ! Thanx to you Christian and all the Spitfire Audio team. it's 20:22 hours now here in Montreal, Québec, Canada, i'm going back to my Lab (music workshop) now, with my 1st and almost last St-Ambroise Pale Ale ! Chears everyone !!!

Cristian a great master class, congratulations to you and spitfire for the work, thanks

Christian you are a very humble man, excitable at times but humble all the same. 39000 views in 1 month speaks volumes of respect. Cheers.

Thanks to you Christian Henson! I love the acronym... ;)

Thank you Chritian Henson, great session! I love the acronym... ;)

Thank you so much Christian!

Really educational and useful, learned loads, thanks Christian.

Wow, what a video! Really took a lot away from this being fairly new to orchestral programming. Just purchased your Spitfire Originals - Intimate Strings and I can't wait to use them in my music and upload more of my own compositions to KZread! Thanks Guys!

Thank you all for this! Genuinely informative and helpful to young composers like myself.

This is absolutely invaluable. Thank you

AWESOME! NEEDED THIS. Thank you!

Thank you Christian. Excellent as always!

thanks, Henson. i know you’re selling stuff, but your sincerity comes through too. obviously, you’re a nice guy.

I’m sorry I missed this live but I will definitely watch this! I love Spitfire!

thank you for all of the access to creativity.

Trow away your "fear" of public speaking : ) This was awesome! Thank you for doing this.

Loved the tip on adding "extra" reverb. Very helpful!

I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation!!! More, please!

Breathing patterns! Amazing!

very excited for this

Thank you for sharing your knowledge! 🙏🏼

Hahah, the mnemonic in the end! I love all your videos, they're incredibly helpful.

Thank you!

Extremely useful. Thank you!

Thank you Christian - really helpful and inspiring!

What this demonstrates is that orchestral programming has a long way to go before it is like the real thing. Thank you to Christian for awesome ways to make the samples believable. It is fascinating to see how Christian provides ways to make everyting realistic. My suggestion is to go to Apple Logic Pro writers and see how they can provide some specific tools for this. As a computer software person I can see how there are easier ways to provide an orchestral tool kit. Christian’s knowledge of how to use Logic is admirable. Not sure I could remember everything he has taken years to discover!

I love this, thank you Christian!

Thank you and it was very useful for me as a beginner 💯

Excellent tutorial !!

Melody, texture, rhythm, support/harmony. It is just a big band. With an orchestra you have a massive band with a million wonderful choices/voices, but the principal is the same as a four piece rock band, they can all get a turn at playing the Melody, texture, rhythm, and support according to your taste. "YOUR TASTE" is all that defines you.

Awesome as always!

I love how it goes from hearty laugh to NEXT UP at 10:49. It reminds me of Alan Partridge's "ha ha ha---ha ha----ha ha ha---NEWS."

Oh my goodness!! I watch Poirot over and over again just for the music!!

I just caught this session, since I wasn't able to watch it live. This was excellent! I loved it. I am a guitar player who came to orchestral music later in life and you confirmed so many of the things that I've learned over the years of programming my own orchestral arrangements. Your youtube videos are constantly inspiring and informative.

This is epic, totally what I need as a noob who wants to start composing.

Hi Christian. I am an Indian musician and want get into orchestra. Thank you for sharing. This is remarkable and encouraging. Cheers.

Thank you for these videos!

Thank you so much for this

This is the best vst for free by far. I realy appreciate creators.

Can’t. Hardly. Wait.

Thanks a lot for this Sir!! God bless

Looking forward to it. :) ♥

Great session, really informative. Many thanks

Pure gold!

And what a brilliant lesson again, Mr. Henson! Hats off

1:00:00 this is the best tips ever and its thrown at us like if it was nothing at the end of the video

Thank you.....

This was absolutely incredible thanks Christian I have learned SO MUCH. Not too basic at all for me ;-)

44:46 "we got this very stationary part, surprise, surprise, in the violas.." hahahahah, had to put the viola joke in here somewhere

Thanks for the great video!

​MIRIAM, thanks for modrating. You did a great job.👍

Really enjoyed this!!!! 👏

Absolutely brilliant, than you!

The listening is in fact encouraging as you hear "real" composers doing what Christian covered in this talk.

What a great session, so articulately explained and demonstrated!

18:45 amazing tip

This was such a great watch, thanks Christian and thanks Spitfire!

You provide so much fantasic content

The piece he initially built sounds like Yaman Raag from Indian Classical Music... mainly because he is using a sharp fourth... Teevra Madhyam. It's the Lydian Mode in western terms I think.

Thank you so much for this video. I definitely suffer from imposter syndrome as well, but I love to compose. My greatest challenge is figuring out how to make Logic Pro strings sound realistic. I have all these ideas in mind but still working on how to make them come to life.

You the man Christian!

thanks for the helpful vid!!

Total agree Christian, not fearing this type of music. I'm hoping to mixed it with my style of music I'm doing

This is great! Thank you

Chris is a great tutor

This might be the thing I've wanted most in nearly a year (but I don't want to get my hopes up TOO much :>).

Love this guy and Spitfire! Looking forward to some inspirational golden rules!

@robertj1303

3 жыл бұрын

@@r.kapaun01 That is in a different video. This is a la the title, so if you dont want this then dont watch it, watch the video on own voice.

Great lesson Christian*

32:55 "I liked it where it was before, it had a kind of passionate laziness" ... basically describes my life 😂

Thank you Christian... Im really Looking forward the barbershop mashup of When the levee breaks & NAG NAG NAG

Awesome