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I have been absolutely loving these videos. I’ve been playing folk and jazz music for most of my life, but never felt qualified to write in a more “classical” style. You do such a great job of demystifying orchestral music so I finally have the confidence to start writing down my ideas. Thank you thank you!

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad it was helpful!

@siddonarski7428

2 жыл бұрын

if you would write proper Jazz, im sorry but you could write basically anything..

I really, really (seriously) enjoy the fact that you took the time to make short and sectioned videos that are focused on specific techniques. I have seen countless "Cinematic Strings" videos that drag on for an hour and is basically a livestream recording. Your videos are dense and concise on the other hand. THANK YOU RYAN!

Oh my god, that's a GREAT lesson. Thank you!

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Not once in years of music school was a concept illustrated so well like this, well done!

This man just giving away the big secrets like candy

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

Haha it's all in the books I just read them

i also think that its great to have the cellos play the melody is that most orchestras have the cellos on the opposite of the violins. giving it this effect of being wrapped up in the melody and really solidifies it as the melody

So today I was busy with a string section for a song I am working on and it just sounded all too ... flat and empty. So I listened to Across the Stars to find some idea or inspiration to guide me. Then your video just popped up explaining how to orchestrate better, fuller string sections using Across the Stars as an example. What a coincidence!

As a violinist and violist who's played in orchestras for years and is now studying voicing and harmony so as to get into arranging, this was useful. subscribing.

Terrific lesson, thank you. For me the step that had the most impact was adding in the grumpy double basses

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, yea as someone who played double bass in high school I have a fondness for those bears as well

@simongross3122

2 жыл бұрын

@@RyanLeach Well you have my admiration. I have tried to play DB and I discovered that my fingers were not strong enough. It's an awesome instrument. The best I can manage is noodling around on a baritone sax :)

@samdajellybeenie14

2 жыл бұрын

Double bass player here! I absolutely love playing John Williams’s music - it’s so well orchestrated and powerful!

@Lufade

2 жыл бұрын

@@simongross3122 Ohhh the buttery tone you can get with a bari sax though!!!

@simongross3122

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lufade I have to say bari sax is the most fun to play of any instrument I've tried. And yes it can be surprisingly lyrical as well as grumpy grouchy :)

The mention of parallel octaves set me back 13 years when I’d receive my harmony homework with red parallel lines all over it. Our teacher really didn’t want us playing it back on the piano to check our work, but looking back on it, I think I would have figured out how to practically apply what I learned in class if I hadn’t followed that guidance.

@BrofUJu

9 ай бұрын

Confused by this. Parallel octaves are all over the place in classical music through history, parallel fifths are not.

Fantastic work!

This is such a great lesson! Please do more of these.

this is abbbsoluuuute epic

Love this! So happy that i have found this channel. Great work!

What a great video, very helpful and handy. Thanks Ryan

Your videos are really helpful and the simple direct to the point explanations are worth analyzing and learning. Thanks for sharing that precious knowledge.

Thanks so much for these linked lessons, this is the only one i knew most of already, but needed a review, together they fill out a big picture of things just sitting right

Super-quick and the colored string lines really helped illustrate the point. Earned a sub.

Really interesting and informative video! I knew exactly what theme this was as soon as that first chord hit.

Soooo great!! Thank you so much for the videos!!!

I really like your lessons! Very clear and concise!

This opens up my eyes to how an iterative approach is used for writing music. Thank you very much!

Thank you for sharing this video. It will help in my compositions for my album. This gave me a new idea.🎶🎸🎵🎶💕

Thank You Very Much Sir! 🙂🙏

Amazing I got more understanding. It’s funny by hear I was already doing most this because it sounded better to me just never knew the principle was actually something that can be done.

thank you!

Every video I play from your channel, I immediately hit the like button because I know I'm about to receive some incredibly helpful information. Thanks a ton, Ryan.

Thank you so much 🙏🏻💜

Hello Ryan, I have never seen such a comprehensible explanation. Thank you for this detailed video.

Thank you so much

Super helpful! Please do more videos like this!

Great Lesson !!!

Maybe the best 6 min i've spent on a video for my knowledge. Man that's good !

Thank you very much, I just made a composition for a short film and the strings ended up sounding great. I Love your videos

Great content man!!!

This channel is an absolute goldmine!

Very useful!!

This was a good way to describe without getting into the harmonic series!

This content is really really useful! Thank you for your efforts and for sharing your knowledge!

I've always struggled with writing orchestral works classified as "classical" but they never sound classical nor did they achieve the effect I want. This lesson on strings truly brought the entire level of the work up an octave. Thanks Ryan!

Thank you for sharing!

Literally the best channel on this platform.

Thanks for crating ^ ^

Short and sweet nevertheless massive info. Vielen Dank 🙏

Very nice video. Thanks!

Absolutely love these videos. I'm a flutist and clarinetist.

This is really useful. Thank you!

Great channel!!

Beautiful video!

Really liked this one, Ryan!

Thanks Ryan nicely taught

Extraordinary. Thank you so much, gentleman. ♥️

Very helpful! Thanks.

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

No worries!

Awesome video! Cheers from Argentina!

very helpful indeed

Fantastic.

Sublime stuff

Very good info

This is what I was looking for to complete my midi-orchestration self learning....😢😢😢🥇💯

I only play the piano, but it's interesting to see how much that enables me to read an orchestral score, or understand how a piano score would balloon into an orchestral one.

Wow!

Amazing as always Ryan 👏

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

OMG! Ryan, your channel is a real revelation for me! 😍

Great!

Great video Ryan, thank you for sharing! :)

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

No worries!

Love your tutorials Ryan

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks I appreciate it!

amazing.

Great video

This is increadible

This is amazingly helpful! Are these different breakdowns also applied to the brass and woodwind sections of an orchestra?

You are my angel bro❤ Th very very very much .God bless you

Awesome. Do you have any thoughts, guidelines or interesting examples around extending this approach to incorporate brass, woodwind and/or percussion?

Wow. So beautiful

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Hi Ryan. Great video! What would be great is if you’d showed each individual voice at the end, so we would have an idea what each voice sounded like

Спасибо! Очень полезно) И Очень доступно доносите материал!))

Would you please make a video how to have a rich combination of the woodwinds and strings?

Great video! Thanks for doing this stuff! My orch teacher used to call the filler the "hidden harmony".

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

Nice, that's a great term!

Ryan, just....thank you. Your videos have had a noticeable impact on my work in a very short period of time. I just put together a 9 voice section in strings (using the beastly method B), and I'm a little blown away by how powerful it's sounding. Exactly what I needed this part to be! I've just become a Patron and I'll be looking to your content here and there quite frequently from now on. Thanks!!

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

That's so great to hear, thank you

This helps....Massively

Absolutely incredible explanation! Exactly what I needed! Question, what would the brass and winds do during a passage like this? Do you have any videos or resources on that?

thats wild how much it sounded more and more like the movie with each expansion

VERY NICE... CAN WE HAVE MORE EXPLATION ON DOIN FILLER NOTES plzz tq soo much

Epic lesson Ryan.

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Darren!

Great lesson. The filler line is very interesting as a concept!

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I agree, and outside of this obscure book I’m not sure I’ve seen it talked about

Do you have a lesson on writing in Choral Style? I'm struggling with coming up with the core parts.

Hey Ryan! I only just discovered your channel two weeks ago, but the videos have been so enlightening that I've found myself drinking through most of them! Thanks for the lessons and the comprehensive way you provide us young urn with the info✌️😅. The example in the first 13 seconds of this particular video had me hooked immediately, and actually pushed me to try my hand at trying to expand one of my favourite pieces into an orchestral version of itself. It's slow going (I don't have much in the way of formal music training, and taught myself most of what little I know) but it's actually going 😄 Wish you could give your opinion on my attempt so far (fingers crossed on a response). But seriously, thanks for your content⭐

wow

So helpful. Thanks. What SAW are you using in this video?

@RyanLeach

9 ай бұрын

for a DAW I use Logic

That’s a like from me my dude. Great vid! Now if only someone could teach me how to write a bomb melody and chord progression like that.

I have developed an interest for composition over the last two years, so I really appreciate videos like yours. What software do you use, here for example? 0:10

Вот это алгоритмы ютуба выдали ! Райан, спасибо за годную информацию, лайк, подписка))

Very nice orchestration, if you have enough players per section to go into division though...

I may have to use this in a melody that I have for a villainous character I've been developing.

sweeeeet

Hi, Ryan. Can you explain, please, why at stage of creating four voice harmony we care so much about voice leading, correct tone doubling, spacing between alto and tenor (I mean close and wide chord position)? But at the stage of orchestration it looks like that all is not still so important, and any chord tone is doubled several times in any octave. Are there still some rules, which of voices and when can be doubled? Maybe some special cases for 6 and 6/4 chords? What if chord is 7, can we double seventh of this chord in octave as well in some other instrument?

Hey, Ryan! Are you planning on doing a video about mixing symphonic music? I’m having a hell of a time working with orchestral plug-ins in Logic Pro X. Is there a video that you’ve already done that you can recommend? By the way, your videos have revitalized my creativity. I’ve been learning so much about orchestration from you. Thanks for the great work!

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

Probably not in the near future, but I would suggest you check out the recent livestream we did with Joel Dollie as well as his YT channel and course on Master the Score

So in 9 voices option B, the tenor line goes up to Violas 2? It would be awesome to see a full graphic of the lines for 9 voices option B in the video, just as feedback. By the way, I love this video and you do a great job of representing the orchestration techniques of these books. Ever think of doing a video where you just cover orchestration texts? (Kind of like you did with the orchestral scores?) I'd probably binge a few of them. :)

I’m haven’t tried this with my daw and libraries yet, but I would imagine having that many instruments would cause the volume to clip. Do you have any tips for that? Just reduce the volume of each instrument?

Your channel is great man..very informative and articulate..Thanks for the knowledge I have a question though..for the very last scenario of the 9 voices where would the Tenor voice (in its original register) go ? Now that we placed the soprano down an octave for cello 2..would we just omit the Tenor ? Thanks again for your amazing work !

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

For that last 9 voice version from top to bottom it's this, so the original tenor line ends up on the violas. Soprano 8va Alto 8va Tenor 8va Soprano Alto Tenor Soprano 8vb Bass Bass 8vb

@felixeror

2 жыл бұрын

@@RyanLeach Thank you so much !