Release Year: 2011
Manufacturer: Groove3
Manufacturer’s Website: http://www.groove3.com
Duration: 04:07:04
Type of Material: Video Lesson
Language: English
Description: CREATE YOUR SYMPHONIC MASTERPIECE TODAY
Music theory expert Eli Krantzberg has finally heard countless requests and recorded a series of video lessons on writing MIDI orchestrations. These lessons are designed for those who want to create realistic symphonic orchestrations using modern virtual symphonic instruments. Whether you want to score a film, TV show, or simply capture a musical idea, these lessons are for you. Eli covers the material in detail, starting with MIDI, custom and common tunings and articulations, descriptions of solo instruments and the principles of their use, creating orchestral templates, proper instrument grouping, working with MIDI layers, and ending with macro and micro sequences, motif development, modern harmony, deconstruction and reconstruction, and much more. If you’ve always wanted to try your hand at composing symphonic music, this series of lessons will be indispensable.
Features :
[]30 lessons / over 4 hours long
[]For intermediate and advanced musicians
[]Note: To master this material, you must have a sufficient knowledge of the music theory course.
[]These lessons were written by professional music teacher Eli Krantzberg
Contents :
Setup
MIDI Orchestration Introduction
Custom MIDI Setup
Traditional MIDI Setups
The Solo Instruments
The Violin
The Viola
Cello & Double Bass
Flute, Piccolo, Oboe & English Horn
Clarinets & Bassoon
Trumpet & Trombones
Horn & Tuba
Untuned Percussion
Tuned Percussion
Production Techniques
Using MIDI Expression
Attack!
Space
Instrumental Sections
The String Section
The Woodwind Section
The Brass Section
Doubling
Orchestral Accompaniment
Managing MIDI
Macro to Micro Sequencing
Micro Sequencing Continued
Motivic Development
The Glass Mirror
Broken Glass
Deconstruction to Reconstruction
Modern Harmony
Repetition & Retrograde Variations
Motive-ation!
More Thematic Development
Reprise & Coda
Example files: none
Video format: MP4
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1024×768 14.99fps
Audio: AAC 44100Hz stereo 1411kbps
