Is Timbre Actually the Most Important Factor in Orchestration?
Not sure what instrument fits best? Here’s a guide to understanding how to employ and experiment with timbre when orchestrating musical work.
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Top Five Considerations When Mixing Orchestral Music
What to do if you’ve found yourself with an orchestral mixing project? Here are some considerations for tackling it appropriately.
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Mixing Notes: Time Correction for Cinematic Strings in Logic Pro
Whether you’re dealing with live strings or VSTs, legato or staccato passages, to create fluidity you may have to use time correction tools.
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The Cutting Edge: 10 Film Scores That Push the Boundaries of Composition
Today we take a look at 10 essential scores that changed the game for what roles and responsibilities composers take to bring a film to life.
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Why Can’t You Tune Your Guitar?
15 minutes of math and learning about frequency divisions can help you understand for good why your guitar may never fundamentally be in tune.
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4 Techniques for Creating Realistic Orchestral Strings
With great plugins and sample packs, creating lush orchestral textures digitally is easier than ever, but making it sound real remains a challenge.
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The String Section – A Brief Context
In this quirky video, courtesy of our popular Mainstage course, Orchestration for Strings, composer and arranger Ian Davis demystifies some of the historical context behind the modern day orchestra’s bowed string section, as well as its attributes and compositional strengths. Davis composed all of the compelling score music to this course himself, and you’ll hear and…
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Straight Outta Wakanda: How the “Black Panther” Score Fixed Marvel’s Music Problem
+ Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. Spoiler alert! This article contains spoilers for the movie Black Panther. If you haven’t seen the movie, you may want to stop and bookmark this page to read the…
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5 Compositional Elements That Define the Music of Ennio Morricone
You know these iconic sounds of movie Westerns, now dive deeper into the makeup of Ennio Morricone’s signature works via these five compositional elements.
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Dorothy Ashby Was One Fierce Lady Pioneer of Jazz Harp
+ Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. A few years ago, I had one of the most powerful live music experiences of my life when I went to see Stevie Wonder on his Songs in…
