Hollywood Film Scoring

Description

Hollywood Film Scoring

This course focuses on the language of film music, in addition you will get a lot of tips regarding orchestration, melodies and how to deal with sample libraries.

Here you will find the harmonic concepts you know from many films by composers such as Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, Bernard Herrmann, John Williams, Thomas Newman, Alan Silvestri, and many others. This harmonic language is also found in games, trailers, and other areas of media music such as theater and advertising.

The course assists you in storytelling through music, this means understanding which techniques are necessary for composing each emotion and mood.

In the course, I use the concept of practical harmony, I explain the techniques so quick and simple as possible to improve your musical vocabulary, and reach your next level. Many of my students have benefited from this Method.

All concepts and the 72 audio examples are in C, allowing you to easily follow and compare them. The course consists of 45 videos and is 4 hours long. I kept the course as short as possible. So that you can use the techniques for you as quickly as possible.

There is always a brief theory section, followed by a walkthrough demonstrating how i use this approach when I’m writing. In the walkthrough, you’ll learn valuable insights about orchestration, motifs and how to create high-quality mockups. In two cases I compare the sample-based mock-up with a real recordings of the same piece.

Course Content

Warm Up (2 Lessons)

Here we discuss the basics you need to understand the course. It helps you work faster and more freely with chords and scales.

Diatonic Harmony (5 Lessons)

It is the most used technique in film music you know it from Hans Zimmer and many others.

Spice Up Your Harmony (5 Lessons)

This technique helps you take your compositions to the next level. Afterwards, your pieces will sound more professional and interesting.

Magic Modes (12 Lessons)

The modes are an important tool in film music and game music. With the modes you can bring pirates, mermaids and the desert to life.

Chromatic Harmony (7 Lessons)

This technique comes from the romantic era and is mostly used in supernatural, mystical or fairy tales scenes. You know the technique from Lord of the Rings and Indiana Jones, for example.

Harmonic Directions (3 Lessons)

There are different ways to connect chords, in this chapter we will discuss the most important ones for game and film scoring

Chords and Colors (10 Lessons)

There are other techniques besides triads. In this chapter we’ll see how you can create interesting colors and textures with the orchestra, like in Star Wars for example.

Film Scales (6 Lessons)

Here we discuss other scales we know from scores. Such as from the film Back to the Future and The Simpsons.

Romantic Universe (3 Lessons)

The old masters like Mozart and Mahler worked a lot with diminished chords. In this chapter i’ll show you how to write beautiful melodies and pieces using these chords.

Add On Section (2 Lessons)

When I have time I will upload more videos here. At the moment you are learning to write clear melodies.