Orchestration Masterclass, Part 2: Brass, Voice, & Guitar

This course is certified 5-stars by the International Association of Online Music Educators and Institutions.

100% Answer Rate! Every single question posted to this class is answered within 24 hours by the instructor.

Are you a music maker, performer, composer, or aspiring songwriter looking to up your game? This is the place to start.

It’s time to learn orchestration to give your music the power, the passion, and the prodigiousness that it deserves.

Orchestration is the study of each instrument in the orchestra, how they work, how to write for them, and how each instrument collides with the others to make new sounds. Think of it like painting: The orchestra is your palette of colors. But you don’t want to just mix them all together. You need to understand some principles of mixing those colors together before you put your brush on canvas.

In this series of classes we are going to work on three things: 

• Instrumentation: Knowing how all of the instruments in the orchestra work, and how to write for them in an idiomatic way.

• Composition: Using the orchestra to write powerful music. Learning how to blend the different sounds of the orchestra to make a new, unique, sound.

• Synthestration: Using common production software (Ableton Live, FL Studio, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Cubase, etc.) to create a realistic orchestra sound using sample libraries.

In this class, “Part 2: Brass, Voice, and Guitar” we are going to focus entirely on instrumentation – learning how to write for the brass (trumpet, trombone, french horns, and tuba) the voice (soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, counter-tenor, tenor, baritone, bass), percussion, guitar and other fretted instruments, piano, accordion, and more.

If you don’t know me, I’ve published a lot of classes here. Those classes have been really successful (top sellers, in fact!), and this has been one of the most requested class that my students (over 1,000,000 of them) have asked for. I’m really excited to finally be able to bring this to you.

Here is a list of some of the topics we will cover:

• How Brass instruments make sound

• Dynamics in Brass

• Breathing

• Brass articulations

• Types of trumpets

• Types of trombones

• Types of tubas

• Types of horns (or French Horns)

• Brass mutes

• Brass forces in an orchestra

• The pitched and unpitched percussion

• Rolls and strokes

• Bowed percussion

• Percussion notation issues

• Drum Kit

• Tessitura and Range of the Voice

• The soprano range and color

• The alto range and color

• The mezzo-soprano range and color

• The counter-tenor range and color

• The tenor range color

• The baritone range and color

• The bass voice range and color

• Writing for the piano

• Writing for the harpsichord, toy piano, and other keyboard instruments

• Writing for the harp

• Writing for the organ

• Writing for the guitar

• Writing for other fretted instruments

• Dynamic issues with the guitar

• Guitar and tablature

• Writing for accordion

• And Much, Much, More!

My Promise to You:

I am a full-time Music composer and Educator. If you have any questions please post them in the class or send me a direct message. I will respond within 24 hours. And if you find this class isn’t for you, I am more than happy for you to take advantage of the 30-day money-back guarantee. No questions asked.

What makes me qualified to teach you?

In addition to being a composer and educator,  I also have a Ph.D. in music, I am a university music professor, and have a long list of awards for teaching.

But more importantly: I use this stuff every day. I write music professionally, I am an active guitarist, and I stay on top of all the latest production techniques, workflows, and styles. As you will see in this class, I just love this stuff. And I love teaching it.

Let’s get started! 

See you in lesson 1.

All best,

Jason (but call me Jay…)

Who this course is for:

• Anyone who wants to compose music for the orchestra
• Anyone who wants to learn instrumentation and orchestration
• Producers of any genre interested in getting the sound of a sampled orchestra into their music.
• Musicians interested in how the orchestra works.
• Anyone who wants to improve their tracks with brass.