15 orchestration tips in 12 minutes : Brass and Percussions
Learn 15 essential orchestration tips for brass and percussion in just 10 minutes! Whether you're composing for orchestra, film scoring, video game music, or contemporary classical music, these practical tips will help you write more powerful, dynamic, and professional brass and percussion parts. I'll walk you through real score examples, showing techniques for blending horns, trumpets, trombones, tubas, and various percussion instruments to create expressive, impactful orchestrations. Perfect for composers, arrangers, and orchestrators looking to improve their orchestration skills and bring their music to life! Want to know more about orchestration? Check out this playlist : • Orchestral writing Composers and orchestrators, join my membership program on YouTube ! - / @adavidcompo For private composition classes : https://alexandredavid.ca/professeur/ Video Breakdown : 0:00 – Introduction 0:37 – Tip 1 : Tuba with horns 1:27 – Tip 2 : Soft trumpets 2:05 – Tip 3 : 8vb doubling 3:18 – Tip 4 : Timpanis and bass skips 3:57 – Tip 5 : Glockenspiel 4:43 – Tip 6 : Balancing horns with hard brass instruments in soft passages 5:40 – Tip 7 : Drumkit as orchestral percussion 6:49 – Tip 8 : Distinctive rhythms for many percussionnists 7:38 – Tip 9 : High trombones in stacked chords 7:55 – Tip 10 : Low brass motifs 8:30 – Tip 11 : Balancing horns with hard brass instruments in loud passages 9:14 – Tip 12 : Splitting the musical lines between the different instruments of the ensemble 10:08 – Tip 13 : Keep the tuttis for the important moments 11:02 – Tip 14 : Play with predictability vs unpredictability 11:40 – Tip 15 : When you can't add more, remove Weekly videos on composition, orchestration, counterpoint, and more! Follow me on: Instagram: www.instagram.com/a.david.composer Facebook: www.facebook.com/alexandredavid.compositeur Website: www.alexandredavid.ca #orchestration #musiccomposition #classicalmusic #orchestralmusic #arrangement #filmscoring #brassinstruments
