How to Write Music for Orchestra [with the FREE BBC SO Discover]

A beginner’s guide to writing your first piece of orchestral music using a wonderful free VST library. Composer Guy Michelmore shows you how to create a satisfying piece of orchestral music from scratch using a completely FREE orchestral library from Spitfire Audio, BBC SO Discover. He will talk you through a simple technique for visualizing, and then realizing an orchestral score and then show you how it works in practice. But things don’t go entirely to plan! Watch out for the complete disaster. Want an extended edition of the video tutorial, download the Cubase project file, midi or audio stems, a Logic and Cubase BBC SO Discover template, and a PDF guide to orchestral composition, then click here: 0:00 Start 0:55. A Free orchestral sound library 2:26 Building a simple template 3:45 Simple approach to orchestral composition 4:45 The writing process 5:15 Sketch before you orchestrate 6;54 Melody and accompaniment 7:30 String section doing everything 8:20 Woodwind Brass 11:25 Woodwind Dovetailing 13:34 French horns and trombones 15:10 Strings in octaves 15:40 Building emotion and answering voices 19:00 Disaster!!! 21:15 Instrumental combinations 24:05 Piano ostinato 28:10 Summary and Conclusion