Scoring for a Superhero Theme from Scratch in 15 Minutes!

Hello everyone, my name is hammy, welcome to my YouTube tutorials. In this tutorial I will show you how to create a heroic from

scratch

. Let's first look at the string section. Normally we have first and second violin, violas, calow and bases. This is a standard for every orchestra setup and standard template you would use for your string section, let's start with the first violins playing Stato, then we'll copy this and paste it into second violins and violas, then open the second violins media editor let's go We're going to lower this phrase an octave and we're going to do the same for the real ones, so that both the second violins and the violas will play an octave below the first violins, we're going to continue doing the same for Chows which will play an octave below of the violas and bases that will play an octave below the Chows, so now that we have the intro section complete, now we're going to have the strings playing some broken chords, we can start with the first violins playing. a D minor triad in the first inversion, then we'll build up the strings one by one, we'll have the second violin playing the root position and we'll play in the second inversion, just below the violas, we've got the chos playing this Stato rmic and then just Below the Chows, we have the bases playing octaves.

The bases will also play Stato. Now we have this arrangement of the power section. I extended another 24 bars and let's listen to this section. In fact, I'm going to change the Chows. from stat to statism mod to make it sound less boring now we are adding the main melody. One trick to make your music sound heroic is to add the French horns here. I want to add a final line for the French horn. How about some perfect fifths and then a major third perfect fourth I'm going to add another perfect fifth and a minor sixth and then we'll get to perfect.

Remember that perfect octaves are used to provide a sense of closure in the phrase, so why do we use a lot of perfect fifths? Perfect fifths are commonly used in funfare music and are often associated with a majestic, triumphant sound. They are stable and G give a celebratory nature on top, we are going to add some trumpets playing triads to give it a sense of triumph. we want to use different articulations for the trumpets, that is the first half of the music, we will add percussion later, once we complete the music, now the brass continues, we will have both the French cor and the trumpet playing the main melody I.

First I go to record the French hores, now we can copy the line of the French horns on the trumpets and what I want to do is take the trumpet an octave higher than the French wares. I'm going to copy the articulation from the previous section. and paste it here. I'm adding this Tata and some additional notes. This is out of range here, so I'm going to bring this nose down to see the strengths. You can simply copy the first half of the piece and paste it into the second. I changed some chords now in the second half, let's add a male and female chorus.

This powerful vocal texture often gives a grandiose and epic feel, so I changed some notes. I generally like to improvise with the chorus section which you can reference. my sheet music or you can also improvise so that the melodic instrument part is ready. Now let's add some percussion first. We need to add some symbols. Generally people add blocking symbols at the beginning and end of a sentence. It's a generic approach, but guess what people love. stuff today here I want to add the symbol just before the pickup notes played by the brass now let's add some drums.

It took me a long time to modify the rhythms. I won't show you the long process, but this is what I got. So far, we're going to add a riser at the beginning, middle, and end of the music. If you are lazy like me, you can use drum loops. There's nothing wrong with using drum loops, but be careful if you're composing for the screen, if you want your drums to sound unique, we're all familiar with popular libraries, like Action Strikes, and I'm sure tons of musicians have I used the Loops, but for the purpose of this short tutorial, I'm going to take two loops now that we finish the composition, let's listen to the full music.

Thanks for watching this tutorial. I hope you are ready to create your own heroic

theme

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