How To Write Orchestral Music - Creating Great Melodies & Countermelodies By Ear

How to write great melodies that sound efficient, remarkable and easy to remember + a bit of Counterpoint and harmonization basics. A set of basic, yet fundamental skills to have as a composer.

[AlexMoukala]

As usual if you want to learn even more about every aspect of how to compose great Orchestral Music, check out:

[Amaroq]

>Countermelodies

Oh, neat! It's like a duet, but with instruments.

[mimmkey]

It may be a basic idea, but teaching it is a completely different story. And as always you made it extremely clear and easy to understand. Well done and thank you for your knowledge, experience, and expertise.

[djfull]

1:17 this "bad melody" is totally something Shostakovich would write. but it takes INSANELY good harmony to make it work ^^

[anunderdog]

someone took the Hans Zimmer class! Props.

[ShaneKeizer]

"Melodies are sentences" well said.

[johnhill]

Alex... your way of communicating the elements of music... even certain approaches to music... is super intuitive, whereas most who try definitely fail to put these things in terms that make sense. Bravo.

[lifewhyz]

I owe you so much. Thank you for everything you've uploaded over the years. I hope to repay you somehow one day.

[FreeFoxRagu]

21:21 I do sing countermelodies on my own while listening to music since I was kid I think. It just always comes automaticaly xD Then hopefuly this will help me to slowly become a composer :)

[RaVnn]

Because of you I’ve made more improvements in making music in a single week than I did an entire year

[musiclaws]

The last tip you gave of imagining new elements, progressions or patterns, is what I’ve been doing since I was 6 years old. I just started composing this year and thanks to that, I’ve been improving amazingly fast.

Great advice bro 👏🏻👏🏻

[paulg]

Another fascinating and incredibly helpful Video thank you Alex. I am in the process of writing something along these lines with a lovely horn for the main melody with the string behind it, and this Video has really helped me. Awesome stuff as expected !!

[shackerbenashoor]

i am a complete music noob, but these melodies + counter melodies remind me of Ocarina of time music when Link learns a new song from Sheik and they start playing together. best example for counter melodies ever!

[ShamStalin]

Most interesting topic in any compositions :]

[StratosKokkaliaroglou]

5 people where talking to their friend and then skipped over to bananas.

[HealingNews]

Awesome class! Keep up the great work, bro, while we musically and through rhythm change the World to a more harmonizing and peaceful existence!

[royfgreen]

easily the most interesting, easy to follow, and informative music tutorials I've watched on here. and I've watched a lot. thank you

[ryantavan]

The best ever tutorial about how to write melodies. Thanks a lot, Alex. I loved it

[BulkySplash]

Great explanations, and very helpful tips for melodies in general - not just orchestral music. Thx!

[JoshuaMorgan]

This video really did a great job stripping down these concepts and explaining them clearly. It's also encouraging to me to see that I'm already doing a couple of the things you suggested and the new stuff helped me see things a little differently. Thanks for putting this together!