How To Make Hans Zimmer's Epic Inception Brass in 5 Minutes

In this Wednesday's quick tip tutorial, let's talk about how to write orchestral music: specifically, how I recreated Hans Zimmer's insane Brass section in "Dream Is Collapsing", explained in 5 minutes.
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⏫ PRIVATE LESSONS: Coming soon...
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🎻 LIBRARIES & SOFTWARE:
(For each module, the libraries are sorted based on how much I like them).
- STRINGS: Metropolis Ark 1 & 3, Nucleus, Cinematic Studio Strings, Fluid Shorts, Cinematic Strings 2, Jaeger
- BRASS: Metropolis Ark 1 & 3, JXL Brass, Nucleus, Twelve Horn Ensemble, CineBrass CORE, Century Brass, Jaeger, Angry Brass
- CHOIR: Oceania, Metropolis Ark 1, Stormchoir 2
- WOODWINDS: CineWinds CORE, Nucleus, Metropolis Ark 1 & 3
- HYBRID PERCS & LOOPS: Damage, PercX, Decimator Drums, Cerberus
- BIG CINEMATIC PERCS: Los Angeles Modern Percussion, New Epic Toms Ensemble, New Epic Dhol Ensemble, CinePerc
- ORCHESTRAL PERCS: CinePerc, Rhapsody Orchestral Percussion, Kontakt Factory Library
- PIANO: The Giant, Woodchester Piano, Spitfire LABS Soft Piano
- HARPS & OTHERS: CineHarp, Kontakt Factory Library
- SYNTHS: Juggernaut, Serum, Harmor, Jaeger, Evolution Atlantica,
- ORCHESTRAL SFX: Metropolis Ark 3, Palette Orchestral FX
- SOLO STRINGS: Tina Guo Solo Cello, Solos of the Sea, Cinematic Studio Strings Solo
- SOLO VOCALS: Jaeger, Vocalisa
- GUITARS: Basic Live Guitars & Bass routed into Waves GTR / Guitar Rig, Metropolis Ark 1, Heavyocity Atlantica
- TRAILER SFX: Custom / Private Samples, AVA Instinct, Cinematic Trailers Designed, Epic Sound Effects Quantum, Scenes From The Multiverse Vol.1, Juggernaut, Jaeger, Evolution Atlantica, AizerX Classic Trailers Toolkit, AizerX Trailer SFX Tools
- REVERB: ValhallaRoom, ValhallaShimmer
- MIXING & MASTERING: iZotope Ozone 9 Advanced, iZotope Neutron, FabFilter Pro-Q3, FL Studio Plugins
- DAW: FL Studio 20
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💻 HARDWARE & PC SPECS:
- Desktop PC: 3.7 GHz Intel Core i7 8700k / 32GB DDR4 RAM / 2TB Samsung Evo860 M.2 SSD
- Laptop PC: Asus ROG GLW752 (2.6GHz Intel Core i7-6700HQ / 16GB DDR4 RAM / 1TB Samsung Evo860 M.2 SSD)
- Audio Interface: M-Audio M-Track Plus
- MIDI Keyboard: M-Audio Keystation 49 MkIII

[keithnextdoor]

I had the Hans Zimmer Masterclass ad before the video started haha, so cool

[qmillomadeit]

This is amazing wtf you got alot of talent to do this by ear!

[treyxaviermusic]

This is great stuff, really awesome thank you!

[AlexeyFilippenkoPlummet]

I like how you cut it all straight to the meat. Usually youtube means 80% of water and 20% of information for people to spam those videos afap. Have my like for this.

[jonnyjonnyjonnyjonny]

'THE BRASS IS THE MAIN PROTAGONIST HERE'.

You sir, were ahead of your time.

[j_edwards]

While I don't understand any of the musical terminology that's being said I can appreciate your knowledge and talent that clearly comes across in this video. Pretty sure I was just trying to find out what instrument makes that iconic Zimmer sound in his soundtracks and found this video. Cheers

[kappabravomusic]

Interesting to see that HZ's music is in fact not superbly complicated if you break it down to particles. Thank you for this video. Very cool

Hans Zimmer actually used 6 bass trombones, 6 tenor trombones, 4 tubas in the middle and 6 French horns above. Check out the making of the score.

[ErikOrchestralTutorials]

I find trying to recreate parts of a score very helpful for learning new tricks about composition and instrumentation. Super good ear excercise as well!

[willy]

Why is Samuel Umtiti composing music and not preparing for the Champions League??

[fidesmartin]

5 minutes tutorials are the best! keep going, maestro!

[FelipeQueiroga]

Great video! There's one thing that's also really used by Hans Zimmer which really helps with creating walls of sound: synthesizers!

[paulg]

I’m not sure whether to just be impressed or extremely envious :-) I’m very new to orchestration and trying to learn from all of you talented people. Thanks for such amazing videos you have such talent.

[brodiemarshall]

amazing video. succinct, useful and entertaining, thanks Alex !!

[herono-]

My favorite music of Alex Moukala is this one

[ShawneX]

ok you made this exactly ayear ago... i found it helpful... thanks alex

[quantumofburningsteel]

Great! 🤟🏻Nicely deconstructed. Something to try out 👍🏻

[DacianGradaMusic]

God, those basses from Ark 1 are *_TASTY_* :O great one bro, I really enjoy these how-tos for a specific composer's style!

[Evangelionism]

What a coincidence... Minutes before Alex uploaded this Brass topic, I was studying the brass in *Under a Burning Sky* (Shiro Sagisu/Shin Godzilla).

[GreatGameGawd]

Got Damn... ur good, no BS! I'ma watch everything you got bro. This is that other level I need in my arsenal... U good in a mufucr!!