MODERN ORCHESTRAL:
Practical Composition Workflows
Feel Better In Your Orchestral VSTs - Or Your Money Back
- 30 structured lessons
- Orchestral MIDI pack
- Message support
What You Get
Fundamentals + Music-Making Workflows
By the end you'll see writing with your orchestral VSTs in a whole new way.
Orchestral Ideas MIDI Pack
30+ orchestral sketches I made while building this course - drag them into your DAW.
Answers To Your Questions
Have a question while learning? Send me a message. I'm happy to help if I can.
Note: This course does not cover DAW basics and is not for complete beginners. It is best for producers who can get around their DAW and want to improve their ability to use orchestral VSTs and compose ideas from scratch.
I made this course because learning to compose orchestral music was hard for me.
But after studying enough compositions, I started noticing similar patterns inside them.
Movement through velocity...
3 or 4 note ostinatos...
Volume swells that felt like breathing...
One realization that changed everything was seeing how composers could take a simple chord progression and make it explode with emotion.
It helped me see even the most basic chords as more than just notes - but as starting points for limitless stories.
Once I started using those same ideas in my own writing, the orchestra began to feel natural - like a language I could finally speak.
I could start with a simple piano sketch - then compose a full orchestration with strings, brass and choir around it.
Or open a staccato string patch, and end with 10 different concepts that all felt good.
So I turned what I learned into clear, step-by-step workflows...
and I put them into this course.
Think of it as practical orchestral fundamentals + my personal library of composition formulas.
Follow these steps, and you’ll be able to write orchestral music that feels good.
These ideas have helped me finish tracks for commercial work - and for my own fun.
It’s not a technically perfect course, but that’s because I’m not classically trained.
It’s just the real stuff that worked for me - built through years of study, practice, and finished music.
They’ve helped me bring orchestral energy into any track, anytime I want - and I want to help you do the same.
Go inside these projects
Projects I'll walk you through in the Breakdowns section of the course.
Start a lesson
The first 6 minutes from the "Adventure Awaits" project breakdown.
Full course outline
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Setup & Foundations
8 lessons- Epic Orchestral Moods MIDI & Sample Pack
- Recommendations for VSTs / Sample Libraries - Free and Paid
- Making Your Template
- Navigating Sample Libraries & Articulations
- Dealing with Instrument Delay
- Hearing the Personality of Instruments
- Using Modulation & Expression
- Using Reference Tracks Properly
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Writing & Production Techniques
11 lessons- Sketch to Production
- Orchestrating Chords & The Power of Layering
- Orchestral Sketching (The Ultimate Lesson)
- How to Make Epic Ostinatos
- Adding Momentum with Staccato Strings
- Creating Scenes with Chords Orchestration
- Solo vs Ensemble
- Solo Piano to Orchestrated Concept
- Live Composing: Chord Progression to Orchestral Concept
- Student Session: Composing with Intention
- Student Session: Turning his MIDI into Orchestral Concepts
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Percussion Techniques
2 lessons- How to Make Orchestral Percussion Patterns
- Percussion Production Techniques
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Project Breakdowns
9 lessons- Hans Zimmer - "Time"
- "Adventure Awaits" Epic Orchestral Breakdown
- "Game Village Shop Theme" Sketch to Production
- "Hero Emerges" Breakdown
- Epic Hybrid Orchestral Trailer
- Action Trailer Composition
- "Hydra" - Rock Orchestral
- "Wurld" Breakdown
- "Devastation" Epic Hybrid
What students are saying
MODERN ORCHESTRAL:
Practical Composition Workflows
Feel Better In Your Orchestral VSTs - Or Your Money Back
- 30 structured lessons
- Orchestral MIDI pack
- Message support
Consider my course bundle to get all my courses together for a discount.
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