Saturday, March 8
10am Pacific (1-6pm Eastern)
5 hours (including a working lunch break)
This class will provide a one day intensive to whet your whistle and tease your appetite for our upcoming six week Orchestral Kitchen.
- Techniques for arranging and producing orchestral instruments
- As with all BKS classes, a current residency is required
- An $80 discount is available to existing residents. Use code: RESIDENT25
The prerequisites for this class are basic DAW proficiency (see: DAW Core Skills) and familiarity with mixing tools (see: Effects Synth Mixing Primer)
With a focus on readily available orchestral libraries (Spitfire BBC free Orchestra), this course will set out to teach techniques to help you make more musical and realistic arrangements regardless of where you source your recordings. At the conclusion of this course you should expect be familiar with:
- Utilizing the sections of the orchestra (or orchestral library) effectively
- Understanding articulations and dynamics
- Use of an orchestral template
- Mixing for Orchestra
This includes a short break as well as a working 'lunch'. We'll reconvene to peer review your work and provide an additional Q&A session.
You'll have the rest of the month to participate in resident meetings and get support in office hours
Residency will begin the day before your class begins
IMPORTANT!!!
You MUST be on our Discord server. Classes are held there! Please make sure to share your Discord handle with us so we can assign you into the class.
ORCHESTRAL INTENSIVE (with 1-month residency)
- We DON'T record this class. That's what office hours are for.
- You'll get all the privilages of residency with the exception of partner discounts that are only given to year-long residents (Notably Ableton EDU discounts and MUSE Sessions subscription)
- Refunds. No. Not really. Sometimes we'll make a good faith exception but we are running the class based on your commitment to join and we pay a percentage of transactions on the way in and on the way out.