In this course, I do not teach you inordinate amounts of information about musical instruments. Recalling my student days, learning instrumentation and orchestration was far more effective when actually doing orchestration and trying to use instruments. That's what I place emphasis on in all my courses, the act of practising. Essentially, what I teach you here is a drill for doing orchestration and learning instrumentation quickly and practically.
Orchestration (noun) is the art of coordinating elements to produce the desired effect. To orchestrate music, therefore, it is about deploying instrumentation to create an effect that you would like. The only way to get good at orchestrating (verb, a lot of courses forget that orchestrating is something you do...) is to do it/practice it. The problem with any creative activity, such as orchestration, is that it can be highly unpredictable. A creative task could take seconds or a minute, it could take hours or days.
The Orchestration Game teaches you an exercise and methodology for practising orchestration efficiently and effectively. Creating lots of short and sharp orchestrations, critiquing them and asking your peers and tutor to provide feedback, you will develop the skill of orchestration through deploying them on creative tasks. The game tightly limits the creative task, making it more predictable. Furthermore, it often challenges you in a way that means you have to simply do your best, learn from the trial, and move on.
In teaching The Orchestration Game I also offer insights and demonstrations into my practice. Through doing this I demonstrate:
How to play The Orchestration Game (Learning creative tasks is fun!)
Approaches and methods for thinking about combinations of instruments
The art of sketching ideas
Building in a point of review and revision into your creative process
Adapting the game to keep it awesome
Check out the previews to learn more! I hope to see you on the course!
