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ORCHESTRAL SKETCHING

Accelerate Your Composing Speed

Orchestral Sketching

Accelerate Your Composing Speed

Orchestral Sketching is the art of creating rough mockups of your musical themes with only a handful of tracks. It can help you capture the essence of your theme in as little as a few minutes.

But it also forces you to pay attention to the core building blocks of your theme, exposing your flaws, and making it easy to see where you should improve.

This course will take you through the process of crafting your own orchestral sketch template, picking the right libraries and sounds, as well as processing them to sound awesome right out of the box. So that you can just input your melodies, chords, and background elements and get solid sounding mockups in a matter of minutes.

Through 5 hours of video content, you will not only learn how to set up your sketch template and record musical ideas faster than you could ever imagine, but also how to turn these theme ideas into full track structures at lightning speed using simple techniques.

It is a course aimed towards helping you write both clearer, stronger, and faster.

Here’s What You’ll Learn

  • Why orchestral sketching is such a powerful tool for composers
  • How to successfully incorporate the crucial elements of an effective sketch template
  • How to set up your own designated sketch zone from scratch
  • Recommended libraries, plugins and patches for each element of your sketch
  • My tips for processing and mixing for a great sound out of the box
  • Fundamental orchestration tips for more powerful sketches
  • How to take a simple theme, and sketch a full composition outline from it
  • Optimizing your template to save RAM and get more out of your system
  • Transferring your sketch into your main template effortlessly
  • How I approach recording full sketches from scratch

Here’s What You’ll Learn

  • Why orchestral sketching is such a powerful tool for composers
  • How to successfully incorporate the crucial elements of an effective sketch template
  • How to set up your own designated sketch zone from scratch
  • Recommended libraries, plugins and patches for each element of your sketch
  • My tips for processing and mixing for a great sound out of the box
  • Fundamental orchestration tips for more powerful sketches
  • How to take a simple theme, and sketch a full composition outline from it
  • Optimizing your template to save RAM and get more out of your system
  • Transferring your sketch into your main template effortlessly
  • How I approach recording full sketches from scratch

What You Get In The Course

  • 4 Modules Covering the Entire Orchestral Sketching Framework
  • Assignments to Accelerate Your Learning
  • 5 Hours of Video Content
  • Over-the-shoulder creation of 4 themes and 3 full track sketches
  • Lifetime Access
  • 100% Satisfaction Guarantee

What You Get In The Course

  • 4 Modules Covering the Entire Orchestral Sketching Framework
  • Assignments to Accelerate Your Learning
  • 5 Hours of Video Content
  • Over-the-shoulder creation of 4 themes and 3 full track sketches
  • Lifetime Access
  • 100% Satisfaction Guarantee

Set up an Effective Sketching Template

We’ll show you how to set up an orchestral sketch zone from scratch.

Generate Complete Orchestral Ideas Fast

Learn how to generate full orchestral themes in minutes.

Achieve more Defined and much Clearer Themes

This framework will force you to write clearer, more defined themes.

Master the Essential Skills

Get better at writing melodies, chords, and background elements.

Go from Idea to Track Structure quickly

Turn any theme idea into a full composition structure with ease.

Try multiple musical ideas before committing

Sketching allows you to try multiple ideas in a short time for any project.

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Your Journey Through The Course

Module 1:
Introduction To Orchestral Sketching

We are starting off the course with some fundamental knowledge, mindsets and essential concepts around the topic of sketching.

We will explore topics such as:

  • Why you would want to learn this skill
  • Important principles to make this work
  • The impact these principles had on my work and career
  • What sketching is and isn’t
Introduction To Orchestral Sketching
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Preparing Our Sketching Tools

Module 2:
Preparing Our Sketching Tools

In the second module of the course, we will get into the practical aspect of assembling our sketch zone, ready to begin working.

We cover topics such as: 

  • General considerations for setting up your template
  • Step by step setup of your sketch tracks
  • Picking the best libraries and patches
  • Balancing the tracks for an ideal mix
  • Processing the sounds to sound clean and powerful out of the box
  • Testing our template by recording our first musical idea
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Module 3:
Basics Of An Effective Sketch

In the third module, we start diving into the important aspects that make our sketch successful.

We cover the following topics: 

  • Essential arranging principles to follow for a solid orchestration
  • How to test out multiple musical ideas for a single project
  • Picking our favorite theme and transferring it to our main template for completion
  • Structuring our theme into a full composition using simple, effective methods
Basics Of An Effective Sketch
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From Theme Ideas To Full Tracks (Bonus)

Module 4:
From Theme Ideas To Full Tracks (Bonus)

After we have covered all the fundamental aspects of creating solid orchestral sketches, you will be able to watch the instructor craft 3 full theme sketches from scratch.

In this final module you will see: 

  • A track sketch composed from scratch that originates in a simple chord progression, and becomes a full track outline with all the essential elements.
  • A track sketch composed based on a piano pattern, from the initial idea until the full composition structure is laid out.
  • Writing, roughly arranging and structuring a classic film theme-inspired theme that came to me as I was doing something completely different. I just dropped everything I was doing and hit record. This will allow you to watch me create from scratch in real time with no preparation, just a pure over-the-shoulder unfiltered view of my workflow when an idea comes to mind.
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21 Day guarantee

Evenant Guarantee

We don’t want any unhappy students. If we didn’t meet your expectations, get in touch within 21 days of purchase, and we’ll give you every penny back – no questions asked. But we’re so confident you’re gonna dig the course, we’re willing to take that risk. If you’re for some reason unhappy, get in touch within 21 days and we’ll issue you a refund and even let you keep the bonuses. So, see you on the inside?
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Meet Your Instructor

Arn Andersson Course Author

Arn Andersson – Course Instructor

 

Arn Andersson is a Norwegian musician, traveler and creative educator that aspires to empower creatives to produce better art, live better lives and make a living from their passion as the co-founder of Evenant.

He has worked remotely across nearly 30 countries on his nomadic workstation while providing music for TV campaigns, feature films such as The Ronda Rousey Story: Through My Father’s Eyes (Lionsgate), renowned artists such as The Metropole Orkest and Hardwell, and trailer campaigns like Lady and the Tramp, Lego Movie, Cold Pursuit Welcome To Marwen, and more.

FAQ

I’m a pretty good composer already, will this course teach me anything new?

You bet ya! I have developed my own methods, workflows and techniques that even professional composers would have a lot of use for. These track sketching techniques are just so much fun and so useful to create great tracks in no time at all, even for experienced composers – especially those that want to improve their work on mobile rigs. 

How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like – across any and all devices you own.

Together with Evenant tutors, we monitor the private student group and make sure to see to it that everyone is on track and give pointers along the way. It’s also a community effort so students can support each other.

Our in-depth, personal feedbacks and guidance are focused on 1-on-1 private students, so be sure to stay tuned on openings for that.

Yes! This course will take you through the very basics of the tools we will be using, and teach you all the fundamentals needed to build your music sketching foundation. You will also learn powerful workflows, techniques and production skills to take your tracks to the next level.
We would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with the course, contact us in the first 21 days and we will give you a full refund – no questions asked.

We want to get you to reach your ultimate goals, and help you become the very best creator you can be.

There will eventually be openings where we offer a 1-on-1 private tutoring through video calls, emails, and more. You’ll get personal feedback and guidance from us and other instructors themselves in a private, and focused setting that revolves around you and your goals.

As you go through the main course curriculum, you will be sending in your assignments, questions and artworks privately to your instructor every week and receiving personal feedback and industry insights.

Stay tuned on the platform to learn more about how you can get private tutoring as soon as spots open!