IMPRESSIONS music It gives us tons of

It gives us tons of new colors to play with

Discussion of technique is great but nothing beats real-world experience

Well in this class we’re going to analyze the Main Title - both compositionally and especially orchestrationally - because today I would do it very differently

on a lot of us I suspect

The better the player you are the faster more fluid and successful you will be in getting your ideas down

IMPRESSIONS music It gives us tons ofI think we should be able to do passable "impressions" of our composing contemporaries. Doing so reveals our understanding (or lack thereof) of the colors and styles we're surrounded by which naturally influence our own work! This oft requested class explores the "essence" of the sounds from composers like James Horner Alan Silvestri Thomas Newman Jerry Goldsmith and others. What makes them sound the way they do? Through harmonic orchestrational and