8 Cinematic OSTINATOS to use in your own Music!
Vložit
- čas přidán 6. 07. 2024
- 🎵 If you enjoyed this video, make sure to also check out my free training - 'My 3 Secrets to Composing Rich Cinematic Music' :
www.composingacademy.com/free...
Ostinatos are a hallmark of Hollywood Action Music and Video Game soundtracks. In this video I explain what an Ostinato is and show you 8 common patterns, which you can use to add movement and rhythm to your own compositions.
► Get your FREE 8 Cinematic Ostinatos Cheat Sheet here composingacademy.ck.page/8-ci...
0:00 - Intro
0:11 - What is an Ostinato?
0:44 - Ostinato 1
2:03 - Ostinato 2
2:38 - Ostinato 3
3:15 - Ostinato 4
3:57 - Ostinato 5
4:26 - Ostinato 6
4:58 - Ostinato 7
6:12 - Ostinato 8
If you enjoyed this video, make sure to subscribe to the Composing Academy Channel, for more Composing and Music Theory tips and tricks.
Composing Academy is the place to learn how to begin composing your own music. Here you will find easy to follow videos explaining core Music Theory concepts along with various tips and tricks to help you craft that perfect song of cinematic piece of music. - Hudba
Speaking as a guitarist who is trying to gain some knowledge in strings to write production music, this has got to be one of the most informative videos I've watched so far!
Many thanks for watching. Glad you found the video useful!
couldnt agree more!
Agreed - lucky to have stumble onto this channel.
Combined with a couple of Udemy and Groove 3 courses, this is fantastic!
New subscriber and I rang the bell.
Thank you. I like ostinatos . 😊. Play slow. Play fast. What a difference !
I love your tutorials, because they are IMMEDIATELY usable, unlike some channels that shown a million dots in the midi editor , you explain in such a simple way the use of Ostinators I also like how you explain the power of these when used with a chord progression. Great channel! Where would epic music be without Ostiantos :)
Thank you for your kind words! Yes I can't imagine Epic music without ostinatos!
Found one in Bruno Mar's "Just the way you are" played with piano. 😊
I'm not a musician, just an epic music fan, and this video completely blew my mind.
I'm so grateful to people like you: you post an educational video for free, it's straight to the point, uncomplicated, and (most importantly) SO INSPIRING! I love the idea of composing and being a complete beginner, you're really helping me out. God bless you 🙏
This has been quite an eye opening revelation for me. I'm now getting into classical film score music and I saw the word Ostinato, I wanted to know what it meant then I landed here. I am now practicing your beautiful ostinatos and plan on using that style. I noticed that Hans Zimmer does that a lot ie Batman and DaVinci Code...These make his music so intriguing... THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
This is the best video I have seen on this subject. Thank you very much. I'll be back for more
What a great teacher and videos!
Incredibly helpful. Thanks!
I watched all the videos, and I'm watching them very usefully useful.
It's really helpful. Thank you always.
Thanks so much for watching all the videos - glad you found them useful!
What a genuinely useful, helpful video! I can go plug this into my projects right now and start experimenting!
I noticed a lot of these patterns look very similar to what you get in drum music. The relationships between the different tones in a triad can work like sticking patterns or kick/snare/HH relationships. I love how a tonal instrument like the strings can be used so well as a rhythmic instrument.
I've been trying to learn more about ostinatos for a while and this video broke it down so well! Thank you!
Hi Jacob, many thanks for your message. Yes absolutely ostinatos especially can have similar characteristics to drum kit patterns. I have an electric kit connected to the computer. By mistake I started triggering some short strings with the pads, playing a normal drum kit pattern - it sounded kinda cool!
So glad i found this early into my music making hobby/career, this is super useful!! Love your stuff!
That's really great to hear, thank you for watching!
Thank you very much for the compilation! This is very valuable
My pleasure - I'm glad you found it useful!
Damn I've come across the best channel for cinematic chords and other knowledge! Keep it up bro
Gran tutorial. Muchas gracias.
I thoroughly enjoyed this - great ideas and inspiration, thanks!
Thank you for the feedback, glad you enjoyed it!
Your videos have truly helped me on my journey. Thank you so much!
I'm glad - thanks so much for watching!
Hi, this is a great video!!!! I have been looking into ostinatos for strings for a while and this video has really made things clearer for me !!!!!
I will refer back to this video whenever I need to. Thanks for sharing this video!!!!
Thanks so much for your kind words. I'm glad it helped!
It is a really helpful video. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
This will be quite useful to think about as I'm writing music, I see how these can be used to help shape a mood or theme, and to be able to easily creates variations on ideas.
Thanks for watching and I'm glad you found the Ostinatos useful
Great video, thank you!
Excellent video thanks.👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
As an aspiring producer from my side, you gained a sub sir, hats off to you!
Thank you so much!
Estremely useful and very clearly explained. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much!
My pleasure!
Thanks beautiful video
Hi, really appreciate your comment, thank you!
Incredible! Video Thanks a lot! ❤️
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much 👍 best explanation
Thank you so much sir ❤️🙏
Fantastic Simon, thank you so much! :)
My pleasure - thank you for watching!
It is a video that I would like to actively recommend to students learning flim music. Many thanks for your work
Thank you so much - I'm glad it was helpful!
Let’s go!
Great series...feel educated after each
Thank you so much for watching, so pleased you are finding them useful!
非常棒的教学，尤其是之前关于交响乐织体分析，对我有很大帮助，感谢
So glad you enjoyed it and it was useful. Thank you for watching.
Thank you very much indeed
You are very welcome, thank you for watching!
thank you for that very educational video
My pleasure - I'm glad you found it useful!
Thanks Simmon enjoy a lot 😊
I am pleaded, thank you for watching!
Nice and smooth music
Many thanks
Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure - Many thanks for watching!
Thankyou so much sir
My pleasure!
This was great.
Thank you - I hope it was useful!
Awesome 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Many thanks for watching!
Great video👍🏼
Many thanks!
Listening to these made me think of the Fringe main title theme. I love it.
Yes very true!
Bow'sche man!!!! Just the very thing I was looking for, for a very long time!!!! Thank you soooo much!!!!!!!!!
Man, now I've got some work to do.... tried to figure it out all by myself, but somehow (always) got stuck b/c being distracted with tones, chords and melodies thus not being able to stick to the OOSTINATO....
Man, whenever you're over here in Berlin... I'll invite you to some couple of drinks for saying "THANK YOU"...
Thank you very much!!!!
Hi April, Thanks for watching and I'm glad you found it useful! If I'm ever in Berlin, I'll try to reach out to you! Thanks for the support!
Спасибо❤
Thank you!
As if by magic a veil has lifted...thanks 👏👏🙏🎩👍🎶
Thanks so much for watching!
Listen: first of all, thanks for share your knowledge. People like YOU, creates dreams on heads of people like me. You are a Dreams Creator. I'm not a musician. I don't play any music instrument, but i LOVE, i'm crazy for orchestra. Furious orchestra - like the Metropolis Ark 4 Theme. I have a very good ear, and i'm slowly studying FL and... unbelievably im beginning to "understand the music, in the FL node language", and unbelievably "boom"! CREATING THINGS! UNBELIEVABLE! How can this is possible? I still not believing. Going deep on this, i discovered the "string ostinato" - and i categorized it by myself as a "special effect note trick" or "special effect notes maneuvers" - things that make music more powerful, furious, epic. With this in mind, i ask you: in what category of "special effect note tricks/maneuvers" ostinato is in? Theres some kind of name to categorize this kind of "special effect note trick"? If yes, what is the category name? Can you list more "special effect note trick/maneuvers"? Ill deeply search for each one of them! Thank you so much, and really sorry the bad English. I'm struggling to write this text lol. I'm anxious to get some reply
well done
Many thanks!
6:25 Introducing the F sounds like the opening of the X-files theme.
Love how your strings sounds realistic, what library do you use?
Thanks for watching! If I remember rightly it was Cinematic Studio Strings layered with Albion One
Cheesy! But you do hear these everywhere and they do work.
Thanks for watching!
In a follow up, would be nice to see the score and voicings. I would like to know how the chords are spread across instruments. I notice hte bass has a simpler part too
Hi Steve, many thanks for the suggestion, which I'll try to implement. Thanks for watching!
Thank you ! After studying and attempting to do with what you are doing in this video I finally had a bloody breakthrough! 👍. One question, when you mean high, middle, and low notes (from a piano roll - MIDI POV) are you speaking of moving a particular note(s) from an A3 to an A2 or A1? (I just chose the A note as an example, not being specific)?? I understand the concept of moving notes outside the general triad.
Thanks for watching! If I understand your question correct, when I'm referring to 'High, middle and low notes', I'm referencing the notes which make up the notes in a triad - the 'low' note would be the first note, or root say C in C major. The 'Middle' would be the 2nd note of the triad, (E in a C major Triad) and the 'High' Note would be the 3rd note of the triad (or 5th note of the scale) so G in a C major triad. So moving a particular note would be changing the order of notes which make up each triad (from say G, E, C) to a C, E, G for example. Does that help or have I misunderstood your question?
@@composingacademy8270 Yes, thank you very Kindly ! That helped me understand immensely. I love the sound of strings that reflect a “chase” scene or a build up to an explosion of sound.
me too, just had a real big breaktrough...
I really found useful this videos.
Someone can help me with a chord progression for an evil action theme, I'm kinda stuck
I have the exact same chords and the exact same ostinato as ostinato 3 in one of my tracks. What is the odds of that!? Or it's very common maybe?
Is there a particular reason you why you use the inversion of Am F and C(not inversion) ? Is it for creating a smoother transition?
Hi, many thanks for watching. Yes I use inversions, to avoid big jumps when changing chords. Also if the ostinatos followed the same shape (ie in root position) they may start to sound stagnant and boring. Using inversions can help to add more interest, yet still following the same harmonic progression.
basically a motif or an arpeggio
Thanks for the tutorial. May I ask what software is used to produce these sounds?
Hi Vince, if I remember rightly it was mostly cinematic Studio Strings for the ostinatos. I use them on nearly every piece I write!
Curious- why didn’t you mention keeping the same notes in bars 1 and 2 in ostinato 5? First time it is mentioned was for ostinato 7. Thx!
Thanks for spotting! For the notes in bars 1 and 2, the A and C are both both of the two chords (Am and F), so a change wasn't necessary. For Ostinato 7 though - I think it would have been clearer if I transposed the pattern to start on F (so the notes of FF, AA, GG, BB) though. Thanks for catching this!
I'm not really sure exactly how to pinpoint the emergence of this style which has become very popular in cinematic writing... an almost minimalist, repetitive style of ostinatos invariably on chords I, IV, V and VI, always in common time... following general trends in popular music I suppose!
Thank you. Which of these patterns (or some other?) did you use in Section A of Epic Cinematic-01 piece here: czcams.com/video/c1bus6m48Pk/video.htmlsi=udfFY7-dvV6TqLlg ?
I slowed down the video to 0.25 and I think I hear 4 descending triplets (G-E-C) per bar in the first two bars, correct? Except the last triplet is slightly different.
Ostinatos are the same as "Brocken chords"?
Not completely, no. Ostinatos can in theory use any note, whilst a broken chord only contains notes that are found in that particular chord (e.g. C,E and G for a C major Chord).
A small suggestion... When you write the chord name, it should be written where it starts, not halfway through the bar.
Hey there! Is there anyway to easily transcribe this to see what it looks like on the keys? I'm a newbie and trying to play these on the keyboard but having difficulty finding the right notes on the keyboard. If not, all good.
I think I figured it out.
Sorry I'm late to reply to your comment. I'm going to try and make sure everything I do in the future that's similar will have the piano keys as well. Thanks for watching!
Some patterns I often misstake for arpeggios.
What's the difference?
Hi, an arpeggio sticks to notes of a chord. An ostinato is a repeating sequence of notes, which could use additional notes not found in any particular chord. Hope that makes sense!
@@composingacademy8270
Yeah, that makes sense.
Thx
Ostinado one plays
Me: ITS TOO LATE TO APOLOGIZEEEEE TOOOOO LATEEEE
Is there a suggestion here that ostinatos are usually 16th notes?
I would say that Ostinatos are mostly either 16th notes, or 8th notes. Of course it also depends on the tempo, but from my analysis of various soundtracks, mostly likely 16th and 8ths.
Hans Zimmer starter pack. 😀
Absolutely!
Despacito
Midi plsss🙏😁
Hi, please send me an email (in About section) and I will try and get this across to you!
I am a film director,music composer.Many many thanks for this type of excellent tutorials. I'd like to contact you directly.Is it possible?
Hi, thank you for your kind words! If you want to reach me, feel free to email me at info @ composingacademy.com. Thanks!
@@composingacademy8270 Thanks
@@composingacademy8270 I wonder how's the response about the VST instruments or it’s use in the world.Are these widely accepted in the professional world? I think you know the best
I wonder how's the response about the VST instruments or it’s use in the world.Are these widely accepted in the professional world? I think you know the best
Why don't you show what it will look like in piano roll? I don't really understand how to play it, I don't know the notes. Used to in piano roll work
Thanks for the feedback, it is quite an old video but I aim to show both piano roll & notation going forward.
So... ostinato is a arpeggio??
Pretty much.
But why are there ni inversions on the chords? If you were writing for a real person to play these, there would have to be. Or doesn't that matter?
the question is when is something NOT an ostinato?
Malos ejemplos de ostinato: si se adaptan a la armonía, entonces no son ostinatos, sino patrones rítmicos