How do you take a basic idea and turn it into a 2’30” piece of music? That’s what Guy Michelmore shows you in this 2 HOUR SPECIAL! To celebreate 200,000 subscribers we’ve pulled out all the stops. From first idea to finished piece, wrong turns, blind alleys and moments of inspiration all there in real time. It you want to know how to develop and musical idea this is for you. It’s 2 minutes longer than Star Wars and a minute less than Jaws. Just fewer galactic battles and sharks.

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How To Write Music explores the fundamental skills that underpin every great piece of music whether it’s a song or a film score, string quartet or video game sounds track.

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Here are some of the instruments I was using:

https://zero-g.co.uk/products/ethera-2-0
https://www.weyrerton.com/tyrolean-harp-kontakt-library
https://www.synapse-audio.com/dune3.html
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/play-series/lo-fi-glow/
https://splice.com/home

0:00:00 Introduction
0:03:30 Starting Template
0:04:32 Initial Idea
0:07:01 Battery
0:08:50 FX Track
0:10:28 Dune Synth
0:13:25 Bass
0:16:15 Splice Percussion
0:18:20 Lo-Fi Glow
0:19:56 Splice Kick
0:22:42 Ethera Vocals
0:34:54 B Idea
0:37:09 Reverses
0:41:37 Tyrolean Harp
0:47:45 Piano Reverse
0:49:13 Splice Loop
0:54:44 B Section
0:57:23 Ethera Vocals
1:08:40 Piano
1:12:00 Bass
1:15:30 Tidying Up B
1:20:14 Birds
1:20:49 Part Two
1:24:00 Structure
1:27:30 Synth Lead
1:34:40 Piano
1:37:00 Arranging
1:42:30 More Tidying
1:50:30 Mixing
1:54:00 Playthrough
1:57:07 Day 1 Wrapup
1:58:24 The Next Morning
1:59:35 Day 2 Changes
2:02:38 Final Wrapup

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36 Replies to “How to Develop a Musical Idea [Full Length Real-Time Tutorial]”

  3. What can I say? Thank you Guy for taking us with you on this process. Very funny and very inspirational. And I like, that you don´t use colours in Cubase, like me.
    I am much too chaotic for that ?

  4. You wrote the perfect 2000's news intro. Plays tune, welcome to BBC news.

    Love the vids, your immense knowledge and energy. You are a gem to any aspiring musician, thank you.

  6. I don't like my own words, but I'm sure they don't matter at all, at least they're honest, and a good pair of ears will understand what I mean: Awful song, be creative for once…

  7. I find a lot of the time, when i go to write a song. I hit a point early on in the writing where I am questioning if I even like what im working on. In the past i would usually decide no and scrap it. What i have been doing recently is following through. I like to think of it as the atmosphere of songwriting. Blast off is always exciting and motivating, but i often hit that upper atmosphere and hit tons of resistance and turbulence. Almost like my brain knows hard work is on the way. I have found if i push past that resistance and do the work, it often leads to my best pieces of work. I wish i realized this years ago, so maybe this will be a lightbulb for another fellow musician 🙂

  19. The problem I have is hearing other people's music in mine, or for that matter, in others. Your opening phrase, for example, is the code of Smithers-Jones by The Jam. You won't remember it, most won't, and it is as logical a progression as any. But it leaves me rather frozen.

  20. I listened to all sorts of music as a kid, rock to orchestral. Wound up playing in a rock band at first but went on to doing top 40 rock/pop/country/blues well you get the picture. Wound up in the last 20 years of my career doing Old time Gospel music in a country/blue grass mode. Now I'm somewhat retired other than my youtube channel and I'm enjoying trying to write instrumental music in, shall we say, an orchestral mode. I'm so glad I found you. You do exactly what I'm learning to do. I arranged in many styles in my studio because we had all sorts of customers and I specialized in vocals and harmonies. I'm now enjoying just writing what comes to me without having to please anyone but me lol! Thank you for your inspiration! You do a wonderful job of making things interesting as you teach. Oh, and it's OK to talk to your instruments!! I find some of mine behave very well, but others? Some of them can be real rascals lol!

  24. You actually got me on a Laugh out loud when you said that about talking to your instruments, Or Not talking to them rather as it is weird. I am still baffled that there is a large majority of the world who still thinks the rest of us don't know that they do all the same fool things at at home that we all do. Just look at all the people with glasses. lol Sorry to rant. I enjoy these kinds of videos, it has inspired me to purchase a few tools to start writing myself. I'm 57 and have always held back because I need to be a little better on guitar and Truth is I didn't need to be great to write. It's really going to be fun this time. The fact that so many of you are putting it out there with "how to" videos and leading the way it's a great time to be alive. So, Thanks and I really am just trying to load the software and it's crazy because I don't know if I'm doing it right or not. I'm not even sure what DAW came with this package. Abelton Live LIght and a few of the Amplitude's 4 and 5. I'm going to get me a little keyboard And I'm not really a pianist but I do enjoy tickling the plastic and some easy chord progressions I can handle which will give me a little fill from the Guitar and Vocals. And I love most all kinds of music and anyway, thanks to all of you who put it out there for us non Trailblazers.

  28. I find my biggest challenge is pushing myself out of my comfort zone. My hands just call into a Dsus2 as soon as I put them onto the keyboard and having a DAW template is a two-edged sword because it can trick you into having too many pieces of music at the same tempo. Have you got any hot tips for, y'know, not just constantly rewriting the same piece?

  32. Don’t remember seeing this video before – and it’s fascinating! Only thing is that the clip you played right at the beginning sounded like it would have fitted in perfectly with part 2 of the original Tubular Bells… which is, of course, a superb album!

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