Resources
There are many resources available for composers these times. If you have studied composing or not I believe everyone (not only composers) should study what they want to be good at. I don’t mean attending university, just reading, listening about skill you want to enhance and of course practicing it as often as possible. Here is resource list of resources for composers I have found interesting divided into few categories
- Daily Film Scoring Bits – really informative daily tips for every composer. I’m looking forward for every new tip from Robin Hoffmann each day
- Ask Robin Hoffmann If you have any question for Robin, you can ask him here. There is lot of questions and answers already for you to read
- Composer Focus
Online courses and Private lessons
- Berklee online courses There is lot of different courses
- TinkSpaceOnline courses – Music for the Media, Cinematic Orchestration, Harmony, Digital Music
- Free Coursera Music courses
- Private lessons with Robin Hoffmann
- Visual Orchestration Downloadable Video Lecture Series for Orchestration by Peter Lawrence Alexander. There is courses like: Visual Orchestration 1, 2, 3, Scoring Stages 1, 2 and very nice and informative Spectrone Chart for ranges and colors of each orchestra instrument.
- Groove3 Training Videos Lot of training videos from many diffrent areas. All videos are music related. There are 2 options how to get videos, buy single video series and download them or 1 year subscription, where you can watch every video on site, but you can not download it
- MacProVideo Training videos Similar training video series, but not just music related. Currently I’m subscribed to this training video site and I can really recommend it
- Principles of Orchestration by Rimsky Korsakov Online Online version of book Principles of Orchestration by Rimsky Korsakov
Score sheets analysis
- Score sheets from Robin Hoffmann
- Petrucci Music Library Free Public Domain Orchestral score sheets
- Free Orchestra Sheet Music at 8notes
Forums and Communities
- SCOREcast Online the home of the professional film music community created by Deane Ogden
- SCOREcast Hollywod group Private Facebook community group
- SCOREcast London group Private Facebook community group
- SCOREcast London group Private Facebook community group
- SCOREcast Japan group Private Facebook community group
- VI Forum
- KVR Audio Forum
- Ning Composers Forum
- Young Composers Forum
Live Musicians
- Session Exchange Lot of remote session players are waiting for you. Site created by Deryn and Dan Cullen
- Deryn Cullen – Cello If you need live cellist I recommend Deryn Cullen
- Eanan Patterson If you need live violinist I recommend Eanan Patterson
Free Music Software or Music Software Deals
- VST Buzz There is always deal for selected library or plugin
- Music Software Deals Facebook group for Music Software Deals
Hopefully you have found at least one new resource here. If you have any recommendation for interesting resource for composer, which you have not found here, I would be glad if you can leave link in comments, so I can update resource list and check something new. Thank you.