Music, Arts & Entertainment
Introduction
Lesson time 03:50 min
Meet your new instructor, the Academy Award-winning composer of over 150+ films spanning multiple genres.
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Teaches Film Scoring
From collaborating to scoring, Hans Zimmer teaches you how to tell a story with music in 31 exclusive video lessons.
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I'm going to try to put as much into words as I possibly can here. And I'm already on slightly thin ice here with language, because I grew up speaking German, and here I am trying to do this in English. And really, some of it, to be really clear and to be really precise, I have to go and point you at a piece of music, and just shut up and make you listen to it. Because that is my language. That's my form of communicating. So I apologize if I do my normal, which is just go around the houses, not stay on point. But it's all-- this is how I work. It's gathering thoughts. It's gathering momentum. It's gathering ideas. And sometimes, you start over here, and just so you know you have to end over here. Nothing is ever a straight line. And then the only straight line that I can offer you is when you listen to the music. You know, I'm not even saying it's good music or bad music, or any of that stuff. I'm not talking about this. But there is a fairly-- I managed to arrive at a clear thought in the music. And as you can tell from what I speak, it might have been a bit of a struggle to get there. So this is my MasterClass. And the reason I'm doing it is because-- partly because I feel incredibly lucky that I got to a point where somebody would actually ask me to do a MasterClass. And partly I'm doing it to show you what I've done and encourage you not to do it, to do your versions of it. Because I think-- look, if there's one thing I learned, it's constantly moving. I'm supposed to constantly be moving. And you know, the other thing I need is I need to have the next great composer, like at my heels already. I want to hear what the next great ideas are, and it's not-- I don't need it to be mine. But this has been a really interesting journey so far. This has been a worthwhile journey. And I just sort of want to reassure you that however much people discourage you, however hard it gets, at the end of the day, it's worth it. If you feel compelled to write film music, then do it. Hello. I'm Hans Zimmer, and this is my MasterClass.
About the Instructor
Hans Zimmer didn’t see a film until he was 12 years old. Since then, he’s scored over 150 films, including Inception, The Lion King, and The Dark Knight. In his MasterClass, the self-taught Academy Award-winner teaches how he creates sounds from nothing, composes compelling character themes, and scores a movie before ever seeing it. By the end, you’ll have everything you need to start film scoring.
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Hans Zimmer
From collaborating to scoring, Hans Zimmer teaches you how to tell a story with music in 31 exclusive video lessons.
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