Orchestration Masterclass, Part 1: The Strings and The Winds (Udemy.com)

A great resource whether you're starting or brushing up on orchestration--my family is full of orchestral musicians (strings, conductors, woodwinds) and after discussing the content of this class, they confirmed just about everything in the class as well. Great resource for newbies to the orchestra and instrumentation!

I had 1 year composition and scored for a woodwind quintet but a lot of it went by me and Jay filled in quite a bit and is helping me with this program

The production of the video is very poor, also the instructor seems like He's doing the lessons in His bedroom, professionalism and a little bit of more formality would bring a more upscale taste to the experience....

As always with Jay's courses he feels more like someone you are having a meaningful chat with that your typical tutor. I like that a lot and that's why I learn so much from his classes. He and Thomas Goss on youtube are my single most important resources for orchestration and music theory.

Great course, have a bachelors in music with a focus on composition. Covid began during my orchestration classes in college and I feel like it hurt my orchestration study’s, this has been an amazing class to review and reapproach the subject of orchestration. I can truely say this is very close to if not as good as the college level courses I took for my BA. Great instructor!

was a very interesting lecture will be getting part 2 soon a really good in sight into the layout of the orchestra very pleased thanks have learnt a lot

Presentation is everything, and this course is not presented well. It seems quickly put together and weak on content. The strings section has no classes on staccato or spiccato which are common and integral techniques. The woodwind section lacks sections on altissimo and staccatissimo. It shows unfamiliarity with the subject matter that a college level course would not leave out. I'm also surprised there is no pdf material to support the course. Overall this course needs to be remade to better provide the material promised. There's no excuse for the low quality of production and lack of essential concepts. The instructor says this is the equivalent of college level courses, but I would drop any class that was this poorly constructed and presented.

I didn't learn much from this course only because I already knew most of the instruments. I did learn something I did not know which was how to read a score. Since I am an electronic musician using solely samples I would have no need to do that. I do not mean to imply that the professor was in any way deficient. He definitely was not deficient. He's very very good. It's simply that I knew most of these things. I believe I will benefit the most from part 3. I will however take part 2. Congratulations on producing something really great for us.

Learned so much, great that he's explaining the context first before getting into the details of the instrument groups. It would be great if he could play samples of the instrument ranges as he is talking about them

I am so excited to learn about orchestration! Jason Allen is a down-to-earth, highly qualified music teacher. This course is like sitting down with your favorite teacher on zoom and having him talk directly to you. I guess I didn't read the description carefully enough... This is only Part 1 of a series. Now that I'm done with this course, I see it stated in the description that it's a series. But, I had assumed I would be learning about the ranges of ALL of the instruments instead of just strings and woodwinds. So just be aware that more course purchases will be necessary to give you the tools you need to compose for an orchestra.