Film Scoring How To: Making Harp Glisses Sound Real with Samples

Underrated video, excellent tutorial!

I can't believe there aren't a hundred likes on this video. Great info. Thanks!

Nice. I know the harp pretty well, but that's an interesting way to do the glisses. Might be easier than just drawing them in, like I've been doing!

Amazing... My harp player might be in trouble now...😂 Thanks for sharing.

DUDE! How did you do that thing where you selected all of the same notes on the piano roll?! (When you selected all the F’s)

THAT IS GREAT! Thank you very much!

Thank you! You saved me from spending a bunch of money on a gliss library that probably wouldn't work.

whats that select every note shortcut???

Great ... thank you boss... subscribed

FINALLY I FOUND A FCKING VIDEO, THANK YOUUU

Awesome tip... thanks so much!! :)

omg

Excellent! Thanks!

aye cheers bro

absolutely amazing..... Thanks for posting... saves a lot of money....

Exactly what I was looking for! Will subscribe to learn more tricks!

Harp glissando plays up and down dlllllllllll fast and the flute swing off wwwwwooowwwww. I love those effects in films! Kick a footy in the air harp glissando comes in!

I’ve heard this in my history class!

This was a super helpful tip. Thanks man!

if you use the spitfire harp you should try out the "slid" articulation. it was recorded with the harpist sliding her nail on the string in the same way that a gliss would be played, which makes it sound so much better!

Thanks for this very insightful video, but in the Spitfire Harp there is a dedicated function for exactly this. You can predefine what notes you want in the gliss. You can choose from the harp pedal matrix (or whatever you call this representation of the pedals) on the right in the GUI. I think this yields exactly the same result as what you show here, or am I wrong and is this something entirely different? Don't want to be a wisecrack, I was very happy finding this video, because I struggle a lot to implement the harp, and this video certainly helps, but while watching I began thinking: ' wait, there is something built in that does exactly this for you. Cheers and thanks.

I don’t know why I thought this would be a drag of a video. Probably because he uses logic. I detest apple. But the technique was awesome. You need to watch this if you are doing harp gloss stuff. Gotta say. 10 out of 10. Well 9. He uses Apple stuff. Lol.

harp is almost always my first choice for composing, but I never learned how to do proper glissandos; and this is very common nowdays, but I caught myself thinking about how great is that with internet we have videos like this, where in 10 minutes I could easily learn the fundamentals of a harp's gliss, and now I can forever replicate and adapt it without having to have a reference, midi sample, etc; really thank you for that, I hope you know that you help a lot!

I didnt know harps had pedals. 👀

Thank you for this very short & to the point tutorial!! I love Harp in Soul songs, which is what I write & record. As soon as you showed how to create a gliss on keyboard, the lightbulb went off & I was really excited. You just saved the Bridge to my song :) Also, your score sounds amazing!

What a useful video. Thanks so much

thank you sir!

Awesome Sir, this is what's missing on my orchestration list, will definitely try this, and check out your other videos as well.

Woah

Hey, thanks so much for this. Super concise and just what I needed! Subscribed.

What is that “select all the Fs” hot key?!

Budgetarily!! Haha never heard that one. But I like it

Great resource!

Great vid!!!!

Nice one! I usually did glissando on the keyboard and transposed it😂

Perfect ! This video only corroborates this exact same way I did for all those years… This method DOES work, and it’s the only way to truly emulate actual harp behavior. The only thing that was hard at the beginning was to play glisses against already mocked up other parts, and sound out of tonality for a moment. But the most critical part is to recreate actual “hands on the strings” movement, up and down etc.
You are completely right : pre-recorded glisses are useless in most situations. I never used those, not even once. The only positive thing is to listen to them as a sonic model for your own glisses, and than try to emulate their dynamics and an idiom. It takes time, but it’s effective! Thanks for this video and your insight. I love your music too !

Film music producers are on another level

Great lesson. Very useful, thanks.

Super good, very well explained, all the details of how a harp works in real life. Very entertaining presentation. Well done.

Great video. I'm gonna try and synthesize a harp and layer it on top of some pads for some auditory magic 👍

Excellent video. Thank you!

Thank you, harps aree so hood

How software do you use?