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Hans Zimmer Masterclass Review

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I am currently watching the recently released Hans Zimmer online masterclass which can be purchased for 90$, it contains 31 video tutorials in which Hans talks about various subjects such as how to tactically choose a key for your composition, creating sound palettes and templates, scoring to picture and many more. Hans Zimmer is one of the most influential film composers in today's film industry he is one of my biggest idols. His credits include iconic films like: The Lion King, Gladiator,  The Thin Red Line, Crimson Tide, The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar, etc.
He has won one Academy Award, four Grammy Awards and a number of other Awards.

I have started watching the masterclass and I am enjoying it a lot, his insights about the industry and small tips about communicating with directors or other industry professionals really help and I feel like I can always take something away from each video episode.
The production team really did an excellent job on making the experience very intimate and personal, it feels like you are in the room with Hans asking him the questions.
The whole masterclass is broken down into segments of different topics so it's not necessary to watch the masterclass in chronological order and the length of the episodes is not too long so you can simply watch one in a work or school break or before going to bed which I think is a very positive thing.

Hans is a very humble person and in one of the episodes he says how he still thinks "How on earth will I do this" before composing the score for each new film. This helped me realize that matter how experienced you are each new project poses a challenge and it isn't a bad thing to be intimidated by the task at hand. Another great thing I took away about how important and necessary simplicity is because you can always stack instruments and make something big but you need a starting point and somewhere to go back to.
Having a recurring simple theme at the core of a soundtrack is also really practical because it makes the theme memorable, a great example of this is in the film Interstellar where Hans used an extremely simple and emotional piano part at the heart of the composition and then developed the whole soundtrack from it.

I would definitely recommend watching the Masterclass.
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