Jul 19, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
ff Brass layer One of the reasons for “fake” sounding orchestral mockups is the overuse of the ff-layer on brass samples. Very often you get to hear for example horn lines that last for a minute and are all played at ff without any rest or natural phrasings. In...
Jul 18, 2018 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Altered perception of your own music Working on a composition for hours alters the way you perceive your own piece and is something to be very conscious about. Many composers tend to overwrite because having listened so many times to the same passage or piece will...
Jul 17, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Integrating Hit points musically Hit points in the music should never feel like you added an element at random on top of a music bed just to hit an action. Great film music manages to give hit points a musical plausability. If you listen to that music alone, you...
Jul 16, 2018 | Career Building, Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Client dialogue Clients and customers prefer to have a clear image of who is actually working for them. There are quite a few people who hide behind impersonal websites that they call something like “Awesome Music Studio”, speaking of “we” and “us” without ever...
Jul 13, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Intonation without context Remember that the intonation with most instruments in the orchestra doesn’t work like a piano where you simply hit a key and the resulting pitch is perfectly in tune. Rather there is with all notes a variability in how high or low the...
