Aug 3, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Unprepared high entrances for Brass High entrances out of the blue are a nightmare for every brass player and particularly tricky for horns (due to the way they produce their tones). The chances are quite high they the tone will be missed or there will be a split in...
Aug 2, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Recording Take Protocol When recording music with live players, make a protocol of takes in some sort of form. I prefer marking the score sheets with differently colored markers where I circle or highlight things that were particularly problematic or good in...
Aug 1, 2018 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Music theory knowledge There very often seems to be a battle of arguments between different groups of composers whether one should be well versed in music theory or not and both sides use self justifying arguments to prove their point. The important thing that is to...
