Musicians’ Feedback

Mar 22, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration

Musicians’ Feedback No book or course on orchestration can actually replace the invaluable lesson you can learn by talking to and/or observing musicians who are playing your music. Whenever you have the chance to work with musicians, try to find time to have a...

Hiding Sample Shortcomings

Mar 21, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical

Hiding Sample Shortcomings If you can not mock-up an instrument convincingly in a piece (that eventually will end up without recording of real instruments in a score) due to the lack of decent libraries or just out of the fact that this instrument can not be simulated...

Melodic Steps and Leaps

Mar 20, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits

Melodic Steps and Leaps One very old but also very useful rule for melodic writing is that a melodic leap in one direction should be followed by a melodic step in the other direction. Consecutive leaps in the same direction sound very dramatic and have the potential...

Using Collective Musical Memories

Mar 19, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring

Using Collective Musical Memories Certain musical tropes, colours and paths are so strongly connected in the collective memories of people with certain emotions/situations that they’re becoming a musical cliché. Imagine Glockenspiel, Celesta etc. or the lydian...