Jan 24, 2020 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Homogenous (String) Voicings When you want to create a homogenous sound for example in the string section, take care that adjacent voices don’t exceed an octave. This is just a rule of thumb and sometimes, voice leading etc. justifies for larger gaps but in general,...
Jan 20, 2020 | Film Scores, Hero, News
HERO Releases on all Platforms I’m very happy that my score for HERO from 2017 finally released on all streaming and digital delivery platforms, so you now have the possibility to listen to it in better quality than Soundcloud which was up to now the only source...
Jan 17, 2020 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Music Mix for “Smartphone” Use In current times, you can not expect that your music will be listened to under ideal conditions (e.g. in a cinema or good speaker systems) but many people watch media and listen to music in less ideal situations. Of course...
Jan 13, 2020 | Career Building, Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring, General, News, Orchestration, Technical, Working Together
The End of Daily Film Scoring Bits? 2020 marks the tenth anniversary of Daily Film Scoring Bits. What started out as a small idea has quickly developed into a very popular resource for learning composers. I received great feedback from all over the world and obviously...
Jan 10, 2020 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Writing for Mallets When writing parts for mallet instruments that need the player to hold two mallets per hand (like marimba/vibraphone chords) it is very tricky for the players to rapidly play passages that include constant switching between “black and white” and...
