Jun 26, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Breaking the Rules Breaking musical rules can be great to create musical structures that sound fresh and interesting and basically every rule in music can be broken. The essential part is to be confident and consequent when you break them. For instance if you use a...
Jun 25, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Connecting Close Cues If during the planning of your score you notice that two ore more cues will be pretty close together (meaning less than 30 seconds in between), unless that moment of silence is essential (point of a joke, strong emotional moment etc.), you should...
Jun 24, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
The Media Business and Empty Promises The media world is full of people who make a lot of empty promises or try to sell themselves and their project way above value. You need to develop a sense for such people an generally be very sceptical. Usually, when something...
Jun 21, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Trills and Composers with a Piano Background For everybody coming from a piano background, a trill usually feels quite noisy and dragging a lot of attention on itself due to the many audible attacks of the notes that you get when you do a trill on a piano. This makes...
Jun 20, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
How to Record Live Musicians Efficiently If you’re recording real instruments, most of the time it is better to let them finish a take even if it contains some errors. These errors can be later patched from another take or you can use parts of this take to patch...
Jun 19, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
MOtivic Development Great composers are not measured by the amount of ideas they have but rather what they do with a few ideas. Very often, young or inexperienced composers tend to write pieces that play out one idea just to move on to another idea etc. while losing a...
