May 15, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
The Right Way of Finding Ideas There is no wrong or right way to compose music. Essentially, what works best for you to get ideas is the right way. Many people feel like cheating when finding ideas by playing random things on the piano or even clicking away in the...
May 14, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Artistically Ambitous Film Scoring While ambitous film scoring is definitely something that can be very attractive and thought provoking, especially young composers tend to push this a little too far in their search to reinvent the wheel. The essential difference...
May 13, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Contract Negotiations in the Age of Social Media With references being much more important than university degrees in the media world, and with social media becoming more and more a vital tool to actually get your name around, you should make sure about a few...
May 10, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Practice Working With Limitations As a learning orchestrator and composer you should practice a lot to work with limitations, especially if you want to eventually work with real musicians. While it is great to know how to write for a huge orchestra with all...
May 9, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Varispeed For Tuning By now, most film scoring studios have the technical possibility to use Varispeed to compensate for the standard a= 442 or 443 Hz tuning of a normal orchestra by recording at a slightly higher sample frequency and tempo than what the actual...
May 8, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Influence of Sample Limitations on Composition A lot of what defines today’s style in commercial orchestral music is actually defined by the limitations of samples. Certain things clearly can be pulled off more realistically with samples than others. This was even...
