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Unpredictable Income
One of the most frightening things in being self employed, especially at the beginning, is the mostly complete unpredictability about your stream of…
Trombone Slide Difficulties
The unique construction of the trombones with their slides gives them a possibility to do certain things that other brass instruments can’t do…
Small Ensemble Seating
When recording or overseeing the recording of a small ensemble of musicians, pay attention to a few seating issues. If you’re not depending on…
Composer’s Output Rate
As a composer working within economical boundaries and especially working in the media world, you need to be able to work at a considerable speed…
First View Experience
Many inexperienced composers forget the perspective of the “first view” when scoring a film. Due to the fact that as a composer you watch the movie…
Giving a Face to the Name
Clients and customers prefer to have a clear image of who is actually working for them. There are quite a few people who hide behind impersonal…
Unindicated Switches of Instruments
There are some sections in a real orchestra that constantly switch between different instruments without you as a composer even noticing it. The most…
Cleaning Up Audio Tracks
There are quite a few people who spend a considerable amount of time in cleaning tracks from real recordings and trying to remove all noises. While to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…