Rhythmical “Engines”

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

Rhythmical “Engines” Particularly in action and adventure scenes, the scoring usually relies heavily on pushing rhythms and lots of rhythmical activity. If you do not want to fall back to using percussion all the way through or even a drum kit in such sequences, you...

Rhythmical Surprises

Oct 16, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring

Rhythmical Surprises Some actions in a movie are supposed to have a surprise or even shocking effect to the audience. This does not only apply for obvious jump scares in the horror/thriller genre but also in pretty much any other genre. If you hit such a moment...

Finding the Right Tempo for a Cue

Oct 8, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring

Finding the Right Tempo for a Cue Getting the tempo of a scene right is one of the most essential parts of film scoring. Even the best music can be a disaster when it drags a scene or pushes it too hard. Often there are only few objective indicators to find a tempo...

Disguising Tempo Changes

Jun 11, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring

Disguising Tempo Changes On rhythmically active music, tempo changes are quite obvious and can drag so much attention on themselves that they might not be appropriate in certain scoring situations. But of course they might be necessary as the scene changes pace etc. A...