Jul 25, 2018 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Composing Backwards One strategy of finding a plausible way to a specific chord or to a key change is to work backwards from the target chord. This works particularly well if the music that you’re writing is mainly cadential harmony as you can simply look at your...
Jul 17, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Integrating Hit points musically Hit points in the music should never feel like you added an element at random on top of a music bed just to hit an action. Great film music manages to give hit points a musical plausability. If you listen to that music alone, you...
Jul 11, 2018 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
REasons for commercial success One of the reasons for widespread commercial success for many art forms and media is the ability to appeal to a very wide group of people. For instance, commercial chart albums are very often conceptualized in a way to include not only a...
Jul 4, 2018 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
practice long structures One of the trickiest things to learn when learning to compose is to gain a view and more importantly control over the big picture. It is fairly easy to learn and use all the “rules” and possibilities in small scale, having one chord and a...
