Dec 11, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Balance Between Surprise and Being Expectable Compositions that are considered attractive and interesting by most listeners usually find a balance between being expectable and suprising. This applies from the smallets structures to the largest extents of the...
Aug 7, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Rhythmic Offset of Key Motifs In order to keep a composition interesting, try to rhythmically offset your motif now and then. If you’re melodic idea is based on a motivic idea being placed on every downbeat of a bar, try moving that motif to a different rhythmical...
May 24, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Ten Seconds per Texture The ear/brain needs about ten seconds to adjust to and digest a new musical texture so changing orchestration colours roughly in that tempo is something that feels quite natural/interesting and is easy to digest for our brain. However using...
Mar 27, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Structuring Ostinatos Ostinatos play a big role in current film scoring and while the principle of how they work is pretty clear, many learning composers struggle with their use. Due to their repetative character, ostinatos can become quite annoying and start feeling...
