Nov 8, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Double and Triple Tongue on Brass Double or triple tonguing passages on brass instruments can sound very exciting and fanfaric and can create a great effect of forward motion. They are created by interrupting the air flow into the instrument with the tongue with...
Oct 9, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Two Bar Structures Lots of music nowadays is very heavily orientated on structures that are multiples of two bars. Often themes are presented in an 8 bar form which can be subdivided into two groups of 4 bars which can again be subdivided into two 2 bar groups. While...
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...
Sep 26, 2018 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Repeating Pitches in a Melody When writing a melody, many inexperienced composers tend to overuse certain pitches, their melody kind of gets stuck at a pitch and keeps on using it over and over again. For a certain length it is okay to hover around one pitch but it...
Aug 8, 2018 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Melodic Shaping One of the things you should keep an eye on when writing music is the form of your melody. Very often, inexperienced composers fall into repeating short-breathed almost identical 2-bar phrases. While it is perfectly fine to do that once in a while and...
