We're approaching the end of the cue and the score. In this part, we will look at the End Credits music of Hero which was specifically composed for them and not compiled from earlier cues.
The reasoning was that with that last shot that we h...
2021-05-17 07:55:49 +0000 UTC View PostMusic has always been political. From Shostakovich with his hidden regime critizism, to propaganda march music or political songs, it has been a vehicle for political standpoints over centuries.
However, there were also a lot of composers wh...
2021-05-14 08:58:36 +0000 UTC View PostWhen learning the first classical pieces, no matter on which instrument, we also learn a few standard harmonic paths that get quite deeply engrained into our musical understanding. For instance the authentic cadence going from Dominant to Tonic is...
2021-05-12 07:20:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the score sheet video for OPENING THE PORTAL! It's quite hard to read but you get the idea. A proper PDF and Audio Stems will be made available for download soon as well as more parts of the composition screencast covering the work on this ...
2021-05-11 08:49:45 +0000 UTC View Post
In this part, we're nearing the end of doing the mockup for this piece and I talk a little about the mixing approach that I'm taking including the microphone balancing.
2021-05-10 08:18:09 +0000 UTC View PostFortunately, we now live in times where the strict separation between "entertainment music" and "art music" is slowly but surely dissolving.
For me, it is fascinating to observe how that dissolving separation influences music itself an...
2021-05-07 08:00:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the Patreon exclusive early access download premiere for my piece OPENING THE PORTAL. It is the piece that I have written to cover the entire process from inception to finished mockup in the ongoing series of Composition Screencasts exclusi...
2021-05-05 07:34:40 +0000 UTC View Post
In this part, we're talking a bit more about concept and approach and start to lay out the first few bars.
2021-05-03 08:10:16 +0000 UTC View PostI'm optimistic. Life seems to be slowly coming back and it seems like we're all slowly waking up again from more than a year of sleep. I'm particularly happy about the fact that there are live events being planned again. Over the last couple of we...
2021-04-30 20:09:59 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the things that all the teachers that I ever had in Jazz Arrangement were telling me is to sing the phrases that I was currently writing with different articulation approaches (changing which notes are short, which ones are long and which o...
2021-04-30 08:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostFor centuries, the subject of innovation has been a central element of every art form. Artists from all disciplines tried to find new ways of expression and thought provoking concepts to explore and expand the boundaries of their art form.
T...
2021-04-28 07:58:11 +0000 UTC View PostJust as a little service post for all of you who are working with Dorico. In case you haven't noticed, someone took on the mammoth challenge of inputting the enitre Rite of Spring in Dorico and make these files available for download. It's really ...
2021-04-26 09:38:36 +0000 UTC View Post
In today's post we have a look at the climax of that cue which at the same time is the climax of the movie. In a way, this sequence is the conclusion that the entire movie has been working towards. I mentioned already in several instances what an ...
2021-04-26 08:37:17 +0000 UTC View PostI've talked on this platform quite extensively in several posts already about the fact how technology shapes media music. This goes even as far as changing the expectations about what an ensemble can do in comparison to their sampled counterparts....
2021-04-23 08:14:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the next part of the composition screencast for my piece RETURNING HOME. In this part, we continue with the mockup covering Brass, Percussion and some Strings.
The score sheet to follow along is attached below
2021-04-21 08:01:40 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm absolutely overwhelmed! Last night, we welcomed two new patrons pushing this site over the 100! I would have never thought that this would be so well received when I started this little idea a little more than a year ago!
Thank you so mu...
2021-04-20 07:53:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally, here is the score sheet and Midi file for RETURNING HOME, the piece from the composition screencast.
All the parts from inception to mockup can be watched 2021-04-19 08:02:33 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the painful truths in the media composer world that I needed to learn over the years is that once you accept a job that you don't enjoy and only do for the money, chances that you will get asked again for a similar job later on again are re...
2021-04-16 08:24:26 +0000 UTC View PostOne strategy of reharmonisation is to place key moments of the melody into a "special" harmonic context and take this as a starting point for the rest of the reharmonisation.
What do I mean by "special harmonic context"? I don't think there ...
2021-04-14 08:30:51 +0000 UTC View Post
With all my recent posts about the development of film music and movies in general over the last couple of decades, ...
2021-04-13 17:18:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the start of a brand new piece! I haven't written a "mysterious" track in a while and wanted to give it a go. For this piece, I recorded the entire process from inception to fully fleshed out mockup as many of you have requested so the ...
2021-04-12 08:29:52 +0000 UTC View PostFor practically every orchestral instrument, intonation is a huge deal. People who come from a piano background or work mainly with samples are usually not aware of the relevance of this topic and might be unpleasantly surprised once they get the ...
2021-04-09 07:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostI have talked in several posts already about the changes in film and media music that are caused or at least favored by the technical developments. There are implications from the movies themselves but also from the way that composers create music...
2021-04-07 07:49:23 +0000 UTC View PostIt has been a while since I last wrote about that topic but nevertheless there is one essential part missing in our discussion about why current film music is the way i...
2021-04-02 09:01:08 +0000 UTC View PostWe have a Table of Contents! If you remember, last month or so, I was complaining about Patreon making it very tricky to find older posts and I wished t...
2021-03-31 09:04:45 +0000 UTC View PostThere is a very common misunderstanding and misconception about how legato on string instruments work and it is sometimes even seen in the works of seasoned orchestrators. This whole issue is something that I would put in the Top 3 of the most com...
2021-03-31 08:26:41 +0000 UTC View Post
In this part, we will have a closer look at the buildup towards the big climactic conclusion of the theme (and the movie) which starts at around 12:23 in the video.
A...
2021-03-29 08:42:37 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the most fearead phenomenon by learning orchestrators is the so called "organ effect".
Basically, it means that the orchestra loses its instrumental definition and transparency and harmony sounds like it is played by a cheap organ. Th...
2021-03-26 09:25:23 +0000 UTC View PostThis post is part of a multi-part tutorial series about Reharmonisation. The previous posts can be accessed here.
One of the...
2021-03-24 08:55:27 +0000 UTC View Post
In today's screencast, we switch from working in Dorico to the DAW (Studio One) and start with the mockup process. Unfortunately, I had a small audio driver issue during recording which compromised the quality of the voice recording, so sorry for ...
2021-03-22 09:06:54 +0000 UTC View Post