Articulation variety

Aug 10, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration

Articulation variety One of the things that makes music interesting and lively is variety in articulation and phrasing. Many composers coming from the sample world hardly ever think about whether a line might work better having it not completely as staccato or not...

Strategies for using Reverb

Aug 9, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical

Strategies for using reverb There are probably thousands of philosophies of how to add reverb to a recording. Especially with orchestral tracks, many people are concerned about creating a proper field of depth within the orchestra and create a proper impression of...

Melodic Shaping

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...

Fermatas in Film Scoring

Aug 7, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring

Fermatas in Film Scoring When scoring a movie by writing score sheets for the reason of having  it played by real instruments at one point, avoid fermatas and breath marks. These musical markings are very open to interpretation and it get’s even more complicated to...