Mix Automations in Orchestral Music

Nov 28, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical

Mix Automations in Orchestral Music Mix Automations are pretty common in music productions. It basically means that you program parameters of the mix (like fader levels, pan, reverbs etc.) to change automatically during the course of the track, e.g. raising the levels...

Drop 2 and Drop 2+4

Nov 27, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits

Drop 2 and Drop 2+4 A very easy way to gain more sonority in your chord voicings or to make more space for the top line is to “drop 2”, “drop 2+4” or traditionally called “open voicing”. These are pretty simple procedures to spread out close position voicings to fill...

Scoring Big Hit Points First

Nov 26, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring

Scoring Big Hit Points First When you need to score a scene that has one or even several big moments you need to hit and highlight, it is a quite effective way to lay out your sketch the way that you score or at least sketch these important moments first one by one...

Staying Up To Date

Nov 25, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General

Staying Up To Date Watch as many movies as you can. If you want to seriously work in the film music field, you need to know what is going on in the “business”, you need to get an understanding of how music is used in movies and also what current developments take...