Dec 13, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Trombone Glissando Seamless glissandi are one of the things that due to the unique construction of the Trombones can be executed very easily on them. However, their maximum span can only be a tritone (the range the slide covers between all in and all out (or rather...
Dec 12, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Stereo Snare Drums The advantage of recording a score in a scoring stage versus playing a “regular concert” with an orchestra is that you can alter the setup of each cue (within reason). For instance when you want a really large snare drum sound, let’s say...
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...
Dec 10, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Scene Change Transition Cues Music can help a lot to smoothen rough transitions between scenes. Particularly scene transitions that change location and time can often feel very rough. Having music cues over such scene changes that deliberately de-emphasize the...
Dec 9, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Dealing With Criticism Criticism is something that is hard to digest for any artist but it is also something every artist has to live with. It is impossible to please everybody and sooner or later every composer will meet someone who dislikes his or her work. However,...
