Jan 13, 2020 | Career Building, Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring, General, News, Orchestration, Technical, Working Together
The End of Daily Film Scoring Bits? 2020 marks the tenth anniversary of Daily Film Scoring Bits. What started out as a small idea has quickly developed into a very popular resource for learning composers. I received great feedback from all over the world and obviously...
Jan 8, 2020 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Cluster Voicings Cluster voicings are another possibility to add interesting harmonic structures to your music. As opposed to “normal” clusters that stack minor OR major seconds, cluster voicings follow a certain scale structure incorporating only notes of the current...
Dec 18, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
“Treading Water” Between Hit Points Writing music for film often has a danger of just writing “bridgeing” music that just fills time until the next hit point. While sometimes it can’t be avoided to just fill bars between hit points in order to not have an overly...
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 4, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Low Interval Limits The reason why some chord voicings sound muddy and unfocussed often lies in the fact that they violate the so-called low interval limits. These limits are guidelines for every interval structure and the lowest possible position they can be played...
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...
