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...
Nov 20, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Symmetrical Scales Symmetrical Scales are called like this because they are built out of structures that repeat, for instance the two most common ones are the whole tone scale (consisting only – as the name implies – out of whole tone steps) and the...
Nov 13, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Minor Ninths The minor ninth is considered the “last dissonant interval”, even more than a minor second. Therefore it should be handled with care in any chord voicing (including minor ninths + octave(s)). The inherent dissonance in this interval will often...
Nov 6, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Parallel Movement of Several Voices Parallel movement of many voices usually sounds musically rather unattractive. Particularly if you let several voices leap into the same direction, the collective change of instrumental register will create a sonical disconnect that...
Oct 30, 2019 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
Finding Your Own Voice as a Composer As a composer, you’re very often confronted with conversations about “finding your own voice” and “your piece sounds like composer xyz” and some young composers feel very under pressure to develop an unique style. While of course a...
