When we run comedy type listings for the Music Library I co-own, one of the biggest issues that results in us turning tracks down is that composers try to make the music funny. That may sound counter intuitive, right? After all, the client will be going to the comedy album to look for funny music, …
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We happily spend time layering up Guitars, Vocals, Keyboards and Percussion, but when was the last time you layered up the Bass in your tracks? Yup, thought so! 😉 Below is a video guide on how (and why) to start layering up Bass in your music to get some interesting results that can make …
This post is super short. It’s also very important if you’re writing Production Music. I had a great email this week from a composer who has taken the “Library Music That Sells” course and watched the recently added “Deep Dive” video walk-through of one of my tracks that has done well for me regarding …
We all agree that TV and Film music needs to breathe. It often needs a rich, full sound whilst simultaneously staying out of the way for voiceover or sound effects. This is not an area of music production where you want to suffer from an overly-busy or cluttered end result! Layering your Percussion (with or …
“There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is resistance.” -Steven Pressfield Ever found yourself avoiding sitting down to make music, even though you love doing it? …
UPDATE – Since the post below was written, Discovery Networks have U-Turned on their decision to proceed with Direct Licensing. However, we will leave the below post active as a guide to Direct Licensing in general. The hot topic in the media composer community right now is that Discovery Networks (who own Discovery Channel, …
You’re probably looking at the title of this post and thinking: “Both.” And in an ideal world, you’d be right. You’d pump out a large quantity of stunning music each month. Or each week. Yet for most of us, our higher quality tracks take us longer to write and produce than some of the other …
Samples these days are pretty amazing. Over the last few decades we’ve seen huge advances in this area. It used to be that samples were used to create “mock ups” within film and TV soundtracks so that directors could hear what the piece would sound like before the track was recorded by an orchestra. The …