"A short, simple, timeless song that's just really well written has a better chance of being a perfect song."
"Understanding how to write a good counter line is essential."
"Sometimes there's a better option out there if you're just willing to do the experiment."
"What makes a song great? It's usually a combination of things: the melody, the lyrics, the rhythm."
"My original concept was that we would have like these 60s inspired melodic songs."
"Writing these four pieces to rescore Hollow Knight's soundtrack was really challenging, but also so much fun."
"When I was composing the main theme, I often imagined what it would be like to live for 1,000 years. It must be so intolerable and painful seeing your families, lovers, and friends dying while you remain living. This feeling drove me to write the theme in a minor key."
"Hans Zimmer still is, and always will be, one of the all-time greats."
"This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams."
"Try to be creative and imagine whatever music you can make up - songs, bass lines, guitar riffs, anything to breed some creativity."
"A riff is a short repeated melodic phrase used throughout a song."
"If you're going to be a professional composer and communicate with other composers and speak their language, this is one of those topics you will just need to know."
"It's not very often that we see movie scores composed by jazz musicians, but it's even less often that we see movie scores by jazz musicians that were improvised."
"Chopin takes the organic development of what the hand can do... and makes it incredibly complicated."
"George Harrison's prowess as a lyricist and a song composition."
"Melody is the greatest challenge of composing," - John Williams.
"She created such a great mix of typical action music with this retro feel."
"The instrumental track of tempted is a conjunctive of sophisticated Jazz-like core changes."
"The melody to me is the most important part. All of Charlie Parker's song you could always hum the melody and that's what made it to me so outstanding."
"Composer Basil Polidoris worked on the soundtrack for over six months generating themes for the film that were both dramatic, catchy, and vaguely military sounding."
"The beat had that extra dramatic feel to it, fit really well with the verses."
"Gimme Shelter... so brutally raw... it feels so triumphant and it feels so epic as a composition... the iconic guitar riff."
"The harmony on the bridge is nothing less than haunting."
"All great melody has tension, real tension, released. That's the whole thing about us as human beings. You breathe in and you breathe out."
"Composers and the performers were of the same people."
"Kendrick makes his voice like another instrument on the beat."
"I think orchestrating this a lot more like adding some strings if it's a kind of strings or some extra textures beyond just piano because as it is it's very bare-bones."
"You could get your point across in seven songs and even ten songs it's all dependent upon the delivery of what you're talking about the messages you convey."
"I really feel that we're seeing Soken in a whole new light here, those of you that know him from his work in Final Fantasy 14 it's always been good but this I I genuinely feel that Soken like I said could win the Grammy for this."
"Their music was going to be quite different, sometimes mathematical, a little bit geometric."
"There's no copyright on fills, there's no copyright on grooves, they're made to be stolen."
"When I started composing, it was part of my pallet. It was not negsal, I'm going to do a beat here or a -- it came naturally."
"Music is difficult because... to me, that's all secondary to the words and the poetry of it."
"The soundtrack is sparse, delicate, understated, and haunting... overflowing with desolate hope."
"Hans Zimmer is already on board. That's a good sign. He's great."
"It just goes to show how powerful the composition can truly be."
"Sarah Schachner's composition is downright memorable, a nice blend of hefty combat tracks and slower, somber tracks."
"It kind of almost asks for melody rather than any kind of tricky business."
"Paul McCartney reveled in the challenge of writing to order, and he gladly accepted the commission as a writer who thinks of himself as part craftsman."
"When you have Mel Gibson call you up on the phone and ask you to write the score for his movie, you know that pretty much tells you right there."
"The backbone of 'Sober Up' is this syncopated cello part, and it hooked me in quickly."
"A universe of sounds from a world of motifs."
"Composers specialize in creating aesthetically pleasing solutions."
"Literally any sound ever can be good in a song if you find a place for it."
"What makes it really good or even outstanding is the musical intricacies and dynamics integrated into the composition itself."
"The melody is so important because it ties the whole thing together."
"This track is a huge, expansive, beautiful jazzy odyssey that is actually kind of mind-blowing."
"If I were conducting the music to a Spider-Man movie, I'd have the sheet paper and I'd be like, 'You guys want to break the internet? Watch this.'"
"Any key change you ever hear in my music, that's like maybe in like, hey, can we put a key change in. I love it."
"John Williams breaks his own record to become the most nominated person alive."
"Mick Gordon... solely responsible for one of the best and most metal soundtracks I have ever heard in a video game period."
"Remember, this is the guy who worked with the one and only Yoko Kanno to compose the iconic score."
"It just shows so much thoughtfulness in this composition overall."
"There's something emotional to it because otherwise the composer would write that if you know if there wasn't some elements of that to the story."
"There is just something about having control over my songwriting that makes each one something I can listen to hundreds of times over."
"It's all about stories and it's about melodies, and sometimes the right thing to do is just reinforce the melody."
"Real Evergreen classic songs are never written set down as writing hits. You write songs and you write beautiful songs and great songs."
"Inside again was the last monster that could smoothing out the verses as the Quince and the potential hex we're not leaving at you even though you de-confirmed probably we'll need to build upon the song a lot more."
"He said I don't want anyone else to write Star Wars music for the character of Ray yeah or Daisy Ridley it's not necessary gonna be impossible going forward but if this is it for three movies for Ray yeah he has created quite a theme for her."
"I love that score and somehow it's like you haven't borrowed that from an already existing song so the source not eligible."
"I added a bridge that makes the last chorus pretty powerful. I think you and him will dig it."
"Kevin Penkin's soundtrack: a standout from Tower of God."
"We really wanted to capture the spirit of Doom, so actually thinking of music, that's one of the most interesting things for the DLC."
"Goldberg being the incredible composer that he was might have used those little bits of percussion to foreshadow..."
"Whoever writes the music for this is really really talented."
"Just keep composing... just show up and just keep composing."
"Leon Riskin, the sound designer of FNAF music."
"All that sadness, I'll just use it to channel my creativity and compose songs."
"When I hear my friends sing, I want to compose songs for them."
"Composers adding their touch can elevate a scene."
"Super Mario Maker 2 added several new themes for its game styles, each with a new arrangement from series composer Koji Kondo."
"BTS totally went against the grain and built full narratives within a song."
"John Williams doing a Batman theme? I'd be down."
"There's not a lot of room to make a new song, you know there's only so many chord progressions."
"You can even have a melody where none of the notes are part of the chords that they're played with."
"Chords do most of the work of setting the emotion in the song."
"With this project, it's the most heartfelt songs I had to put on there."
"There's such a beauty in ending in a root chord with a bright major chord in there. Like, it's such a satisfying ending to such a troubled and unpredictable ride."
"The first phase of How Soon is Now was an exploration of building a song around a single chord."
"I just wrote an entire piece of music and it's cool and I like it and I can't believe it's it's like it's actual music."
"And then it becomes interesting is move that same figure to the eighth note off beat."
"Monty Norman: The unforgettable composer behind the James Bond theme."
"There's a single theme that rules over every single note of the score."
"Once you've got that main like down you can move on to the chorus."
"Everything I do in this song is some multiple of that or some division of that."
"Classic halo was unique in its use of more upbeat and lively compositions."
"They've used space so effectively in this song that it has contributed to its catchiness."
"The songs in 101 Dalmatians were written by Mel Leven."
"Every element of the sound, from the crazy glitching noises... to the beautiful score by Mac Quayle."
"The original sound designer on Silent Hill 2, that being Akira Yamaoka, worked on the medium as well."
"If you understand how to write a diatonic chord progression, if you understand borrowed chords, if you understand secondary dominant chords and you understand chord inversions, you are basically prepared to write any chord progression."
"Having skills like voice leading very, very, very helpful to have as a professional composer to immediately be able to arrange your chords in a brand new way."
"When you compose this way, you're completely ignoring the rich world of harmony that exists within voice leading."
"It's always a good idea to finish with two bars of the tonic... giving room for a turnaround or to end the song."
"Using pivot chords can make for a very smooth modulation between keys."
"The score of this movie... did such a good job orchestrating and remixing so many of Koji condo's iconic themes."
"So instead of simply playing that D major chord, I played this fun lick."
"I'm guessing the chorus is probably a brass initially."
"Melody is a mystery; there is no formula. It's a journey within ourselves, embracing what cannot be explained."
"The added syncopation makes what could easily have been a fairly boring progression way more exciting."
"There's something really sweet about some of the chord progressions going on."
"If you have a really catchy melody that people can sing along to or something that people really get hooked to, it's addictive."
"Music doesn't have boundaries or labels. It's just like when I start to make a song I don't think about what kind of song it has to be, it's more like what do I feel that makes sense."
"Rhythmic tension is like an engine that drives music forward."
"I made sure that I used brass and strings and Indian rhythms and everything."
"Every time you do a music or you do a cue, you never know that when you know that you're gonna do something, then it doesn't come up with it."
"The fugue is a compositional procedure where each voice states a short theme, which is known as the subject."
"This is a way of kind of working in non-linear fashion."
"The most important thing is the concept itself. Composing live music for a movie for a scene, that's what you're going to see in this video."
"How do you even write music like this?"
"Repeating one Melody three times in a row and then on the fourth time you switch it up to resolve the pattern... can make stuff a lot more catchy and repetitive."
"It's real and it's painful. I really want to highlight Ludwig gorenson's composition here because it's essential. It's such a strong modern reinterpretation of Bill Conti's original score."
"To write music is another angle within the music to be able to write the notes on paper."
"He wrote those songs in his head, fully arranged them with all the sounds and timbers he wanted to hear."
"There's always going to be options and that's kind of where the art in this whole, you know writing music writing chord progressions you know modulating keys, it's an art form."
"John Williams, as iconic as a composer he's always been, he still managed to make a piece of music that was so perfect for the movie that you can't compare it to anything else. It's such a shame that he didn't do any of the rest after Prisoner of Azkaban."
"It kind of allows you to write music more efficiently and faster."
"So I can see you've opened to start the piece using a lot of strings and you're predominantly using a lot of leader patches. And is there any particular reason behind that?"
"This guitar ended up helping write a song so it's staying as it is, I'm not going to change it."
"One of the ways Toby Fox did it for the Undertale soundtrack was he would sit down at a piano and he would just kind of play on the piano and try to find a melody that he liked and then just start working on the computer."
"People are born with that talent to write music."
"The post-hook drives the title home and is easy to remember."
"So you can hear how you can really start playing with different types of patterns here... and there's a lot of options that you can use."
"The difference between the major and the minor chord sonically is that the minor chord usually feels a little bit darker, a little bit more melancholic."
"...the top voice, this top row of notes, is referred to as a voice. This voice is just going c b c b, which is a nice repetitive almost like a hypnotic movement in my opinion."
"...every song had a climax, every song had a chorus."
"You don't have to come up with a brand new melody for those verses."
"I think it's a myth that writing tunes is really difficult."
"Counting rhythms is extremely important for transcribing, writing, and staying in time with your band."
"I love songs that have a verse, a pre-chorus, a chorus, and then a post-chorus."
"...the song was in 5-4 meaning they continue to use those odd time signatures but they're able to craft the song in such a way that still maintains easy listening for a wide audience."
"Dynamics and transitions are your best friends. They definitely go hand in hand."
"Bach never started from sound...he composed by the creation of three, four, five, and sometimes more independent voices."
"Lead lines can be played with a piano sound, but sometimes you want that part to stick out a bit more in the mix or to sound a bit different, and this is where lead sounds come into play."
"So the general form here, as if often true with these Impressionist composers, is just ternary form, A, B, A with the second and final A slightly modified."
"He wrote music because he felt an inner drive to do so was tormented with ideas."
"Murray Gold's ability to establish memorable leitmotifs for characters and situations is something that the show is really missing now that he's gone."
"Carter expanded the Schoenbergian emancipation of the dissonance to an emancipation of musical discourse as a whole."
"It's a score that functions incredibly effectively."
"It's truly extraordinary that basically any note goes with any chord and any chord goes to any chord and any bass note works with any upper structure."
"It's about learning how to sculpt these landscapes, these journeys using every note and every chord, make sure that each one has a place to go."
"Perilous storytelling, which is our sci-fi fully sound design DND campaign with an original soundtrack by yours truly."
"It's a nice combination of beats with distortion and noise."
"I'm not looking for lyrics, I'm just looking for the melody. I'm looking for the flow. I'm looking for how well he can adjust to the beats."
"I found that move to D in the piece kind of surprising but also somehow very touching."
"Common people was inspired by and written on a Casio keyboard."
"My goal is to make the music writing process as easy as possible for any new composer."
"The mindset I have when doing this is basically to get the sketch out first and to make sure I get all of the harmonic and melodic choices into the performance."
"It's really important that I capture all those elements that I'm thinking of in order to translate that into the strings as best as possible."
"Music just offers a sequence of sounds, but they do add to each other cumulatively."
"The brass is presented in three sections: the trumpets at the very top, the horns occupying this fantastic strong middle section, and then low brass is everything from trombones down."
"I really like when you kind of hold the same chord whilst the bass notes change; it just gives it such a beautiful heart-melting feel."
"It starts to kind of sound like one beautiful pad."
"How the song starts and how the song finishes are really important."
"They truly created a composition so deliriously catchy there's just no denying it."
"I'm literally just putting notes in piece by piece because I'm just so new to it, but it's teaching me to break out of my comfort zone."
"There's AI that started writing music... it sounds like Nirvana."
"If you want to make a subtle change, you can create a new pattern which is just slightly different from your original pattern, save it, and then select that as a target."
"The chords, the way the songs were arranged, had to be really consistent with those images that we kept in our head."
"There's no one right way to write music."
"A chord progression is the distilled concept of an entire song."
"It always starts different, you know. Sometimes it'll be a lyric, someone will bring in a melody, or we'll strum something on the guitar, play something on the piano, and then it just evolves from there."
"Let's write music and bridge the gap between music theory on paper and actually making stuff with your guitar."
"We have the workings of a song, so this is sounding great."
"We'll use this to crank out like a little melody somewhere in the song."
"Let's have a listen to some of the vocal parts with the song."
"Suspensions really spruce up melody writing. They add a bit of tension, a bit of sparkle to it."
"I set myself a challenge a month ago to see if I could make a song with trombone."
"When people talk about good voice leading or smooth voice leading, they're usually referring to a piece where each voice moves the smallest amount possible to get from chord to chord."
"We're going to figure out the chord progression in a moment and then develop a song based off these chops."
"What it allowed me to do is jump around my song freely."
"Never use the darker notes, only the lighter ones, and then you can build chords and melodies more easily."
"A drum machine is going to help you out massively."
"It could be just the thing that's needed to accurately nail the chord changes when playing or composing over diminished chords or dominant seventh chords."
"That my friends is vintage Dvorak and no one else would have done it, nobody else, not in a billion years."
"Dvorak was a symphonist born and bred, he didn't just toss out melodies at random, he actually used his motives, used his musical material to create larger structures."
"There are many, many moments in the Sixth Symphony which of course are pure Dvorak and no one else, no one else could have even imagined such a thing."
"I'm fascinated with people who can take, can write from... a two-bar progression."
"The point of a symphony is that it usually consists of several chunks of music, those chunks are called movements."
"Symphony number two comes in three separate flavors: chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla."
"We're going to give you some really valuable tips on how to come up with better bass lines for your songs."
"If I'm using C major as my one, the 1-3-5 formula is C, E, and G."
"You can build riffs off of these chord shapes."
"In general, the composer first tells you where you are and who you are. And as soon as you know that, he says let's go strolling. Let's go for adventure."
"I want to make every note count, but I don't do it by counting notes."
"Building a bit of a box or a cage to live in helps me focus on the strongest melodic content."
"One of the things that I have noticed about Frank Zappa is that he seems to be at ease writing complicated, rhythmically dense compositions."
"Everything was composed of rules; 16th-century counterpoint was as invented as 12-tone serial composition."
"I am the composer; notes now do what I say."
"It's mostly about the songs, you know, that's really what it comes down to."
"The bass will never lead you wrong if you're trying to write a song or understand a song."
"Feldman believed that the use of percussion was a calling card of a composer's style."
"This approach is important because it's different to the conventional way of creating a melody."
"I'm always working towards some new idea or some new piece of music I'm writing."
"I truly couldn't write the music I write without Ableton."
"Dvorak basically throws caution to the breeze and ignores some of the most tried-and-true tenets of Sonata form."
"Where these songs are coming from they're written from a guitar player's perspective not from a bass player's perspective."
"Mana composes all of the band's music and writes its lyrics, arranges, produces, and designs stage costumes, and acts as overall artistic director."
"It's a really fun thing to be able to compose for a huge James Bond movie."
"I couldn't work through too many chords and because of that restriction I wrote a good song, I think."