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Watch and learn: trailer music videos
Short videos where you watch the music come together. Walkthroughs of my placed tracks, the building blocks every trailer cue uses, whole cues from first sketch to finish, and sound design instruments in action. Many are from Espen Haagensli, who taught with me.
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Stage 1
Walkthroughs of my placed tracks
How three of my tracks that ended up in trailers and TV were written.
Stage 2
The building blocks
Drums, hits, braams, risers and drones. Every trailer cue is built from these.
- 4 How to make HUGE DRUM INTROS 2 min
- 5 Epic Drums 2 min
- 6 Epic Hits 2 min
- 7 Big BrahmsBig braams, mostly with reverb and distortion 2 min
- 8 How to create Stutter Risers 2 min
- 9 Tension Drones 2 min
- 10 Action Sound Design 2 Electric Boogaloo 2 min
Want this stage taught in full? Action Sound Design: Learn to build explosive action sound design cues from scratch, with pings, risers, braaams and action drums, then see a demo become a published track.
Stage 3
Whole cues, start to finish
- 11 Basic TemplateThe simple template that gets a session started 2 min
- 12 Piano Cue PART ONE: Sketching 2 min
- 13 Piano Cue Part Two 2 min
- 14 Epic Sci Fi Intro 2 min
- 15 Uplifting Orchestral 2 min
- 16 Happy AdsNot trailers, but the same skills pay in advertising 2 min
Stage 4
Sound design instruments in action
- 17 Quake by Simon Haglund 1 min
- 18 Steam Punk by Fallout Music Group 1 min
Trailer music, from first cue to first placement
Make a living from your music
Horror and suspense music