This is my podcast all about Trailer Music. I have been writing trailer music for over 10 years and I have had well over 100 placements. I wanted to create a show to share my experience and knowledge and also to talk to other composers in the field.
When I started out I actually lost jobs because my samples didn’t sound “good” enough. Which sucked. Obviously. This, however, led me to falsely believe that getting more and better samples would make my work better. This is a challenging episode for me as I, like most of you,...
You don’t become a professional trailer music composer without picking up a few tricks along the way. One of the most valuable ones is obviously knowing how to ignore/defeat/control the inner critic. We all have those little voices in our heads, usually saying mean things. The trouble...
In this episode I give you simple and effective tips to use to create time to make your music, even if you don’t have any. I started out as music being my ‘side hustle’. I would work to pay the bills during the day and come home and write...
In this episode I cover a question I got from one of my students, which was; “Why is “Done” better than “Perfect”?” The reason they asked me this is because I say this quite a lot in my course videos. As a way to alleviate stress and worry about my...
I have been working with aspiring trailer composers for over two years now. As a result, I have come to learn what it is that most of them do ‘wrong’ in their trailer cues. These mistakes, annoyingly for them, are incredibly easy to make (I still make one of the...
Well, instead of rules, it’s more like the five “guidelines” but “rules” sounds much more definitive and generally more awesome, doesn’t it? More attention grabbing anyway! If I were to say “the five guidelines of trailer music” it would sound more like a HR manual than a gripping...
This episode is actually a more general chat about what inspiration is and how you can better harness it to improve your ability to write on demand. I find a good analogy for inspiration is that it is a flow of energy; it’s just a case of keeping your...
I get asked this all the time: “How do you become a trailer music composer?” Quickly followed by “how do you write trailer music?” I love these questions. Mostly because I LOVE my job and I love talking about it. Hence me starting this podcast I guess. So I thought...
Well it finally happened. I won’t say that I am not nervous about it going live in January… This is just a little trailer that I have put together to give you an idea of what I will be covering in the podcast. Nothing flashy. Just one man…you...