Is it too late to get into Trailer Music in 2024?
A common worry is that trailer music is too oversaturated and overly competitive, let me tell you why this is wrong!
The Trailer Music School
Welcome to my Trailer Music School where I teach how to write amazing Trailer music.
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How to Make Trailer Music
In this article, I show you how to make trailer music. I love trailer music and I love teaching it too. Looking over the free content on "how to write trailer music", I feel that quite a few basic elements are missing. So I thought I would create...
Trailer Music Monthly No.2
In this month's Trailer Music Monthly newsletter, Rich dives into the Corner Office trailer music, gives you 8 inspiring trailers to watch, shares the latest podcast episodes and reveals this month's practice brief.
Landing a Star Wars Placement at 17 with Jiri Nemec
In this episode of the Trailer Music Composer's Podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jiri Nemec. Jiri reached out to me via email with the subject line "Star Wars placement at 17 thanks to your podcast", and I knew I had to have him on...
Orchestral Mixing & Mastering with Joël Dollié
Richard Interviews orchestral mixing and mastering engineer Joël Dollié about life as a freelance mixing engineer, course creator, and plugin developer.
Building a Career as a Trailer Music Composer with Chris Davey
In this episode of The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing Chris Davey about his journey from working as a part-time labourer to landing regular placements as a trailer music composer. In the Podcast, We Cover: * How Chris first learned about trailer music * How...
How I Wrote The Lost Ark Trailer Music
[Here's the video transcript] My track 'Thread of Time' recently landed on a trailer for the video game, The Lost Ark. They've just done an update called the 'Artist' series. And they used my track 'Thread of Time'. In this...
Chris Davey on Writing the Music for the Ruby Gillman Trailer
In this post, I had the pleasure of asking the amazingly talented Chris Davey about how he wrote the music that was used in the Ruby Gillman trailer. I was doing my own breakdown of how the music was used in the trailer when I reached out to Chris to...
Act 4 - WTF!?
Whether you call it Act 3 or Act 4, this small section of the music at the end of the trailer is vital for creating urgency and impact.