So You Want To Become A Composer
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Glad to find this . I was a student of the mighty Rockmaker at Arizona state where this was filmed during the time this was filmed . In terms of pursuing music I like oteil burbrige's advice "Don't ,Theres only one reason to do it and thats if you have to" . If You love Music and follow your heart and that leads to advanced study great.If you have innovation In your music and promote the hell out of yourself people will take notice .If you build it they will come.Read Persichetti,Adler,Read etc
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didnt even think there would be a video on this!
My Dream is to be a composer!
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The usual cynical banter!! Let us keep writing, people!
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wal-mart is always hiring.
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Same suggestions about the background music. Perform an upward compression on the speech and duck the music please! Great job otherwise.
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Karl Schindler is my composing hero!
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I know what Marc Parella means by "flaky" people in the film industry; there are so many horror stories every composer who's written extensively for film will tell from Andre Previn's story about how he was sent a memo not to use minor chords in his scores at MGM to Randy Newman's having been asked by a director to raise the oboe parts in a score a "half an octave" when it was explained by Newman that raising the instrument a full octave would take it out of its range.
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What a nice surprise to find this short, but right on comment piece on being a concert music composer. Everything said in this piece has truth to it. However, don't be discouraged! Write new music because you have an urge to do so - not because you want bright, shiny crap.
Take the background music out of the audio track. It is extremely distracting. Otherwise great interviews.
mec7070 4 years ago 79
What?!?? I have to turn up the volume on this video Waaaaaaay the F*&k up and then suddenly there are sections that are SO LOUD they almost shatter my ear-drums. This is a perfect example of a VERY, VERY poorly MIXED video. You have to SPEND SOME TIME mixing the AUDIO PROPERLY, SIR! D-Minus! Sorry.
godadameve 4 years ago 37