30. Drone Variations
A common request from directors is to provide mood-setting music that doesn't call attention to itself. One of the best ways to do this is with long, ...
Charlie’s Music Production Lessons
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In this sub-podcast of Composer Quest, I break down tracks of mine and give techniques and tips I learned while creating them. My goal is to give you production ideas for your own composing and songwriting.
29. MIDI Remix Quest
What would you do if you were given a barebones MIDI file, and told to fill it in with whatever sounds you want? That's the challenge I posed to Compo...
28. SEGA Counterpoint
Early video game music was in some ways a revival of Baroque counterpoint. In this episode, I share one of my video game-y tracks inspired by counterp...
27. Surfing from A to B
What do you do when you've written an A section and B section that don't quite fit together? In this episode I analyze my surf-inspired chiptune track...
26. Skydiving Payoff
To have any real emotional impact, music has to have some sort of payoff, through repeated themes, sounds, or lyrics. When you're scoring a film, you ...
25. Film Scoring Puzzles
When you're scoring a film, some scenes have an obvious emotional direction to follow. Other scenes leave you with a puzzle to solve. In this episode,...
24. Doritos Melody
How would you score a scene where a guy looks longingly at a bag of Doritos stuck in a vending machine? That was one of my recent scoring puzzles I ha...
23. Tropical Island VGM
Video game music seems to have cliche sounds for different types of levels: ice world music, jungle world music, etc. In this episode, I talk about ho...
22. MIDI Masterpiece
Sometimes you have to give yourself weird challenges to get out of your comfortable habits. In this episode, I describe a technique I'm calling visual...
21. 7th Chords and Queen Vocals
Changing a single note in a chord can drastically alter the mood of a piece, like changing from major to minor. In this episode, I show how different ...