Featured Tutorial: Dramatic Cue in 9 minutes

By admin on April 22, 2011 on Tutorials composer, composition guide, cue, dramatic cue, how to write dramatic music, mike patti, tutorial

Mike Patti from Cinesamples has a very interesting and somewhat disheartening tutorial (wish I could do it!) on how to create a dramatic cue in 9 minutes. Its actually quite fun to watch and you might pick up a couple of things from it. Check it out below.

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Emmett Cooke is an Irish composer for film, tv and video games. His music has been used around the world by high profile companies including Sony Playstation, Ralph Lauren, ABC, CBS, NBC, Lockheed Martin and many more.

http://www.strandland.com Dave Strand

How did you keep in time? Do you hear a click or just take visual cues off the piano roll?
- http://www.SonicOctave.com Emmett Cooke
  
  You can use the click built into your DAW.
Cyriel Heidema

Im fairly new as composing film scores, But how do you start making the chords?