J. Anthony Allen shows how to thicken orchestral textures with pads, build polyrhythmic drums, and construct a Matrix-style riff using fifths and half-steps. His film-scoring class focuses on composing full soundtracks, analyzing his own cues, and finding films that need music to build a portfolio.
So we can make layers of it. It can kind of fill out the sound. That's what a pad does. Now, pads work really well with orchestra. Check this out. Ignore the movie for a minute. I'm just gonna throw the movie off. Okay, now let's see if we can take this part here and, and turn it into a more polyrhythmic thing. When I'm working on a scene like this, I'm going to start with a drum beat if it makes sense for it to be in there. You know, if I'm working on something like that project that was all for choir, then I'm not going to beat it. What do we do here is we could do one of these Matrix like things. Watch this. Boom. Let's go up a fifth to D. This is like a total Matrix riff I'm going to do right here. Then a half step, then a fifth. They like that going boom, boom, boom, boom. Fifth, half step, fifth. Hey, everyone. Welcome to my film scoring class. This is a class that's been kind of in progress for a really long time. I had a lot of requests to do this kind of a class for a while, and I just didn't know how to do it perfectly where I was going to be really happy with it. But after a lot of research and looking around at what's on the Internet already and other people that are making classes, I decided to dive in and do it because I really wanted to make a class that was focused on composition techniques in film scoring and less about the technical side of things. You can find other classes, and I might even make one eventually on, like, how to set up your software, how to get sample libraries, all the technical ends of it. But what I really wanted to do is focus on this is how you write music to go along with film. Now we will talk a little bit about the technical side of it because we have to. But the majority of this class is about writing music for film, working with film, and developing a career as a film composer. I'm going to show you throughout this class a bunch of my projects that I've done. A bunch of cues I've written for different films, different film projects. I've worked on some television stuff, some other things. And during this class, we're going to write our own film soundtrack. And I'm going to show you how you can find films that need music in them that you can use right away to build as a portfolio. So I hope you decided to take this class with us. I had a ton of fun making it. It turned into this huge class, Bigger than any other class I've ever made. We cover tons of stuff. I'm really proud of it. I'm really excited about everything that's in this class. And I think it's the best class I've ever made. I know I say that every time I make one of these, but this one, for real, the best class I've ever made. Really excited. I hope you decide to jump in and take the class with me. So we'll see you on the inside, Sam.
