The Altered Scale: The One That Breaks All the Rules.
This is the A1 barbecue sauce of all musical scale modes… (As in, it doesn’t go on everything but when it works, it REALLY adds some tang!)
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Synths 101: How Oscillators & Waveforms Work
Sine, square, triangle, sawtooth waves — we cover everything you ever need to know about how synths use oscillators to create tones.
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THIS Is the Most Defiant Song of All-Time.
Did Rage Against the Machine use EVERY. SINGLE. NOTE in the scale in their iconic 90s protest song, “Killing in the Name”? Let’s take a look!
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How to Use Pedal Tones (for Dramatic Effect!)
There’s nothing quite as mysterious as a progression that is both moving forward and staying the same — harness this power with pedal tones!
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How to Memorize Every Common Interval (Only Using John Williams’ Themes)
There’s nothing more powerful than a truly great “simple” melody. Today, we harness the emotive power of intervals with these 12 film themes.
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How to Use Minor 9 Chords
These chords rule. They sound good on everything and make everything moodier, sombre’r, and gooier — hence; you’re not using them enough.
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Exploring the Functions of Music in Visual Media
Underscore and sound design can serve a variety of different purposes in film and TV, here are a plethora of scene music function examples.
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What Is Leitmotif, and How Do You Use It? (Video)
Another exclusive video lesson from Soundfly’s Intro to Scoring for Film & TV course, this one on the creative composing power of leitmotif.
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10 Films and TV Shows With Distinctive Sonic Worlds
These days, scoring for film and TV is as much about the sound palette a composer uses as it is about the music itself. Here are 10 examples.
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A Brief History of Film Scoring (Video)
In this exclusive video lesson, we attempt the impossible: to (briefishly) sum up the entire history of musical scoring in the film industry.
