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Well this is just a quick blog post to say "Wow!"

These arrived last night and they are amazing. I'll go into more and more detail over the coming weeks.

In the meantime please take this demo put together extremely hastily. I will be refining it over the next few nights.

http://www.jamessemple.com/music/lassdemo.mp3

This doesn't even get close to showing what LASS can do but at least you get some idea of the rich and… Continue

Hi fellow Forumlings

Well after my first action music blog post there had to be the inevitable sequel.

So ... my first post had no aspirations to be comprehensive but it tried to cover some of the basics. In this post I'd like to cover a few more tricks that I've used of late. Again there's no effort to cover all bases but more to open discussion. I'm sure I'll have further posts on this subject.

My latest… Continue

Well it's been a while since I wrote anything about composition techniques and I thought it was time to post a new blog.

Anyone who reads a lot of these blogs will be aware that one of the main things I've always loved about film music is the specific harmonic devices employed. To date I've already covered chromatic mediants, tritones, bitonality and planing.

In this blog I want to briefly discuss a fairly simple device which is exceptionally effective for giving a sense of otherworldliness. I… Continue

Ok, so it's been a while and I've been very busy but I thought I'd try and drop in a quick blog post about writing action/fight music.

A brief overview
Lots of action scenes take place accompanied by major themes from a film or even background songs. This is not really the kind of action music I'm looking at here. What I'm discussing in this post is classic action music - frantic, dissonant and often quite bewildering. Think of everything from Jerry Goldsmith's work to modern films score… Continue

In light of my more popular blog posts I decided to really give the game away here and post up some of my favoured mix/production techniques.

A review of my commercially available music (http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=57994&src=compforum) brought to light that the freely available music on my website is not of the quality of my current output. To this end I've decided to write a whol… Continue