Guerrilla Film Scoring release date announced

After a year of work I’m happy to announce that my book “Guerrilla Film Scoring: Practical Advice from Hollywood Composers” will be released April 16.

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As the movie and music industries have changed, film scoring has become an overwhelmingly independent process. Film composers have more responsibilities than ever before, and they must fulfill them with smaller budgets and shorter schedules. As a result, composers are increasingly becoming armies of one.

Offering strategic tools and techniques, this insider’s guide draws on the expertise from a number of prominent composers in movies, television, and video gaming, including Stewart Copeland, Bruce Broughton, and Jack Wall. A straightforward do-it-yourself manual, this book will help composers at all levels create the best-sounding scores quickly and cost effectively – WITHOUT jeopardizing their art.

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Guerrilla Film Scoring Complete!!

Today marks a HUGE accomplishment for me! In the last 5 months I shot 20 hours of interviews, wrote a book, and produced 90 minutes of educational video content. “Guerrilla Film Scoring: Practical Advice from Hollywood Composers” is now complete, delivered to my publisher, and out of my hands. I’m very proud of it and excited to give birth to my first book soon.

Guerrilla Film Scoring tentative release

My book “Guerrilla Film Scoring: Practical Advice from Hollywood Composers”, which will be published by Rowman & Littlefield, is now set to be released next spring throughout North America and England, in addition to all of the ebook platforms. I am very excited and honored to become a published book author with them. The book is for composers and it’s about how to produce a great film score both quickly and cost-effectively.

Teaching at Citrus College

This weekend I was again teaching an immersive set of seminars on film scoring at Citrus College to a group of Japanese composers and producers. Over two days I took them on a tour of The Bridge Recording where we visited with film composer Mark Isham, taught them some fundamentals of composing for film, and guided them through scoring a scene of their own on a short deadline. The students were exchange students from the music production and engineering program at Nagoya School of Music.

Teaching at Citrus College

I had the unique opportunity to teach an immersive set of seminars on film scoring at Citrus College to a group of Japanese composers and producers. Over two days I took them on a tour of the Warner Brothers sound stage, taught them some fundamentals of composing for film, and guided them through scoring a scene of their own on a short deadline. The students were exchange students from a music production and engineering program in Japan at the Nagoya School of Music.