Thinking of you this week Christian. Your mum was a part of so many of our childhoods. She’ll be having a cup of tea and a slice of cake with Jon Pertwee now.
I'm sure this comment thread will fill with comments and best wishes to your family Christian, i'd like to add to that and send my sincere condolences to you all. I also want to thank you for putting this fantastic content out and I hope as you read these comments you take some warmth in the community you have built around this channel and know we are all here for you. All the best mate, and again, my sincere condolences.
First off, my condolences Christian. Secondly, the reason I bought the Spitfire/Hainbach instrument was as sign of support. Hainbach's music isn't my cup of tea. But I like the fact that he is out there. Doing his thing. So buying an affordable sample library seemed like a good way to express that. In a way that puts food on his table. Or a new piece of equipment in his rack. Equally so to you and Spitfire. And I got myself a new toy to play with and get inspired by.
Condolences to you and your family Christian. Your Mother was a real shining light on or tele boxes and must of been so proud of all of her talented brood.🙏🏻
Not surprised by what is dominating the comments. Thoughts with you and your family, Christian. Discovered your fantastic channel at the start of the lockdown, but your wonderful mum has been a household name my whole life. Take care.
I lost my mom last month, I'm traveling to spread her ashes in all the places she told me before her death. I'm leaving today in the midsts of putting together my audio department for a game development studio. Things can wait. All the love from this small part of the world to your people.
Sincere condolences, Christian. Only the other day I was watching an old episode of Midsomer Murders in which your mother played the part of a bored, alcoholic wife of a well-to-do businessman. The scene where she jumped into a swimming pool was hilarious and demonstrated her brilliant skills as an actress and comedienne. She will be sorely missed.
My condolences, Christian. Best wishes to you and your family. I want to thank you for all the great content that you've put out and the invaluable information that you've provided. You've given me quite the perspective on life and an evaluation of which direction I should take in my music career. Much love. Thanks again, Christian!
The shot of you on the bench is wonderfully bonkers! Has left me pondering on the the hows and whys of that aesthetic choice. Great video as usual and really interesting interview with Matt, especially about 'The End of the F***ing World', which I remember enjoying muchly when it came out.
My sympathy on the loss of your mother. You are remarkable and I am sure she must be proud. thank you for doing this now! Carole Paul Trombonist Composer Arranger
Really enjoying the content on building the “CEO” side of things - a comprehensive look at marketing strategy and putting yourself out there would be wonderful. Different techniques: what does successful cold calling look like? What does building a successful social media presence look like? etc. Vitally important, but so often overlooked.
This video arrived at just the right time, Christian. I definitely need to start branching out more if I want my music to be heard outside of work colleagues, friends, and family. It's a bit hard to deal with those closest to you not care about your music as you would expect them to. Onward!
❤️ for you. Great video this, basically with the underscore that nothing is wasted, no music written, no time taken socialising and getting to know your fellow creators. Great positive sentiments.
I’d like to add my condolences too. Spitfire is more than a company to buy things off. It’s a community of like minded people run by nice people. Hence why the loss of your mum has generated real support. Very best wishes to you and the family. P
Not everyone finds engagement with others natural. To create your own 'brand' makes some folk feel queasy. It's still a case of not what you know but who you know. That being said It's great that there are some online sources offering information, and your videos certainly do that.
I couldn't agree more about needing a social presence. I live in Lincolnshire, aka 'nowhere' therefore every interesting musical related thing I've achieved is a result of my TH-cam content and the people I've met through the comments section. I'm scoring my first feature film in the next few weeks 😎😁
The other side of that is those who are not good at 'gaming' social media systems, will lose out. A friend made a comment 15 years ago (on a documentary about a group of us who had made the transition from hanging out on an electronic music production forum to organising gigs, and in several cases, multi day festivals all across Europe), that although the internet was a great democratiser for people being able to market and distribute their music (after the revolution of affordable PCs & music software), everyone was literally getting lost in the noise. Therefore, those who stand out are those who can work social media. The other side of that is that genuine artists find the level of required engagement hard while maintaining authenticity. Well done on getting the film scoring gig!
@@chriszanf That is true. It's difficult to get anywhere among the shear amount of other people doing the same thing and that only going to become more of a problem. The only way to really stand out then is to do things differently like Christian has mentioned before. I like to spread myself around genre wise and make a lot of daily jams when I've got time which got the attention of the director then I earned his trust by letting him use some of my work for free on his short film projects. I'm actually super shit at being in front of the camera and it's only something I've started doing regularly in the last few months but I wish I'd done it much sooner. Hainbach said in one of his videos that 'its the artist that sells the art' which is very true. Thanks I'm in my elements when working on film. It's a horror and the director has asked for experimental work from me, yesss 😁
Theres a few of us Lincolnshire based composers on here 🤘🍻 Congrats on the feature film, getting work in our neck of the woods is 10 times tougher, when you can’t easily get face to face with potential clients. In that way, we are definitely disadvantaged compared to our London based contemporaries, but personally I find the quieter, less chaotic environment to be there own kind of advantage.
@@samshrimpton407 Hey, hi neighbour 🤜🤛 Yeah I've been lucky to have made the contacts that I have already considering how isolated I am here. But yeah it's super super quiet where I live and work now, great for recording at least 😄
@@ChrisLodyMusic Haha, hi! It’s no small thing landing a feature film while being so rural! Thats a real accomplishment! I’ve managed to gain a few decent contacts over the years, but it’s been a slow, drawn out and frustrating affair. Explaining to clients that I’d have to take an hours car journey to a train station, and 2 or 3 trains, just to get to Kings Cross…or a 10hr coach journey when they want to meet for lunch in central London the same day, hasn’t always been a good look…neither has referring to people as “duck” 🤣 but I reckon the peace and quiet was worth way more than the convenience of being based centrally.
Hi Christian. Thank you for your videos. You are creating very unique content. I know many amateur composers that spending many days only with one cue. Sometines it takes up to a few weeks to finish one soundtrack (3-5 min. lenght). The same story about me. As you mentioned before usualy professional composers has only a couple days turnaround to compose a bunch of cues. I'm curious are there any tips that helps to learn write music fast (except experience of course). Thank you.
Personally I’ve avoided social media for as long as I could. I’ve never been fully convinced of its necessity. I don’t buy into this idea that you’re putting yourself at a disadvantage by not using it. Its just one of many tools. Just because everyones using the same tool, or doing the same thing doesn’t mean you should too, but if you’re not going to use it, you should at least know why your not using it. At the end of the day you have to be visible and while I know I could personally be doing more in that regard, I do think with that same token, if you want to stand out…don’t do what everyone else is doing 🤷♂️ just my opinion though. Sorry for your loss Christian, can’t even imagine what its like dealing with the loss of a parent, while its being covered by all of the British news media. Hope you and your family are holding up ok.
Like everyone else on here, I thought of you Christian as soon as I saw the news yesterday. Sincere condolences on losing your Mum and so soon after your Dad... T xo
The story about the Alps film director: why didn’t she like reverb for her big wide shots? Did a dry sound suit the characterisation better maybe or what?
@@TheCrowHillCo Oh I think I get it - she thought it was reverb that she didn’t like, so she had you remove the reverb more and more, and actually the whole time it was the trem guitar that she didn’t like? By the time you both realised, it was too late in the process to put reverb back in?
People steeped in classical music education often hate (added) reverb with a passion too. It’s somehow seen as fake and cheating, and diminishes the quality of the music. Stuff that’s absolutely drenched in it I agree, but a little goes a long way.
Not a great fan of dan’s music but I think he has great ambition. One thing I have noticed as a side note is the lack of diversity in terms of ethnicity in the world of media composition and especially this channel. I wonder how many people from minority backgrounds get the opportunity to go to fancy universities and then have the time to start a TH-cam channel whiles also working full time. Might be an interesting debate to have. Again this is completely separate from Dan keen but I think it’s an interesting topic.
Yes as a father with a mixed race daughter and someone who didn’t go to uni this is in need of correction. My real concern is the defunding of music education in state education and a fundamental driving force behind the LABS and BBCSO concepts that I have pushed through at spitfire. You will notice our composer magazine features a diverse selection of composers from all walks of life and I hope this helps just a little bit to develop a sense of “I could do that” in people from all backgrounds. There’s more to be done and it’s just about working that little bit harder throwing that net a little bit wider.
Good comment and I agree. Nothing against Dan Keen, but he strikes me as coming from the sort of background who’s always likely to end up where he wants to be, whatever the field - I’d be more interested in the stories of some of the other new people you got around the same sort of time.
Check out Alex Moukala, he's almost an entirely self-taught composer/TH-camr who does extensive tutorials. He's had music used in Avenger's trailers etc.
fuck ethnicity, the problem is different . I am the proof that “ethnicity” is not that problem. There are a lot of poor people from all kinds visiting elite universities, as i did. Just some unis have issues not having black people, but also black people do not apply so much here in Austria, so is hard to tell
every art has an element of elite, luck, geniality and work. Dan Keen missed to mention elite and luck, but is normal to think we have all by means of our own efforts. Some people are in better networks, simple as this! Sk,e other people have to work on this additionally, and some other people are just great composers, not great sellers! They maybe don’t need to be, they do music.
@@Markrspooner Hi Mark, no link in the post, it was just a bit long. I checked to see if there is a cap on youtube comments and there is none now,it's limitless. When i posted, I copied what i had writen then posted.It showed up ok but as soon as I refreshed this page, it was gone. I tried that twice and it's deleted instantly. No recial or sexsist coments and no swearing. Just don't get it.
@@keiththeodosiou very odd, no idea what that might have happened. The reason I mentioned the link issue is I have linked to relevant posts on VI-C before and the posts were deleted within a couple of minutes
I understand that the current market is categorically very influential ... but the current composer cannot go back the last 100 years of music ... with an already very exhausting and worn tonalism ... even Wagner would sound more current.
There is just no place for this job anymore. It's insanely too much competitive and all about networking and luck (notice how they all start with "I've been luck"), barely talent. The best thing to make money now in this field is selling courses, plugins or sample libraries to thousand of dreamers. Or being a sandwich board man youtuber for the people/companies who does any of it. It's the gold rush, just sell axes..
Thinking of you this week Christian. Your mum was a part of so many of our childhoods. She’ll be having a cup of tea and a slice of cake with Jon Pertwee now.
I'm sure this comment thread will fill with comments and best wishes to your family Christian, i'd like to add to that and send my sincere condolences to you all. I also want to thank you for putting this fantastic content out and I hope as you read these comments you take some warmth in the community you have built around this channel and know we are all here for you. All the best mate, and again, my sincere condolences.
So sorry to hear about your Mum Christian - a great lady.
First off, my condolences Christian. Secondly, the reason I bought the Spitfire/Hainbach instrument was as sign of support. Hainbach's music isn't my cup of tea. But I like the fact that he is out there. Doing his thing. So buying an affordable sample library seemed like a good way to express that. In a way that puts food on his table. Or a new piece of equipment in his rack. Equally so to you and Spitfire. And I got myself a new toy to play with and get inspired by.
Condolences to you and your family Christian. Your Mother was a real shining light on or tele boxes and must of been so proud of all of her talented brood.🙏🏻
Deepest condolences, Christian. Much love to you and your family. And thank you for your offerings in this video. Deeply appreciated.
Not surprised by what is dominating the comments. Thoughts with you and your family, Christian. Discovered your fantastic channel at the start of the lockdown, but your wonderful mum has been a household name my whole life. Take care.
I lost my mom last month, I'm traveling to spread her ashes in all the places she told me before her death. I'm leaving today in the midsts of putting together my audio department for a game development studio.
Things can wait.
All the love from this small part of the world to your people.
Sincere condolences, Christian. Only the other day I was watching an old episode of Midsomer Murders in which your mother played the part of a bored, alcoholic wife of a well-to-do businessman. The scene where she jumped into a swimming pool was hilarious and demonstrated her brilliant skills as an actress and comedienne. She will be sorely missed.
So sorry for your loss Christian my condolences to you and your family.
My condolences, Christian. Best wishes to you and your family.
I want to thank you for all the great content that you've put out and the invaluable information that you've provided.
You've given me quite the perspective on life and an evaluation of which direction I should take in my music career. Much love. Thanks again, Christian!
I'm sorry for your loss. I wish you and your family all the strength, support and love in this time of mourning.
Sorry for your loss Christian. Thanks for managing to be so encouraging and inspiring during these last two difficult years especially.
The shot of you on the bench is wonderfully bonkers! Has left me pondering on the the hows and whys of that aesthetic choice.
Great video as usual and really interesting interview with Matt, especially about 'The End of the F***ing World', which I remember enjoying muchly when it came out.
My sympathy on the loss of your mother. You are remarkable and I am sure she must be proud. thank you for doing this now! Carole Paul Trombonist Composer Arranger
Really enjoying the content on building the “CEO” side of things - a comprehensive look at marketing strategy and putting yourself out there would be wonderful. Different techniques: what does successful cold calling look like? What does building a successful social media presence look like? etc. Vitally important, but so often overlooked.
Christian, Condolences to you and your family.Had the same to go through last year, wish you all the best!
Una. What a woman. What a talent. What a loss to all of us. Deepest sympathies to you Christian.
I'm sorry to hear about your mom christian we're all thinking of you & our thoughts are with you
Hope you're doing well Christian, both your Mum and yourself have had a positive impact on my life
Can only reiterate heartfelt previous comments, your mum was part of our childhood, very sad news, much love and keep strong fella.
This video arrived at just the right time, Christian. I definitely need to start branching out more if I want my music to be heard outside of work colleagues, friends, and family. It's a bit hard to deal with those closest to you not care about your music as you would expect them to. Onward!
Social Media and its extreme impact on Metal Health. A video i liked. th-cam.com/video/d97mTNxfn-k/w-d-xo.html
❤️ for you.
Great video this, basically with the underscore that nothing is wasted, no music written, no time taken socialising and getting to know your fellow creators. Great positive sentiments.
Very sad to hear about your loss. Lots of love to you and your family.
Thanks for the great video (again) and my condolences to you and your family.
Our deepest sympathy to you, and your family, at this time. Take care.
My condolences, best wishes and thoughts go out to you and your family, Christian, at this time.
so sorry for your loss christian my sincere condolences
I’d like to add my condolences too. Spitfire is more than a company to buy things off. It’s a community of like minded people run by nice people. Hence why the loss of your mum has generated real support. Very best wishes to you and the family. P
Ah, Una was certainly part of my childhood - great family entertainment. Just wonderful. All the best Christian.
So sorry to hear the news about your mum. Such a wonderful talent. Take care.
Big up Christian , on the passing of your Mam xx many a loud laugh when she played Aunt Sally as a child xx
Not everyone finds engagement with others natural. To create your own 'brand' makes some folk feel queasy.
It's still a case of not what you know but who you know.
That being said It's great that there are some online sources offering information, and your videos certainly do that.
Really sorry to hear about your Mum Christian. She was a great actress and a lovely lady!
So someone who is hopeless socially would never get anywhere then ?
not with these people , but maybe in the history of music in his city ;) key is to perform, release music or scores. Only time tells.
I couldn't agree more about needing a social presence. I live in Lincolnshire, aka 'nowhere' therefore every interesting musical related thing I've achieved is a result of my TH-cam content and the people I've met through the comments section. I'm scoring my first feature film in the next few weeks 😎😁
The other side of that is those who are not good at 'gaming' social media systems, will lose out.
A friend made a comment 15 years ago (on a documentary about a group of us who had made the transition from hanging out on an electronic music production forum to organising gigs, and in several cases, multi day festivals all across Europe), that although the internet was a great democratiser for people being able to market and distribute their music (after the revolution of affordable PCs & music software), everyone was literally getting lost in the noise.
Therefore, those who stand out are those who can work social media.
The other side of that is that genuine artists find the level of required engagement hard while maintaining authenticity.
Well done on getting the film scoring gig!
@@chriszanf That is true. It's difficult to get anywhere among the shear amount of other people doing the same thing and that only going to become more of a problem. The only way to really stand out then is to do things differently like Christian has mentioned before. I like to spread myself around genre wise and make a lot of daily jams when I've got time which got the attention of the director then I earned his trust by letting him use some of my work for free on his short film projects.
I'm actually super shit at being in front of the camera and it's only something I've started doing regularly in the last few months but I wish I'd done it much sooner. Hainbach said in one of his videos that 'its the artist that sells the art' which is very true.
Thanks I'm in my elements when working on film. It's a horror and the director has asked for experimental work from me, yesss 😁
Theres a few of us Lincolnshire based composers on here 🤘🍻 Congrats on the feature film, getting work in our neck of the woods is 10 times tougher, when you can’t easily get face to face with potential clients. In that way, we are definitely disadvantaged compared to our London based contemporaries, but personally I find the quieter, less chaotic environment to be there own kind of advantage.
@@samshrimpton407 Hey, hi neighbour 🤜🤛 Yeah I've been lucky to have made the contacts that I have already considering how isolated I am here. But yeah it's super super quiet where I live and work now, great for recording at least 😄
@@ChrisLodyMusic Haha, hi! It’s no small thing landing a feature film while being so rural! Thats a real accomplishment! I’ve managed to gain a few decent contacts over the years, but it’s been a slow, drawn out and frustrating affair. Explaining to clients that I’d have to take an hours car journey to a train station, and 2 or 3 trains, just to get to Kings Cross…or a 10hr coach journey when they want to meet for lunch in central London the same day, hasn’t always been a good look…neither has referring to people as “duck” 🤣 but I reckon the peace and quiet was worth way more than the convenience of being based centrally.
Sorry for your loss Christian. Hope the family is doing ok.
Sincerest condolences to you and yours, Christian.
Hi Christian. Thank you for your videos. You are creating very unique content.
I know many amateur composers that spending many days only with one cue. Sometines it takes up to a few weeks to finish one soundtrack (3-5 min. lenght). The same story about me. As you mentioned before usualy professional composers has only a couple days turnaround to compose a bunch of cues. I'm curious are there any tips that helps to learn write music fast (except experience of course).
Thank you.
SO entertaining as always! I laugh cried at the reverb story.
So sorry to hear about your Mum, Christian. Hope you and your family are OK.
Personally I’ve avoided social media for as long as I could. I’ve never been fully convinced of its necessity. I don’t buy into this idea that you’re putting yourself at a disadvantage by not using it. Its just one of many tools. Just because everyones using the same tool, or doing the same thing doesn’t mean you should too, but if you’re not going to use it, you should at least know why your not using it. At the end of the day you have to be visible and while I know I could personally be doing more in that regard, I do think with that same token, if you want to stand out…don’t do what everyone else is doing 🤷♂️ just my opinion though.
Sorry for your loss Christian, can’t even imagine what its like dealing with the loss of a parent, while its being covered by all of the British news media. Hope you and your family are holding up ok.
Condolences and deepest sympathies on the loss of your Mother, Christian -
Condolences Christian. Sad news. Thinking of you and the family.
My deepest condolences to you and your family, Christian.
Thank you for all the wisdom
Sorry to hear about your mum. Sending love.
My sincere condolences Christian dear boy x
Condolences to your family. 🙏🏾
Like everyone else on here, I thought of you Christian as soon as I saw the news yesterday. Sincere condolences on losing your Mum and so soon after your Dad... T xo
Trying to figure out the geometry of Matt's room was really hurting my head. :)
The story about the Alps film director: why didn’t she like reverb for her big wide shots? Did a dry sound suit the characterisation better maybe or what?
No it was that she didn’t know what reverb was she thought tremolando guitar was reverb so got an arid score which didn’t beat suit the panoramas.
@@TheCrowHillCo Oh I think I get it - she thought it was reverb that she didn’t like, so she had you remove the reverb more and more, and actually the whole time it was the trem guitar that she didn’t like?
By the time you both realised, it was too late in the process to put reverb back in?
People steeped in classical music education often hate (added) reverb with a passion too. It’s somehow seen as fake and cheating, and diminishes the quality of the music. Stuff that’s absolutely drenched in it I agree, but a little goes a long way.
Hi Christian. Hope you’re doing ok.
My deepest condolences Christian.
hi Christian, Hope all's well with you
All the best Christian.
The hard truth of commercial production.
❤️
Take care
Who is Christian Henson ? Well, It's just a guy who talk about music and musicians life in unlikely windy places, and he's damn good.
Not a great fan of dan’s music but I think he has great ambition. One thing I have noticed as a side note is the lack of diversity in terms of ethnicity in the world of media composition and especially this channel. I wonder how many people from minority backgrounds get the opportunity to go to fancy universities and then have the time to start a TH-cam channel whiles also working full time. Might be an interesting debate to have. Again this is completely separate from Dan keen but I think it’s an interesting topic.
Yes as a father with a mixed race daughter and someone who didn’t go to uni this is in need of correction. My real concern is the defunding of music education in state education and a fundamental driving force behind the LABS and BBCSO concepts that I have pushed through at spitfire. You will notice our composer magazine features a diverse selection of composers from all walks of life and I hope this helps just a little bit to develop a sense of “I could do that” in people from all backgrounds. There’s more to be done and it’s just about working that little bit harder throwing that net a little bit wider.
Good comment and I agree. Nothing against Dan Keen, but he strikes me as coming from the sort of background who’s always likely to end up where he wants to be, whatever the field - I’d be more interested in the stories of some of the other new people you got around the same sort of time.
Check out Alex Moukala, he's almost an entirely self-taught composer/TH-camr who does extensive tutorials. He's had music used in Avenger's trailers etc.
fuck ethnicity, the problem is different . I am the proof that “ethnicity” is not that problem. There are a lot of poor people from all kinds visiting elite universities, as i did. Just some unis have issues not having black people, but also black people do not apply so much here in Austria, so is hard to tell
every art has an element of elite, luck, geniality and work. Dan Keen missed to mention elite and luck, but is normal to think we have all by means of our own efforts. Some people are in better networks, simple as this! Sk,e other people have to work on this additionally, and some other people are just great composers, not great sellers! They maybe don’t need to be, they do music.
I don't get this, every time I put a comment on here, when I come back here it's vanished. Twice on this page now lol
Did you have a link in it? If you did they often get auto deleted as there are spam bots that attach links to just about every youtube video
@@Markrspooner Hi Mark, no link in the post, it was just a bit long. I checked to see if there is a cap on youtube comments and there is none now,it's limitless. When i posted, I copied what i had writen then posted.It showed up ok but as soon as I refreshed this page, it was gone. I tried that twice and it's deleted instantly. No recial or sexsist coments and no swearing. Just don't get it.
@@keiththeodosiou very odd, no idea what that might have happened. The reason I mentioned the link issue is I have linked to relevant posts on VI-C before and the posts were deleted within a couple of minutes
@@Markrspooner I may have to contact support to see what's going on
I understand that the current market is categorically very influential ... but the current composer cannot go back the last 100 years of music ... with an already very exhausting and worn tonalism ... even Wagner would sound more current.
Essentially, make a TH-cam channel and pray that the cool kids let you into the cool club or be Trent Reznor.
There is just no place for this job anymore. It's insanely too much competitive and all about networking and luck (notice how they all start with "I've been luck"), barely talent.
The best thing to make money now in this field is selling courses, plugins or sample libraries to thousand of dreamers.
Or being a sandwich board man youtuber for the people/companies who does any of it.
It's the gold rush, just sell axes..
You're a very clever man, I understand what your saying, it's not what you know it's who you know, when can I pop round for a cup of tea?
I have joked with people before that it’s not even who you know, it’s “who knows you”
@@SamRedfern91 perfect
long term only what you know atract the right people, but theoretically you can be a papst today even being satanist, if you are in the right network
We want Dave, we want Dave, we want Dave repeat ‘til fade 😁