How to write trailer music - The Intro
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Let's take a look at how to write trailer music. Specifically, I want to dedicate this video to the intro of a trailer track.
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Thank you so much for your support, feedback and comments. Let's keep em coming. What do you guys think about reaction and analyzing videos of other tracks that have been used in movies etc.
Thank you for these "deep dive" type of videos where you pick apart a short tune that you composed and go through with us both why and how you make it happen! It's very enlightening to hear what a composer thinks and intends, followed by seeing the result. I don't really compose stuff myself, although I wish I could set aside time for it. I often hear tunes in my head (usually just when drifting to sleep or daydreaming) but I have no idea how to utilise such DAWs to make these happen. Seeing your proficiency with manipulating these tools to give the sounds you want is very inspiring.
Thank you so much Wizongod!
The structure of this video is really good. Have your song already made and then break it down to us step by step. I think your channel will continue to multiply if you maintain teaching us like this :) This was a great learning experience for me. thanks!
Thank you so much Daniel! I am working on it. Comments like your, shares and also likes will definitely help. More to come :)
Too. Fucking. Loud. Compared to the level of your speech.
I am sorry
Alex, I have to say you something: Excellent explanations! You are THE PROFESSOR of trailer music! :) You could easily pack this and other videos in a "101 trailer course". But not only trailer music advices here, you are sharing architecture of music with the people in an easy way and that is great! Wish you all the best with your forthcoming videos!
Thank you so much Jorge! :) All the best to you too!
Amazing video!!. Do you encrypt your own NI libraries or do you pay their super high prices? I've always wanted to create free libraries but the price seems way too high..Thoughts?
Thank you! I simply release my libs by making aware that you have to have the full version of Kontakt. Asking NI to encrypt my libs for such small and low priced libs doesn't make any sense at all.
Great video Alex! Maybe I missed it but I couldn’t work out which drums you used. Are those from Devastator as well?
Thank you Alessandro, yes, those were from Devastator (DEV Trailer Drums in the channel name)
Alex Pfeffer oh sh#%^ I’m blind 🤣 thanks!! They sound rad, I must get it
@@AlessandroMastroianni Haha no worries
Hey Alex, it's a very useful and helpful video. Hope you could have more fellow aspiring composers and producers as your followers. Since I am one of the aspiring Trailer Music composers, I wish I could get some news from Trailer Music(or Film, TV, or Video Game Music) Industry. Such as Recent Trend of Style or top composers' choice of Sounds elements analyzed by experts like yourself. It's just a suggestion. :) Thank you for the great composing insight video again!
Thank you so much Kent. I actually had in mind to do trailer music reaction videos but more in the sense of analyzing them :)
What was the software used? And how much does it cost? Im looking for a cheap and easy to use software.
Hey, do you mean the DAW? It is Cubase. Everything else on what I have used I explain in the video.
@@AlexPfeffer yes I meant the DAW thank you
Another great video! 👍
BTW: I can wholeheartedly support your little shout-out to Matt Bowdler/The Unfinished: His preset packs are really excellent!
(Fun story: When I recently practiced writing a synth track consisting of mainly one ongoing bass drone while still sounding interesting, I discovered afterwards that I had inadvertently written a demo track for one of his preset packs... because it actually consisted ONLY of sounds from that pack, without me noticing it a first. Mind you, when I say „demo track“ I don’t mean it in a literal/„official“ way... but Matt liked it enough to mention it on his Socials...)
Haha, that's cool! Thank you so much!
Great video! i just discovered your channel this week and I also invested in Devistator the full edition. I have been looking for a really long time for a youtube channel that makes tutorials like this! You're the only channel i've discovered! Please more content like this. I have a recommendation for future video series. I would love to see you do more introduction trailer music focusing on each new video with new "call and response" patterns "Q&A" ideas. The things that this tutorial really meant to me is how you are breaking down each layer and showing us the patterns in each stage.
Thank you so much again! Noted down! :)
Great video Alex, interesting use of Driver, ... And first I've seen of that evolution library, looks good
Thank you so much!
Great tutorial Thank you so much
I've watched many music youtubers and you're the one who makes real difference when it comes to the structure, effects and synths used in trailer music. Following your intentions, we are able to understand the function of each sound and even substituting the ones you used with the ones we have in our libraries that can accomplish the same purposes.
Thank you soo much! :)
@@AlexPfeffer I've tried to use stock driver plugins but I can't achieve that serum distorted sound. I like to explore but this is the cool one
I understand this boy
Those are great hits! whatever you're using. :)
Brilliant video! 🔥👌
Fantastic video Alex!
👏👏👏👏
Thank you!
thanks for your great videos. i have learned a lot. one thing that i am struggling with is when i start doing soundesign. should i create my presets before i start? or during the composition? i feel that the basic idea of the track should be done in 1h. but when i start to design the sound i totally going off the road and after one hour i have no idea what i initially wanted to do. do you have any tips on this? thanks again
Thank you so much. I would suggest to give yourself time during the week that is completely experimenting time. For example, every Monday at 11am you sit down and go bonkers for an hours. Fool around, save patches and presets that you like that you then can use. Try also to break down work into smaller tasks. You work on a track, and it comes to the sound design. Try to focus on your goal and set a timer for around 20-30 mins to ONLY work on this one specific thing until the timer goes off :)
Good content
Hey Alex! Great video! There are a bunch of trailer music tutorials on youtube but I find that there is very little in terms of hybrid/synthy trailer tutorials. I really enjoyed the video and I hope you keep making new stuff.
Thank you so much, I will!
Hi Alex, this is not related to this video necessarily but have you ever tried Arcade by Output? Is it worth it? Thanks
Yep got it, depends what you want to do. If you like the content from the promo videos etc it is definitely worth it
Excellent video, whilst I’m not trying to create trailer music, I still found it very informative. Thank you Alex
Thank you so much Mark! :)
Thank you Alex for this video. Very informative.
Thank you William!
Wow, thank you for another great video! How do you find Thermal so far? Is there any reason you use Repro and not Zebra?
Thank you so much! Thermal is great! A fresh and cool approach into distortion. Repro sound completely different than Zebra and I just wanted to use Repro in this bit :)
Mate.... you deserve 100M subS!!!
Haha, thank you so much! 🤗
Really great stuff, Alex! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much Ilko!
Nice stuff Alex. Looking forward to your coming videos on the other sections 😁😁
Yes, more to come! Thank you so much!
11:51 You got it right, second attempt, Alex! :D
HAHA!!
Very practical and to the point tips. Thank you Alex!
My pleasure! Thank you so much!
Hey Alex! for a future video can you make a trailer intro at 174 BPM? I am a Drum and Bass / Neurofunk music producer. My purpose for trailer music is the epic sounds and braams, I'm struggling though getting my "call and response" to sound clean since the BPM i enjoy making music is really fast. Would really love to see you make a BRAAM trailer intro at 174 BPM, I'm curious what you can create and show us attempting this tempo !
Thanks Daniel! Generally speaking if you work at such a high tempo I would try to think half time for an intro or (when thinking normal time) using shorter sequences.
@@AlexPfeffer Thanks for the replies! So I wanted to share what I made with you tonight. I literally took your tutorial composition tips and put them into practice. I still don't know exactly what I want to do with this song but SInce you're one of the Music Trailer masters i had to share my progress with you today! Still a work in progress but your tips really helped me come up with this. The track isn't mixed i'm still "tracking" !
soundcloud.com/drhowze/d-sagittarius-test-002
@@AlexPfeffer this one above is 150 BPM composition
Awesome tips Alex thank you.!
My pleasure! Thank you! :)
Thanks Alex, always nice to see how you work and think
Thank you, Sven!
thanks for deconstructing all trailer when we can hear each track solo.
Thanks man!
Always good input. Thank you!
Thank you! :)
everything is great in this video i love the tutorial but what software he uses? please let me know
Thank you! Cubase
thx!@@AlexPfeffer
Really cool sound but isn't this a little to much for an intro? To me this sounds more like an act 2 but you're the expert :) I just thought that the intro should be a bit thinner.
It depends on how huge or massive the main track would be. Thanks!
@@AlexPfeffer Thank you so much for taking the time to answer questions
Which drum did you use?
Devastator - the first one
Hi Alex, greetings from Hamburg.
Thank you for this very informative video. You definitely nail my point of interest with every new video you release. I also really love that you pushed the amount of videos the during the last weeks. Don’t know when to watch all that good stuff :-)
Jetzt muss ich doch kurz auf Deutsch wechseln, da kann ich besser erklären :-)
Mir ist leider bei deinen neuen Videos aufgefallen, dass ich sehr kurze, aber regelmäßige Soundaussetzer bekomme, wenn ich (und nur dann) vom Smartphone auf den Fernseher streame. Diese Soundaussetzer kommen ca. alle 2 Sekunden und äußern sich in einem „Klick“, als wenn ein Signal regelmäßig übersteuert. Es ist also eher eine Art Verzerrung für vielleicht 0,1 Sekunden, reicht aber aus, um den Spaß am Video zu verlieren.
Interessanter Weise habe ich mit Videos von anderen Kanälen keine Probleme beim streamen. Diese Erkenntnis hat mich dazu geführt, dich mal darauf anzusprechen.
Ich weiß, es nicht die feine Art, die „Probleme“ bei anderen zu suchen, daher möchte hier nur mal höflich fragen, ob du vielleicht mit Audio Codecs herumexperimentierst oder ähnliches? Ich kenne mich bei der Videoproduktion noch nicht so gut aus.
Noch interessanter ist, dass sich diese Fehler scheinbar nach wenigen Tagen von selbst beheben. Dieses Phänomen habe ich bisher bei 5 oder 6 deiner Videos festgestellt. Neue Videos haben ein regelmäßiges „Knacken“, ein paar Tage später nicht mehr.
Das soll hier bei weitem keine Beschwerde sein. Ich dachte nur, vielleicht interessieren dich diese Umstände. Ich habe auch kein Problem damit, deine Videos ein paar Tage später nach Release anzuschauen, wenn der Sound „sauber“ ist. Das ist auf jeden Fall wichtig für mich, denn es geht ja nun mal um Sound und schaue deine Videos so gern.
Gruß,
Karsten
Hey Karsten, vielen lieben Dank, aber ich hatte bisher damit keine Probleme, mir ist bei 2 Videos peinlicherweise mein XLR Kabel auf ein Netzteil gefallen und hat ein kleines kurzes Pfeifen verursacht. Nicht heftig, aber ganz minimal wenn das Gate zu geht. Das mit dem Knacken ist mir aber fremd und hatte ich bisher noch nicht. Ist das erste mal, dass ich sowas höre und wüssten auch garnicht was das sein kann. Verstehe nur nicht warum es dann nach ein paar Tagen verschwindet.
@@AlexPfeffer Hi Alex, ja, hm, manchmal ist die Technik wohl unerklärlich. Vielleicht ist da auch ein "TH-cam-Algorithmus" 3 Tage am Werkeln, um das Video fürs streaming zu optimieren :-). Wie auch immer, ich danke dir für deine Rückmeldung und genieße deine Videos einfach ein paar Tage verzögert.
Wünsche dir weiterhin viel Kreativität.
@@karstenz.8754 Haha, ja, das kann sein. Ich schliesse aber ne bestimmte Coden Transmutation nicht ganz aus :D Danke Dir und ebenso!
can't wait for the next video !
Thank you so much! :)
Boom first viewer :D, lol
Boom! :D
Impact or emotion
Impaction!
Excellent!
Thank you, Harry!
Every trailer course I've every taken says to make the intro emotional, atmospheric and simple. This is the opposite. Is this for a specialized type of trailer? I like what you came up with but it sounds more like a build section than an intro.
Thank you Gary, but probably those course were especially about emotional tracks. As a comparison it would be the same as you saying that every guitar course you have taken was about pentonics, Beatles tracks or blues chords ... and then there are people playing downtuned 8 string guitars :D
Check out, for example
Hi Finesse Tectonic
or one of my older tracks: Two Steps from Hell - Blood of the Titan
It doesn't always have to be emotional.
Alex Pfeffer that were for the epic hybrid trailers Sound design trailers may have these bigger intros. That’s why I wondered if this was for a sound design trailer.
@@garysalyers7611 Watch the trailer for Christopher Nolan's Tenet.
ArtifactADU I have. Love it!!! It is different from a lot of trailers I’ve heard. I’m trying to learn how to compose trailers and there are a lot of people who have been doing trailers for years say that the intro is more sparse sounding than the rest of the track. It’s supposed to set a mood with subtle rhythmic elements instead of full blown rhythm elements. Then you hear a track like Tenet, and the track in this video and it leaves one confused about how hard and fast these “rules” are.
@@garysalyers7611 Most trailer intros are a lot more sparse -- similar to this but without the plucks. Most of the time you will introduce a signature sound, and have not all that much movement for the very opening. Then you'd have a section like this following the stop some refer to as the 'build' . It totally depends, but 9/10 for library trailer tracks going to publishers, they will want a fairly sparse intro. Better to play by the 'rules' when you are just starting out, and you'll explore more depth as you go further in.
On a trailer like "Tenet", that is a custom job -- and those often have very different sets of specifications. Especially with Nolan who isn't a big fan of typical sounding trailer tracks.
On older tracks (even as early as a few years back) there was often a bit more movement going on, even some perc - things seem to be trending towards sparse sound design etc these days. But obviously there are exceptions. Study enough trailers and you'll see the trends.
Even action cues and sound design cues are pretty sparse in the first 30 seconds.
Probably the best trailer composer nowdays.I know you since decades ago by the way
Thank you sooo much! ❤️
On a roll lately!
Yep, a daily video for around over a week now :) Planning to keep doing this for a full month :)
Alex Pfeffer Way to go.
Nice
Thanks man! :)
Alex Pfeffer no problem!