Latest Music for film Podcast Episodes
The Ultimate Guide To Trailer Hits & Impacts
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - October 24, 2022 23:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode I wanted to give you the most detailed breakdown of trailer hits and impacts so that you could better utilise these amazing tools in your music. For a very long time I did not properly educate myself on hits & impacts thinking that they were "gimmicky". Little did I know I was m...
Do You Ever Feel Like This? I know I do!
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - October 17, 2022 23:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn today's episode I talk about the life of a creative person. What it can feel like when you are pursuing something intangible like art. This is a gentle reminder that the creative path can feel frustrating and lonely, but you are not alone. We are all in this together [teary high fives all rou...
Ask Rich: Ending Your First Act On The Fifth Chord?
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - October 11, 2022 08:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode I answer another question from one of my amazing listeners, Darin. The question he wants me to answer is, "Should I end the first act of my neoclassical trailer cues on the fifth chord or should I return to the tonic?" ⭐ FREE Blueprint to the Perfect Trailer Cue 🎙️ Ask Rich a ...
Braaams: How To Use The Sound That Everybody Knows
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - October 04, 2022 08:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsI decided that I wanted to create a guide to our wonderfully overused but still incredibly useful friend, BRAAAMS. In this episode of the show I run through the origins of the Braaam, how we can use them, and how we can get the most of them. ⭐ FREE Blueprint to the Perfect Trailer Cue 📖 Rich...
Ask Rich - Rating the show & Free Instruments
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - September 26, 2022 23:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsHooray, the first episode of 'Ask Rich'. In this episode I answer a question from one of my listeners called Rob. He asks if I can explain how to leave a review of The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast and if I am planning on launching a TMS version of Pianobook - a place where members of our c...
Easily set the tone of your track and give it a unique character with drones!
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - September 19, 2022 23:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsI know what you are thinking (well I assume at least), "Is Rich really gonna do an entire episode about DRONES in music!?" Yes, yes I am and for good reason. There are one of those things that often people completely overlook as they are pretty basic. I would suggest otherwise. You need to ...
Did You Know You Could Do This?
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - September 13, 2022 09:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsI am launching a new service for the podcast where you can record your questions as an audio file that I will include in the show and answer it to the best of my ability. I'm really excited about this as I have already had a few questions recorded and it is so much fun having this interaction w...
Establishing genres in trailer music
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - August 08, 2022 23:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn today's episode, I answer a question I received from one of my awesome TMCP listeners (and TMS customers). The question was simply, "How to I establish genres in trailer music?" As this kind of covers two distinct areas of the job I decided to cover both in the episode. As you know I love ...
Christian Henson - The origins of Spitfire, dealing with anxiety & the secret to his productivity
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - August 08, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Christian Henson (@christianhensonmusic). An absolute legend of a man and a super nice dude! Once I got my initial fanboying out of the way Christian and I had a fascinating conversation about his earliest memories as a composer and h...
Christian Henson - The origins of Spitfire, dealing with anxiety & the secret to his productivity
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - August 08, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Christian Henson (@christianhensonmusic). An absolute legend of a man and a super nice dude! Once I got my initial fanboying out of the way Christian and I had a fascinating conversation about his earliest memories as a composer and h...
Are you struggling with this too?
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - July 25, 2022 23:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings❤️ Grab your FREE blueprint to the perfect trailer cue. I have been a working composer for almost 15 years now. I started in custom; it was exciting, it was fast paced, it was way out of my comfort zone. I LOVED IT. Fast forward all those years and I am only now realising the effect that the c...
How I wrote the trailer music for the Benedetta trailer
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - July 18, 2022 23:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsGrab your FREE blueprint to the perfect trailer cue. You know I love walkthroughs and you do too (I know you do). This one is a different one today. It's another trailerised "solo" violin track. This was one of thirty tracks I composed aimed at (pretty unashamedly) HBO promos, BBC dramas, and o...
From nothing to published with Jon R. Mohr
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - July 11, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn today’s episode I talk with composer Jon R. Mohr. Jon reached out to me on Instagram about coming on the show. He was keen to share his story of going from nothing to now writing for trailer publishers all whilst dealing with his speech impediment. Jon is a cinematic composer and producer fr...
Oh Schrieber, My Schrieber
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - July 04, 2022 23:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn today's episode I talk about the origins of my pseudonym, Richard Schrieber, and why I am no longer going to be working under that name. Basically it is not necessary anymore and still very confusing for me and everyone else. Hee hee. Craft the perfect trailer music cue with this FREE trai...
Recording an Orchestra at Abbey Road - Lessons learnt
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - June 27, 2022 12:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode I walk you through my experience of recording strings and brass at Abbey Road Studios for an action adventure trailer music album. As you can imagine I was super excited about this so I thought it would make an amazing podcast episode where I talked you through what was going th...
The importance of a Positive Mental Attitude with Kati Falk-Flores
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - April 25, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode I talk to the award winning trailer music composer Kati Falk-Flores. Kati shared how she went from studying the French Horn (among other instruments) to learning the ropes of writing trailer music. We talked a lot about the importance of a positive mental attitude and how it can...
A Very British Scandal Trailer Music Walkthrough | Sanctuary by Richard Schrieber
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - April 18, 2022 23:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn today’s episode I walk you through the Trailer Music that was used in A Very British Scandal. This was a bit of a double win for me as this track was a track that I wrote when teaching how to write Emotional Solo String pieces for the Protege Pro students. I’m gonna be totally honest here, ...
How to start your trailer music career, avoiding burnout, and landing placements with Sigurd Jøhnk-Jensen
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - April 11, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsHey Guys, In today’s episode I talk to trailer music and video game composer Sigurd Jøhnk-Jensen. A few months ago he reached out to me on Instagram to tell me about his journey. I was so inspired by Sigurd’s story that I had to get him on the show. Sigurd is a composer and live musician. H...
Archive 81 Trailer Music Walkthrough
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - April 04, 2022 23:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode I show you how I composed the track ‘Monument’ that was featured in the trailer for the Netflix show, Archive 81. This track was one of the ten tracks written for Elephant Music’s album, Throat 4. The focus of this album was to bring throat singing to the fore and let vocals re...
How To Re-Ignite Your Spark
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - March 28, 2022 23:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode I talk about feeling like I had lost my passion for writing music and how I re-ignited my spark. Recently, maybe even over the last couple of years, I have been feeling a bit meh about writing music. I didn’t really want to openly admit it, especially on my show/blog, but as yo...
Britney vs Spears Trailer Music Walkthrough
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - March 22, 2022 00:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn today’s episode I take you behind the scenes of a track of mine that was used in the trailer for Netflix’s special, Britney vs Spears. The track was a track I wrote for a two album release from Mammoth. The albums were solely epic drum intros aimed at action comedy trailers. The effect of e...
Selling millions of dollars of CDs & learning in a fun and Genki way with Richard Graham
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - March 15, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode, Richard talks with digital nomad, Richard Graham. Richard Graham is the lead educational consultant with Genki English and is the world’s leading authority on teaching in a fun, exciting and “genki” way. Through his Genki teaching, Richard Graham has sold millions of dollars o...
Why bother using "trailerised" impacts and hits
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - March 08, 2022 00:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode of the podcast I talk about why it’s important to use big trailer hits in your trailer music. This goes back to something I am always saying to students, “Trailer music is about character, build, and impact”. Yes, you guessed it, these hits take you one step closer to getting th...
“Pigeon-hole my music” - find your niche more like it
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - March 01, 2022 00:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode of the podcast I talk about “Pigeon-holing” your music. I came across this notion (not for the first time) in some comments on Facebook. Now you all know how I feel about cynical/critical people. BUT, this comment sparked a thought that I should probably give my ‘two cents’ on...
Writing the music for The Witcher: Season 2 teaser trailer, with Emma Middleton and Kiaran Scragg
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - February 22, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode of the Trailer Music Composer’s Podcast I am joined by not one, but two very special guests. The supervisor/composer duo Emma Middleton (@rubatomusic_uk) and Kiaran Scragg (@fortnowhere). Together the two of them wrote the track featured on the teaser trailer of The Witcher Seas...
The Role of A Freelance Music Supervisor with Emma Middleton
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - February 15, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode of the Trailer Music Composer’s Podcast I got to chat with the freelance music supervisor, Emma Middleton (@rubatomusic_uk). In our conversation, Emma was so wonderfully transparent about all the aspects of music supervision and how she came to be in that role. This is gonna be...
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast is back
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - February 08, 2022 00:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsHappy New Year Everyone - 2022 is here and what a way to kick it off (albeit it a little late) than to re-launch the Trailer Music Composer’s Podcast!? You may have noticed that I took a little break from producing episodes for the show/site. I was simply following my own advice and giving myse...
Monthly Group Call September 2021
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - September 14, 2021 08:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this months group call, we got some great questions. We'll learn a bit about how to set up your templates for easier stemming. A little bit about customs and different approaches as well as how to beef up your third acts! We then listen to some amazing tracks from our super talented studen...
Montly Group Call August
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - August 24, 2021 08:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWe are back with another group call with the students. Rich answers some great questions and then gives feedback on some tracks. Each month the students are given a brief similar to what you would get in the industry to practice for the real thing, as well as learning to implement the feedbac...
What is ‘Imposter Syndrome’ and how can you deal with it?
The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast - August 17, 2021 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode Richard talks about imposter syndrome. We've all felt this way at some point, like you aren't good enough, like you don't really know what you are doing and don't deserve the success you get. Like you "lucked out" Rich wants to share some methods to get past these kinds of neg...
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