The Bass Geek

I had to score a video project this week, and it turned out a little bit harder than I thought. The video in question was a take-off on a soap opera, so I was already at a bit of a loss (the only experience I have are viewing a few episodes of “All My Children,” I think, after lunch in my fraternity house - the house mother watched it). I was also separated from my usual MIDI gear. I basically had to toss together some loops and add some effects in Soundtrack Pro with some help from Reason. Most of the music joined one scene to the next, but I inserted some sound effects under the action as well.

It gives me a lot more respect for folks who score television shows week in and out. I realize that some of the jobs have gone to music supervisors that find prerecorded songs to insert into shows (and then find more music to replace the original music on DVD releases), but this is still some hard work. I also couldn’t imagine doing this without digital tools like Soundtrack Pro, Sibelius or Reason. I’m sure that if I did this on a more regular basis, it’d be easier to come up with some ideas and plot them out in a better way. Still, I couldn’t have gotten by without the sketchpad ability (and the undo function) of these programs.

I REALLY wanted to use some fretless bass on the project - I don’t think I heard a cop show or drama in the late 80s and early 90s that didn’t have some kind of fretless bass licks underneath the action. A truly inspired era that was.

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