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The Rules to Creating Live Soundtracks
(continually under construction)
1. Do not overwrite, leave enough SLACK, so if you get the tempo wrong, you have enough space to remedy it.
2. Find visually iconic monemts in the film ("landmarks") and pair these moments with equally iconic events in the score, helping your navigation
3. Don't be afraid of improvisation, it's a good way to create variety
4. Write for your players strengths
5. Whenever possible, have solo pickups cue tempos and ensemble entrances
6. "Chase" has priority, whatever else is happening should stop.
7. Tempo has priority, unless you are making a statement.
8. Use quotes
9 Sometimes silent films portray simultaneous events by rapidly shifting montages back and forth. Try to find music that can accomodate both
10. Don't be afraid of repeating a recognizable melody, leitmotive, rhythm, especially if there is evolution. Your audience will get a hit of seratonin when they recognize it.
11. Encourage players to internalize the tempos, making awkward conduction unnecessary.
12. Choose a musician (often a percussionist) to fill in the SLACK if we are ahead in the film
July 29, 2025
Selections from TWISTED TALES OF FELIX THE CAT (CBS)>
Sharkie
The Sphinx
General Speech
Where's Pons?
Bagnapping
I Rest My Case
Fireball
Club For Cats
Fats Is Loose
Bright Shiny Things
Free Running Donuts
Get A Cat
Oh Boy Food
Felix in GUARDIAN IDIOT (Full Episode)
Selections from MUSIC FOR FILM
Shaku Forest
Camille 1
Camille 4
AWAAM Theme 2
Undulating Fields of Wheat
Interwoven
Mist of Afternoon
Warmth Of The Morning Sun
Metropolis
Chinese Flowers
So It Happened
Reading In The Theater
Struggle
Struggle for Solo Cello
As The Sun Sets
Selections from MACE (ATARI GAMES) (Technical limitations made looping soundtrack necessary)
As much as I love Mortal Kombat, there is absolutely no fighting-game in my opinion that had musical tracks as memorable as Mace: The Dark Age (@Deader87)
Namira
Taria
The Executioner
Mordos Kull
Xiao Long
Al Rashid
Takeshi
Ragnar
Koyasha
Namira
Lord Deimos
Asmodeus
MACE Full Soundtrack
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