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Creating a theme

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Creating a theme

Now that I have a solid rhythm section and foundation, I can start thinking about some melodies, some harmony and building a theme for this piece. And that's where we can really dig in and start to come up with cool ideas to relate to the brand and the viewer. And really just bring some additional organic elements into this very techy electronic piece. Remember what kind of wasn't working for me or the client in the temp music was, it had all the right rhythm section stuff, but kind of melodically it really didn't go anywhere And really stepped on the dialogue, so what we want to do is kind of add that additional melodic element and make sure that it also works with the dialogue and is memorable for the viewer. So I've flown in my melodic tracks from my stems folder here and we've got a couple. We've got a dub siren, an ES2 melody that's from the ES2 synthesizer in logic. A couple of guitar tracks and a vocal pad. So let's just go ahead and listen to what those sound like here in…

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