*Happy Feet*
So it turns out, I did get the gig to create music for the toy for the Movie HAPPY FEET. Here was the assignment:
Write and produce 3 versions of a music loop that can play endlessly and is less than 3 seconds long, in the style of the movie's theme music. Here are my three examples (you'll hear the loop by itself, then the loop 4 times in a row):
HAPPYFEET_1.0.mp3
HAPPYFEET_2.0.mp3
HAPPYFEET_3.0.mp3
NOTE: These are demos, but I don't own the rights to the final music, and neither do you -- so I encourage you to NOT download or distribute these. Once you've heard them once or twice here, I'm not sure why you'd want to download them anyway...
For the tech-heads, I created these mostly with Stylus RMX, Trilogy, and bits from a sample CD called "Funky-Ass Loops". There's also a few stock Roland JV-5080 sounds, and a touch of live guitar and bass... it was impossible to create anything longer than one bar without either going over 3 seconds, or creating a tempo that was just TOO FAST.
High art? Not a chance.
Glamorous? Umm, not so much.
But hey, this is also what musicians get paid to do! So far, the client likes these, so we'll see what they go with... I'll keep you posted.
Write and produce 3 versions of a music loop that can play endlessly and is less than 3 seconds long, in the style of the movie's theme music. Here are my three examples (you'll hear the loop by itself, then the loop 4 times in a row):
HAPPYFEET_1.0.mp3
HAPPYFEET_2.0.mp3
HAPPYFEET_3.0.mp3
NOTE: These are demos, but I don't own the rights to the final music, and neither do you -- so I encourage you to NOT download or distribute these. Once you've heard them once or twice here, I'm not sure why you'd want to download them anyway...
For the tech-heads, I created these mostly with Stylus RMX, Trilogy, and bits from a sample CD called "Funky-Ass Loops". There's also a few stock Roland JV-5080 sounds, and a touch of live guitar and bass... it was impossible to create anything longer than one bar without either going over 3 seconds, or creating a tempo that was just TOO FAST.
High art? Not a chance.
Glamorous? Umm, not so much.
But hey, this is also what musicians get paid to do! So far, the client likes these, so we'll see what they go with... I'll keep you posted.
3 Comments:
Maybe when the soundtrack comes out they'll put the loops on the end of the CD like a bonus, sort of what they did with David Holmes' drum loops in "Ocean's 12". Ahhh...
And those loops were sweet. #3 was my favorite.
Is that the movie with the penguins???
Jim, you are amazing.
:-D
i think you should use happyfeet5 bacause it sounds cool. peace out girl scout. Dylan Reeves
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