Soundtracks- we’ve all heard ‘em!

They’re quite interesting when you start to pay attention to them, which I find intriguing that most people (including myself) don’t actually notice the music as a song, yet someone created that piece of music and has given it to many musicians to record and use for a particular movie or TV show. Obviously I’m not talking about the soundtracks with lyrics, such as in musicals, but rather the pure music soundtracks.

I’m not a huge movie person, but when I’ve watched movies I recently have been noticing the background music in them. It always seems to come in during a transition scene, dramatic scene, sad scene, and those of which have some dramatic emotion. We’ve all heard them, but have you ever stopped to actually listen to the tune? Even the TV commercials have some sort of tune to them.

Every soundtrack is going to be different and sometimes it’s not even created by actual instruments, and it may be a computer or keyboard. Go watch your favorite movie and try and figure out whether it’s created by an orchestra, one man band, computer program, or a keyboard.

Here’s an example of a song being created by a keyboard- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq1UVboz36E

Here’s an example of a song being produced by a one my band (I’m sure you’ve all heard of the Piano Guys, right?)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FblHCHOLAcQ

You should look up the making of some soundtrack sometime, I’m sure it will make up become more appreciative of the all the work it takes to put 30 seconds of music to that one commercial or TV show.