Lesson:Mad Max:Creating the sound of joy

Lesson Summary - "Tiny bells all in a row"

In this lesson, you learn to create musical sound effects with repeating patterns. That means we use rhythm to create the mood.

1. On one track of GarageBand, select four notes to be played by high pitched bells. Make the notes very short so they entire sequence plays in one second or less.

2. Drag the section so it repeats for four seconds (four times). Now you have sixteen bell sounds in four seconds.

3. With a soft sounding instrument on another track, play the four notes slowly, one per second.

Using this a base, you can add addition tracks with other notes.

Where are we?

This lesson is the second of three lessons in film scoring.

1. Creating music with individual notes.

2. Creating music with rhythm.

3. Creating music with melody.

These are the tools we will use to create our film scores. Here are some examples:

1. The sound of Fear

2. The sound of Joy

3. The sound of Adventure

Film scoring lessons

Below are Mad Max's Music Lessons. To the right are general filmmaking lessons.

• 1. The Sound of Fear
• 2. The Sound of Joy
• 3. Creating film scores from Midi files
• 4. Creating a humming score
• 5. Film Scoring Workshop - Movie for Television

Supplemental A: Examples of Narrative Music Supplemental B: A fun movie which needs a film score

Contact Your Instructor

• Your instructor for this class is Robert Elliott.

Please email me by simply clicking here.

Lessons in
→ Basic Filmmaking →

• Format the movie script → → Start here to learn filmmaking
• Create the storyboard