Richard Pryn

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Watch and learn: trailer music videos

Short videos where you watch the music come together. Walkthroughs of my placed tracks, the building blocks every trailer cue uses, whole cues from first sketch to finish, and sound design instruments in action. Many are from Espen Haagensli, who taught with me.

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Stage 1

Walkthroughs of my placed tracks

How three of my tracks that ended up in trailers and TV were written.

  1. 1 A Very British Scandal Trailer Music Walkthrough | Sanctuary by Richard Schrieber (me) 1 min
  2. 2 Trailer Music Tutorial: Blood by Richard Schrieber 1 min
  3. 3 Crafting Witcher-Style Percussion Tracks for TV Shows: A Step-by-Step Guide 4 min
Stage 2

The building blocks

Drums, hits, braams, risers and drones. Every trailer cue is built from these.

  1. 4 How to make HUGE DRUM INTROS 1 min
  2. 5 Epic Drums 1 min
  3. 6 Epic Hits 1 min
  4. 7 Big BrahmsBig braams, mostly with reverb and distortion 1 min
  5. 8 How to create Stutter Risers 1 min
  6. 9 Tension Drones 1 min
  7. 10 Action Sound Design 2 Electric Boogaloo 1 min

Want this stage taught in full? Action Sound Design: Learn to build explosive action sound design cues from scratch, with pings, risers, braaams and action drums, then see a demo become a published track.

Stage 3

Whole cues, start to finish

  1. 11 Basic TemplateThe simple template that gets a session started 1 min
  2. 12 Piano Cue PART ONE: Sketching 1 min
  3. 13 Piano Cue Part Two 1 min
  4. 14 Epic Sci Fi Intro 1 min
  5. 15 Uplifting Orchestral 1 min
  6. 16 Happy AdsNot trailers, but the same skills pay in advertising 1 min
Stage 4

Sound design instruments in action

  1. 17 Quake by Simon Haglund 1 min
  2. 18 Steam Punk by Fallout Music Group 1 min

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