Vince Webb's Composing Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

I give my take on the Cycle of Fifths - what is it, how do we compose with it and how do we practice it?

In this episode I breakdown a recent composition and talk about the arrangement, orchestration and music theory.

5 psychological tricks I often use to listen to my work-in-progress track with 'fresh ears' - and decide if it's any good or not!

I talk about the journey of creating 'Classical Passion' - a production music album for Reliable Source which features a live string orchestra.

Writing music for fun isn't always fun - it's easy to lose faith in what you're doing.

I break down the ridiculously fast string writing in the opening of the main theme from Harry Potter.

I look at the first couple of bars of the famous Prelude in Eminor by Chopin and try to extract some useful harmony concepts to use when improvising or composing.

I break down the harmony of a cue from The Wizard of Oz in attempt to show how you can access a similar sound world in your own compositions.

I discuss different kinds of 'sus' chords and how I tend to deploy them in my work as a professional composer.

I breakdown a recent game trailer I worked on as an example of how to arrange music which is particularly dense and busy.