With Christmas around the corner, I wanted to give back by sharing with you the MIDI transcriptions that I've made over the past few years on my Composing Live! streams. I've been quietly building a collection of transcriptions that I've done for personal study from scores like Harry Potter, How To Train Your Dragon, Shrek, Elf, Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain and more. Each of these come with a reference video and a free midi download file, no strings attached. With these MIDI files, you can plug them into your DAW and reassign expression maps to them to fit your orchestral sample libraries, or test out new sample libraries that you've bought over the Black Friday weekend. Some of the sample libraries I've used for these include CSS, CSW, Spitfire Symphony Orchestra, EW Hollywood Opus, Pacific Ensemble Strings, Tina Guo Solo Cello, CS Cineperc, CS Dulcimer, CS Randy's Celeste, Omnisphere, Zebra, Diva, and more. Here's a sample of Hedwig's Theme: https://www.sohncompositions.com/store/free/hedwigs-theme-hp For the whole collection (28 with more coming in the future): https://www.sohncompositions.com/store/free Happy Holidays & Happy Studying!

Hey everyone, here are some course updates we were working on. Cinematic Music by Ariel Yznardo Ariel finalized all videos and the final mix of his beautiful track "The Dream Titan". New videos are following soon! 👉 Unlock Cinematic Music directly here in the classroom Trailer Music Trailblazers II All in all, eight out of twelve tracks are fully available now, four to go - then the price will increase from $147 to $247. This is probably the only course out there focusing on an entire released trailer album with the first placements happening FOUR days after release! I have already a few special videos planned but the main part (releasing all videos for all twelve courses) is almost done. I estimate the price increase will happen in the beginning of the next week. No extended sale or exceptions. 👉 Unlock Trailer Music Trailblazers II directly here in the classroom As always, if you are part of my Audio Artist Rise Program, you get access to all courses (except guest courses) for free as long as you stay subscribed. If you are interested, you can check it out here. 👉 What is Audio Artist Rise?

Hey everyone, just thought this was something worth sharing. I used one of my tracks "Fiery Wings" from my latest Epic Score Album and gave Google Veo 3 a test ride and created a little AI movie. I am aware that there are still some inconsistencies going but if you consider how it looked a few years ago, I am floored. This will be absolutely exciting for building video footage for your demo reel!

Hey beautiful artists. Just wanted to give you all an update about the progress of CMC. I know new videos haven't been uploaded for quite some time so I just thought I would briefly let you know a bit about why. Since last video was uploaded, I moved to a new country, got married, and am in the process of buying gear for conditioning the new studio for proper sound quality since right now, it's mostly an empty room with my computer and several boxes (hey, at least I get a sweet reverb impulse response haha). So thanks everyone for your patience. I hope the course has, so far, provided you with all the basics and more to improve the quality of your music. And by all means, I'm available on DM here and can listen to your tracks and reply with feedback as well as answering any questions you may have.

…we all probably have them sitting on our hard drive somewhere. Maybe 40-70 seconds of a good idea that just couldn’t reach the 2’00”-ish mark whether it was the day or the idea, but still sounds completed. Or something that started as a sketch and sounds good but just doesn’t sit with the rest of what we might be doing currently or have catalogued. What are your strategies for these? Do you hang onto them to work into something at just the right moment? Or does it make sense to use these instances as releases on non-exclusive platforms (like Tunecore or something) if they’re completed and useable, but not necessarily destined to be pitched anywhere? Delete them and forget they ever existed and allow the idea to re-manifest appropriately (this kind of sounds like extreme composition!!! 😂😂😂)?