Musical Composition for Short Films with Ableton Live

Recording a Melody 1

A course by Jonah Schwartz , Musician and Composer

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About the video: Recording a Melody 1

Overview

“Here you will begin to see how to work on your melody, and you will record it and do rough sync with the film.”

In this video lesson Jonah Schwartz addresses the topic: Recording a Melody 1 , which is part of the Domestika online course: Musical Composition for Short Films with Ableton Live. Learn how to create an original score by exploring the process of recording, editing, and syncing your music to a film.

Partial transcription of the video

“Recording a Melody Now we're at my favorite part. Let's see how to write and record a melody within Ableton Live. Now I'd like to think about writing a more powerful melody than what we composed in the last lesson. I'm a songwriter, so what I typically hear, what jumps out at me when I'm listening to an album or music from a film, tends to be the melody. What we've composed up until now, it sounds cool. It's this nice arpeggio and base, and very often it could serve as the ambientation for a film, but for didactic purposes, I want to create something a bit bolder, so I'll create a lead melo...”

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Course summary for: Musical Composition for Short Films with Ableton Live

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (87)
3580 students
4 units
20 lessons (4h 8m)
2 downloads

Category
Music & Audio
Software
Ableton Live
Areas
Music, Music Production

Jonah Schwartz

A course by Jonah Schwartz

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Musician and Composer

Jonah Schwartz is an American musician and composer living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He taught himself how to play the guitar, mandolin, and banjo when he was a teenager, and after studying film studies in university, he discovered his passion for film scoring. In 2004, he moved to Argentina and soon became part of the music community in Buenos Aires. The following year, his band was named “Best New Band” by Rolling Stone Argentina.

With his band Los Alamos, Jonah toured through Latin America and Europe, sharing a stage with names like Lee Perry, Calexico, Devendra Banhart and The Evens. After the split of his band in 2009, he started working in film scoring, and has worked on numerous productions, from films to commercials. Jonah wrote the musical score for the Hollywood film Hide (2008), Noche sin fortuna (2011), and others. He has also worked with well-known Argentinian production companies such as Tronco, Bamba, Can Can, and Plently.