Musical Composition for Short Films with Ableton Live

Vertical Integration 1

A course by Jonah Schwartz , Musician and Composer

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3,553 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Vertical Integration 1

Overview

“I will explain to you a concept called vertical integration. As you now have multiple layers in your composition, it is important to ask where the layers belong. ”

In this video lesson Jonah Schwartz addresses the topic: Vertical Integration 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

“Vertical Integration In this lesson, we'll look at a concept that I call vertical integration. Now that we have a bunch of layers in our song, we have to see where they go and which ones we should take out. Let's take a look. We'll look at the piece as we've been doing until now, which is two parts of the same piece. We have part one, which is this minor key with tense, nervous moments where we're seeing the destruction, mayhem. Then we have the second part where we're seeing harmony, peace, and that'll be a key piece. Now we'll do what's the hardest thing for me, which is to kill the ones ...”

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

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (87)
3553 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.