Trailer Music: Elevation | Trailer Music Course

Laszlo starts his wonderful course by introducing his students to important concepts which will help them immensely in establishing a career path in trailer or production music. He provides valuable insights into today’s trailer music industry, as well as helpful tips on how to contact and work with the various publishers.

In a second step, students will learn about all the tools they need to start producing. Laszlo dives deep into the concept of trailer music while also pointing out the differences to other genres.

The goal of this chapter is to give aspiring trailer music composers a compact holistic picture, of everything necessary to succeed in this fast paced industry.

In the second chapter, students will learn about the most foundational elements of today's trailer sound. By following Laszlo, they will get a deep understanding of the different trailer FX's and how they can use them in their music.

Further Laszlo tackles of the most important ( but often times overlooked) skills every music producer needs to develop: track analysis. Laszlo provides valuable tips on how to start analysing a trailer track and how students can get the most out of their analysing sessions. In this crucial part of the course students will learn how to develop their listening and track writing methods. By following Laszlo's approach students will understand the importance of analysing music used in big AAA promos, what they should listen for and how they can make the anaylsing process effective and fun.

In this chapter, students will use use everything learned so far and expand on it by studying important principles about trailer music writing. Trailer tracks need to sound super fresh and trendy but at the same time are bound by constraints and requirements. This section will teach students effective methods to sharpen their workflow, in the most creative and effective way possible.

Furthermore Laszlo teaches his 5 favourite theme writing methods, which will help students to instantly break out of boring routines. From composing principles and theme writing methods, to track structure and templates, this section will make sure students are ready to jump right into action in the following lessons.

In the fourth chapter, students follow Laszlo as he creates a complete trailer cue from scratch. From beginning to end, Laszlo guides his students through every single step of his process. Everything, from creating a theme, sketching the arrangement, layering and mixing will be covered. These lessons will surely be an eye-opener to many students and help them in never getting lost again during their track writing process.

The huge value of this section will be revealed as Laszlo teaches an effective workflow by dividing the different tasks of a track into smaller parts. By simply focusing on one step at a time, the process of creating a complete industry ready track becomes much easier and faster.

To finish off his wonderful course Laszlo dives deep into his mixing process as he provides a detailed walkthrough of his finished trailer track, section by section, layer by layer.