READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE:  5 Ways to Make Your Songs Spooky for Halloween 5 Ways to Make Your Songs Spooky for Halloween by  Christopher Sutton  |  Oct 15, 2015  |  Halloween  | As Halloween approaches this year we’ll all be surrounded by spooky tunes, haunted melodies and scary soundtracks. As a musician you might find yourself wondering: what makes that music so Halloween-y? Wonder no more! Whether you’re a budding song-writer or film composer, want to improvise some suitably scary sounds during October, or just wish you understood why the music you hear does (or doesn’t) sound like a horror show, here are 5 tried-and-tested ways to add some spook to music.

DOWNLOAD THE  New track! \"Halloween Robo-Bop\" teaches Chord Progressions New track! "Halloween Robo-Bop" teaches Chord Progressions by  Christopher Sutton  |  Oct 26, 2012  |  Halloween  | Have you been joining in our  trick-or-treating ? Some dreadful delights await you! Today we have an  extra special  spooky gift for you… A new  Unravelling Music  to help you  hear more  in music! Who said that ear training couldn’t be fun? Enjoy learning while listening to great music on your iPod! The  Unravelling Music  series is designed to help you learn, wherever you are – just by listening to music. Spend a little time getting to know the track using the extra clips and track notes provided, and then simply listen to the track to reinforce what you’ve learned. For this Halloween special, the audio examples will help train your ears to hear chord progressions commonly used for pop songs – with...

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE :  8 Excellent Halloween Music Activities 8 Excellent Halloween Music Activities by  Stella Bautista  |  Oct 20, 2015  |  Halloween ,  Children ,  Teaching ,  Websites, Apps and Downloads  | It’s that time of the year again! Halloween costumes, crazy and freaky Halloween-themed food and parties — and none of it would ever be complete without some spooky, scary Halloween music… To help make your Halloween suitably musical we have compiled this list of 8 excellent Halloween music resources you can use to bring a terrifying twist to your kids’ (or your own) music learning this October. You can also use them during a party or while trick-or-treat-ing. Of course, these are all beginner friendly so that everyone can have a good, musical Halloween. So without further ado let’s indulge in these spook-tacular goodies!

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE:  Improvisation: How to Score Halloween Horror Improvisation: How to Score Halloween Horror by  Sabrina Peña Young  |  Oct 29, 2012  |  Halloween  | Learn how to improvise your own Halloween horror music. Before laptops and Logic, TV and and Technicolor, early horror film composers at the dawn of the 20th century used  improvisation  to enhance the silent silver screens. They composed hauntingly dramatic scores, freaky monster music, and thrilling moments of Halloween horror by combining improvisation and traditional classical music scores.

DOWNLOAD THE FREE HALLOWEEN TRACK HERE:  New FREE ear training download – Happy Halloween! To celebrate this, the spookiest of holidays, we’re releasing a special,  free track in the  Unravelling Music  ear training series. The track is titled “Halloween Eve’s Birthday Bash”, and it’s been created specially as a holiday treat by  Sabrina Peña Young  (who composed the  Introducing Intervals  album).

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE  A Halloween Treat: Classic Song-Writing Tricks A Halloween Treat: Classic Song-Writing Tricks by  Christopher Sutton  |  Oct 28, 2015  |  Halloween ,  Song Writing  | Wish you had some fun new Halloween music  and  an easy way to train your musical ear in suitably spooky style this October? Look no further than John Anealio’s  Halloween E.P.  Let’s listen together and see what musical mischief might be lurking in its four tracks… You may remember  John Anealio  as the composer of the beautiful and relaxing instrumental track  Echoes of Espers  in our recent article  “Open Your Ears to 5 Kind of Soft Songs” , but did you know he’s also a talented singer-songwriter who writes nerd-culture inspired songs about topics like steampunk, Game of Thrones, Lego and superheroes? Like ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic and Jonathan Coulton he’s a master of gently playing with song-writin...

READ THE FULL ARTICLE:  Open Your Ears to Halloween Haunt Music Halloween is coming, slowly creeping up on us. And now, we are giving you the opportunity to open your ears to some haunted music that will give you thrills and chills. Sam Haynes  is a professional composer of Halloween haunt music. He previously wrote a fascinating guest article here on Easy Ear Training providing insight into the  pro techniques of horror music  with his CD Welcome to the Horror Show. Today we’ll listen in to five tracks from his new compilation offering  royalty-free Halloween music  (meaning you can use it in your own projects for free). Brace yourself to get served with some music that will surely give you shivers down your spine!

On a dark and very stormy night, Ofelia D'Jesus finds that her drive home determines her destiny in this retro Buffalo New York horror film by award-winning composer Sabrina Peña Young. Created for the Buffalo Movie and VIdeo Makers Annual "Shorty" Short film contest, hosted every October at the Screening Room in Amherst, Buffalo, New York.

7 Creepy Tricks and Treats for Writing Halloween Horror Music Halloween brings out the scary and creepy in music. Learning how to write music that is perfect for Halloween horror is easy and a lot of fun! Follow these seven simple tips about how you can use sound effects , instrumentation, harmony and more to create a convincing scary song this Halloween. Before we start talking about how to write super freaky Halloween music, let’s work on your listening skills. Listen to the sample audio Frankenstein’s Dreamscape. As you listen, use your ears to jot down just a few of the spooky characteristics in this haunting track. GO TO THE FULL ARTICLE: 7 Creepy Tricks and Treats for Writing Halloween Horror Music

Classical Music Halloween : Morloke for Marimba from Destiny: Eondwyr. Originally written for percussionist Kurt Gartner at Kansas State University . This version is for marimba or malletkat. Full version is for Malletkat and Ableton Live . Both scores available at Petrucci Library and the artist website: Sabrinapenayoung.wordpress.com @dalatindiva Related articles What is MIDI? - History of Electronic Music - Sabrina Pena Young Top 5 Ways to Mix and Record in the Comfort of Your Own Home at a Fraction of the Cost Classic Halloween Movies for Kids Today Only! 30% off Halloween Candy, Costumes & Halloween Decor at Target! WATCH: Is Halloween Really The Gay Superbowl? Madea scares up another box office win ahead of 'Jack Reacher' and 'Ouija' sequels KGB on the FMR: When are you too old to wear a slutty Halloween costume? GTA Online's Halloween event will kick off this Friday Celebrating Halloween in the Chicago Suburbs: Boo at the Zoo! ...

Halloween Music Instrumental, dark passionate haunting. Just what you need to listen to on a cold dark night to feel that haunting and foreboding feeling. Creeping within your very soul. Njoy!!! Video: © White Noise Relaxation White Noise Relaxation Channel music © 2014 White Noise Relaxation -  http://www.youtube.com/WhiteNoiseRela... Music mixed by White Noise Relaxation List of Audio Files Used "Despair and Triumph" by Kevin MacLeod at www.incomtech.com Direct Link:  http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... "Dark Times" by Kevin MacLeod at www.incomtech.com Direct Link:  http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... "Darkest Child" by Kevin MacLeod at www.incomtech.com Direct Link:  http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Used under creative commons licence Related articles He's Coming Home: Why Halloween Will Return With A Vengeance Stilts, Hair: Discrete Autobiography by Noor Naga Halloween Music Horrorph...

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As part of my ongoing series in which I take songs in a major (happy) key and transpose them to a minor (sad) key, here is my rendition of "Over the Rainbow " from The Wizard of Oz. Download on iTunes :  http://apple.co/1nbBvPD Download on Google Play :  http://bit.ly/1p87CRX Download on Amazon:  http://bit.ly/1TMD04R Download on Bandcamp :  http://bit.ly/1LFSmk6 -------------- Support me on Patreon :  http://patreon.com/chaseholfelder Subscribe on YouTube :  http://bit.ly/1rFoxtg Like me on Facebook :  http://facebook.com/chaseholfelder Follow me on Instagram:  http://instagram.com/chaseholfelder Follow me on Twitter:  http://twitter.com/chaseholfelder -------------- Check out more of Fabio's awesome drumming at  http://youtube.com/FabioVitielloDrum Related articles Classic Halloween Movies for Kids Top Halloween Candy Deals - Week of 10/16/16 Celebrating Halloween in the Chicago Suburbs: Boo at the Zoo! Madea ...