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).

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