So years ago, I got a Bachelors Degree in Music from Berklee College of Music. I was a drummer, but still learned enough theory to be dangerous. I don't play piano or guitar, but I can play a chord progression with passable feeling and an occasional melody. Pro Tools, Logic Pro and Kontakt and its plethora of instruments do the rest.

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I'm not a composer, and I wouldn't say I've scored any of the things I've made, but poverty and necessity have required I put something in the quiet parts that shouldn't be quiet. Of all the things that need to be created from nothing for a film, music is by far the most difficult, at least for me. It's the one thing that doesn't allow for a background playlist. I do almost everything with a background playlist, except sound design and audio QC fixing. But those are technical operations and not creative in the same way that a music score is. Finding the right sound effect for a face slap involves some creative consideration, as does adding or reducing reverb, mixing ambience just enough to make rough production dialogue work, etc., but coming up with the haunting series of notes that express a character's growing unease is something else. I don't do it well, and honestly shouldn't be doing it. But I like doing it and though I've done it badly, I don't think everything has been really really bad and I think I can get better at it over time.

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