I'm just here looking for a really good banana bread recipe... Or to absolutely melt your face and create a fantastical journey together. As a composer of orchestral epics, I am also a metal head that likes to incorporate metal elements as well. Don't let that fool you, though... I can go from chill to metal to swing and everything in between.
Oh, hey! Fancy seeing you here! As I wrote in my pitch, I'm an orchestral composer with a background as a metal and hard rock guitarist. My portfolio has a VERY wide array of music ranging from swing to orchestral to an entire cover album of metal songs written as lullabies with a music box and a cello.
I use FL Studio as my DAW and have procured a decent amount of VST's/Plugins over the years.
I have been working on creating a sync library as well as stings and full songs for my own enjoyment as well.
I'm easy to work with and an all-around goofball. I like to keep the energy light, but I'll also dig deep and make sure your project gets the proper love and attention it deserves. Let's work together and make something special. But also, if you've got that banana bread recipe, let me know!
Click the 'Contact' above to get in touch. Looking forward to hearing from you.
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Interview with Danny Begley
Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?
A: One of my favorite projects I worked on was actually a music-box lullaby album where I covered popular early 2000's rock songs. After having three kids of my own, I decided to create this album to help put my kids to sleep, while also listening to songs that I used to jam out to in my car. It worked, by the way!
Q: What are you working on at the moment?
A: I'm working on organizing my sync portfolio and releasing a fourth album to the streaming void.
Q: Is there anyone on SoundBetter you know and would recommend to your clients?
A: I'm still fresh! Do you know anyone you could recommend to me??
Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: Digital, only because it's all I know.
Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?
A: I promise that we'll have an enjoyable work relationship with an outcome we can both be proud of. I'm an easy-going guy. We got this.
Q: What do you like most about your job?
A: Creativity and the ability to not just think outside the box, but to FLOW outside the box.
Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?
A: As I mentioned, I'm still quite new to this career path. I've only been hired to make a few tunes for slot machine games and some instagram reels.
Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?
A: I'd say that people expect composers to be traditionally trained or educated in music. I am simply neither of those things. However, the amount of "experience" I got paid with for playing free shows in a band... I'm RICH with experience!
Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?
A: How can I make your vision come to life? What steps do YOU take to make sure you pick the correct composer?
Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A: As I'm still quite green to this industry, all I can say is to working WITH each other and not AT each other will yield the best results.
Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?
A: My Taylor acoustic, laptop, external hard drive, midi controller, and my headphones. That's all I need.
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: I'm currently a full-time design engineer. It's been 20 years since I graduated college with my engineering degree. However, I've been a musician/in a band for about 26 years at this point. My two lives have been running in parallel for as long as I can remember. I've been trying to break into cinematic composing for about three years now, and figured I'd really take the leap now.
Q: How would you describe your style?
A: Genre ADHD. Give me an idea and I'll deep dive into that genre to make sure I can give the most accurate representation of it, while also giving it my own flair. flare? Flair.
Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?
A: I'd love to spend time hashing out ideas with Danny Elfman. I mean, a Danny and Danny combo would be absolutely wild.
Q: Can you share one music production tip?
A: FL Studio Soundgoodizer on EVERYTHING!
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: I just recently learned that the genre of "Cinematic Metal" exists, and man, if that doesn’t hit the nail on the head, I don’t know what does.
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: Maybe not so much a skill, more than a gift -- but I play music by ear. I hear it and I play it. I can also juggle. So that's pretty neat.
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: I bring feeling. I'm sure every composer says that. And, quite honestly, it's probably pretty accurate. But I'll also bring decades of songwriting knowledge, live music and recording experience, and a plethora of unconventional genre-bending ideas to the table.
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: I typically find a motif that I want to write with. I'll start off with some basic instruments and figure out a structure I'm willing to work with. A lot of what I write comes very organically and will typically work left-to-right in chronological order in the song.
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: My studio set up is very minimalistic and mobile. I'm on a MacBook running FL Studio. I use a small FL Key 37 key midi controller. My top plugins include the entire EastWest catalog, Cinematic Studio Strings, Impact Soundworks Shreddage guitars, and a butt-load of others.
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: I'm always inspired by the greats like Hans Zimmer and John Williams, however I always find myself listening to the likes of Pinar Toprak, Tyler Bates, Ramin Djawadi, and Danny Elfman. There are always hidden elements they throw in the mix that just... make sense.
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: I create music, sync, stings, and environments for film and video games.
I was the composer and producer in this production
- Full instrumental productionContact for pricing
- Composer OrchestralAverage price - $150 per song
- Film ComposerAverage price - $100 per minute
As someone still quite green to this industry, I'll be asking for your input and we can always work on pricing as well. I'm typically very flexible with revisions and whatnot.
- Hans Zimmer
- Tyler Bates
- Ramin Djawadi
- FL Studio
