Cinematic Music: Full Breakdown or Step-by-Step tracks?

Hi beautiful artists and hello to you Cinematic Music Course students. To the latter, this post is for you.

As you can see, theres a step-by-step track creation module for an epic track in the course to show you a basic method for writing. Now, my plan was next to begin work writing fully produced tracks and then thoroughly breaking down for you in each of the 4 styles (Epic, Modern Orchestral, Film/Romance/Emotional and Golden-Age Cinema music style; similar to the way Alex does it in his trailer course with the Chaos Theory tracks).

However, as I was planning for this, a question came to mind: Do you prefer the breakdown-walkthrough method (which takes longer to make but allows me to write far more polished professional level tracks such as the ones I make for my clients)? Or, do you prefer the step-by-step, build-from scratch method for each style (which is faster, but less polished as I would never send music that I made in 2 or 3 hours to a client unless I was on some extremely tight deadline)?

In short:

Breakdown-Walkthrough Method will help you peer into a fully built and produced track, but without the step by step process of seeing how it was built (I´ll still break it down part by part though, of course).

Step-by-step will show you the process of writing in each style on the fly, but the resulting track will serve more of a demonstration process.

What do you prefer?

Eager to hear your thoughts!

Breakdown-Walkthrough mode

Step-by-step creation mode

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