Tension and Release: How to Add Emotional Impact To Your Music

By Guy Michelmore

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Want to make your listeners really feel something when they hear your music? Try this technique and you will amp up the emotional climaxes ion your tracks. Whether you are writing songs, orchestral film cues or electronica, the same techniques apply. Tension and release is what keeps your audience on the edge of their seat and then gives them the big pay off when you let that tension go. In this how to write music tutorial, composer Guy Michelmore takes you through the theory and then demonstrates with a short demo scored in real time.

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