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Old 03-03-2013, 21:54
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I've heard this music so many times as background to trailers, even for the Olympics on the BBC last year and then from ITV whilst trailering the X Factor. ITV1 has been playing it today when trailering up and coming programmes for the new season. It is electronic music, very simple and rhythmic. Does anyone know what it is?
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Old 03-03-2013, 22:11
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Well the three most popular at the moment are:

Ellie Goulding- Explosions-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miOEmyjpLkU
Birdie- People Help The People- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmLNs6zQIHo
and athird 3rd which i don't now
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Old 03-03-2013, 22:57
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Well the three most popular at the moment are:

Ellie Goulding- Explosions-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miOEmyjpLkU
Birdie- People Help The People- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmLNs6zQIHo
and athird 3rd which i don't now
Thanks but it's none of these. It's electronic music and has no vocals in it. I've not heard either of these being played as the backing music for upcoming programmed trailers.
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Old 03-03-2013, 23:11
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The Birdy track is being used on the Broadchurch promo. Here's a piece that's been used a lot lately, maybe it's Brian Eno:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKw5mbcE7VY
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Old 04-03-2013, 00:30
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The Birdy track is being used on the Broadchurch promo. Here's a piece that's been used a lot lately, maybe it's Brian Eno:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKw5mbcE7VY
A good attempt, but it's not the piece. As soon as you said Eno, I perked up, but it's not really his style, he's more ambient music these days isn't he? I'd say the piece of music I'm looking for is much more commercial and structured. If I was a good electronic musician I could probably name the effects used, but I shall do my best to describe it in words, since possibly someone will know hat I'm on about and somehow guess it! lol

Okay, it's like this. The music is very rhythmic. In the main theme used to advertise the Olympics and the X Factor last year, one note is played in a rhythm which, if the timing was 8/8, would mean the note being played on beats 1,3,4,6,8. This rhythm is repeated throughout. After two bars of one note being played in this rhythm, a different note, 3 semitones (or if you prefer, a diminished, or "minor" 3rd) above the first then carries on the same rhythm and plays for a bar before going up a tone and then coming back all the way down to the start again through the same notes in the 4th bar. Then repeat...

A different theme, perhaps a little less rhythmic, but almost certainly part of the same piece of music, was used on ITV1 tonight, during the commercial breaks of "Mr Selfridge" to preview their Spring programme lineup.

It seems insane to be trying to describe it like this; if I had a program I could put it on and upload it I would because it must be dead easy to play, it's only got about 3 or 4 different notes in it and the rhythm doesn't really change throughout.

The even more insane thing is that I'm so bothered about it, but it has a really haunting quality to it and it is totally bugging me that I don't know who it's by or what it's called!

The most insane thing of all is that if I knew how to use all the recording and processing software on my laptop properly, I would be able to recreate it easily - but I still wouldn't know what it was called! lol
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Old 04-03-2013, 00:50
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Oh and hear's another way of describing it. I don't know the key it's actually in, but if it was in A minor (which it might well be), the notes used would be as follows (with the root chords shown beneath):
AAAAAAAAAACCCCCDDCCGAAAAAAAAAACCCCCDDCCG
F Am F Am

Oh dear, most of those chords appear in the wrong place. Basically, the root chord changes at the beginning of each bar.
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