Choosing music choices over technical choices
Up until now, we’ve looked at everything from a technical point of view. In this section, we will look at how the music choices can become more important than the technical choices, with a focus on what will best serve the commercial. All the different technical skills that have been learned and acquired in the last chapters could be used and are important in any scoring, but we decided to take a simplified approach here.
In this example, even though we’re using the constant tempo of 99 bpm, we are still considering the hit points to make sure they fall on the downbeat of a bar, but without the use of beat mapping. Also, instead of using many time signatures, we will only use two time signatures for the entire commercial, 4/4 and 6/4. We will use the 4/4 time signature from the beginning to bar 16 and add a 6/4 time signature at bar 16 that will continue to bar 17. The 4/4 time signature will then continue from bar 17 to...