Interesting facts - Composer Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
So, some interesting facts about me. I'm actually a twin, and I have a twin brother, so if you see me and I don't wave or I don't say hi, don't worry, it's not you. It's my twin. Okay. Now, another interesting fact about me, I don't remember anything before the age of eight. At eight years old, exactly one week to the day after I was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I fell off a hundred foot cliff. I cracked my head open. There's a reason I have my hair parted down the middle. I actually have a crack that goes all the way down from when I cracked my head open, and as a result of the fall, I don't remember anything before the age of eight. So, that's an interesting fact about me. Now, it was, even though I started piano lessons at age five, it really was like starting over. So, you never know what can happen.
Video 2 Transcript
To illustrate, I have a project I was recording with the Tabernacle Choir. Craig Jessup, who was the conductor, and I were meeting, and I had two apprentices with me, and I asked Craig, I said, these two guys want to decide if they want to be film composers, and I don't know what to tell them. What do you think? You got any good ideas? And he shut his eyes and looked, and moved his head around, and he opened his eyes, and he said, if you have to ask, the answer is no, meaning that that profession in music, we don't choose, it chooses us. We are who we are, and music is part of who we are, and the next hope is that you're successful at it.
Video 3 Transcript
One interesting fact that has really, really helped me is as I have gone along, I have learned that you are better off to use other people who are really, really good at aspects of songwriting or composing that you're not really good at. Now I use somebody else to do my arranging, I use somebody else to do my transcribing, I use somebody else to do my videography, because I'm not great at any of those, and at first I did all those by myself, and you kind of have to a little bit, but as you can, farm out those things that you're not as good at or that you don't like, and then you'll keep yourself in the spot, in the place, where you're doing good work that you love.
