Master the art of inducing fear with music

Whether you want to create hard-hitting horror trailer music or dark & scary sound beds for TV this course will show you how to easily create sonic worlds of darkness 🀘🏼

I’m so excited to introduce you to:

The Horror Music Mastery Course

My new flagship course designed to show you how to craft scary, spooky, creepy, unnerving, terrifying, jump-scare-worthy, brown-trouser inducing music

With Horror Music Mastery you’ll finally be able to...

  • Make terrifying sounds perfect for all kinds of horror

  • Easily create a complete horror track from scratch (in multiple ways)

  • Understand what makes a successful horror track

  • Create stand-out horror tracks that combine unique sounds and scary atmospheres

  • Write simple yet effective horror arrangements for trailers, TV and film scores

  • Build minimal and impactful horror tracks without relying on a ton of channels

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🀯 You can see results like this:

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The Lodge - Official Trailer

One of my tracks was used throughout this trailer to create the wonderfully creepy "something bad is going to happen" vibes.

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The Conjuring 2 - Official Trailer

My track was used for it's use of sound design in this trailer to not only make the trailer feel scary but also to pick out the "brown trouser" moments!

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The Nun 2 - Official Trailer

One of my tracks was used to score the trailer for the Nun 2. A particularly good use of a track that was only subtly scary being paired well with visuals to really bring out the horror.

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Truth or Dare - Film score

I score this indie horror project using all the techniques I show you in the course. From drones to clusters, tension devices to sound design.

πŸ“– What you get inside Horror Music Mastery:

NOTE: this is the current course content as of 18th October. Some titles may change and some things may be added but I thought it might be helpful to know what content you should expect.)

Welcome πŸ‘‹πŸΌ

Meet your instructor

What will you learn?


Understanding Horror music
What is horror music?

What makes horror music scary?


A brief history of horror music
Early classical pieces & silent movies

Then there was Hermann

70s/80s Budget scores

Modern scores and current trends


Tools for Horror music
Intro to horror tools

Setting the scene

Organs in horror music

The voice in horror music

Children's toys in horror music

What was that? - Found sounds in horror music


Horror Music Theory
Do you need to know music theory?

X-cells

12-tone rows

Unusual time signatures

Polytonality

Multipolar tonality


Horror sound design
DIY horror sound design intro

DIY sound design tools

Creating horror drones

Creating horror hits

Creating horror signature sounds


Tension; the foundation of all horror music
A little chat about tension

What is Tension? (getting nerdy with sine waves)

Creating tension with rising pitches

Creating tension with close intervals/clusters

Creating tension with ticking clocks

Creating tension with drones


Atmosphere: Tension's lesser known counterpart
What is atmosphere and why does it matter?

Creating a spooky atmosphere with vocal noises

Creating a spooky atmosphere with reverb

Creating a spooky atmosphere with portamento

Creating a spooky atmosphere with echoes

Creating atmosphere with drones


How to make horror trailer music

Trailer music structure

Walkthrough of Blood Moon

Analysis of the Nun 2’s use of my music

How to keep it minimal and impactful

🎧 Horror trailer playlist


How to make: Ambient horror music
What you will be creating...

Start with a living drone

Layer with bends

Embellish with long reverbs

Enhance with echoes

🎧 Ambient horror listening


How to make: Spooky ghost music
The theramin: The spooky sound of ghosts

Making ghost sounds with a simple sine wave

Making ghost sounds with "bad" whistling

πŸ’πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ I used to be in your shoes!

Hi, I'm Rich!

I started writing music for movie trailers in 2011. Then in 2017 I started teaching other people how to write music for trailers too.

Writing trailer music can be very daunting. On the one hand you have to write great ideas, often recorded yourself, then produce them to the highest possible standard. All from the comfort of your own studio. Or in my case, front room.

Learning to do this is tough, frustrating and sometimes gets you down. That's why I started creating courses. To help make writing music for trailers, ads, TV (and for fun) as simple and as straightforward as reading a book.

Richard Pryn

Course Creator

My Music Has Been Used in:

...and many, many more!

😱 Amazing right? Here’s how to join:

  • loads of High quality content

  • Step-by-Step walkthrough of Rich's entire process from demo to published track

  • An award-winning instructor who reveals his entire process

  • Access to our private community #teampryn

  • 30 day money-back guarantee

  • Lifetime access to the course

for only

$199

🀝 My 30 Day Money-Back Guarantee

If you're unhappy with the course, or you simply change your mind within 30 days of registration, you may request a full refund, provided you haven't accessed more than 30% of the course (not counting any publicly available portions, or anything included in the Welcome module).

πŸ™‹πŸ½β€β™€οΈ You've got questions, I've got answers!

πŸ’» Do I need to be able to use a DAW?

Yes, you do need to be able to use a DAW so you can follow along with the videos.

πŸ“˜ Do I have to use Logic?

Nope, you can use whichever DAW you please as long as you know how to use it.

🎼 How much music theory do I need to know?

The wonderful thing about this, and all of my courses is that I try to steer clear of getting too deep into theory. You will be at an advantage if you know how to harmonise the major/minor scales but aside from that you won't need any theory.

πŸŽ› Do I have to know how to mix and master too?

I am so blessed to have had the amazing mixing and mastering engineer Toby Mason produce an hour-long masterclass in Trailer Music mixing and mastering. He shows you how to mix and master your music to a Hollywood standard within the course.

🀝 Can you guarantee I will get a placement?

Of course not! What I can say is that of all the composers and producers who have taken this course, the ones who are getting work as trailer music composers are the ones who put the hours into their work. They also happen to be super nice people (industry secret there)

⏰ How long do I have access to the course?

Forever. You bought the course and you own it for life. Access it anytime you want. You’ll also get all the course updates and new lessons for FREE forever. This is NOT a membership or subscription course.

πŸ“½ What format is the course delivered in?

It’s a video course hosted by GoHighLevel that requires you to log in and stream the videos. The course also includes downloadable PDFs.

πŸ”’ Is my credit card secure?

I’ve partnered with GoHighLevel, Stripe, and PayPal to handle billing and provide a secure socket layer, 256-bit encryption.

Let's do this πŸ’ͺ🏽

  • loads of High quality content

  • Step-by-Step walkthrough of Rich's entire process from demo to published track

  • An award-winning instructor who reveals his entire process

  • Access to our private community #teampryn

  • 30 day money-back guarantee

  • Lifetime access to the course

for only

$199

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