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In my composing career, I have found that my inspiration has run dry when my life was unexciting at that time. However, when an event that affects my life or disposition occurs, inspiration suddenly flows forth unceasingly. This ideal seems to be reinforced by the fact that many famous and productive composers have had rapidly changing lives and volatile personalities. What are your thoughts on this matter? Also, feel free to post situations that you have gone through similar to this with inspiration and emotion.

It's an harmonic technique usually associated to movies soundtrack, so games and tv series used it too. You just have to harmonize the melody using the mediant relationships (commonly diatonic or chromatic). Just count the 3 steps of the scale: Em (mediant = G) -> Gm (dominant = D) -> Dm (mediant = F) -> Fm -> (subdominant B) -> Bm (mediant = D) -> Dm As you can notice, there isn't exactly a strict rule. It's a soundtrack cliché, you use major chords to "add bright" and minor ones to "add darkness". Sometimes, you can jump to dominant and subdominant (this happens in this music), completely at your will. Hans Zimmer uses this a lot. I made these days a little piece to exemplify this to some colleagues: http://www.4shared.c...a_mediante.html The harmonic sequence from my piece: Dm –> Fm –> Ab –> C –> Em –> Gm –> Bb –> D