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georgiapeach:
Our favorite TAR composer has co-written a Fantasy Novel called Blood of the Realm. It will be released next week, you can read more about it here:
http://www.thenayoransaga.com/  or here: BloodoftheRealm.com
First trailer: Music by guess who??  :hearts:
 
https://www.youtube.com/v/5Go-d1kjs04
 
 

Lee Sanders:
Thank you so much for posting this! Hit me up with questions, gang, and I'll answer as I can. My co-author, Mike McNelly, and I are beyond excited to launch the book.

It's taken a while to finish. Scoring The Amazing Race, I have a couple of little windows in my schedule each year to use for traveling and side projects. Now (as you do in Hollywood, right?) we're getting started on the sequel.

LHS

TexasLady:
Welcome to RFF! I love the music, it's so appropriate and each episode and country have their own unique music. How do you approach finding the perfect match for an episode?

georgiapeach:
Welcome Lee!!  :hrt:

I love how you have created a whole world here... reminds me of how Tolkien had all sorts of languages and maps and things that we never even saw, just to create a world! Yours IS a little scary place though...  :ascared

Lee Sanders:
It's a great question. There's quite a bit of musicological research at the beginning of each cycle, once I know where we're going. That sets the groundwork, establishes the palette of sounds for each country (and each location within that country).

Beyond that, it's just as much about creating music that plays the action and the characters as it is setting 'time and place.' Some events need music to convey a stronger sense of location; other events need music to convey a building sense of intensity, etc. It's always a matter of striking a balance between ethnic authenticity and dramatic function.

I should add that the editors actually place the music onto the scenes, and in many cases they'll find something from a previous cycle's music that works well for a new event (even if I've written something new for it). That's one way that reality TV works very differently from other TV formats.

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