I've got a project or three that will eventually require me to use the musical score from a certain scene in a movie as the background music for a 2D or 3D scene I want to animate. Ideally, I would just find the original standalone recording of the score somewhere, but unfortunately this specific score was apparently lost in a basement flood in the 90s (the movie in question is from the 70s).
What I would like to be able to do is try to listen to the score in the background of this scene and very carefully try to replicate each instrument in some kind of composition software to re-create the score from scratch. Is it possible to learn just enough about music and composition to do this very specific thing? Is there a sort of bare minimum I would need to dive into to pull this off? I've never really been interested in music beyond listening to playlists on shuffle and I have no interest in or passion for learning theory/composition beyond what is required for this/these project(s). If I was rich I'd probably try to commission someone to do it for me (is that a thing?), but alas I'm a broke dude working on his own in his spare time.
Thanks for the help!
Submitted August 31, 2021 at 02:27AM by robbiethecupcake https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/pezjan/learning_just_enough_to_replicate_the_background/?utm_source=ifttt