After a couple episodes with no identifiable music tracks beyond the haunting musical score composed by Bear McCreary, episode 5 featured the following:

Song: Sunshine (Adagio In D Minor)
Artist: John Murphy
Scene: Everyone is leaving camp
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The “Walking Dead” blogs thus far have focused on my creative process and the instrumentation. But, bringing a score from imagination to reality requires the time and energy of many other people on the music team. They are integral to the creation of the score, and work tireless hours to ensure my ideas are translated to the final recording (and frequently improve on those ideas as well). With this week’s video, let’s shine a long overdue spotlight on the music production team:

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Tonight’s episode of “The Walking Dead” proved to be my biggest challenge yet on the series. There were so many opportunities to create a dark, rich and bottom-heavy sound, I decided to make our string ensemble even more unusual. I wrote the score for Vatos with an orchestra made up entirely of celli and a single contrabass, as shown in this week’s video blog:

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Probably the most prominent and important instrument in my bluegrass ensemble is the twelve-string electric banjo, performed by Oingo Boingo / “Battlestar Galactica” alumnus Steve Bartek. We ran the banjo through a number of digital and analog processors to find cool sounds. Steve is excellent is playing solos that sound “outside the box,” so to speak, and his performances on this instrument are essential to giving my score its unique tone. (Watch the video to hear how I inspired him to find the perfect zombie banjo sound!)

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This week’s episode of “The Walking Dead,” appropriately entitled Guts, expands the cast and the world of the series. Rick encounters a group of survivors, some of whom are more helpful than others, and we experience some intense action scenes as well. The music, too, develops and the orchestration has become more layered. This week’s blog video takes an in-depth look at the various orchestration techniques and effects I played around with in this episode:

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Aside from the haunting musical score composed by Bear McCreary, episode 2 featured the following music track:

Song: I’m A Man
Artist: Black Strobe
Scene: Closing Scene / End Credits
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The musical composer for The Walking Dead, Bear McCreary, has posted the first of six in-depth video blogs that will go online with each new episode this season. The first blog focuses on the main title music, as well as the unconventional approach he took to scoring the premiere episode.

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Aside from the haunting musical score composed by Bear McCreary, episode 1 featured the following music track:

Song: Space Junk (Wang Chung ’97)
Artist: Wang Chung
Scene: Closing Scene / End Credits
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