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Published inSep 2023
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Prof. Chris Piorkowski
Prof. Chris Piorkowski
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Prof. Chris Piorkowski

Professor Chris Piorkowski is an award-winning composer, with a Masters in Music Technology from the University of Newcastle in Australia, an MFA majoring in Music Composition for Film, TV and Multimedia from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, a Diploma in Media Composition from Music for The Media in London, and another Diploma in Sound Engineering from the Audio Institute of America in San Francisco. He has also studied Film Scoring and Orchestration at Berklee College of Music in Boston as well as Film Music Orchestration Steven Scott Smalley and Jazz Piano with Walter Norris. In his professional life, he has worked on countless projects at the legendary Sound City Studios in Los Angeles scoring over 50 projects for TBN, ShowTime, PBS, and Gene Roddenberry (the creator of Star Trek).
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Creating a tempo map

Tempo mapping is the process of outlining and confirming tempo or tempo changes for existing SMPTE locked markers, based on the selected grid setting. Any type of tempo changes for those markers within Logic Pro, when scoring to picture, can be referred to as tempo mapping or “laying out the cue.”

During the process of creating a tempo map, the film composer needs to compare marker positions with one another to make sure that the markers fall on the downbeat of a bar. As a result, Logic Pro will adjust the markers so they land on the downbeat of a bar by retaining their SMPTE locked position and will suggest a new tempo to accommodate this.

This process is a Logic Pro task, a technical skill that needs to be practiced. The ability to make technical choices is important before making any musical choices. We will talk more about technical choices versus musical choices in Chapter 9.

In this section, we will go over how to create a tempo map...

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Published in: Sep 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837636891

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Prof. Chris Piorkowski

Professor Chris Piorkowski is an award-winning composer, with a Masters in Music Technology from the University of Newcastle in Australia, an MFA majoring in Music Composition for Film, TV and Multimedia from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, a Diploma in Media Composition from Music for The Media in London, and another Diploma in Sound Engineering from the Audio Institute of America in San Francisco. He has also studied Film Scoring and Orchestration at Berklee College of Music in Boston as well as Film Music Orchestration Steven Scott Smalley and Jazz Piano with Walter Norris. In his professional life, he has worked on countless projects at the legendary Sound City Studios in Los Angeles scoring over 50 projects for TBN, ShowTime, PBS, and Gene Roddenberry (the creator of Star Trek).
Read more about Prof. Chris Piorkowski