Okay, that sounds somewhat pretentious. I am not a big time music producer by any means. But the last few months I have been deeply entrenched in my studio for hours at a time working on a new theme for a local television news show. It is not the first time I have done this; my music ran on that show for three years in the early 2000's and was then replaced by a corporate decision to brand a number of television stations across the country with the same music, produced somewhere back east.
This time, I was given a musical piece to emulate...not "copy", but essentially create a similar feel and tension to. At first what I came up with was too much the same and I knew that, but it eventually morphed into something much more original. The most difficult part was creating the drum track.
