The Ting from the Line of Duty theme, sound track and series.

The Ting - from Line of Duty

The base track for my arrangement of the famous Christmas carol.

O Come O Come Emmanuel (base track arrangement KORG 01/W)

Rescoring the Jason Lee Chase Scene  chase and death sequence from the film "Enemy of the State" with original music, composing to a set brief and feedback.

Also available on YouTube with video and original scene dialogue https://youtu.be/yI6v2pQAUKU

Walk through of how I made this in Logic Pro X coming soon!

I used Logic Pro X 10.7 on a late 2014 iMac 27" 5K retina 4.0ghz i7 with 32gb RAM. 

Samples used:
• Spitfire Audio BBC Symphony Orchestra 
• Spitfire Audio Albion One
• Spitfire Audio Albion Tundra 
• Spitfire Audio Studio Strings
• Spitfire Audio Symphonic Evolutions
• Spitfire Audio Hammers percussion
• Spitfire Audio Cinematic Percussion
• Spitfire Audio Ólafur Arnalds Chamber Evolutions
• Sonic Couture Threnody

Including:
• PianoTeq Steinway
• Arturia Mini V3
• Arturia OB-Xa V

Rescored - Jason Lee Chase Scene from Enemy of the State

Rescoring the love scene (and following moments) from the film "Bram Stoker's Dracula" with original music, composing to a set brief and feedback.

Also available on YouTube with video and original scene dialogue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaQVXvc6FaM

I used Logic Pro X 10.7 on a late 2014 iMac 27" 5K retina 4.0ghz i7 with 32gb RAM. [Not without it's limitations!]

Samples used:
• Spitfire Audio BBC Symphony Orchestra 
• Spitfire Audio Albion One
• Spitfire Audio Albion Tundra 
• Spitfire Audio Albion Solstice 
• Spitfire Audio Studio Strings
• Spitfire Audio Symphonic Evolutions
• Spitfire Audio Symphonic Swarm
• Spitfire Audio Cinematic Percussion
• Spitfire Audio Symphony Organ
• All Saints Organ

Including:
• PianoTeq Steinway

Original Score - Dracula and Mina Love Scene - Bram Stoker's Dracula

Background Music for Radio

Audiobook voice acting demo

PeterNicholls_SceneTwo_v2__English 2.mp3

PeterNicholls_SceneTwo_v1_American 2.mp3

An old piece produced for a pantomime many many years ago. Remixed with new drums and remastered.

Sand Dance

Original arrangement for opening of ‘Aladdin’ panto (Robert Warner Productions) at Stafford Gatehouse Theater (1999-2000 season) for which I was musical director. Guitar played by a conservatoire friend, Jack (Sideshow Bob double.)The rest arranged and sequenced by myself in Cubase score, using my faithful Korg 01-W.

Flashdance - What a feeling (arrangement)

As fan of Doctor Who, I wanted to make this homage to some favourite parts that feature in the theme tune from the modern era (the orchestra and driving rhythms), and bring in the wonderful synths  of the Peter Howell 1980s version. I've also include a heavy rock guitar part, as performed by Peter Capaldi for one of the openings in series 9.

The main synth melody line is played on an ARP Odyssey software synth recreation, using as close to the original settings that Peter Howell used as possible in his 1980s version. I've also included his version of the opening 'scream' as we come out of the introduction in to the main melody.

The drums and piano are inspired by the series 4 Murray Gold version, and there are various shades of series 1 and 8 throughout.  The ending melds the Howell explosion, with some variations from the modern ear. 

I hope you enjoy this lovingly made fan remix / arrangement of the Doctor Who theme. (I could write so much more, but just search the internet for more information about the history of this amazingly long lived piece of music!)

Doctor Who Theme - Remix/Arrangement

A smooth soft arpeggiated felted piano with a long ambient reverb.

Uses Felt Piano from the free Spitfire Audio Labs sample library

Felt Piano Ambience

An original instrumental arrangement of Adele's "Hello" from the album "25".

Based around an acapella version of her singing, this has the vocal line muted out due to copyright reasons. (I had my entire channel deleted without warning previously when I had the full version up!)

Produced in Logic Pro X using mainly native plug-ins an instruments (aside from Waves Grand Rhapsody piano.)

Vocalist: Why not use this to record your own performance of "Hello"? Just link to it in the comments on here, and link back to this track in your description too! 

I can't wait to hear what you come up with!

Hello (Adele) remix instrumental backing track all original

A little showreel of me presenting links on Staffordshire University sponsored community RSL, Cre8 Radio. (Including Liam)

Peter Nicholls Presenting On Cre8 Radio

Audio: original acapella; full version with strings; just the strings; full version again.

When I hear the acapella, I immediately had a feeling of what sort of backing it would need. I then had to try and translate this feeling and sound from my mind into actual musical notes.

Firstly, I analysed the acapella performance of the actor and worked out the beats and measures, keeping her original timing. Once this was locked into the DAW, I then added some light pitch correction nudging each note in the nearest key of C#. I tried to make sure that I keep the natural vibrato and the character of her voice, including the changes from note to note.

After playing along with the track using a piano sound, I chose what I felt was the best outline chord progression and timing and set about trying to translate this for 5 part strings: violin sections 1 and 2, violas, cellos and bases. Time was short, and I had around 1 hour to compose, mix and add to the audio drama so that it could be released on time. 

The end result is somewhat developed from the original piano (which I have not included in this track,) but is very close to what I first envisaged.

This song is taken from episode 5 of "Tin Wings", a weekly audio drama podcast by Matti McLean and part of his "Avaria Beyond: series of dramas and books. I am currently mixing this. The song is originally heard sung acapella by the main protagonist half-way through the episode, and then at the end by his mother. I wanted to add more emotion to her rendition and make the song seem to fly out of the setting (the drama is set in a magical mystical world.)

Catch up with the previous episodes and subscribe via your favourite podcast platform with links and to listen here:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1354183

Adding strings to an acapella

Composer, arranger, keyboard player, productionist. Music graduate from Birmingham Conservatoire, first study in composition. Offering services in recording, mixing and mastering. Arrangements and orchestration occasionally. Contact me if you want your mix mastered, or mixed! All tracks are registered with MCPS/PRS, just let let them know if you plan to perform, play or redistribute any of my work.

Peter Nicholls

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