I really hope that you’ve gotten your copy of TinkerBell and the Legend of the NeverBeast and are enjoying it with your family! If not, why haven’t you? It’s filled with a great story, beautiful animation, and gorgeous music! Today I am sharing some insider information on the music from Bleu. Bleu produced all of the songs on the film, wrote a couple of them, and worked on the sound palette. We also talked to Brett Swain, the music supervisor. There is some really interesting information I learned, and I’m excited to share it with all of you!
Bleu talks about the unique sound for the film:
Bleu talks about the unique sound for the film:Bleu: Steve [Loter – the director] really wanted something unique for this film. He really wanted new sounds. And obviously there’s this huge looming figure in this film, the NeverBeast, and his world of the forest and cave. And he wanted to make sure that this was something that you hadn’t experienced before. So the big challenge for me was to come up with this unique sound color palette for him and all the other characters of the film.
Bleu came up with a pretty unique thing for Gruff’s sound:
Bleu came up with a pretty unique thing for Gruff’s sound:Bleu: I’ll talk briefly about the instruments that we used for Gruff ’cause obviously this was kinda the initial big goal was to get sounds for him in particular. One of the wonderful things we stumbled upon are these planters from the store. And as you can see here, all the ones that you use for outside have a hole in the bottom so the water can drain, which actually makes them perfect for placing on the cymbal stands. It’s actually amazing how perfectly it worked out. We got dozens of pots of all different sorts. And ’cause they have a lot of overtones and they’re kind of dissonant, we ended up using a lot of these in some of the more eerie scenes for Gruff.
Bleu came up with another great instrument called the dulcitar:
Bleu came up with another great instrument called the dulcitar:Bleu: I developed this with the percussionist who worked with me on the film, Joe Siders, and I call it the dulcitar. I knew that I wanted to use acoustic stringed instruments on the film ’cause I have a big background in that and alternate tunings and low strung guitars and high-strung guitars and all these sorts of different things. But I didn’t want it to be an acoustic guitar score ’cause again that has a specific connotation of folk music or country music or the west and that kinda thing. I didn’t want to place it in that territory. And we ended up coming up with this idea. And it’s really cool. It actually takes two people to play it and we use these dulcimer hammers, which are normally used to play hammer dulcimer as you might imagine.
Here’s a video I took showing them playing the dulcitar:
They used this dulcitar for Fawn’s character because it has such a beautiful sound – and I definitely agree that it works perfectly for her!
It was really neat hearing about how the sound of certain characters came about, especially with the unique instruments. Every time I watch TinkerBell and the Legend of the NeverBeast I always think about what I learned. I hope you’ll remember these facts as you do, too!
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I think the behind the scenes stuff is really interesting. Especially with the animated movies.
I always love seeing how soundtracks are made for movies. I’ve always found sound effects to be very interesting. The dulcitar is pretty cool!
How fun! It’s totally fitting that the soundtrack to Tinker Bell would involve a made up instrument. I love it!
I loved this movie, so it’s really cool to get a look at how they did the sound track. You have to get pretty creative to make a sufficiently fairy sounding musical score. Really cool!
It’s really cool to see how they put together the soundtrack. Thank you so much for sharing!
So awesome. I just picked it up the other day to watch this weekend!
I totally love having the chance to see “behind the scene” scoops not only is it fun, educational but as well as entertaining. I have watch Tinkerbell and Neverbeast before so I am totally thrilled to know more about the music behind it.
I love learning information like this. What a fun and creative industry to work in!
I can’t wait to check this movie out! Love the behind the scenes info!
We really love the Tinkerbell movies and can’t wait to watch The Legend of the Neverbeast. 🙂 And that is so cool about the planters!
I can’t wait to hear the finished sounds for Gruff. I’m always impressed with how much work goes into these films.
Very cool. I wanna see this
This movie looks so cute!! I love the Disney movies and Tinkerbell movies are fun!
I can’t wait to see this !I bet the music is wonderful, as all Disney music.
This is awesome how they made the instruments!
that’s really cool how you got to see about the behind the scene. always fun seeing how they do things.
I am always amazed at how they do voices and sounds for animated films. This movie is so cute.
We are so excited for this movie. My kids and I love Tink.
Seriously so much fun to hear about the behind the scenes stuff! So much talent!
The behind the scenes stuff is always fascinating to me!! So cool that you had this opportunity!