Free download on SoundCloud. Man of Steel The title of this piece is: What Are You Going to Do When You’re Not Saving the World? It’s otherwise known as the title theme of Man of Steel, by composer Hans Zimmer. I performed this on YouTube […]

Tears In the Rain I would also strongly add Vangelis as the principal composer of this song. “Tears In Rain” minus a (the) is from the original iconic Blade Runner (1982) soundtrack. Tears in the Rain is nearly a verbatim replicant (sorry had to) of […]

Variation 15 (Dunkirk) Although Hans Zimmer is the principal composer of the Dunkirk Score, the soft ambient/melodic tracks are from composer Benjamin Wallfisch, and classical composer Sir Edward Elgar 1857-1934. The music of Dunkirk is a reimagined piece from Sir Edward Elgar entitled, Nimrod – […]

Chevaliers de Sangreal, from The Da Vinci Code, is one of Hans Zimmer’s most famous pieces of music. Life Must Have Its Mysteries is really just an updated variation of Chevaliers de Sangreal for Ron Howard’s Inferno — the third movie of the Robert Langdon trilogy. I […]

The chord progression and melody for Beautiful Lie is classic Hans Zimmer. It reminds me of his other great works: Time, Solomon, and Chevaliers de Sangreal. Hans Zimmer has a knack for these simple, steady, and impassioned chord progressions — that slowly build in their […]

[Update: this melody runs through a bunch of songs from the official score. I’m convinced that it can be considered “the theme” of Batman v Superman. This is most notably played in the final 3rd of Men Are Still Good (The Batman Suite).] I’ve never […]

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations One of the many benefits of my son arriving into the world last year, is that I have very little time to dwell on anything else […]

[Update: I can’t find this on the the official score. So it seems as though this piece of music was created specifically for the Batman v Superman trailer — which is still very cool. However, I have arranged (what I believe) is the central theme […]

How to play Hans Zimmer’s Chevaliers de Sangreal for guitar Chevaliers de Sangreal (from The Da Vinci Code) is perhaps my favorite Hans Zimmer piece next to Time. However, his music is so good, it’s almost impossible to pick. Like Gustavo Santaolalla, Hans Zimmer stands alone […]

After watching Interstellar again, I’m reminded of just how powerful the nexus of Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer really is.The movies and music are inextricably linked. The Dark Knight Rises was filmed in Pittsburgh (where I’m from) and you could literally go to the city […]

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ― Winston Churchill Success is a long, protracted curve As a creator, you can become so focused on where you’re going — that you never take stock of where you’ve been. This is […]

“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.” ― Albert Einstein No coincidences, just a road map I’ve written, ad nauseam, that the natural state of human beings (in my opinion) is creation: We build things. We create businesses that must be tended like gardens. We […]