I love that when they do a musical episode, they always pay homage to the grand MGM era of musicals. It puts FG a cut above the rest. Kudos to Seth and composer Walter Murphy.
I'm surprised that NO ONE here has commented on the Disney-fied animation of the Griffins on the screen. That was the biggest shock to me watching this, and the #1 reason I favorited it. Can't wait to see it tomorrow night!
I love this video. Here you've got people at the top of their game in many different disciplines: performing music, recording and producing it, graphics, art, acting, writing, directing... It's so wonderful to see so many phenomenal people all pulling their creative powers together to create such a quality, well-finished and hilarious show.
ahhh the road to "somewhere" music its the intro to those episodes wow i had no idea the put this much into the music.... cause thats not cheap to do that many recording sessions!!! thats awesome!!! and thats quite a bit of instruments to for a animated tv show good job seth!!!!
Starting to fall in love with film music. I’m a classical music lover/player by heart but film music to me mixes classical with all other types of playing. Love how it sounds and love the mentality towards it. It wasn’t until recently seeing avatar 2, the last Star Wars movies, etc. that I realized how cool film music is and how it brings together the movie.
This really is one of the all-time master examples of juxtaposition. This type of incredible music for a show like Family Guy. Seth and Walter (and Ron Jones too) are pure gifts.
so they match the music to the animation ? or do they match the animation to the music? HOW DO THEY DO IT? the voice acting too, do they do that before or after the animation?
The composer will get the finished animation (minus score obviously) and work out a good bpm so that they can fit each important event to the music. Then they write the music and conduct to a metronome. At least, I always assumed that's how it worked :P
Voice acting is before the animation because they have to match the voice to the mouth animation. Music can come before or after. depends on if its a song they sing in family guy or not. if they sing chances are the song needs to be recorded first to match the beat of the music.
This is so amazing. Thank you for sharing this! There are a lot of classy and old school elements in the production aspect of FG, which are IMHO sometimes undercut by the writing.
What I mean is that the man in the video being interviewed with the superimposed name over him (at 59 seconds)is not John unless he does a great Murray Adler impersonation. John Elg conducts most of the time but not on this call. John does conduct 99.9% of the sessions. Murray steps in an emergency basis like he probably did on this call but I don't see John in this video. They are all brillant musicians!!! from Seth to Walter to John to Murray. They make an amazing team for sure!!
Yeah I suppose you're right. Still though, they do use it a fair bit, and Alf Clausen is incredible, but there has been a very unfortunate decline in its use in popular media of the last decade or too.
The jokes not relating to the plot is what MAKES it funny! If you can't understand the humour and irony in those jokes then don't bother watching the show.
Road To The Multiverse. The cue heard at the end is the recording of the opening titles (a different arrangement than what was heard in the final product). More specifically, this is a different version of the song composed for the episode, "It's A Wonderful Day For Pie".
The music in Family Guy has always reminded me of the music in movies back in the 50's and 60's.
I love that when they do a musical episode, they always pay homage to the grand MGM era of musicals. It puts FG a cut above the rest. Kudos to Seth and composer Walter Murphy.
I'm surprised that NO ONE here has commented on the Disney-fied animation of the Griffins on the screen. That was the biggest shock to me watching this, and the #1 reason I favorited it.
Can't wait to see it tomorrow night!
I love this video. Here you've got people at the top of their game in many different disciplines: performing music, recording and producing it, graphics, art, acting, writing, directing... It's so wonderful to see so many phenomenal people all pulling their creative powers together to create such a quality, well-finished and hilarious show.
That's fabulous! What a huge place. I love watching a live orchestra. It's magic.
ahhh the road to "somewhere" music its the intro to those episodes wow i had no idea the put this much into the music.... cause thats not cheap to do that many recording sessions!!! thats awesome!!! and thats quite a bit of instruments to for a animated tv show good job seth!!!!
Starting to fall in love with film music. I’m a classical music lover/player by heart but film music to me mixes classical with all other types of playing. Love how it sounds and love the mentality towards it. It wasn’t until recently seeing avatar 2, the last Star Wars movies, etc. that I realized how cool film music is and how it brings together the movie.
Seth, you're just amazing.
This really is one of the all-time master examples of juxtaposition. This type of incredible music for a show like Family Guy. Seth and Walter (and Ron Jones too) are pure gifts.
that trumpet section is KILLER!
This show is hilarious and the music is amazingly sophisticated. Both the scoring and playing are top notch!
so they match the music to the animation ? or do they match the animation to the music? HOW DO THEY DO IT? the voice acting too, do they do that before or after the animation?
The composer will get the finished animation (minus score obviously) and work out a good bpm so that they can fit each important event to the music. Then they write the music and conduct to a metronome. At least, I always assumed that's how it worked :P
Voice acting is before the animation because they have to match the voice to the mouth animation. Music can come before or after. depends on if its a song they sing in family guy or not. if they sing chances are the song needs to be recorded first to match the beat of the music.
great stuff! It's easy to take stuff like Family Guy for granted until you see the behind the scenes
One of my favorite episodes
This is so amazing. Thank you for sharing this! There are a lot of classy and old school elements in the production aspect of FG, which are IMHO sometimes undercut by the writing.
Love this! Used to do it all the time back in Australia.
I'm not a fan of "Family Guy" but the music has always been exquisite. Thank you for posting this insightful video.
I was always a fan of the music in family guy honestly, its often forgotten but jesus it sounds so good
man ppl just dont know ho much work it is to make a sho. Its quite amazing. LOVE this man
All of this for family guy
Fantastic! Thank you Kevin & Seth. I'm sending this link out on my next newsletter. Wow!
This is how we do music not that crap synthetic digital instruments that has no life breath behind it.
Especially with the use of production music by the APM music.
I would love to be in there hearing it live!
yes.
Thank you Kevin for posting this.
That's so cool to see. I'd kill to be an intern at KCPS. What an awesome experience the whole thing is.
Nicely done. Thanks for sharing. The 5D really shines.
So cool! I heard this video was shot and edited by Josh Negrin Josh Negrin. Good job, Josh!
AMAZING how much work has to go into making this show.....
The conductor on this one was Murray Adler who is the regular musicians contractor not John Elg.
The fact that this released a few days before one of the episodes shown here is strange.
What I mean is that the man in the video being interviewed with the superimposed name over him (at 59 seconds)is not John unless he does a great Murray Adler impersonation. John Elg conducts most of the time but not on this call. John does conduct 99.9% of the sessions. Murray steps in an emergency basis like he probably did on this call but I don't see John in this video. They are all brillant musicians!!! from Seth to Walter to John to Murray. They make an amazing team for sure!!
Are you kidding? The Simpsons has a full orchestra with Alf Clausen writing for it!
Family Guy Rocks!
amazing! thanks for sharing with us :)
duh, of course. love Ron Jones too!! Seth only uses the best! Makes our job easy.
Walter Murphy...isn't he the guy who had the hit in the mid 70's that was a disco version of Fifth Of Beethoven?
This is awesome.
I love Family Guy.
freakin amazing.
They must have a huge fucking budget
pretty awesome!!!
Toddly00 dude your comment was 7 whole years ago
Go Robbie!
THAT EPISODE IS 12 YEARS OLD????????
Peter Freddy Freaker is in our living room
Yeah I suppose you're right. Still though, they do use it a fair bit, and Alf Clausen is incredible, but there has been a very unfortunate decline in its use in popular media of the last decade or too.
very cool.
Notice how there's no bass and drums on the last cue, which is the overture of the episode.
I am so upset because of I didn't use the true way for watch the this show. I mean Hulu Tv > Netflix
WoW
Who's the tbone player in the middle?
+Jacob Ruiz Holy Crap! That's Bob McChesney.
The jokes not relating to the plot is what MAKES it funny! If you can't understand the humour and irony in those jokes then don't bother watching the show.
Ok seriously whats with the white noise
Ventilation
Which episode were they scoring for??
Road To The Multiverse. The cue heard at the end is the recording of the opening titles (a different arrangement than what was heard in the final product). More specifically, this is a different version of the song composed for the episode, "It's A Wonderful Day For Pie".
This should get released.
The guy they say is John Elg is not John Elg. Blasphemy!
Todos se mueren
it seems wierd to me that anyone cares about this cartoon. The charatcters are poorly drawn .
:(