Dean Krippaehne: The Man Behind the Music of Your Favorite TV Shows

“Let’s Talk Music” is about learning from experienced professional musicians, about them sharing their experiences in their own words. Whether they are composers, educators or performers, the goal is to help viewers understand some of the nuances of life in the music business, and perhaps help viewers develop a better understanding of a career that they might be considering. Dean Krippaehne is a Seattle-based veteran songwriter, speaker, music producer, worship leader and author. His recent books “Demystifying the Cue” and “Demystifying the Genre“ both reached #1 on Amazon’s Recording & Sound and Music Business Best Sellers charts. Dean is a multi-instrumentalist with thousands of placements in television, ads and film. As a songwriter Dean has earned gold and platinum records, and has earned the John Braheny Songwriting Award. Dean is also founder or co-founder of a number of businesses, and makes his living writing music. Demystifying The Cue: Thoughts and strategies for creating competitive Film and TV music in today’s new media world - Demystifying the Genre: Analysis of commonly used elements in ten of the top production music styles and strategies for successfully writing and recording in any genre - Write, Submit, Forget, Repeat - TV MUSIC Demystifying The Genre/Cue - Dean Krippaehne - / Writing Production Music For TV - Steve Barden - Deconstructing Production Music for TV - Steve Barden - So You Want To Become A Media Composer - Adonis Aletras - Introduction To Music Publishing for Musicians - Bobby Borg/Michael Eames - INSPIRATION Songwriters On Songwriting - Paul Zollo - More Songwriters On Songwriting - Paul Zollo - The Song Machine - John Seabrook - Anatomy Of A Song - Marc Myers - Always Magic In The Air - Ken Emerson - The B Side - Ben Yagoda - Tunesmith - Jimmy Webb -