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The Science of Scary Music

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Horror Music - The Rattling Drum Beat

i think the violins from psycho are a pretty perfect example of what, what form that music usually takes. It creates mental pictures, for sure. But that sound with the violin feels like a knife stabbing, you know. I don't know if i can unmarry those sounds. To come back to the shining again, there's another thing that i think is a really great example of horror music, in particular, meaning that moment of horror as opposed to terror.

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