How I Made The TOP GEAR Theme

22 years ago Christian Henson smashed together three drum loops, some orchestral stabs, a synth bass, and a guitar through a Seek Wah for a poky little motoring show on BBC2. This small section of music was part of a larger suite of re-arrangements of The Allman Brother's "Jessica". The files are long lost on frozen spinning drives so Henson and the Crow Hill Team fastidiously sifted through sample collections re-creating a musical signature of what became the most distributed factual entertainment program of all time. This is how Christian made the #topgear theme.

If you fancy going under the hood of this iconic track we have prepared various versions of the music, the samples and DAW files so you can get your head around how this odd concoction of instruments became the sound of motoring for 22 years. Download for free from here: https://thecrowhillcompany.com/hub/

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Theo Le Derf, amazing guitarist does remote sessions!!! https://www.theolederf.com/

The Top Gear trio are still going strong on #drivetribe:    / @drivetribe  

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CONTENTS:

0:00 So 20 years ago...
01:05 How you can get under the cover of the Top Gear theme
01:23 What is Top Gear?
01:58 What is a media composer?
02:35 Drums
03:48 How I got the gig
04:22 What is a Seek Wah?
05:17 The hunt for the humbucker
06:32 Orchestral stabs
07:02 Water tank hits
07:19 Did Top Gear make me rich???
08:00 Synth bass
08:19 The original concept
09:22 The guitar sessions
10:50 Comping guitars into the track
11:12 The mystery orchestral bit
11:36 What do you need to study to become a media composer?
13:07 Mixing
13:42 What happened next?
14:23 Why I have put off making this video for 5 years...
15:27 How to download the assets FREE
15:45 Playout.