Michael has mentioned in the past how he will sit down in front of the tv with a notepad and jot down things he hears during shows. I did that again last night while watching "Moonshiners." If you want an education in swamp cue writing, watch that show for an hour.
I only took notes for two segments... 13 cues in on five minute segment, 24 cues in the next nine minute segment. So, if you triple those minutes you get a good idea how many cues were used in this one episode. In this case that would be about 111. I heard some repeats, but in our business that's a good thing.
Here's the list in my personal shorthand to give an idea:
- slide guitar (cigar box guitar), slow, sustained
- tension drone, some hits, pulses, then stinger
- tension drone
- scraping tension then slide guitar
- dobro, harmonica
- acoustic guitar
- violin transition, long notes
- full swamp ensemble with drums (longer cue)
- fiddle, bass, guitar
- dobro, cbg guitar, acoustic strumming
- tension pulsing drone
- tension drone, no tempo
- tension drone, sounds like Damage rhythms building to commercial
- same tension drone (after commercial)
- tension drone, pulsing, stinger end
- tension drone
- tension pulsing drone, percussion enters later
- acoustic swamp playing, lower strings
- harmonica transition
- banjo, bass drum, happy feel, longer cue
- slide guitar / cbg
- swamp ensemble
- CBG solo, grows to ensemble
- tension stinger
- CBG
- bass drum bas, guitar, ensemble, country twang
- banjo, mandolin
- strings, long
- tensjon swamp, with hits, then fiddle
- bass drum, group claps ensemble
- CBG
- hit, tension drone
- cbg then add percussion
- tension slide guitar
- guitar, dobro, drums, dancing feel
- harmonica, acoustic guitar
- acoustic guitar
- tension drone builds to commercial break
There's a LOT of business out there to be had! Hope this is useful.