From contemporary to country, we cover every style!
"I'm so excited! The music is unbelievable. I LOVE it!!" Julie McKean
Soundtrack Freestyles
Envision your dressage freestyle accompanied by instrumental versions of your favorite popular songs. Studio band recording is truly the soundtrack of your life for the ride of your life.
Woodwind Studios can arrange, produce, and record music for freestyle in almost any style you can name, including classic and modern rock, motown, country, blues, hip-hop, Latin, and contemporary.
"WE ALL LOVE IT... Everyone was dancing in the aisles." Dr. Cesar Parra
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Making a Pan Am Freestyle
In the spring of 2011, Dr. Cesar Parra approached Woodwind Studios with an idea for dressage freestyle music he hoped would take him to the Pan American Games. Beth Hall found 50 songs for Dr. Parra to try and flew to his farm in West Palm Beach with sample CDs in hand. Dr. Parra wanted music to tell the story of his background and he ultimately selected a mix of Latin and disco music. He also wanted fun music with just as much crowd appeal as judge appeal.
The next step was scoring music to match his choreography, emphasizing movements he wanted to feature such as extensions and canter pirouettes. As we recorded music, we put it with his video so that he could hear the impact of the phrasing as he watched his patterns.
Dr. Parra prefers an organic sound to synthesizer, so we recorded full horn section with trumpet, saxophone and trombone to mix with our synthesized base. With the addition of vocals, piano, organ, drums, electric and acoustic guitar, and electric bass, his recording was complete. Tim Gerron of The Music Lab mastered the music from 50 recorded tracks to produce a genuine club band sound.
Dr. Parra tested his music at the Saugerties CDI*** and won by nearly 5 percentage points. He decided to change his choreography and we re-recorded music in less than 2 weeks for Dr. Parra's next competition, the Collecting Gaits Festival of Champions. Dr. Parra's freestyle performance at the national championship helped put him on the U.S. team for the Pan American Games.
Click on the link below to hear Dr. Parra's freestyle music.
"I really liked the freestyle that you did for Cesar Parra's young rider and felt that the music was both appropriate for the horse as well as a young rider and that it matched the movements quite well versus being background music." Mindy Elgart
A Young and Fun Freestyle for NAJYRC
FEI Young Rider, Julie McKean, wanted to be young, have fun, and win in competition. She asked us to record sizzling Latin rock music for her final year of NAJYRC competition and she won the Raleigh CDI*** in her debut performance.
Julie's music features synthesizer, percussion, guitar, and trumpet. Synthesizer pads the sound with keyboard, strings, horns and bass to give the music fully scored texture. Percussion instruments were recorded live, including color instruments such as bongos, tom-tom, maracas, guiro, cowbell, whistle and ratchet. Live guitar and trumpet add rhythm and solo performances for authentic Latin sound. The music was compiled and engineered from more than 30 separate performance tracks.
Click on the link below to hear Julie's freestyle music. Woodwind Studios was the first to use this trot music.
We'll start by finding music which can be recorded successfully at your horse's gait tempos. You can submit a list of songs to us or our staff will research popular music in your preferred style. Once you've selected music, a score is arranged to match your choreography. The keyboardist will "mock-up" the freestyle for you to try. After you've tested the freestyle and we've made any requested changes, music is recorded in the studio. All parts are then mixed and mastered in final engineering.
Production schedule: Time required to produce studio band freestyle music for Young Rider/Intermediate levels is 12 weeks; Grand Prix takes 14 weeks. Production schedule does not include the time you take in selecting music and filming your choreography video. If you plan to compete in spring shows, we advise committing to your studio band freestyle 4 months prior to your first competition.
