For me this is the best song of the soundtrack. I never knew I could see the original score!

John Powell, I can't thank you enough for the HTTYD soundtracks. Growing up with them has had a huge influence on what I wish to do, currently I'm at Uni studying sound recording with aspirations to go into the production of film scores. Your music has always been at the top of my list both 'Test Drive' and 'Hard Reunion' have been 2 pieces that have always brought me such joy. I contribute so much of my success to the passion those pieces have made me feel. Once again, thankyou

@gubblfisch350

4 жыл бұрын

Romantic flight is my favorite. Best of luck at Uni :)

@anarsosoroo2891

3 жыл бұрын

same!

@blackstormoffical4406

3 жыл бұрын

Best of luck at Uni!!!🙃

I cannot describe how lifting these melodies are, and inspirational most of all, it instantly brightens your day. Thank you for making our childhoods so memorable! Whenever I hear these tunes, I feel like i'm flying with Hiccup and Toothless and wanting to draw

I hear the music and I'm transported back to seeing the the movie the first time. The music and animation style of this series made the movies as great as they are. Most underrated animated movies of the last decade.

Found this video through the ‘Sideways’ youtube channel. Just sending some love

watched a video analyzing this. Between the use of desk bells (of all things) to the altered tone of the main theme of the movie (which typically connotes the themes of loss), to the just jovial feeling of flight, this piece really just speaks volumes of how good John Powell is at composition

One of the greatest film composers and my favourite. You deserve more recognition, maestro.

Thank you so much for the how to train your dragon soundtrack. I still cry sometimes listening to it. The music has always been able to calm me even when I was in the hospital often.

Thank you so much for that. I wish more film composers did that.

When I heard you had a KZread channel, this was the first track I hunted down

@kvr8286

4 жыл бұрын

I'm holding out for Test Drive or Forbidden Friendship :)

the feeling when i heard this beautiful creation is happiness, i wanna cry

For someone with the emotional wage of a teaspoon, this track never fails to give me goosebumps at measure 31, and even more as the track goes on. You definitely deserved IFMCA's award with this track. I truly look forward to decrypting the score when the scorebook releases in within a few months. I hope the lyrics of the vocalists are in there too. That would be like the icing on the icing.

@FilmScoreandMore

2 жыл бұрын

I can't wait for that book! We'll have it very soon.

@castleguard_of_xbox360

5 ай бұрын

Where can I find the book??

Love John's scores so much! I really hope he is able to share some of his track from Robots and Kung Fu Panda!

i've been watching How to train your dragon for more than 100 times and i never get bored

My God that was a masterpiece 🤯thank you for all the wonderful colors to our ears Mr. John Powell 🙏🙏

john powell's music for this movie trilogy might be the best music i'll ever hear

MY FAVORITE SOUNDTRACK!

This may not showed the whole sheet but at least it helped me learn orchestration. Thank you very much John Powell

Thank you from the bottom of my heart You and the Dreamworks team

I've done this once today, so it's a little stale, but why not? John Powell: It's all well and good to call yourself a composer, but can you do *this?* * proceeds to make the best music I've ever heard for HTTYD 2 *

As a horn player I like the 2:30 horn blast

I seriously admire this score.... especially those choirs...😭😭😭 haaaaaa I LOVE YOUR MUSICCC

OMG... You're the composer of this track 😮

This is one of the best songs out of the entire franchise :O

The modulations are really beautiful. I wonder how they go with the story?

Watching this has helped to uncover even more layers to this gorgeous track than I'd already heard through constant listening. Thank you so much for sharing this with us, Mr Powell!

See thiniing about the ploy of the film it was kind if weak. But.... But qhen i watched it i got chills. It was the music. I could still feel rhe spirit of the characters, even in moments that thenatically were kind of weak.

I am so happy that I subscribed to your channel! I want to write music someday myself, and actually seeing a score orchestration is just the best thing anyone could ask for. Thank you!

This is really helpful, as sheets of the second movie is hard to find. This is helping me study your amazing work now, thanks a lot!

i ALWAYS listened to httyd soundtracks ever since i was in kinder, now that im in high school, i realized i grew up with httyd and it made me miss the movie :(

AWE-SOME! 🎼🎶🎵💕

Ahhh I love this so much

Just amazing, your work is brilliant excellent, I want to cry, that feelings, thank you

valka: This is What it is,to be a Dragon Hiccup ✨✨

One day I will write scores such great as yours 😌 Thanks for the inspiration

Wow nice

MY FAVORITE!!!

well done John powell 👏👏👏

Love your work❤

You should be proud of yourself, John Powell!

Mind blowing music effects

Amazing

I really need to see the entire vertical score to get the entire scope of the scoring.

Da best music in the world (Second only after Battle of Heroes)

i'd like to see Jhon answering questions from the comments.

As a Viking i wish i can be free like in real 🙂🙂🙂, i can feel my freedom inside 🍃

How do you decide how the violins split (i.e. 2:21), and do you think of this as you're writing the mockup or does an orchestrator handle that? I'm amazed by your precision regardless; the music is fab.

Nothing hits me emotionally as much as the HTTYD series sound track

I love you😄😍

I love song from japan

I would really like to see the scores of the 2011 Rio film!

Probs for using a Celtic Harp instead of Concert Harp!

What does the 3m20 code mean ? How does the assignment process of a particular cue to a particular scene ?

@GarenEvansMusic

5 жыл бұрын

It's no code, it's pretty straight forward, most films are divided into a certain number of reels ( usually 5 or 6 reels). The naming of a film cue starts with the reel number, then the letter M (which stands for music), and the cue number. So, this is the 20th music cue (or piece) in reel 3.

@yannick1984

5 жыл бұрын

@@GarenEvansMusicThanks. I would never have guessed, I'm so used to see films released in digital nowadays that I'd completely set aside the idea of reels.... That also implies the score does intervene in a very late part of the film production process, then.

@bencostello7435

5 жыл бұрын

Originally it had to do with lining up the music tape with the reel of film so that things started at the right time amidst the mess of film and tape. The first number indicated which reel the music tape went with, M meant "music," and the second number meant that is started at that part of the reel. So 3M20 would have meant that this would have gone in the 20th part of reel 3 (not that it would have been the 20th musical cue in reel 3 though, unless the music was "wall to wall" and no cue lasted more than 1 section of the reel). The convention is used more or less the same way now, but instead of physical reels of film, this is following "virtual reels," or, I'd assume in animation, the approximate length of time one reel would last. Any numbers following the #M# indicate which version of this cue it is, as the composer usually makes several slightly different versions of a cue until the director is happy and it syncs with every hit point in the final cut.

@violetnhz

4 жыл бұрын

+

is that electric cello as the bass melody? what is that lol

👌❤️

9 horns, jeremy? 9? that's _insane_ ...I've made this joke before, I'm sure of it

0:25 sounds a bit like a Chinese anthem or so 😅

I want to be able to do this. I beg of God.

bUm BuM bUM BUm buM bum BUM.

Your the music writer of how to train your dragon tell the producers to make another one I beg you please and please decide on makeing new music please a how to train your dragon 4 would be my absolute dream I will never forget how to train yiur dragon please please please I’ve cried now there’s not another one. Please il do anything.

Waow, there's some strange warping in the audio, no?

@cantifirmi4921

4 жыл бұрын

Warping like distortion?

Ok, even though I do like Powells music for this franchise I always wondered why he made the Vikings Celts? I mean there is nothing sincerely nordic about anything in this franchise. And these piece here is kinda chinese in sound. I mean Disneys "Frost" protraited nordic music really accurate, so why these celtic vibes all over the music. Its sounds kinda like Brave that was celtic in some parts. :-) I was thinking maybe its a inside joke?

@topilepojarvicomposer6157

4 жыл бұрын

I recall at least in some interview Powell said he was influenced by Grieg and Sibelius and I do get that feeling from the orchestra. Yet the score doesn't feel nordic in the way Vikings or even Skyrim might which is a bit of a shame (it's not all celtic either). Maybe because Grieg and Sibelius didn't really write folk music even though they were influenced by it? :) I guess celtic music is used because it sounds "wild" and "emotional" yet familiar (e.g. Last of the Mohicans, LotR, Titanic). It may feel "eastern" since it heavily uses pentatonic scale. Perhaps Powell wanted to have something "folky" but not restricted to Scandinavia?

@Dragontrumpetare

4 жыл бұрын

@@topilepojarvicomposer6157 but it's just not only the music. The characters even speaks in a celtic accent. Lol. It fine so far that their is people who think scandic speaks like celts. Lol 😂

@topilepojarvicomposer6157

4 жыл бұрын

@@Dragontrumpetare aye, everyone knows that when scandinavian people talk in english they have a scottish accent lol

@FilmScoreandMore

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Jerry, that's a pretty valid question about the Celtic influence on the music. If you want to know a little more, I did a whole video explaining Powell's use of bagpipes in the score like you can see and hear in this cue. kzread.info/dash/bejne/fnaA08Wbf8fAYqw.html

@Dragontrumpetare

3 жыл бұрын

@@FilmScoreandMore Wow, this I have to watch. :-)