Uploaded June 2019 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago

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Ever wonder how film composers write and record music with crazy otherworldly sounds like in Harry Potter? Randy Kerber, pianist and composer at LA Studio (Forrest Gump, Harry Potter) goes through extended techniques and shows how you can prepare a piano, by placing coins on the strings or otherwise modifying how you record it, to get incredible sounds that you could never imagine a piano making.

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