Today I interviewed Grammy Winner Brendan Berry about the path that he has taken in music and his career.

RS: How’d you get started in music?

BB: In the sixth grade, I had a couple of friends say they wanted to start a band and you [Brenden] should play bass. So I asked my mom if I could learn to play the bass and got a $200 combo: crappy bass and a crappy amp and started taking lessons once a week and those thirty minute lessons were the only time I played. That was the very beginning.

RS: And how old were you?

BB: Ugh, sixth grade so I was probably about 12 years old.

RS: So what is your process for composing music? How do you start and how do you end?

BB: So typically, most often, when I’m composing, I’m writing to picture. So that process is a little bit différent than if I’m just writing without any visual aid, so the standard process or the one that I abide by for writing to picture is if the film has not been spotted, usually it is but if it hasn’t been spotted I’ll first spot the film, which means go through and figure out where music is going to be place and those sections become you’re cues, but after that is to find temp. Music to go into those sections to find out where it fits. Director, editor or music supervisor might also do that. It’s a collaborative process.

(See video below for the rest of the interview)