Unique Music

There are no restrictions whatsoever with your music, you can have any music you want played in any style on your choice of instruments. Tailor Made Music and patch and pasted music explained.

 There must always be variety in the music riders compete to, so there are two ways in which music is created, and it is personal preference which type of music you choose..

 Firstly, bespoke music is created from scratch, with every instrument played and recorded individually, sometimes up to 32 instruments if a full orchestra or band is needed. This will enable the music to be both 100% accurate, as well as unique. If you are offered Bespoke Music, ensure it IS indeed bespoke, not patch and pasted existing recordings. Every horse is different, so arrangements are always different, reflecting the dynamics, personality, tempos and transitions to the second. The misic will be arranged and played as one recording with played, smooth transitions throughout. The choice of music is infinite, any music can be arranged and recorded to suit, though its best to avoid the commonly used themes as Judges can get very bored. The rider can even choose what instruments are used, so the music is personal to them. Music can be played in any style, so you could have as an example, dance music played as flamenco, rock music played as swing, the possibilities are endless. Obviously this music involves a lot of time in both scoring and recording, so would normally be £2000 plus to create. Gaynor as the inventor of Dressage to Music does not charge anything like this, her concern is to create unique music for the spoirt, not to make money. She charges £150 whatever the level. From the Copyright angle, as performer and producer, as well as composer, Gaynor is the copyright owner, thus on the PPL she is stated as Artist, she titles the music herself, so all very simple to fill in.

 Patch and Pasted music, this is the use of pre-existing non copyright recordings which can be downloaded and pasted from an accepted list of music which is allowed for reproducing for financial gain. There is a pretty extensive list of music which can be used, from which the producers of music can choose from. They can then download the music, varispeed to get a match to the horses tempos, and find sections of the recordings which reflect the dynamics. When the various pieces of music are put together to form a test, there will be a fade out and fade in for the transitions to ensure there are no obvious joins in the music when patching the pieces together. This process can be done very skillfully, matching the test throughout. For the PPL, every piece of music pasted together needs to be listed, the artist, title and time. Prices vary for this type of music medley, which is pre-recorded music from a 3rd party, thus not unique, being from £75.