this seems to be the most comprehensive behind the score for any film or series

One of my favorite things about Family Guy is the music. I just LOVE how much effort is put into each episode to make it sound AMAZING!

This is by far the best documentary on film/tv scoring I've ever seen. Awesome!

Can you believe this was the guy who made A Fifth of Beethoven?? How old is this guy? Legend!

His job is more complicated than I thought!!! This was always my dream job!!! I don’t want to just do cover bands my whole life!!! This was inspirational!!!

11:51 - I love that he mentions the importance of executing quality voice leading in his process. Many have asked me if studying music theory is worth it. I not only feel it's worth the time but essential. Further, I believe counterpoint should be learned either in tandem or prior to harmony as it demystifies the reasons for harmonic guidelines.

That was amazing. I'm happy that the guy who made the disco Beethoven is doing this. The composer is very well spoken.

It must be very rewarding to mic the complete orchestra and finally hear it in the studio

I love how the "demo" for the intro became the actual intro. So often that is how it works.

Pure gold. Thank you!!

I absolutely adore this guy's music.. I wish he could do more movies with the sound of Seth's work.. only because then, we'd get more of his work released.

Seth MacFarlane and Walter Murphy = GENIUS !!!

I heard he has a large orchestra palette

It amazes me that they go to this great of extents. The percent of viewers who would be able to tell the difference between his computerized orchestra from the live performance must be so insignificantly small. The fact that they take the extra time, planning and cost to record those live performances really surprises me.

It's so incredible how much talent goes into such a big show and I love for it!

7-8 months for one episode. Damn that's insane. Especially when you think about how they work on multiple episodes at the same time.

So well done! Rarely do we get to see how a score is developed from start to finish. Walter Murphy shows a great deal of humility and skill. Love these behind the scenes mini-docs. Many thanks for posting!

Lucky there's a composer guy!

He's such a great composer in each genre! The secret star of Family Guy and American Dad.

By far my best score had to be the intro of the episode “and then there were fewer” I just love it

OMG! Fantastic! I totally agree with others saying that they would love to see more videos like this -- brilliant!

What an intense job to do, but very creative and rewarding!!! My respect!! Thanks SOS magazine for this!!!

How interesting. I always knew about Seth's obsession with big band sounds and I really didn't know how he got the music for his shows. The music for the beats between acts where the scenes are set have always been so unique every time and it's always perplexed me because it's only ever like a 6 to 8 second song and it didn't seem logical to hire a composer to make unique setting music for every episode but Seth knows how to get what he wants I guess. Still I appreciate a lot of those tertiary pieces because while being seemingly unimportant the show would be nowhere near the same without it.

Glad to see it's been unblocked. Thanks for posting SoS, really good information here - and Walter Murphy seems like a really nice guy! Very funny about the title sequence music...

Anyone else spot Wayne Bergeron at 6:41 ? Walter literally has THE best players on these sessions!

This is ironically my favorite song of family guy. I’ve listened to it on loop for days!!

amazing video. thanks !

Great video! I have tremendous respect for this people - stying fresh over all this years is a hard thing to do...

Much respect for this guy. The music is the best part of Family Guy.

14:57 I adore how in 2018, with ground breaking sample technology, he still does mockups with the JV1080. It can sound pretty damn good when you know what you're doing.

There are no words that exist that can express just how much I really enjoyed this video!

Great! I appreciate hearing the two pieces in the context of the finished animation.

Very awesome video! Love to see more like this, maybe towards more cinematic stuff; Trailer scores, Fantasy music etc

Love how the intro music has not been altered all these years

An absolute treat to watch, thanks!

I’d love to see the recording of that godfather scene where the trumpet keeps getting louder and louder

I hadn't seen how long the video was and kept worrying it'd be too short. I'm glad you went in detail with this. Very enlightening!

Bravo! What a wonderful job.👏👏

Meg.

I have no knowledge of music composing but I found this video really interesting. What a genius this guy is! You are so unaware of the time and creativity put into these shows.

Wow! So many details we take for granted... Such a labor of love. Congrats for the talent, grace, care and good taste. And that’s for all involved.

This is absolute gold. LOVE seeing all the behind the scenes!

This was wonderful! Thank you! Also, Digital Performer for life!

This was great. Loved every bit of it. Thanks.

Yay, MOTU Digital Performer 9.5! Someone should tell Walter that if you set the velocity of the Key Switches to 0, you can have Quickscribe ignore them and not see them in the charts (see 10:35 in the vid). ...that may be the only thing i know that walter doesn't. he's amazing. the music for this show is consistently stellar.

Fantastic documentary! Brilliant work!

Totally awesome Walter.. thank you so much for you time! And thank you SOS!!

It is great that quality music production followed Seth into the "Orville". The music perfectly catches the character of scifi similar to Star Trek.

I learned so much from this! So informative! I would love to hear more from Walter Murphy!

It was fascinating to hear him describe how his thought process and work flow went together.

This is absolutely fantastic! A real and comprehensive tutorial on film writing!!

This is a masterclass in writing, arranging and pre and post production. Given free. 🙏🙏

Fascinating video and well produced by the SOS team, appreciate the insight.

New drinking game: drink every time he says “orchestra pallet” 🤣

I'd freaking pay for watching this, big big big thank you for everyone who made this and showing us the secret Walter!!!!!!

Been waiting for this LOVE the music..always sounds so good and I love both of these shows!!! Kudos to Walter!

Fantastic interview, fantastic video production, fascinating topic. Thanks so much!

Thank you so much for this insight behind the scenes.

thanks for such an insightfull video and all the years of making the most insightfull music magazine

i never would have thought that so mush work is being done music-wise on each episode, i just thought that they were using some prerecorded public domain music pieces, it's amazing!

amazing scoring

Nice to hear the midi mock-up flushed out with a real section! There’s no substitute for that sound.

16:43 - love that modulation!

This is hilarious, and the most insightful video I've seen aboput scoring, awesome! Learnt a lot!

this was fantastic, thank you so much guys!

Really enjoyed that, thanks!

I wonder if he wrote the “Prom Night Dumpster Baby”. Song? It’s bloody brilliant stuff.

Terrific video! Thanks SOS.

Great video. Best yet from SoS

Great work guys, love this show and had no idea how much effort goes into the music! Shared & liked :)

Very, very cool! Thank you!

Such a good insight into what goes on behind the scenes.

Oh my gosh, thats so cool! Big thumps up! 👍 Please more of that!

Outstanding video, great work Sound On Sound!

You have to a brilliant sense of humour and really understand music to score for family guy. They all work together so well.

This was very insightful . Thank You!

Fascinating. So much work goes into something so irreverant! Bravo, Mr Murphy.

13:33 so awkward without music lmao

Great episode great music 🎵

Loved this!!!!! More please!!! 🙏❤️❤️❤️

Great informational video. Thank you!

“I have a large Orchestra Pallete” is my new pick up line

14:57 good ol’ Roland JV1080. Still holds up to this day.

So refreshing to know such a well humoured, inspired and creative composer and orchestrator is behind the music of this show! Absolute genius

really interesting, glad this is so thorough!

Love this stuff. Thanks.

Fantastic work! It's just a bit ironic that the two main pieces used in the documentary were eventually aired so heavily EQ'd ('50s TV effect) that you can hardly tell the difference between demo and full orchestration.

The musical score for the epic fight between Herbert The Pervert and the old Nazi Lieutenant is my all time favorite...

Wow, this is super informative and super helpful

Great Interview!!!!

Very informative, thank you!

amazing and inspirational. thanks!

Walter Murphy is a family guy genius.

that is a lot of work behind every episode, very interesting!!

A composer i admire from a Magazine i love,with such an in-depth BtS/interview has made this a great start to the week !!Ty!

Great video, but I just wish he would've provided more info on the size of his orchestra pallete.

Fabulous video!

Hi, I'm Walter Murphy and I have a large orchestra palette.

this is really cool!

Really insightful, thanks