JULSCARVER
Cathlete
I usually really like the music she uses for her videos. However, for STS the music I feel has been generally non-inspirational.
Anybody else disappointed in the music?
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LauraMax
Cathlete
Roger that! I miss the old fitness mixes. The music in step moves is pretty good, but I think that's b/c it was actually recognizable (covers of old songs).
I just can't get into the custom, orchestrated music in STS, esp. the strength series. I do like the Cathe "theme" in the beginning of all the workouts, but I find the rest of it to be boring & uninspiring. And I don't normally even notice music in a workout DVD.
I think Cathe should save herself some money & go back to the oldies. JMO.
I just can't get into the custom, orchestrated music in STS, esp. the strength series. I do like the Cathe "theme" in the beginning of all the workouts, but I find the rest of it to be boring & uninspiring. And I don't normally even notice music in a workout DVD.
I think Cathe should save herself some money & go back to the oldies. JMO.
Well, I'll be the dissenting voice here. I really like the music in STS Strength, and as I was doing MMA KB last week I was thinking how much I liked the music. I do like the oldies music in Imax 2, and also really like the music in LIC, even though it's mostly instrumental. I think it's nice to have a variety of types of music to listen to. I don't know that I want to hear oldies music every day that I work out!
exercise-lover
Cathlete
I'm with you all. I not only find the music in Shock Cardio unmotivating, but also flat annoying. I love the fitness mixes and the oldies, like in Step, Jump, Pump. Sometimes I do that DVD just for the music.
Govtgirl
Cathlete
The music in STS is what caused me to cancel my pre-order! I went to a Cathe Roadtrip and they showed a finished section of STS, and I immediately HATED the music. I knew I'd never work out to it.
I also recognized it as a type of canned music software program ....my husband is a videographer, and he has this software that fills in background music. You telll it the length, when to increase tempo, fade in/out etc. It's great in small doses for video, but not for a whole hour
I agree, I love the pop music better!
I also recognized it as a type of canned music software program ....my husband is a videographer, and he has this software that fills in background music. You telll it the length, when to increase tempo, fade in/out etc. It's great in small doses for video, but not for a whole hour
I agree, I love the pop music better!
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STS Music
We have never used a canned music software program to make any of our music for any of our videos. All of the music in STS was custom created by 16 nationally known music composers who work for companies like Universal Studios and Disney. The sound track in STS is probably the most expensive soundtrack ever used in a fitness video and it took 6 months to write, produce and score the music in STS. The music was then mixed by NFL Films who happens to have some of the best and most sophisticated audio mixing equipment and technicians in the recording and film industry.
When you were at the road trip you listened to STS videos that had not had their music levels set or synced, so there is really no way to fairly judge the music until this is done. STS is a weight training video in which movements are not done to music as the body slows down as muscles fatigue. Since people will fail at different points in every exercise there is also no way to sync music to every person as their lifting speeds are all different. Pop music in a video like STS simply would not work and would be distracting since each set is usually less than a minute and this would not give the song enough time to build and the strong beat would be distracting since you're not lifting to a beat.
The approach to the music we used in STS was to have composers watch the finished video and then write songs that captured the energy of each exercise and then backed off during the breaks between each set. This when combined with some of the worlds best videographer's (NFL Films) produced what we feel is our best piece of work to date. I realize music taste vary wildly, but I think you would have enjoyed STS.
We have never used a canned music software program to make any of our music for any of our videos. All of the music in STS was custom created by 16 nationally known music composers who work for companies like Universal Studios and Disney. The sound track in STS is probably the most expensive soundtrack ever used in a fitness video and it took 6 months to write, produce and score the music in STS. The music was then mixed by NFL Films who happens to have some of the best and most sophisticated audio mixing equipment and technicians in the recording and film industry.
When you were at the road trip you listened to STS videos that had not had their music levels set or synced, so there is really no way to fairly judge the music until this is done. STS is a weight training video in which movements are not done to music as the body slows down as muscles fatigue. Since people will fail at different points in every exercise there is also no way to sync music to every person as their lifting speeds are all different. Pop music in a video like STS simply would not work and would be distracting since each set is usually less than a minute and this would not give the song enough time to build and the strong beat would be distracting since you're not lifting to a beat.
The approach to the music we used in STS was to have composers watch the finished video and then write songs that captured the energy of each exercise and then backed off during the breaks between each set. This when combined with some of the worlds best videographer's (NFL Films) produced what we feel is our best piece of work to date. I realize music taste vary wildly, but I think you would have enjoyed STS.
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Music in Videos
I’m sure most of you don’t realize how music licensing for video works, but you can’t just purchase any song you like. If we could select any “song” for a video we could make some really rocking soundtracks, but this can’t be done legally or in a timely manner. We’ve exhausted most of the available music from video catalogs a long time ago. We too think our best music was probably used in the Imax series, but there is just not a lot of music like this being made available and released for video nowadays. If there was we would buy it!
Artist in the past would strike deals with producers to license their music for video because they needed different avenues to promote their music. Today, artists use the internet and iTunes to promote and sell their music and have lost interest in licensing their music for video. This makes it harder for us to find great music and limits us in selecting the type of video music we can legally use. There is nobody in our industry spending more money than we are on music. Unfortunately, there is just not as wide of a selection as there used to be.
I agree definetly go back to the oldies. The orchestrated stuff is a tad boring. The body blast series has great music. So did the hardcore series. And the music in Imax 2 rocks.
I’m sure most of you don’t realize how music licensing for video works, but you can’t just purchase any song you like. If we could select any “song” for a video we could make some really rocking soundtracks, but this can’t be done legally or in a timely manner. We’ve exhausted most of the available music from video catalogs a long time ago. We too think our best music was probably used in the Imax series, but there is just not a lot of music like this being made available and released for video nowadays. If there was we would buy it!
Artist in the past would strike deals with producers to license their music for video because they needed different avenues to promote their music. Today, artists use the internet and iTunes to promote and sell their music and have lost interest in licensing their music for video. This makes it harder for us to find great music and limits us in selecting the type of video music we can legally use. There is nobody in our industry spending more money than we are on music. Unfortunately, there is just not as wide of a selection as there used to be.
spyrosmom
Cathlete
Hmmmmmmm...... I'm going to chime in here.
The music in STS strength - I can take it or leave it. Isn't awful, but it doesn't knock my socks off, either. I can say I think it has too much bass in some parts, especially the in some of the abs sections. Med ball, especially, if I remember correctly. It rattles the speakers like nothing else. This is also the big, booming, movie watching tv, and all the explosions in the world don't vibrate like the STS bass does. I think it's a bit of a lower frequency. My ears don't particularly like it though. Feels like I'm driving down the road next to a trunk rattling thumpity-thumpity car. Other than that, I really don't hear the music in the strength DVDs. I normally don't in other lifting DVDs, either. I just tune it out. I'm lifting and changing weights, and cursing at Cathe.
In the cardio series, I like the music. I agree, some of the older series had better music for cardio, but this isn't bad. I like "Blue Monday" (how does it feel, when you treat me like you do? It feels like you're going to kill me, thanks) and there is one song that I know, but just can't place. I think it is from a TV show or movie. Sounds kind of James Bond-ish. DH recognizes, but can't quite get it, either. I do like having music I know, bc then I can sing along. DH however is not on board with that, because I sound like a cross between a dying moo cow and a gremlin in a blender. Oh well, he loves me anyway. In cardio, I find the music much more important. If there is a song I don't like, I can just tune it out. If there is a whole string of them, then that is difficult. The only Cathe soundtrack I really don't like is Step Blast. Don't like that workout, either. I think I'm the only one on that one. Some of the others have a song here or there I could do without, but I just live with it.
You can't please all the people all of the time.
Nan
The music in STS strength - I can take it or leave it. Isn't awful, but it doesn't knock my socks off, either. I can say I think it has too much bass in some parts, especially the in some of the abs sections. Med ball, especially, if I remember correctly. It rattles the speakers like nothing else. This is also the big, booming, movie watching tv, and all the explosions in the world don't vibrate like the STS bass does. I think it's a bit of a lower frequency. My ears don't particularly like it though. Feels like I'm driving down the road next to a trunk rattling thumpity-thumpity car. Other than that, I really don't hear the music in the strength DVDs. I normally don't in other lifting DVDs, either. I just tune it out. I'm lifting and changing weights, and cursing at Cathe
.In the cardio series, I like the music. I agree, some of the older series had better music for cardio, but this isn't bad. I like "Blue Monday" (how does it feel, when you treat me like you do? It feels like you're going to kill me, thanks
) and there is one song that I know, but just can't place. I think it is from a TV show or movie. Sounds kind of James Bond-ish. DH recognizes, but can't quite get it, either. I do like having music I know, bc then I can sing along. DH however is not on board with that, because I sound like a cross between a dying moo cow and a gremlin in a blender. Oh well, he loves me anyway. In cardio, I find the music much more important. If there is a song I don't like, I can just tune it out. If there is a whole string of them, then that is difficult. The only Cathe soundtrack I really don't like is Step Blast. Don't like that workout, either. I think I'm the only one on that one. Some of the others have a song here or there I could do without, but I just live with it.You can't please all the people all of the time.
Nan
kathryn
Cathlete
I think the music in the MMA workouts is okay (though not as motivating as in previous KB workouts, like Kick Max--which had GREAT music, but needed to be louder).
On the other hand, the 'rest/recovery' music in one of the HIIT workouts (the one where it sounds like some amateur guitare player strumming some ditty he just wrote, and is repeated with every break) really annoys me. (I don't necessarily like all of the rest of the music, but at least you only hear it for the short intervals and it's not repeated).
On the other hand, the 'rest/recovery' music in one of the HIIT workouts (the one where it sounds like some amateur guitare player strumming some ditty he just wrote, and is repeated with every break) really annoys me. (I don't necessarily like all of the rest of the music, but at least you only hear it for the short intervals and it's not repeated).
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My posts were deleted and, in addition to saying I didn't like the music in STS strength, I stated that I did like the workouts and that I loved the music in Bodymax 2.
I only mentioned another instructor's music AFTER Chris stated that SNM spends more on music than anyone else in the industry. I wasn't trying to sell any products - just pointing out that I thought the other instructor's music was good without spending the money that Chris was saying your company does. No solicitation involved whatsoever.
Erica
Sass
Cathlete
My friend uses that guitar part as intro music to her Youtube videos so I recognized that piece of song right away. The instrumental, in it's entirety, sounds pretty good though.
I don't have that series but about music, I used Wii My fitness Coach (original) for about 3 months prior to starting Cathe workouts, it has a selelection of 8 music styles, I used Eighties, Techno & House options the most, it's not top forty stuff, well maybe eighties was, but the others were not, and I never tired of it. plays in a loop, so depending how long you work out, you may here each song once or twice.
If I wanted to find interesting music that people don't tire of, that has interesting melodies, and various tempos, I'd tune into the nearest college radio stations, always interesting things played (people love the stuff they listened to at that age, remember it forever) I made my own mixes on a cassette player way back in the mid eighties, still one of my favorite mixes of alternative rock. Maybe SNM, you could look in some new places, like where does Target find their seasonally hip tunes?
Just a thought
Linda
If I wanted to find interesting music that people don't tire of, that has interesting melodies, and various tempos, I'd tune into the nearest college radio stations, always interesting things played (people love the stuff they listened to at that age, remember it forever) I made my own mixes on a cassette player way back in the mid eighties, still one of my favorite mixes of alternative rock. Maybe SNM, you could look in some new places, like where does Target find their seasonally hip tunes?
Just a thought
Linda
I actually thought it was a genius approach to music in STS and I do love how it builds as the intensity increases during the workouts
Sometimes I'm not pushing as hard as I should and the music makes me chuckle when I realize I'm slacking . . . lol
You are completely right - it would be annoying to just get into a pop song then have it go to a "breather" moment song - GREAT WORK on STS and thanks for all y'all do
Tami
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Vocals
Yes, the vocals only option in STS makes it possible so you can always use any music you like since you're not lifting to a beat. Glad to know some of you are using this.
Yes, the vocals only option in STS makes it possible so you can always use any music you like since you're not lifting to a beat. Glad to know some of you are using this.