thriller music

Music in thrillers is used for a variety of reasons

Suspense
Suspense plays a big role in thrillers, and music is often used to climax the suspense. This is done usually on string instrument. This because strings give off a vary ghostly sound, and the high pitched noise that they can give off adds to the spooky feel, because they are incredibly unsettling sounds.

Action
Action needs sounds and music along with it to add to the engaging feel. For example it is usually faced paced music during a car chase, to show how fast the cars are going, where as in a fight scene the music wouldn’t be as fast but there would be very aggressive music played, e.g. metal.

Key moments
Key moments are also marked by different sounds. If the hero has triumphed then happy, uplifting 7music will be played to show his mood. On the other hand if someone dies then sadder music would be played, sometimes with very few instruments in them.