Jake Monaco is an American film and TV

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. He currently scores

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's '' The Stinky & Dirty Show'',

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's ''

Dinotrux ''Dinotrux'' is a Canadian-American animated television series based on Chris Gall's series of books by the same name. It features a fictional prehistoric world inhabited by hybrid characters that are part animal and part mechanical. The larger ...

'', and

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's ''

Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! ''Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!'' is an American animated television series produced by Warner Bros. Animation as the twelfth incarnation of Hanna-Barbera's ''Scooby-Doo'' animated series. In the show, the ''Scooby-Doo'' gang decide to travel during their ...

''. He also provided scores for

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originals, specifically '' Cars on the Road'', and ''

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'' specials '' Lamp Life'' and ''

Forky Asks a Question ''Forky Asks a Question'' is an American animated television series of short films produced by Pixar Animation Studios based on the ''Toy Story'' franchise, and is set after the events of ''Toy Story 4''. It is the third Pixar short series, fol ...

''.

Career

Monaco began playing guitar in high school, later touring with a group while attending the

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in Virginia. A few years after graduating, his bandmates opted to take up non-musical professional careers. At the suggestion of a friend, Monaco enrolled in a

film scoring A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to ...

course at

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. He has stated that although he had never had interest in scoring as a child, it was these classes that piqued his interest, explaining that he was "sucked in" to the world of scoring almost immediately. Monaco began assisting for composer

Christophe Beck Jean-Christophe Beck (born in 1968) is a Canadian television and film score composer. He is best known for his collaborations with Disney and its subsidiaries, which include composing the soundtracks of '' The Muppets'' (2011) and '' Muppets Mos ...

after graduating from the USC program, and through this connection he has contributed music to The Hangover film series, ''

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'', and ''

Get Hard ''Get Hard'' is a 2015 American crime comedy film directed by Etan Cohen (in his directorial debut) and written by Cohen, Jay Martel, and Ian Roberts. The film stars Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart, with Tip "T.I." Harris, Alison Brie, and Craig ...

''. Monaco credits the time he spent assisting Beck as key to his success as a scorer, and has described assistant positions as "some of the best education and experience a young composer can receive". After assisting Christophe Beck for eight years, Monaco made the decision to begin scoring on his own. Monaco credits some of his inspiration as a composer to a stable of unorthodox stringed instruments he acquired from Rich Briggs. Monaco's studio includes custom-built guitars including a hub cap guitar, a copper pot guitar and a wine box bass.

Discography

Feature films

Short films

References

External links

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Interview with Jake Monaco

A Podcast Named Scooby-Doo!
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