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Well actually, Zimmer has a studio with like 40 other composers working for him, all he does nowdays is come up with a few themes and harmonies and hand it down to a young noob fresh from the academy to orchestrate it for him. Danny Elfman could not read music and when he got his first gig as a composer in hollywood he said he has spent two months locked in his flat working on a score. He was composing, learning how to read and write music and transcribing at the same time. He had a friend that could read music helping him, but still... thats a lot of work. But you can still find articles and intreviews on the web about other composers in the industry calling him a "whistler" (a slang for a composer who can't read or write music so he has to whistle his ideas to other musicians or transcribers). Something similar with Zimmer too.

wes montgomery. but are you sure zimmer can't read?? so how can he write if he can't read??

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