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How the Succession Theme Song Was Composed

Sitting at a piano, composer Nicholas Britell explains how he came up with the theme music to Succession.

I’m constantly winding in these notes that aren’t part of the scale to just to kind of jolt the music in a different direction. So you see that things are always kind of off-kilter with themselves โ€” like the family in the show.

See also The Succession Theme Works Over Any TV Show Title Sequence.