How Paul Shaffer approaches composing music for David Letterman’s Netflix talk show

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“When it was announced in the press that Dave was going to be doing a new show I heard from him,” says Shaffer. ‘He said I wouldn't want anybody else to do it but you. I was thrilled to be involved, even more so when I started to see some of the episodes. I score them sort of like a movie, putting music in afterwards where the director thinks it's needed.”