Although Stalling's composing technique followed the conventions of music accompaniment from the silent film era that were based on improvisation and compilation of musical cues from catalogs and cue-sheets, he was also an innovator.
Selvom Stallings kompositionsteknik fulgte konventionerne af akkompagnement fra stumfilmsæraen, som var baseret på improvisation og udarbejdelse af musikalsk inspiration fra kataloger og cue-sheets, så var han også en innovator.