With a student wanting to play fingerstyle, it has been a personal challenge to become at least adept at it and feeling comfortable to play this song entirely by fingerstyle was indeed the Turning Point. This is off my 2020 collaborative release…

Written, played and arranged by my very first student, the one that started me on a path I could never repay him for, Luke Jankowski. He sees the song in his mind and conveys it until we get it as he wants it. It just fires me up to see students…

This was another one of those try something different tracks. I love how jazz and blues tracks will incorporate horns, so I had to find some reasonable sounding brass for my MIDI world and then try to balance them with guitar melody. This is…

This song is by one of my longest tenure students and a great dude, Ryley Neumeyer. This song was telling a tale in 3 phases and the siren sound, played by Ryley, as was the bass guitar was signalling bad news for the main character in the tale…

This song is by one of my longest tenure students and a great dude, Ryley Neumeyer. This song was telling a tale in 3 phases and the siren sound, played by Ryley, as was the bass guitar was signalling bad news for the main character in the tale…

There's so many ways I interpret this song title. In search of better drum tones, in search of the trick to getting the tracks to layer right in production, etc. Like most of my tracks, this one will always represent a point in time in my playing…

This is a fun track played by my youngest student James Almazan. He is showing his progress with the minor pentatonic scale in various positions over my backing. James is a finger style player and a beautiful soul. When we were editing, any…

This track for me was a reflection of the progress in both my playing and producing. I'm still nowhere near where I ultimately want to be, but my progress makes me continue to push forward, and thus the Darkness Falls. This is from my 2020 collaborative…

This track for me was a reflection of the progress in both my playing and producing. I'm still nowhere near where I ultimately want to be, but my progress makes me continue to push forward, and thus the Darkness Falls. This is from my 2020 collaborative…

This song was composed with one of my newer students David Robinson. We were just dipping our toes into the global pandemic so he had some fun with the name. It was his first time tracking any guitars so it was a lot of fun doing this one…