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 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 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…

So the ongoing goal for me in songwriting and recording is to play in different styles. This song was meant to capture a Latin vibe, so I researched chords and scales that would flavor it that way and then played around with percussion until…

One of my goals with the 2017 RPM Challenge was to play around with some different styles. This one was a little funky compared to what I had done to this point, so I was clearly trying to Funk Me & Funk You. Off of my 2017 release Six Strings…

This was really a transition piece that struck me after I had finished working on some heavier, darker music. As I was playing around with it, Love Still Wins just struck me as an appropriate name. Another track from my 2016 self titled debut.

Another early track in 2016 I was trying to express the sense of freedom I get when I play guitar. It is this type of freedom that led me to start teaching and the freedom continues to grow. Another track from my 2016 self titled debut.

I was really enjoying my plugins for the keyboard and thought I would play with a few of the sounds and solo over them with different pickups and tone and switch between using a pick and using fingers. When I set it all up and played it the idea…

Truly not much explanation needed here. There's a looming presence over us right now no matter where you turn and the idea that this is certainly a Plague of Persistence inspired this dark creation. This is from my 2020 release State Of Darkness.