What are you able to do? How do you find out? I believe when it comes to songwriting the best way is to Learn The Hard Way and that is to write, write, and write again. But don't throw anything away, record it all. This is from my 2018 release…

You're near the end of the deadline and you've worked like crazy to complete the project but you need one last track to meet the requirements. When you get one completed that marks off the last box, it is absolutely the End Of The Storm. This…

This was my introduction to tracking a synth piece as a backer to accompany the bass while the guitar sang what was on its heart. Listening to this felt like a Dream State to me, so it had to be the name. This is off my 2018 release Words to…

Well, my 3rd release was in 2018 again tied to the RPM Challenge. I wanted to play around with some fun tracks and let the MIDI speak again. My daughter had a beta fish named Algernon and since they have to live alone it seemed that Algernon…

Sometimes a song will just tell you what the name should be. I always feel good when that happens and when I name it and then listen to it again and the imagery matches the song I know it was right. This is off my 2017 release Six Strings &…

The idea with this track was to have the bass lay down the foundational harmony while the guitar focused solely on the melody. The vibe that it gave me was essentially someone saying "back off me, I'm Untouchable." This was off my 2017 release…

A high school friend of mine was the person who tuned me on to the RPM Challenge and I'll be forever grateful. During the time I was writing songs for the challenge her beloved cat Purrcy passed away. There was no way I couldn't name a song…

This track continued my throwback to the Ozzy/Sabbath phase of my musical life. I've heard that the track Paranoid was already used and so Paranoia it is. This track is off my 2017 release Six Strings & Sore Fingers.

When I first picked up a guitar it was Ozzy that I listened to the most and Randy Rhoads that really made me want to play. While I was significantly older and more mellow at this stage of life I had to track something that represented the Manic…

There's times when I listen to this where I believe Lost Sunset would have fit it better. This song represents what happens when you are trying to lay a new scale mode over a song but your comfort level is very limited. This song would be a…

This song was me flashing back to the hair metal era with bands like Dokken, Poison, Ratt, etc. Keeping the drum beat a little subdued made me feel like I was on the Jagged Edge of song styles. This is off of my 2017 release Six Strings &…

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…

One of the first songs I wrote for the RPM Challenge in 2017. The habit I had at that time was to record songs in sections and essentially paste them together. This song truly represented the force of that habit. From my 2017 release Six Strings…

2017 introduced me to the RPM Challenge. This was my 2nd dip into the bluesy pool. I felt like I was starting to understand the clues for writing a bluesy rock song, so the name Blues Clues just made sense. This is off of my 2017 release Six…

I always share with the students that Stephen King has always said that while he felt his first book was horrible there's no way he could have written great books without writing that first book. This was my first dip of the toe into a blues…

This would be what I call a stray track. I had been working with students on songwriting concepts with simplistic backing and after the lessons that night this just kind of came to me, so I tracked it. This was a stand alone single, so I just…

The creepiest dungeon and fortress beasts are alive during peculiar hours.

This song was my introduction to the digital realm. I used all MIDI for this track and for me this was underground, so the concept of a Subterranean Love Affair seemed like the natural name for this track. This track is off of my 2016 self titled…

Another old one I noticed that wasn't not here. The Good Wife on vocal, before fate reared it's ugly head.

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.

This was one of my early recordings in 2016 as I had been learning how to create songs in a key and solo over them. This one was played over a Floyd style backing track, but I wanted to try a different lead tone. Another track off of my 2016…

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.

I always think of sunrise in military shows or movies as the sound of the horn, so when I was working on playing this track I thought it must be a Desert Sunrise. Another track from my 2016 self titled debut.

There's always been a question asked that is "what's your favorite cruising song?" This song just told me it was cruising and so it had to be named that way. Another track off of my 2016 self titled debut.

Sometimes we are all seeking comfort and the idea for this track is how it would sound when Comfort Comes Home. Off of my self titled debut release in 2016.

A piece off of my self titled release in 2016.

multiple guitars

Its Groundhog Day again...... All day I’m chasing tomorrow Cause I need Tomorrow to get away from today But tomorrow becomes just like any another day It just morphs into today I don’t know where this life going to It don’t stick to any…

Hup!

My wife said this sounded like a level of a video game where you are racing down endless pews of a church. You know, a pew level. Another in the slow motion bach series, this time paired with the tart frenetic flavor of 90s breaks…

Composed with Korg Microstation , Electric guitar Blade + additional track in Cakewalk Sonar X3

Composed with Korg Microstation, Flute and electric guitar + drum track added with additional in Cakewalk Sonar X3

Composed with Korg Microstation , + Tracks added in Cakewalk SonarX3 + electric guitar Blade

Composed with my Korg Kronos 2 88LE and playing harmonica with harmonica holder while playing the keyboard. Keyboard solo is made with my Novation Mininova.

Composed on my Korg Kronos 2 88LE and with my electric guitar Blade (Texas -Fender Stratocaster style ) using Guitar rig 2 effect.

Here's the first of several versions that you'll see from a collaboration across the inter webs started by Greg Connor. He got us together on the Zoom and then look what happened!!!! Music and lyrics collaborated with the talents of Steve Krell…

As the CovidCourtesans Canoodled.....

The Last Resort would have been too long if this had been included so I did a fade-in to create Part 2... The chords in the verse have a passing resemblance to 'A Few Words For The Dead' by Marillion... I found that out afterwards! There's…

Found an old one, guess I posted it on my other account, but can't access that one, forgotten password syndrome ..........

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A new song that I did on my own Some reflections in these turbulent times KC ------------- The moon comes up The sun goes down The circle of life Going 'round and 'round Living in isolation Together in separation Battles to be won…

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empty club smokey Sunday afternoon t bone style blues starring the greatest Harp player I know Mark Imsdahl. Thank you Mark

It all started with the guitar riff in the verse... The middle eight features a 'call and return' between the Moog and lead guitar which I really like

had a few changes throughout this project, breaking my head and shedding some sweat but hey, there's plenty of free time so what the hell! Added some hard electronic metal halfway. The vocal samples is a real television broadcast about propaganda…