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

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

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A piece off of my self titled release in 2016.

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.

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.

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.

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 &…

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…

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…

For me any period of my life surrounded by uncertainty is immediately up near the worst times. That to me is the Certainty of Uncertainty. In that same vibe the uncertainty of where the next part of a song is going and it seems like each part…

This is one of the handful of tracks that were all mine from my collaborative 2020 release with my students Class In Session - The Strummer Games. It felt like a throwback tune for me so it was recalling Back In The Day.

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…

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…

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 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 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…

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In this crazed time what has become incredibly clear is that the solution is not the most important thing, it's who's to blame because we are being governed on both sides of the "aisle" by Holdouts for Supremacy. This is from my 2020 release…