Category: Guitar Music

  • Evening Piece

    This is a compact little piece recorded on a recent gigless Saturday evening. Not as restless anymore like I used to be. Evening Piece

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  • 5000 Miles of Dirt

    5000 Miles of Dirt

    Recently I released the full version of Trail Mix, a suite of original pieces for seven string classical guitar. The fourth movement was the first piece I wrote specifically on and for the seven string. It’s a nice, melodic piece of music that developed itself out of the two opening chords. 5000 Miles of Dirt is…

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  • Choros?

    Wikipedia says (among other things) this about Choros: “Choro is an instrumental Brazilian popular music genre which originated in 19th century Rio de Janeiro. Despite its name, the music often has a fast and happy rhythm. It is characterized by virtuosity, improvisation and subtle modulations, and is full of syncopation and counterpoint.” Another description I…

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  • Music Without Space

      ….or something like that. This week I finished a collection of the strangest music I have ever written. Tentatively called Frozen Quasi Random Doodlings or FQRD. From my earliest days as a guitarist I have been a fan of acoustic guitars and John McLaughlin. When he released the first string of Indian influenced acoustic LPs with Shakti in the…

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  • Science Fiction music was a thing even in 1977

    I freely admit that many, if not most, of my earlier writings for classical guitar are simplistic, juvenile and banal. On the other hand one has to start somehow somewhere, and I am glad that I held on to all of this material and didn’t put it in the garbage disposal of creative outbursts.  As…

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