Piano, Instrumental Music, Songs, and Electronic Music
Besides classical piano, I enjoy experimenting with a variety of types of music. The top menu sorts the blogs into approximate categories. Some blogs might go into more than one category. Where there’s interest, I create sheet music for free download. Let me know if there’s something you would like made available. I often shoot video of performances, but for electronic creations I sometimes make videos using AI. Some videos are a mix of video I’ve taken and AI-generated video.
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Double Gone
Another song inspired by the absurdist melancholy TV series “Patriot.” Short video and the full audio track
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A Steady Kind of Blue
A jazz song with lyrics inspired by the absurdist melancholy hit TV series “Patriot.” Short video and the full audio track
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Siren’s Call Boogie
A rock instrumental that is an improvisation on my song Siren’s Call. Short video and the full audio track
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You Got Your Fantasy
Electronic dance music in a “house” style. Short video and full audio track
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Rag Time by Stravinsky
A ragtime composition by Igor Stravinsky written for 11 instruments. This is a piano transcription by the composer dated 1920. Note that he spelled it as separate words. The chopped up rhythms make it quite entertaining to play.
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Debussy’s “Prelude to an Afternoon of a Faun” — a transcription shortened for piano
This is a shortened version of a transcription of this orchestral piece for solo piano made by Leonard Borwick published in 1914. It is available for free download from the Petrucci Music Library online. I shortened the transcription to half the playing time by playing through the 6th measure on the 6th page, and then…
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In the Air
A blues song about climate change featuring a steel slide guitar. To bring in an interesting edge, the guitar is being played in Eb minor against blues music in C major. The near overlap with the blues scale in C brings in a couple of dissonances with the dominant Eb riff and the underlying music.…
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J. S. Bach’s English Suite II Prelude (Shortened Version)
I shortened this piece to about one-half its length. I played the first 82 measures, then inserted the following modified passage: This passage leads back to the key of original key of Am instead of Em. Then I continued with measure 145 to the end of the piece.
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Siren’s Song
Odysseus and his men come out of a storm and encounter the sirens. The crew have a different view of the sirens though. Melody uses chromaticism and sequences of diminished chords, and features a trio of slide guitars meant to provide a haunting and luring sound.
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Red-Hot Gig (featuring Peter L)
A “future jazz” composition with surreal video. The inspiration began with Pinky’s Bar at 9:30 & E at burning man, but this was all lost as the music morphed completely into a gig set in the nightmarish depths of Twin Peak’s Black Lodge.