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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Scramble
A jazz sextet number featuring 2 saxophones and 2 keyboards, drums, and bass. The piece is in 12/8 (4 triplets), and latin-inspired montunos (relatively continuous keyboard sequences) enter midway through. Diminished chord structures give the piece an angular feel.
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Watch Me
Electronic dance music in a “deep house” style inspired by the heroine in Ken Follet’s “Pillars of the Earth.” Short video and the full audio track
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It Ain’t Out for Now
An electronic dance creation based on an improvisation of some older music sketches. Audio track on SoundCloud
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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.…