Original Music
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Because it’s the only thing that makes sense these days. You are Here
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My impression of what the background music might have been like 500 years ago during feasts. Picture this: You are in the woods on a winter evening and the moon is full. Smoke rises from the chimney of a cabin in the distance. As you get closer you hear this music coming from inside. Do
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Here is something I call “Variations on a Moonlight Theme.” I took Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata and reversed it, sort of. I put the first measure at the end, and worked my way through until the last measure became the first. The notes in each measure did not change. One of the reasons it sounds strange is this: Some
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Another song from Steely Dan’s Gaucho album is finished. The funny thing about Steely Dan songs is this: Once someone starts working on one they cannot stop until they are done. It’s a rule. Here is “Time Out of Mind” with a piano, and without one. And now we are out of time.
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This is something original. It is called “Lift Off.” It is a perfect song to play along to, for all you musicians out there.
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From the songbook Urban Blues for Guitar, here is my take on All Your Love by Otis Rush. It sounds a little bit like “Black Magic Woman” at the beginning.
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Here is something original. What do you see when you close your eyes and listen to it? Artwork by Paul Klee:
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What would you call a Weebel who causes trouble? A Weebel-Rouser. I saw two whales in the ocean yesterday. There was another one who kept his distance. He probably didn’t want to be a third whale. Here are three of the top downloads from this site this year.
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This is an original song. It is titled “Friday Nocturne.” Like most things, it is a work in progress. And the rest is history.. Thursday’s Song without piano: Here is the sheet music:
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Many readers have asked “In music, what is a chromatic scale?” I answered them by sharing my recent compositions. Just listen to the first four notes and you get the idea. Those four notes are accompanied by chords so that they become either the third or the seventh of each chord. You understand perfectly, I
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I woke up early this morningWith a cat sitting on my chestHe arrived without a warningAnd he interrupted my rest I asked him to be quietAnd to let me get some sleepPlease, won’t you try it?I don’t want to hear a peep! Then the room became dark as nightAs if we had blown a fuseThen
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I have always heard that campfire stories should always be accompanied by music. To that end, here is a song from the songbook “Original Piano Duets for American Composers.” It is titled Around the Campfire. You may have heard another version if you were here yesterday. And here is another song from the same book,
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See if you can name that tune. I will give you a hint: The composer was named Ethelbert Nevin. His birthday was on Friday, the same day I posted the first versions of this song. But I didn’t know it at the time. Spooky! I just love learning about music and composers from the late
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It’s time for you to name that tune. Or just listen to it. It’s entirely up to you.
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This song is from an Academy Award winning film. I’m pretty sure. In any event, I have been working on it all day and it’s time to get it out into the world. It was written over 100 years ago by Scott Joplin. He was born on November 24, 1868 and he passed away on
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And here are some thoughts I thought worth sharing:– Did you know that before I became a vegetarian I was in “Burgers and Acquisitions?” – Do you like ambience? Take an ambien.– I am a guitar player, which means I often fret.– Even thugs sometimes need hugs. – Nipples always come in pairs. You can’t
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A while back I posted a song called On Green Dolphin Street. That version wasn’t, how should I put this, very good? It had no right being out in the world. So I re-did it just for you. You know who you are. That reminds me of the time someone asked me if I was
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Song Number 40 in our summer countdown of classical music is in the books. This is an excerpt from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Waltz. According to https://petipasociety.com/the-sleeping-beauty: The Sleeping Beauty Waltz was the first collaboration of Marius Petipa and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Although Tchaikovsky’s first ballet Swan Lake had not been the success he had hoped for, it did
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Here is a song you’re sure to rememberIt came out 3 months before SeptemberWay back in Nineteen Sixty-SevenMy cousin Fred was just eleven The Beatles were hot and could do no wrongThey let us all grow our hair longThey changed the world, you know the restI think I like this song the best
