A demo of a variety of styles using a simple melody

Variations On A Blue Springs Theme

A main title for a film about a war to end all wars with an invading alien race!!!

Alien Invasion - Sci-Fi Main Title

Everything that you hear in this track is a sound created by my motorcycle. I just used lots of effects! Enjoy!

On a Steel Horse I Ride

This is easily the most complex piece of music that I have ever written, though it probably won't sound like it. I wrote this as an assignment using a compositional method called Tintinnabuli which was invented by the great composer Arvo Pärt. For those of you who are music theory nerds like me, try to figure out what key (or keys) I am in and what meter (or meters) I use. For the rest of you, enjoy what I am calling my attempt at Thomas Newman meets Arvo Pärt meets yoga music.

Tintinnabuli

I wrote this for a class assignment. We were supposed to study a culture we knew nothing about and write a piece in one week. I chose to write a piece that blended traditional japanese instruments and scales with a epic hollywood sound (like The Last Samurai). 

Epic Samurai Battle

Here is my arrangement of Silent Night mashed up with Jesus Once of Humble Birth. Performed by the incomparable Mandy Warner (piano), the irreplaceable Kornte Bradshaw(clairnet) and the bodacious Ben Bradshaw (bassoon). Merry Christmas everyone!

Silent Night/Jesus Once Of Humble Birth

I had some free time one day and decided to just write something fun. I love bands like Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Metallica that blend orchestral elements with rock and I thought I would have some fun in the same vein.

Orchestral Rock

A few highlights from a score I wrote for a short documentary on an amazing artist living in Winston-Salem, Laura Lashley.

3. Special Needs Class

2. Art For The Community

1. Introduction To An Artist

Something is coming....https://vimeo.com/233146551

What Have I Become? - The Arbors

Most Beautiful Woman Live

God Be With You Till We Meet Again/Nearer My God To Thee

Where can I turn for peace?
Where is my solace
When other sources cease to make me whole?
When with a wounded heart, anger, or malice,
I draw myself apart,
Searching my soul?

Where, when my aching grows,
Where, when I languish,
Where, in my need to know, where can I run?
Where is the quiet hand to calm my anguish?
Who, who can understand?
He, only One.

He answers privately,
Reaches my reaching
In my Gethsemane, Savior and Friend.
Gentle the peace he finds for my beseeching.
Constant he is and kind,
Love without end.

Where Can I Turn For Peace

Four Bens cover my favorite Billy Joel song.

In every heart there is a room
A sanctuary safe and strong
To heal the wounds from lovers past
Until a new one comes along
I spoke to you in cautious tones
You answered me with no pretense
And still I feel I said too much
My silence is my self defense
And every time I've held a rose
It seems I only felt the thorns
And so it goes, and so it goes
And so will you soon I suppose
But if my silence made you leave
Then that would be my worst mistake
So I will share this room with you
And you can have this heart to break
And this is why my eyes are closed
It's just as well for all I've seen
And so it goes, and so it goes
And you're the only one who knows
So I would choose to be with you
That's if the choice were mine to make
But you can make decisions too
And you can have this heart to break
And so it goes, and so it goes
And you're the only one who knows

And So It Goes

I Know That My Redeemer Lives

I am a Kansas City based composer and orchestrator for Television, Film and video games. I have worked on over 100 films, tv shows and video games. I graduated with my Masters in film scoring at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2016. I also graduated with my Bachelors in Music from BYU-Hawaii in 2013. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7544155/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

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