Uses my alt tuning. In this session, I tuned down E to Bb, then F, C, G, Bb, D. I now use B, F#, C#, G#, B, and D# and capo at the third fret making it D. It is a fifths tuning I was playing around with when thinking about how I would tune a Chapman Stick. I never got one, but did make quite a lot of music in this tuning.

Track 2 - Alt Tuning Guitar

The Right Decision - Alt Tuning Guitar

I am not sure where this idea came from, but seems like I was influenced by a Phil Lynnot song called Yellow Pearl that I saw on MTV ages ago. For some reason I liked that song.

SongIdea1

This came about as an improvisation on keyboard using random bass notes. The second part came later and then I adapted for playing live on a cheap Casio personal keyboard using an Indian style beat. The piano version is fairly different, but uses the same exact progression.

Millennium

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If The River - Alt Tuning Guitar

One of my first compositions on guitar that I still play regularly. I've always liked the two-on-three feeling, especially towards the end. I composed this when I was 16 years old.

Clock Works - Guitar

This is a composition that I worked up so far only on mandolin. It came to me a few days after my grandson, Noah, was born. Knowing his ancestry, I knew he would become an energetic, curious little being, blessing the world with his radiant looks. And he certainly has!

Noah2 - Mando

This was an experiment to see what would happen if different techniques were used to make regular pop songs "progressive" by making them odd meter. I got the idea to use this song when I awoke from a dream with a 15/8 rhythm in my head. When I put it on paper, I realized that the chord progression I was using was exactly the same as Adele's Set Fire to the Rain. So I played around with a couple ideas of how to weave it together to pull this off. I originally got the idea to do something like this with Cold Play's Viva la Vida.

Setfirebeatslice

This is the first song I did what I call "beat slicing" to. I remember hearing my kids playing the original and thinking "wow, that would make a decent 7/4 beat as well". When one of my son's also made the same observation and mentioned it to me out of the blue (I had said nothing about this), I realized that maybe there was a way to pull that off. So I commenced taking the song and dividing it up in various ways to see what would happen. As I progressed through the idea, I realized that if I put two versions of different ways of dividing the measures, it retained a majority of the song as well as create kind of a cool delay effect. I eq'd it so that the rhythm section was a little more subdued and added my own in to give it more of a steady beat with the bass drum and church bell.

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