This song was created mostly using loops from Apples Garage Band, with a few selections being recorded using a USB keyboard. It is a musical interpretation of the oil painting "Walking the Dog" by David Derr and is intended as an aural journey of the simple joys of walking a dog. It managed to make it to the sixth round in the International Songwriters Competition the year it was created.


Walking the Dog

This is a work in progress. The basic melody and rhythms will remain the same the bass end need to be rewritten because it's basically filled with a repeat of the same chords and notes from the upper end. Want to replace some of the instrumentation and chorus sounds with other instruments and sounds.

My new song

This was the first song I composed using Apples Garage Band and uses nothing but edited loops. It is a musical accompaniment of "Aaman" a digital work by David Derr.

Aaman

I like to call this style of music "Techno Bluegrass". I have a fascination with combining different musical styles and instruments together that don't generally appear together. 
Right now I'm playing with the idea of a piece for traditional harp and slide blues guitar.
This piece was created to go along with a movie on the creation of the painting "Dawn of the Schnood" by David Derr

Dawn of the Schnood

While learning how to play bottleneck slide I came up with this simple riff and thought it would be fun to elaborate on it a bit.


And the rains they come

This one is really rough. Mostly this is an outline with somewhere around the 3 minute mark reverting to nothing but a basic outline. It will be fun to see how it grows and mutates.

Upon Awakening

This is a song from some scanned sheet music from the 20's or 30's 
My wife and I consider it our theme song. 
The lyrics are very funny also.


Nuerotic You and Psychopathic Me

Scanned sheet music orchestration of the song with the honore of being "The Worst Song Title in the World" listed by The Guinness Book of World Records".

They Needed a Songbird in Heaven so God Took Caruso Away

Untitled Loop song 1

As is typical I want to re-record sections because of the timing errors, add instrument, move things around, work on the instrument voicing, 
 yada yada yada.


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