This song is pretty much only one chord throughout, except for a diversion into 12-bar blues. Recorded live at Mosquito Grill, Fall of 2007.

I Just Wanna Make Love To You

I love including the intros (originaly called verses) to these songs in my performances. Many performers don't do these intros, which is a shame since I feel that they set the stage of for the rest of the song, enhancing the meaning. Recorded live at Mosquito Grill, Fall of 2007.

Until The Real Thing Comes Along

A Sweet and romantic love song by Duke Ellington and Lee Gaines. Recorded live at Mosquito Grill, Fall of 2007.

Just Squeeze Me

This is one of those "punchline" songs, with the twist at the very end of the lyrics which reverses the meaning, in this case in a positive direction. For the solo, I played through the melody with minor variations, then went into a kind of modified blues, returning to the melody before the singing from the bridge to the end. Recorded live at Mosquito Grill, Fall of 2007.

Beautiful Friendship

This piece has an improvised middle section with a repeating pedal in C minor, with an almost trance-like feeling. Recorded live at Mosquito Grill, Fall of 2007.

Brother Can You Spare A Dime

The sparse arrangement of this version consists of just my nylon-string guitar and my voice, and it truly highlights the haunting melody of this song from 1939. I sing the original lyrics here, although Mel Tormé sings a version with alternate lyrics about lost love. It's interesting that this and the two following songs all have a Tormé connection! Recorded in May of 2011.

Harlem Nocturne

This one was written by Mel Tormé and Robert Wells, the same collaboration that gave us the classic holiday tune "The Christmas Song" - which you might know better as "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire". Recorded in May of 2011.

Born To Be Blue

This is a classic song written by the team of Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer for the 1941 film Blues in the Night. The pair were so excited upon completing it that they crashed a party at singer Margaret Whiting's house, at which Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Mel Tormé, and Martha Raye were guests. Needless to say, the evening was a smash. Recorded in May of 2011.

Blues In The Night

Sunny Side Of The Street

A tale of yearning and wanderlust. Composed in 1942 by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. Appeared in the movie "To Have and Have Not" in 1944. Recorded live at Fonthill Music Academy, May of 2007.

Baltimore Oriole

Here's a short solo instrumental performance of Cole Porter's beautiful tune. For this song, I just played once through. I used a BassLab L-BOW-V five-string bass, but put lighter strings on it and tuned like a guitar, but two frets down (and one string less). I "tapped" the notes, with both hands on the fretboard. The rich, organic tone of the instrument really shows, as I let the notes ring. No hurry here!

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Entirely produced by the Fairlight CMI, this excerpt from one of my compositions illustrates tuned percussion. There is only one "traditional" pitched sound present, which is the breathy flute/voice sound. The rest of the instruments are all percussive and needed to be micro-tuned within the Fairlight in order to bring them to the same standard pitch reference. Many of the sounds are also played higher or lower than normal, but this is a common Fairlight technique to make the most of only eight monophonic sounds on the Series II model.

Firebeat

A journey into an underwater world. For SG.

Angel In A Green Sea

This Latin Jazz song was performed on Chapman NS/Stick, with some of the percussion parts provided by items found in the kitchen! For JS.

I'll Be Seeing You

Greg Holmes is an award-winning musician, composer, and producer.
He has worked with many bands (Rush, Lee Aaron, Platinum Blonde) and provided sound design services for major clients (Lucasfilm, Nelvana).
Greg is a technology educator, data architect, QA specialist, and project manager (Gov't Ontario, MTO, Panalpina, Marsh & McLennan, SNC-Lavalin, Ceridian).
He is an expert in data synchronization and replication technologies (Bell Canada, Hydro One).
Greg is also a fitness instructor (interval training, core, yoga, Zumba, Thai massage), journalist, visual artist, carpenter, electrician,
and is interested in nutrition, kinesiology, organic chemistry, aeronautics, sailing, accessible technologies, and technoethics.
He is a member of the W3C, WHATwg, SOCAN, AIMT, NBJS, and a founder of CDAT.
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