I composed Fuego a few days ago. I am not a flamenco guitarist and I have never studied but I do love listening to it. In this piece I incorporated some of the elements that I have heard in various pieces.
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Indigo Mountain is a piece I composed last weekend. It was composed with the intermediate level guitarist in mind. The piece consists of a section of music which is repeated a total of three times. Each time it is played a little differently.
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Dance of the Red Dragon is a piece I composed for a guitar student. I wanted to write a piece that was fairly easy to play and that used rasgueados. This piece was also designed to be played at different speeds depending on the students skill level.
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I’ve always loved the music of Arvo Pärt. I first heard of him when I attended a concert by Anne-Sophie Mutter where she opened her concert with Fratres. I love the space in his music. Each note is important. His music touches me. This piece was inspired by his short piano piece called, Für Alina.
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Ebb and Flow comes from my Red Guitar Suite which I composed back in 2012-2013. The suite was inspired by my 1972 Ramirez. In this performance I added a delay effect as well as a slight modulation. When I perform it live I will often begin with an improvisation before going into the song which I may or may not use delay with. I think it works both ways.
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I composed Moroccan Nights using the double harmonic scale. The scale goes by a variety of names but what makes it stand out is that it has two large intervals in the scale called augmented 2nds.
I also use some basic rasgueados (strumming) in certain sections of the song as well as a different type of tremolo, compared to what most classical guitarists are used to.
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I composed The Darkness Behind the Light last year and is meant to be an etude for a late-beginner/early-intermediate guitar student. The piece consists of a melody (top voice) and bass voice (bottom) with an occasional inner voice.
While composing this I imagined a creepy scene (Halloween-ish) with a dark doorway full of mystery.
Fire Dance at Dusk is piece I composed last week for the intermediate-level guitarist. It alternates between a fast section in simple meter (4/4) and a slow section in compound meter (6/8). Last week I witnessed a beautiful sunset over Lake Michigan. It turned the sky fiery red. That image inspired this piece.
A Stream Without End is an etude I composed for the guitar that focuses on a right hand arpeggio (p, i, a) that repeats throughout the entire song. The piece was inspired by memories from childhood when we lived right next to a stream. I remember sitting there watching things float down the stream (like leaves). From my vantage point I couldn’t see the beginning of the stream nor the end of the stream.
I composed Gateway to a Dream a couple days ago. I wanted to write a piece for the early intermediate fingerstyle guitar player. The form of the piece is a rondo (ABACA). In a rondo, a section of the song returns throughout the work.
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