My compositional attic is full of guitar pieces. Some are fully finished, some are "in process," and some are just brilliant scraps that need a kick to get them moving forward.
Here's the plan: as time and life permit, I'll practice and rework each piece until it's presentable, then do a few takes in front of my Macbook, choose the best take, put it up on youtube. I'm not sure how long this process will take but once it's done, the plan is to record the best ones in a much more high fidelity setting, put them on CD, and make them available on Itunes, Emusic, et al!
This piece would probably work best with a light rhythm section and more freedom and space to improvise: I tried my best to fit it on my solo guitar. I think it kind of works:)
House Concert Video Seven:
Juicy Fruit Shuffle
As always, I refuse to apologive for the title. This was written years ago, and is published by Tuscany Publications.
House Concert Video Six:
Where the River Ends and the Sea Begins
A poetic title, a poetic piece. You can hear water all the way through.
House Concert Video Five:
Stray Thought # 3
House Concert Video Four:
Bread Shop Blues
The Bread Shop, a coffee joint on Broadway in the days before Starbucks, was run by a bona-fide ex-hippie, had endless free coffee refills, no two rickety chairs the same, 80-year-old screen doors and an unrenovated tin molding ceiling. Most of the Bread Shop was kitchen and oven, and the seating area was a few small tables where you could squeeze in and dream away the day, if you liked---reading, talking, watching life go by, listening to the chopping and kneading. If it was still here today it would be crammed end to end with people hunching over their laptops trying to ignore each other, but back then it was a real social scene. I used to go there most mornings for breakfast until it closed. It was replaced for about two months by a neon-white tiled styrofoam ceilinged establishment called Bunny's Feast, and then became a Chinese takeout. I still miss the Bread Shop. This piece, written at the time it closed, is my tribute.
House Concert Video Three:
Stray Thought #1
This piece was written a while ago when I was studying a bit of jazz harmony. The pieces in my "stray thought" series tend to take a simple musical idea and follow it whereever it feels like going---reining it in gently so that it strays slightly but not too far afield of the usual rhythmic and harmonic expectations.
p.s: in case you're worried---that's not a bandage around my right arm. It's my Air Jordan practice sock.
House Concert Video Two Island Three
I wrote this piece so I'd be forced to practice my scales.
House Concert Video One:
Island One: Milonga
This piece is also arranged for two guitars, but originally I wrote it for just one. (note: there's typo in the first 5 seconds of this video---it's Island #1, not #3, of course.)
