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Lally – 15 minutes 21 seconds

July 7, 2009

Piano theme inspired by my Grandmother and Miles Davis’ "Blue in Green" Written for Lally, my maternal Grandmother – this track is built around three chords: B minor, B minor7 and D major. It’s one of the first times that I sat down with a set of chords in mind for a piece. I [...]

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Emma’s Numbers – 14 minutes 13 seconds

July 2, 2009

Second Piano piece written for a friend fighting Cancer An old friend was dealing with cancer so I wrote her some music. After sending it to her, I asked for her numbers and then produced this piece. When I’m writing for or about someone, I often ask them for a couple of numbers, I [...]

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November – 15 minutes 14 seconds

July 1, 2009

Strings, Electric Pianos, Bass lines and more. $1.99 Download Now Written in November 2005 – this track has a lot going on: piano, two string tracks, electric piano and bass. I remember learning a lot about my own composition style at the time and being very conflicted. My natural approach to music2work2 is to [...]

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Late – 16 minutes 5 seconds

June 30, 2009

Early Piano theme development. Another one of my favorite pieces of music – written in 2006 when I’d just got my hands on a Triton Extreme. Single voice piano all the way through, nods to Beethoven and Wendi’s theme – I really enjoy working to this one – I’m writing to it right now! [...]

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Wendi at 40 – 22 minutes 52 seconds

June 29, 2009

2 themes, piano and strings written for Wendi with thanks to Beethoven .[Audio clip: view full post to listen] One of my favorite records growing up was Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Variations – his take on Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 in A minor. Originally written for violin, Lloyd Webber created this variation for his brother Julian, [...]

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Emma – 20 minutes 4 seconds

June 12, 2009

Piano track written for a friend who was fighting cancer at the time . For Emma who fought the Blowfish and won.

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Victoria – 7 minutes 15 seconds

June 11, 2009

Sisters rock and Victoria Richardson rocks more than most… $1.99 Download Now Written for my sister Victoria’s 40th, this starts out as a very delicate, almost melancholic piece and turns into something rather beautiful. The major melody at 4:50 is sung in my head as 4 distinct notes: "Vic-to…-ri-a." Happy Birthday Vic – remember [...]

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Marsha – 18 minutes 57 seconds

June 9, 2009

Piano, Organ, Strings with a renaissance edge $1.99 Download Now I used three voices on this track: Piano, Organ and Strings. I have been using organ more and more on the Kelli project and I wanted to see how it would fit into the overall style of this kind of piece. As ever, the [...]

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