With weather like this, I figured I'd transcribe and record one of my favorite warm-ups. It's just a II-V-I-VI in Bb with different scale/arpeggio substitutions across the fingerboard. … More…
This new year I want to learn how to write arrangements for strings, so I picked a tune of mine from 2007 called Frida’s Self-Portrait, looked at some resources about writing for strings, listened to several… More…
An upbeat tune I wrote a few years ago. Here it is to celebrate the end of a challenging high school semester. The basic musical idea was to move from one chord to the next one, more unconventionally than… More…
This piece is called “Presente”, written last month initially for guitar, but here rearranged as a digital string ensemble. I wrote this one as a musical accompaniment for the paintings and collages my… More…
Here's a brief piece I wrote a long time ago. It's called "Natural", and it has a quiet and reflective feel, which is something I've been missing lately. I wanted to record it as a miniature piece, no… More…
About a month ago, a colleague from work shared a poem by Gloria Fuertes, which made me remember how much I liked her work as a child. I found this other poem, "Ventanas pintadas" and decided to write… More…
Inspired by Ida Nielsen's piece with the "Mini Puzzle Bass", here's what I came up with, specifically created for a U-Bass I found several months ago. It's called "Voyage" and I hope you like it! Here's… More…
This was my weekend project: transcribe (with some creative freedom) and record the music for one of my favorite TV series, Lou Grant (a spin-off of no other than The Mary Tyler Moore Show!) The music… More…
Recently I posted this little writing experiment of mine called "No Commute", just with one bass and a drum machine. … More…
Here's what I've been cooking these days: it's a little writing exercise trying to see if I can do some counterpoint (like a lot of Baroque music) but with an electric bass, and with a more open harmony.… More…
I've always believed D major was the most major of all keys... Here's a little waltz called "Invierno" (Winter in Spanish), written a few years ago after a long and grey winter, when you could just see… More…
This is "On Hold / En espera", a piece written in 1999 for solo guitar. The idea was to try to express with sounds the feeling of not being able to do anything to change something in particular in our… More…