After playing for a few years as a kid and retiring from music at age 18, I took a 15 year hiatus from music, but I have been back for about the same amount of time. I am primarily self-taught in the areas of music theory and transcription.
This is my transcription of what was thought to be a Bach piece, as it was found in the Anna Magdalena Notebook, but modern scholarship has actually attributed the piece to Christian Petzold. As with… More…
Here's a little something to spice up your Friday! This is my transcription of Paganini's second caprice from his opus The 24 Caprices. I learned to play this on electric guitar, hence the use of higher… More…
This is my arrangement of the Adagio Molto section from the autumn section of Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. The lead instrument is actually an LTD EC-1000 through a Helix LT, using a violin like… More…
This is a very vanilla arrangement of Auld Lang Syne that I did for use with my band Renegade Train during our New Year's Show. We ended up not using it, but feel free to adapt it or use it however you… More…
This is (still) another selection from the second suite for the solo cello by Bach. It was written in the guitar friendly key of D minor, so there was not that much transposition necessary. I used drop-D… More…
Here's another Bach transcription from the Solo Cello Suites. The tempo is moderate, and I would put the difficulty level at beginner to intermediate level. This transcription works well either with… More…
The Partita in B Minor for solo violin by J.S. Bach alternates between one movement and a double, e.g., Allemande then double, etc. This is the third of those doubles. As with most Bach compositions,… More…
Here is another selection from the second cello suite. The tempo on this one is usually interpreted as fast or very fast. Courante comes from the Latin correre, to run, so get that metronome out! There… More…
This is the prelude, i.e., the very first part of the J.S. Bach's Second Suite for Solo Cello in Dm, BMV 1008. The key that this suite was written in lends itself very nicely to arrangement without having… More…
This is my transcription of J.S. Bach's Minuet #2, from the Suite for Solo Cello in G, BMV 1007. This piece works well for drop D tuning, and is very good beginning to intermediate piece. There are a… More…