This short video is of my Florida studio. The music is a remix I did for Produce Like A Pro. I added synth parts and played the trumpet solo.
This is my arrangement, performance and production of a 1975 jazz funk release by Ronnie Laws entitled “Always There”. It’s based on a four chord vamp with a couple of different melodies. The video consists of some drone footage and still pictures of Tampa, Fl at night. For all of my trumpet playing friends out there, after months of practice I finally hit a solid high G at the end of the piece. Now it's finished! Onward and upward…Enjoy!
I'm trying my hand at recreating existing works. This piece was composed by an obscure English singer/songwriter named Nick Drake in 1969. He never gained much notoriety until after his death in 1974 although this song has been redone by numerous artists. This is my arrangement/performance. I chose to play the melody on Flugel Horn and edited together the video element using video clips from various sources. A great song from a great musical era. Enjoy!
This is my arrangement and instrumental performance of the 1983 song “Ain’t Nobody” by Rufus and Chaka Khan. I played the horns live. Everything else I played through my Yamaha keyboard. The vocals are the actual isolated tracks from the original recording. I edited the video using original footage and shots of my studio.
I played the horn parts and trumpet solo live using my Schilke B3 trumpet and Yamaha Flugelhorn. All other parts were played using my standard studio setup. The video is a combination of original album cover artwork and still images i edited together to present a central theme.
Here's my first composition of 2023. I wanted to do something cinematic and came up with this. The composition is base around a bass arpeggio and a halftime drum beat. All synthesizer sounds are from Logic Pro and Arturia. I played the trumpet solo live. After playing around with the big dogfight scene in Top Gun: Maverick, I edited together this video to kind of fit the music. This production is for viewing only and not to be copied or released. Enjoy!
Here is my arrangement and musical performance of "Never Gonna Let You Go", written in 1982 by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. The vocal performance is by Benjamin Keen, a young music student, performer and singer/songwriter.
I composed this piece based on a progression of altered chords. I played the horn parts on a Yamaha Flugelhorn and a newly restored Schilke B3 trumpet. All other parts are played on a keyboard using virtual sound libraries.
I wrote the Flugelhorn melody around some of the chords used in an old Pat Metheny tune. I created the video to commemorate my 25th wedding anniversary with my wife Cindy. All parts are performed and produced by me.
I composed this piece based on different rhythm guitar parts and sequenced bass patterns. I wrote and played the horn part that builds by adding octaves each time around.
This piece is based on a piano ostinato. The trumpet I played live and used the Arturia and Garritan sound libraries for the other instruments. The visual is a time lapse video of a sun rise to sunset.
I composed this music around some Logic guitar loops. The synth parts are played using Arturia sounds. The Flugelhorn solo I played live. The guitar solo I played through Guitar Rig 5. All video content is courtesy of Pexels.
A blues progression in 7/8. Recorded into Logic Pro using virtual sound libraries except for the horns which I played live. The video is from various studio and live performances I edited together.
My arrangement and orchestration of a solo piano piece that was composed by my cousin Tony Mitchell. I was sent a midi file of the piano part from which I extracted the melody and replayed it with different sections of the orchestra. I wrote the eight bar intro and other parts based on the original chord progression and voicing. This was created using Logic Pro X and various virtual sound libraries. I assembled the video using multiple free video clips from the Pexels Video website.
I wrote this piece with the intention of limiting it to piano and strings but it morphed into something more. All parts are performed my me into Logic Pro X using virtual sound libraries. I created the visual portion from multiple time lapse videos I edited together.
I composed this piece in 2018 and finally decided to create a video to complement the music. I originally named the piece "The Arrival" due to the fact that it was the name of one of the synthesizer sounds I used. After editing together the various animated video clips the name still fits, but you need to watch to the end.
I wanted to compose a funk tune and ended up with what you’re about to hear. In keeping up with my practice of editing together visual content to accompany my music I decided to do something with a slightly harder edge than my usual soft fluffy images. I thought a short visual expose on some of our more dubious Congressional Representatives would work. The horns are a combination of virtual sound libraries and me playing live.
Those of us involved in our high school and college music programs in the early and mid 1970’s were into “Prog Rock”. After running across some of this music on YouTube I decided to try writing a piece in that style. For my music friends, I wrote this based on the pentatonic scale in E flat minor using only the black keys on the keyboard. Once again I edited together a visual element to my music that may have some relevance. I call it “Prognosis” Say hello to 2020!
This is my first composition in 2021. Once again it is based on a simple piano (synth) motif that repeats throughout the piece. I played the horn parts on a new Flugel horn I just got from The Brass Instrument Workshop as well as doubling the parts with a Logic Pro library. The video is based on the Robert Frost poem “The Road Not Taken”, although I named the piece The Road Less Traveled.
This really isn't a video but meaningful none the less. And, another way to showcase another original composition.