Haven’t you always said “Gee I wish someone would arrange O Tannenbaum into a tremolo study? Well now I have, and I threw in a Jazzed up version of Silent Night to boot! Never mind that it’s June, start practicing them now and they’ll be in tip top shape for all those holiday parties come [...]

I did this arrangement of Greensleeves for the music software company MakeMusic, which makes the engraving software Finale. They published this arrangement around the holidays this last year. Enjoy!

I wrote this piece to demonstrate how we can adapt the musical staff to better reflect a composition’s intentions. In this case the looped staff allows the composition to display a retrograde inversion without having to write out any additional music (a bit confusing but just read the “Notes” section).

Dance is a piece I composed for the guitar in the Winter of 2010, it is loosely based off the rhythm of a polka (I did live in Wisconsin for four years after all) with some jazz inspired harmonies and just a touch of Debussy. I’ve included a rough recording of the piece and [...]

This is an unmeasured prelude for lute written by the Renaissance composer Ennemond Gaultier. I arranged the piece for classical guitar and tried to maintain the piece’s feel of rhythmic freedom and also maintain Gaultier’s original intentions. The signs that look like small commas next to individual noteheads indicate that the performer should [...]

Another example of some experimental engraving I recently completed, this one playing with the conventional musical staff…