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Original composition for any situation from the blues to musical theatre. Custom arrangements for any size ensemble or style.
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Patterns In Sound
Music - the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity. Noise – random or unpleasant sound. Playing music for the trained musician is manipulating...
The Blues
People often wonder where the “Blues” came from and how it came about. Here’s the story that makes the most sense to me. It seems a curious blending of Western and African culture. In Western music the scales within the octave are divided by whole tones and half...
Elvis and the Guitar
Elvis Presley, American Roll & Roll icon, began playing guitar at a young age. It is said that he was taught by Brother Frank Smith, a young black minister at the First Assembly of God Church in Tupelo, though Brother Frank notes that...