Category Archives: Musical Compositions

Composing music has always been my most passionate endeavor. Here you’ll find (eventually) hundreds of songs, instrumentals, demos, and riffs that I’ve written and recorded over the decades – many under my performance name of Tarnished Karma

Unusual Harmony

There is a particular harmony that has always been my musical mantra. You’ll find it in this short tune between the vocal and the guitar chord. It really resonates with something inherent in my passions, and I’ve returned to that harmony many time over the past half century.

Extending

I got my first real guitar with my first paycheck at my first real job in 1971 – MacDonalds. I was 18 years old, freshly graduated out of high school and took a year off before college to determine what I wanted to do with my life.

The songs I wrote and recorded in those days were all experiments, like this one, playing around with some interesting chords and practicing my technique.