The is a rather unremarkable tune, other that the occasional unexpected chord shift which is, after all, my stylistic trademark.

Lame attempt to extend the previously posted tracks into a full song length.

Written and recorded in the early 1970s.

This would be a fairly mundane, feel-good, namby-pamby sound if not for the intentional sour patch that serves as the chorus. I’ve always been fascinated with those kinds of not-quite-right harmonies that, through the way the melody is fashioned, become essential to the flow of the piece, so much so that not having them would seem wrong.

Written and recorded in the early 1970s

Pretty much the same as the previous track, perhaps a little cleaner.

This one is background music for one of those scenes in a movie where the main characters stumbles across some cluttered information, such as a messy desk belonging to their partner or chief supporter and, as they casually shuffle through, begin to see disturbing hints that their trusted ally is not who they think they were.

The pace of the music almost imperceptibly increases until the discordant notes take on a frenzied, almost frantic cascade, ending in the certainty that friend is actually foe.

Of course, this is just a sketch. The way I’ve described it is how I hear it in my mind with full orchestration.

Another short progression intended as movie music during one of those traveling scenes where the scenery goes by as they have to get from point A to point B for some contrived reason.

I don’t often write dance music, but I think this one might qualify. It’s got a good beat and a nice hook in the chorus. All it needs is a bridge and then to repeat everything and I think it could stand on its own (and dance).

Same as the previous track with addition of vocal tones to indicate orchestration.

Years after I wrote this one, I heard this particular harmony in a couple of major motion pictures. As I recall, a portion of it shows up in Titanic by James Cameron, and it may also be repeated in Braveheart in one of the tracks.

For me, that was pleasing since I got to hear what that chord combination sounded like when recorded by a proper orchestra.

Written and recorded in the early 1970s.

This is another short piece I expected I might use in a movie someday to set a scene.

Written and recorded in the early 1970s.

I’ve always had a bent toward the movies. When I was around four or five, one of my mom’s cousins, Louie, took us for a drive somewhere. In the back seat I found a couple of flip books about the size of a pack of matches. I recall that one was a “movie” of old time Western star, Hopalong Cassidy. It showed him on his horse.

I asked what it was and mom’s cousin said that if you flipped through the stiff paper pages, it would look like Hopalong was riding his horse. He showed me how to do it and I tried it myself and it worked!

Since that moment I was hooked on movies. I made flip books of my own with little cartoon animations and later, when my parents gave me one of the first generation Super-8 movie cameras for my sixth grade graduation, I started making movies all the time.

Long story short, I ended up having a career in the movie biz as a writer, director, and editor. Nothing you’ve ever heard of but I did direct a couple of feature length movies, and one year I edited the official film for the Tournament of Roses, among scores of other credits.

Speaking of scores, with my love of music and my love of movies, it’s not surprising that my Composer’s Sketchbook has a number of tracks that are intended for movie soundtracks. I never got the chance to actually write a sound track, but this entry here is a short twelve second guitar riff designed as a movie transition from one scene to another.

For what its worth.