Tune Library

• Court Street Blues
Clearly based on 'Basin Street Blues'.
• Gilligan's Island
Free-form rhythm-changes type post bebop.
• Greendolphin Avenue
Reharmonization is fun.
• It May Have Been Broccoli
Another AABA post-bop tune. Recorded on Raw Material CD.
• Kimbrellation
Odd meters and odd triads abound. Recorded on the 3rd Man CD.
• A Nice Day For a Haircut
Un-guitarstic piece of music.
• There Will Never Be Another Head Like You(rs)
Slightly left off center..
• Time At Risk
Use a pick or fingers to cross-pick through this exercise. Also on Raw Material CD. Another recorded version can be found on Cathy Morris' CD It's About Time.
• Upthing
Easy melody over hard changes.
• Yes! Send Me the next issue - Free
Fast Jazz tune ala Yellow Jackets or so. Recorded on Quantumn Tweezers CD.
• All Purpose Seasoning
Shakti type tune with lots of 16ths notes.
• Final Stage
Another Shakti type tune (prototype version), also the 2nd movment for my Guitar Concerto.
• Entropology
Odd meters and strange (dis)harmony. Recorded on the 3rd Man CD.
• Ignition
You can tell that Shakti took its toll.
• Irata Express
Remember the game Mule for the Atari?.
• Linguini Della Luna
No pasta, some Al DiMeolian lines.
• Merry Bopmas
Post-christmas neo-bop.
• Fugue No 9 A-minor
Stuff for classical guitar.
• Fugue No 10 E-Major
More classical.
• Exercise in Neapolitan Minor A
No.3 from 'Second Cycle of Rhythmical & Harmonical Studies'.
• Exercise in Neapolitan Major D
No.4 from 'Second Cycle of Rhythmical & Harmonical Studies'.
• Exercise in Oriental G
No.5 from 'Second Cycle of Rhythmical & Harmonical Studies'.
• Exercise in Enigmatic F
No.7 from 'Second Cycle of Rhythmical & Harmonical Studies'.
• Sonata 1
5 page piece for finger or flat picking.
• Sonata 2
6 page guitar workout.
• Sonata 3
Last one of the big ones.
• Four Chord Exercises
This is for fingerpicking or classical style.
• Wayne's World
Inspired by Wayne Shorter's 'Native Dancer'. Recorded on Indianapolis Intergalactic Spaceport
• Blowthing
An original jazz tune with an interesting solo form and nice changes. A recorded version can be found on the Jazz From Bloomington CD.
• Rough Reinhardt
Rhythm changes tune in C. Inspired by Django Reinhardt.
• A Pound Of Lead & A Pound Of Feathers
AABA jazz tune.

Feel free to download these tunes and print them out. However, unauthorized use of these compositions for commercial purposes will result in reverse quantumn enhanced feedback loops producing hairy fallout in your breakfast cereal.