Instruments: Piano, Guitar, Percussion

Time: 4/4

Starts slow on piano with gentle guitar melody, then hits it up with piano, percussion, and guitar. Slows back down toward the end, with the guitar melody from the beginning over the top of a slow piano accompaniment.

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Instruments:  Piano Solo

Time:  4/4

Description:  When in times of desperation and sadness, there is nothing better for this old soul than the sounds of a piano and a few of my favorite chords. 

Slow and disjointed but musically, the piece makes a nice solid unit.

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Instruments: Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Plucked Strings, Crotales Time: 4/4 Steady Medium Tempo Contemplative

Description: Beautiful steady echoey acoustic guitar and piano piece with string backgrounds. This song is great to use as 'focus' music. Do you want to get a lot done? Play this and get to work.

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Instruments:  Solo Piano

Time: 4/4

Description:  Some things just happen.  This one just happened.  I was about ready to go to bed and decided to slog the laptop onto the desk and hook everything up.  As I was waiting for the software to load up, my hands starting playing the keyboard with no sound.  I could hear it clearly in my head, but no sound actually came out.  After the computer was on and running, this is what I had been playing, so I recorded it.  This is "Take 1", "Try 1".

It's a very nice little piano solo.  If you have ideas of how to describe it, let me know in email.  You can ping me at the link in the menu bar above.

From James Caston:

When I hear this tune I feel a kind of sadness; a longing for an unrequited love, and the memory of a situation which led to a misunderstanding that resulted in the loss of a deeply felt love. This tune brings back all the emotional pain of that parting and expresses all the pent up longing that still lingers on. But in the end it seems to suggest a closure, and moving on with life.
 
That's kind of what it says to me.  

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Instruments:  Steinway, Harp, Clarinet, Oboe, Cello, Classical Guitar, Orchestral Bass

Time:  6/8 Uptempo

Description:  Not sure where this song came from inspiration wise, other than I've been playing a lot with the Harp sounds...  It's magical how a plucking harp can sound laying a foundation for a soft and slow clarinet melody.  In this case, it's a bit of a fast piece with some melodic development. 

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Instruments: Orchestra

Time: 4/4

Description: Intense battle and fight scene style music. Seriously heavy during the faster section with a slow ending suggestive of death and dying.

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Instruments:  Piano, Strings, Oboe, Clarinet, Orchestra bass, harp, acoustic guitar

Time: 4/4 Medium Tempo, soft, orchestrated melody

Description:  I wrote this song after watching "Cold Mountain".  The scene in the end with the snow falling as the lover returns just stuck with me.  A nice lovely song with an undercurrent of intense pain.

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Time: 4/4 Slow and Peaceful

Description: A slow walk with the shadows of nature surrounding you. Piano melody with guitar and keyboard accompaniment.

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Instruments:  Piano, Guitar

Time:  4/4

Description:  This song originated because of a request for a movie being produced in Barbados.  The piece is quiet and meant for contemplation.  It starts slowly with a quiet solo guitar and then goes into a play between a piano accompaniment with a solo guitar melody. 

Instruments:  Piano, Viola Section

Time:  6/8

Description:  This piece has a traditional American sound that is reminiscent of early America.  Again, it is very emotional with a good mix between the piano 'solo' and the added trings for emphasis.  This piece also works well as just a piano solo.

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