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Cinematic Instrumental Montage
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A montage of short snippets of cinematic instrumental writing. This condensed sampling is to help the director/producer decide quickly whether or not to listen further. |
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Modern Instrumental Montage
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A montage of short modern/electronic instrumental snippets to quickly demonstrate my writing style. It condenses a sampling of my modern/electronic work into a single track so you can decide quickly whether to listen further. |
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Orchestral Instrumental Montage
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A montage of short orchestral snippets to quickly demonstrate my writing style. It condenses a sampling of my orchestral work into a single track so you can decide quickly whether to listen further. |
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Bounce
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Instrumental with some bounce to it. |
action, party, car chase, bouncy |
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Dark Peace
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Orchestral Instrumental for a sad, introspective movie. Most likely for opening or closing titles. |
sad, sweet, introspective, despair, sorrow, gentle, somber, resolved, longing, settled, grief, loss |
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By The End Of Today
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IN PROGRESS (rough demo) A song about a guy with troubles, but he'll be done with his troubles by the end of today because of the love of a good woman. |
plaintive, folk?, a little bit of an Irish pub sound, hard life, love, getting over it, redemption, yodeling, |
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Make a Stand
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ROUGH DEMO - A song about love and commitment and one night stands. |
sweet, love, commitment |
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Skeletal Dreams - Church Chase
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Instrumental for a scene where the Dreamer pursues the Girl into a mysterious church, from the film "Skeletal Dreams". |
pursuit, chase, agitated |
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Skeletal Dreams - Closing Titles
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Instrumental for Closing Titles from the film "Skeletal Dreams". |
dark exuberance, evil dance |
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Shovel
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IN PROGRESS (rough demo) A song about working and how it can make you weary, but joyful. |
working, shovel, buiding fence, digging ditch, weary, but joyful, |
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My Judy Takes Me to the Zoo
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A song about Judy, a very fun girl. |
upbeat, uptempo, fun, quirky, love, circus, zoo, Hawaii, fun lover, |
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Schrodinger's Dog
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a song about either physics or shaving |
quirky, shaving, dog, physics, rap, nature of matter, mirror, loss, clarity of self-reflection, Erwin Schrodinger |
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Frisky little tune |
frisky, suspenseful |
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I'm Blessed
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RAW SONG DEMO - upbeat song appreciating the little things in life |
upbeat, love, God, sunshine, blessings, happy |
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Romantic Comedy Overture
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Orchestral instrumental - overture (opening credits) to a romantic comedy. Introduces the themes of a romantic comedy: The tentativeness and suspense of first meeting, the introductions, the sweetness and gushiness of first love, settling into a comfort zone, a little bickering, the sadness of thinking it didn't work out, reconciliation, and finally hope that all will live happily ever after. |
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Suspense Bed
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Instrumental to demonstrate writing for a suspense scene. Things start sunny enough, but quickly turn dark. This demo was written to an imaginary scene. For a real suspense scene, events would probably be a little more sparse and synchronized more appropriately to the action in the picture. |
Lay this bed under a suspense scene at very low volume. Or under a horror, thriller scene at higher volume. |
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Skeletal Dreams - Future Creatures
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Instrumental for a scene where the Dreamer dreams of an encounter with creatures from the future. From the film "Skeletal Dreams". |
horror, terror, torment |
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If You're Happy And You Know It Clap Your Hands
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A song asking what it means to be happy. |
quirky, rap, happy, God, hand-clapping |
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I'm Hungry Now
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IN PROGRESS (Rough demo) a song about getting sidetracked from dinner by other appetites. |
racous, exuberant, hot girl, cooking dinner, dinner date, distraction, sex |
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She Makes Me Fat
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A song about a guy whose wife treats him too well. He used to be skinny. Now... |
upbeat, uptempo, bluegrass?, fun, marriage, love, exercise, food, couch potato |
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Her Daddy Was a Dangerous Man
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a song about a girl orphaned by the child custody industry. |
sad, father daughter relationship, tea parties, manipulated memories, child custody, divorce |
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Motion
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a short instrumental for a traveling scene |
upbeat, uptempo, on the road, moving, road trip, no dawdling!, whipcrack, go!! |
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I Wanna Be a Cowboy
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an instrumental segue out of a scene with a real old time cowboy harmonica player into a scene with more modern day cattlemen. |
upbeat, uptempo, foot-tapping, old west, cowboy, harmonica, yeehah!!!, cactus, campfire, coffepot |
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Perseverance
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a short instrumental for a scene about persevering and hardship. |
upbeat, uptempo, keystone cops, everything is going wrong, life is hard, but funny, perseverance will get you through |
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Business
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a short instrumental for scene background |
relaxed, slightly jazzy, business, going about the day to day |
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Just a Guy
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Playful song about a guy's lustful view of women. |
Playful, quirky, sexy (more comic than graphic), uptempo, fun, relationships, guys and girls, upbeat |
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My Dear Mabel
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A song about a girl who seems sweet. But wait, she's crazy! |
ballad shifting to rock, sweet angel, violent psycho chick, chainsaw, loving the wrong person, trapped in a bad relationship |
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Chicken Fat
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A song about not fitting in. |
playful, quirky, outcast, eating, weirdo, blues, food |
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Jagged Dance
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Electronic Dance Instrumental with jagged edges |
dance, electronica, pulse, jagged, edgy, |
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I'll Be Damned
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ROUGH DEMO - A song about the moral conflict a lot of us feel when somebody hits us up for a handout. |
guilt, panhandler, homeless, bum, moral ambiguity, give or not, street person, consequences, responsibility |
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Arrival
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Instrumental - closing credits of part one |
majestic, we've arrived in a beautiful new place, now we can sit back and soak in the beauty, if we can get our feet to stop |
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Lifetime of Tears
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RAW SONG DEMO - Song about a teenaged girl making some bad choices. |
teenager, drugs, pregnancy, growing up too fast, sad, disappointed, bad choices, bad friends |
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Skeletal Dreams - Third Phone Call
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Instrumental bed beneath the Dreamer''s third mysterious phone call in the film "Skeletal Dreams" |
hopeful, mysterious, unknown, dangerous, romantic |
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Skeletal Dreams - Wedding March
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Instrumental for scene where the Dreamer sees her true love in the park from the film, "Skeletal Dreams". |
romantic, true love, wedding bells |
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Skeletal Dreams - Opening Titles
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Opening Titles to the film Skeletal Dreams |
pensive, thoughtful, relaxed |
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Skeletal Dreams - First Phone Call
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Instrumental bed beneath the Dreamer's first mysterious phone call in the film "Skeletal Dreams". |
hopeful, mysterious, unknown, dangerous |
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Skeletal Dreams - Second Phone Call
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Instrumental bed beneath the Dreamer's second mysterious phone call in the film "Skeletal Dreams". |
hopeful, mysterious, unknown, dangerous, screaming child |
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Skeletal Dreams - Conversation with Tuxedo Man
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Instrumental bed under scene where the Dreamer converses with the love of her life from the film "Skeletal Dreams". |
suspenseful, mysterious, askew, disjointed |
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Skeletal Dreams - Scene Transition from Park
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Intrumental transition from scene in the park with Tuxedo Man through scene with Dreamer dreaming to scene with young Girl. From the film "Skeletal Dreams". |
sad, transitional, childlike, dreamy |
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Skeletal Dreams - Girl
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Instrumental bed for a scene where the Dreamer converses with the Girl from the film "Skeletal Dreams". |
child song, horror, anger, mystery |
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Skeletal Dreams - Bloody Hands
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Instrumental to a scene where the Dreamer wakes up with bloody hands. |
horror, terror, fear, surprise |
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Dog Jack Demo
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(Audition demo) an instrumental audition demo for a movie about a runaway slave and the civil war. |
Plantation Blues, Civil War March, hard work, military band, drum and fife, drum and bugle |
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Love to You
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A song about having a rough day and not taking it out on the one you love. |
bluesy, Sam Spade film noir mood with trombone instead of sax, hard day, hard knocks, traffic jams, resisting dark urges, love, treating the one you love right |
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Flesh Magnet
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This is either a song about needing to be close to someone or, by trimming off a few introductory lyrics, an instrumental for suspense scene. |
warm and intimate or edgy and suspenseful. |
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Sundown
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an instrumental for closing credits |
bittersweet, sad (but not too sad), ending, an era passes, sunset, |
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12 Tones in C
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An edgy atonal piano piece |
edgy, horror, suspense, thriller |
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Aargh! You Can't Do That!
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A silly children's song about naughty Nelly, Nelly seems to be able to get into trouble without trying too hard. The grownups are naturally frustrated, but come up with a reasonable outcome in the end. |
silly, children's, trouble, naughty, kids getting in trouble without trying, parent's getting frustrated |
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Against The Abyss
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Instrumental - Sad guitar piece |
dark, sparse, sad, lonely, sigh, rubato |
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Don't Call Me a Puppy
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ROUGH DEMO - A song about love and wanting to be treated with respect. Written for a teenage girl band who ended up not recording it. This ROUGH DEMO has male vocals. You'll have to imagine a girl singing. |
puppy love, new love, infatuation, respect, boundary between childhood and adulthood |
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Hermann Hermann - Opening Titles (Hermann's Theme)
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Opening Titles |
edgy, dangerous, noir, Hitchcockian |
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Instrumental - Electronica |
Suspenseful, hopeful, in a Chariots of fire sort of way. |
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Hermann Hermann - Blind Man Finds Body
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instrumental |
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Hermann Hermann - Crime Scene
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edgy, dangerous, noir, Hitchcockian |
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