Songs Made From Loops (Within DAW) Make Great Vehicles for Improvisation

Within your DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software, there typically exists a media library full of various midi and audio loops. When searching for something new to improvise over, I occasionally leverage these loop fragments, combine them into a song and hit it! Sunday afternoon (weather and sports permitting) I usually find myself in the mood to practice phrasing or improvise.

Here's a mis-mash of audio loops in Eb combined in Cubase v8.5.

Enjoy.

New! Instrumental, Rock Guitar CD Now Available (Eric Peterson 'Silly String')

I've just released my second CD for 2017, an instrumental, rock guitar recording. The songs on the album encompass song ideas and riffs from 2010-2016. These songs were left incomplete and never released as I was finishing my Bachelor and Master's degrees in IT Security. I'm happy to have finished and closed this life's chapter and hope you'll take a listen, and/or download a song or two.

I wanted to keep the recording fairly 'raw' and punchy, with a lot of melodic soloing,  and less guitar pyro-technics. I did my own production and graphic art/design (as usual) but feel the work was worth it.

Here's a direct link to the CD page. https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ericpeterson3

The songs will be available from iTunes and other digital music outlets over the next few days. Thanks again for listening and supporting my music.

Enjoy.

Fingerpicking Shuffle (3/3/17)

While watching sports, I often have a #guitar in my hand. The little ditties I compose are rarely the coolest thing ever (I'm watching TV), but I like to capture and catalogue them just the same. Here's a fingerpick shuffle spawned today while watching the NFL combine. Enjoy.

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Voice Leading Exercise (3/1/17)

Here's a new voice leading exercise for you to practice this month. Voice leading pertains to notes kept within the same voice (bottom, mid, top for example) from one chord to the next. I often try to find new ways to change chords and it often starts with voice leading - Download the PDF