This was a fun arrangement (Oct 2026) that almost simply happened upon me. Shout out to Judah who helped me put it together. Fun quote from the pastor: That song was perhaps the most invigorating I have ever heard that song played

This song was written by my son Judah, and I helped a bit with some of the melody and chord choices. Listen to Judah playing and singing it: Lyrics ChorusWe will sing and make melody with all our beingWe’ll give thanks to Jesus our glorious kingWe’ll praise his name and worship God in songAwake O […]

A new tune for this old song. Recently a friend said this: “Only a handful of hymns get me teary-eyed everytime I sing them, one of them is your rendition of “And Can It Be That I Should Gain.” Sheet Music MP3 Demo

This just three verses (of the 5 available) of this song, to get a sense of the arrangement. The missing verses would probably both run like the middle one here.

Finding just the right sounds or music to listen to while doing web development can be tricky. Sometimes downtempo house music is called for. Other times a noise generator will do nicely. Then there are days for Megadeth or Bach’s solo cello suites. Here are some of my most-used offerings with music and/or sounds for […]

I often listen to Soma FM internet radio while at work, but I do not like their radio UI. So this seemed like a good opportunity to stretch my Vue.js muscles. This is a project I’ve been working on little by little for some time. I invite you to try it out and let me […]

I was just on the website of Hiram Ring, a musician and linguist, when I noticed that he gave a shout out to Beth Almquist and I for adding a chorus to his tune. I had actually forgotten we did that and sent it to him, so it was a complete surprise to find our […]

This is the tune for Poor Sinner, Dejected with Fear written by Katy Bowser and Matthew Perryman Jones  ©2001. Lovely tune, and the fun thing is to try to play the melody line and supporting chords at once. This recording is me by my lonesome self, playing a prelude at church a few weeks back.

I took the old familiar melody, but switched out the awkward 3/2 time for a swing feel. That change went a good distance in making the song feel not so antiquated. And as a bonus, the melody feels close enough to the original that an average congregant doesn’t need to “learn” anything, they just pick […]

This is the traditional melody for this What a Friend We Have in Jesus, but arranged on guitar to sound more up to date. There are two guitars in this example track; one of them is doing the melody line.