(5×3)+2 Heroic Hexameter (5×3)+2 Five dactyls and a spondee (with approximate rhyming) Life of Riley Leapt from the eighth floor and sailed to her peril — a pine bush the cushion. Survivor and flyer the cat carries shrapnel and now she’s a-bleeding. I grabbed her and ran off to get […]
Author: Gary
New Yorker
Where it Began This is my first book of original compositions. I wrote most of them for the 2009 February Album Writing Month. I never meant them for public consumption, yet here it is. Some of these might be worth salvaging. I was practicing notation back then too, so some […]
Pianist Magazine
Pianist Magazine I will post videos of me playing these tunes badly HERE. Sight Reading! Play this one: [rann range=1,6] Beginner Level Issue #1 Page 28: Beethoven Fur Elise Issue #1 Page 29: Chopin Op. 10 No. 3 Issue #1 Page 30: Strauss Blue Danube Issue #2 Page 28: Mozart […]
Blake’s Tiger
A Tyger in Therapy: A Psycho-Analysis by Ukulele Here’s a silly musical I wrote one summer. It was terrible and stale from the outset … BUT … I finally began to understand melody inside of chord melody orchestrations when competing against far more dramatic harmonic options. In other words, write […]
GadzUkes!
GadzUkes! Zombie girl swiped from Jake Goes Oinkerz. The Bloody Rebellion of a Voodoo Zombie Cheerleader and Her Vigilante Ukulele Jazz Orchestra Cheerleaders, zombies, ukuleles … it’s gonna get ugly real fast. Do you want to turn back now? Or will you dare to proceed??? There is SO much wrong […]
Shakespeare and Petrarch
Shakespeare’s Sonnets … RAWKED Petrarch is on his way too! The sheet music is readily playable on a baritone ukulele tuned DGBE, but if you don’t own one, use the four highest pitched strings on a guitar … you know, the guitar under your bed for the last 20 years? […]
Thy Silver Halide Vampyre
Thy Silver Halide Vampyre Commedia Dell’Arte with Ample Banjolele Here’s the first 10 minutes of my Symphony Number One By Gary Jugert PDF Here’s the Conductor Score and Piano Reduction 2:16 Vampire Club HAYDEN & KITTY & CRISSY: [Eb] Just one night in the cemetery. [Cm] Just one night with […]
Composing for Classical Guitar
Just Getting Started on Composing for This Beast Here are my personal guitar compositions and arrangements. It’s stuff I’m supposed to be memorizing and turning into a career. I’m not really doing that, but I do like these things. Dying of the Light PDF Sparks of Octarine PDF When Ginny […]
MSU Compositions
Old Man de-Composing Don’t be confused by the imagery above. My legs don’t work like that. My knees hurt all the time. I’m never in that kind of hurry as I leave early to get a good parking space near the elevator. I don’t have that much hair anymore. That […]
Eight Note Songbook
I bought a kids glockenspiel and I thought to myself, “Self, what cool tunes only have eight notes? How best can you turn this glock into rawk?” I also realized the key chain harmonica I own has exactly the same number of notes. And, it’s not unimportant I basically failed […]
¿Creepy?
¿Creepy? Crossdressers in Paris Hilton-ville The Saga of What Will Happen to Your Pets After the Rapture An opera — cuz dats m’thang — for toy piano, ukulele, and piccolo There are transvestite jokes on this page! (We once long-ago used that word, but times have changed. I’ve got a […]
Altoid! School Girls vs. Aliens
The not-so erotic space opera for ukulele Herein lies the somewhat tragic and morally ambiguous tale of Altoid Forty-Two’s family vacation on Earth. It was my first full-length musical, and the first full-length opera for ukulele ever written with more than 50 songs … yeah it takes hours to perform. […]
Next Tiara on Me
Dateline: Mammoth Gardens — July 13, The Future They’d been hunting humans all day, and while they required no rest, the maintenance schedule dictated down time to complete uploads and run general diagnostics. The power downs began. The new droid-designed cave breakers could navigate the formidable obstacles of mountainous terrain […]
Denver Guitar Orchestra
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Harmonica Moved
The harmonica pages have moved to a new dedicated site. Check it out here: Harmonica Band