• If Only That Were True (8/20/06) 1.6 meg - this started out as a concept - can an interesting chord-based piece be made using only open strings plus a single fretted note at a time? - and turned into this short tune, more songish than the other pieces here.
• Elementary (7/15/06) 4.1 meg - this is based on a simple up-and-down strum, though the accents are the important part. It uses just the highest three strings of the guitar.
• Horizon (4/5/06) 6.1 meg - by far the most repetitive tune I've ever created. Three double-stops in rotation, using an alternate sort of tremolo. Call it minimalist, if you must.

One of the things I love about playing nylon-string guitar with fingers is that the possibilities of the picking hand (the right hand, for me) are equal or even greater to the more-frequently-explored possibilities of the fretting hand (the left hand). I feel like I've only just begun to scratch (heh) the surface of what can be done, it seems like I find new things all the time and just need to put in the time to develop the technique needed to use them.

Here, then, is where I'm gathering compositions and sketches that have arisen from these explorations, as well as my regular work in developing standard fingerstyle craft. Some pieces are limited to only a few tones, others develop into something akin to a song, and all of them utilize repetition extensively - after all, that's what practice pretty much consists of.