www.BrettDaniel.com

I write what I call "guitar-based electronic music". These are some MP3s of the best pieces.

• Amalgam

  This song came together in only about five hours one evening. I named it "Amalgam" because it combines two or three different riffs from other unfinished songs. This was the first time I had recorded my guitar with distortion, and I think it turned out pretty well.

• ChickaChicka

  I wrote this piece for a statewide contest that I later won second place and $1,500 in.

• Comntogether

  As the title suggests, this song just came together one night when I was fiddling around trying to write something. I especially like the interaction between the different voices.

• Dance of the Thunderclouds

  This song started out in a completely different style, but I liked the drum track so much that I decided to change take the song in a different direction.

• Disjointed in C

  This song really fits its name. There are three different movements (I guess you could call them that) fitted into its short two minutes.

• Hedgehogs and Fish

  This laidback song came together very quickly one night when I was jamming over an interesting chord progression. The song is entirely guitar except for the drum track. I cannot explain the title.

• Orange

  This high-energy piece has had quite an involved history, progressing through (I believe) four guitars, two amps, and several years. The main melody began as a far more rudimentary four-note riff that has since evolved quite a bit as my technique and guitars have improved. I wrote the MIDI backing around the middle of my senior year of high school and played it live for the first time at Charlie's high school graduation toga party. By then, the piece had almost reached its final form, but I didn't attempt to record it until about a year later later when I bought a new overdrive pedal. This song was one of the reasons I bought it, and I think it fits well.

• Quick Stuff

  This is a short, simple little fingerstyle piece that, like Amalgam, is the conglomeration of a few nifty riffs I had been working on. I think they fit together quite well. Out of all the songs I've posted, this piece has probably the largest percentage of pure guitar playing; only the drums are MIDI.

• A Quick Jazz Sampler

  This isn't so much a song as a quick musical experiment. I had just bought Line 6's PODxt, and after playing a bit, I created a nice clean, shiny tone with a slight reverb that I liked a lot. This recording is just a test that turned out better than I expected.

• Techno in D Minor

  This song started out as a guitar piece that I later rewrote in my computer into what you hear today. I entered this piece in a statewide contest and I got to the finals as one of the top ten music pieces in the state. Unforutnately I didn't win, but at least I got there.

• Whoa

  This song rocks.