Here's my arrangement of As the Deer on my ~1949 Estey Junior Reed Organ! Part of the intent of this video was to demo as many of its tone capabilities as possible. :)

​I know it's a bit strange to release two separate arrangements of the same song back to back, but I really love how this one turned out for reed organ and I got to thinking that I'd prefer to keep all my RO content on the same channel. Part of the reason I wanted to record it when I did was because I'm working on a farm down in New Mexico and this organ is still located at my parents' house in Colorado. When I'm missing playing it, I can come back to this video and remind myself of how it sounds (and share that with you all in the process :D ).

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Ever since I played To The Moon by Freebird Games (the game that this song was written for), I've wanted to make a cover of Everything's Alright by Laura Shigihara. I have a thing for story games and this one is particularly touching and heartbreaking. The developer, Kan Gao, is a genius, and Laura's original song for it just knocks it completely out of the park. If you haven't already played To The Moon yourself, I highly recommend it.

The hammer-on technique used here in the intro and the transitions took a bit of time and effort to get right, but I think I finally nailed it. Originally, I only planned to make this arrangement for voice and guitar only, but after getting the idea to try adding a clarinet (which I eventually decided against), I simply couldn't help myself and ended up going all out with the orchestration. Writing / arranging for orchestral instruments is a skill I've previously had almost no experience with, so this project ended up being my first example of a rather successful attempt at it. Personally I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

As I'm writing this, there's less than half an hour left in 2020. And boy... what a year it's been. I sure do hope 2021 is actually an improvement, but that remains to be seen. Happy New Year everyone!

I know this song is kinda played to death around this time of year, but I wanted to record my own version anyway. xD Also, it may already be 2021 by the time most of you watch this, but everything in this video was recorded, produced, and published on New Years Eve 2020 (so it was still relevant 😉).

Hope you enjoyed this first video with my new baritone uke! I'm mildly obsessed with the sound, not gonna lie.

I know I literally just covered The Optimist with Jessie a few weeks ago, but recently I figured out how to play Wandering (another song by Lauryn Marie) and there was no way I was gonna put off recording it.

Wandering is (and has been since I first heard it) my all time favorite song she's written as it combines a new melody and new lyrics with the classic hymn called Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing. Once you finish watching my cover, I highly recommend you go check out the original which I've linked in the end screen.

More info about the backstory below. :)

This Isn't the End by Owl City has been one of my favorite songs ever since I first heard it. It's a reminder that even when everything going on around us seems completely hopeless and out of our control, there's still hope.

I've wanted to record this song for a very long time, but I wanted to wait to do that until I felt could do it justice. Loads of time and effort later and here we are! In my opinion, this is one of the best, most hard hitting songs Adam Young has ever written. I hope you enjoy listening to my rendition of this beautifully heartbreaking song.

In Colorado, we got our first snow of the season on September 8th, 2020. Yes, you read that correctly, *September* 8th! I recorded this video last week. xD Hit "read more" below the video to hear the story of how this project came to be.

​I originally came up with a previous version of this arrangement in December of 2016 and ever since I recorded a sample of it and shared it with my friend Michelle, she's been pushing for me to release a complete version publicly on YouTube. Well here it is almost 4 years later!

Recently, I decided to re-learn my arrangement of this song and not only that, but completely revamp it altogether. It's taken me quite a while to perfect and getting a good recording of it was rather difficult for some reason, but here we are nonetheless! I hope you enjoy it.