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Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen

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This song was stuck in my head when I woke up this morning.

My father and I performed a piano and violin arrangement of this song this decades ago in a hometown restaurant. It comes from a book of Fritz Kreisler arrangements.

Performing with my father circa 1986 in a Coos Bay restaurant – just realized he was 5 years older then than I am today

Here I am playing it on the viola instead of the violin. It has a lot of double-stops (playing two notes at the same time), which are difficult on most string instruments, but especially on the viola – an instrument notoriously difficult to play in tune.

I hope you like it.

All About That Bratsch’

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My last music offering was on the serious side. Here is something upbeat and humorous. It is my parody of Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass.”

When I first heard her hit, the idea to rewrite the words as “All About That Bratsch'” came to me immediately – “Bratsche” (“Brah-cheh”) is the German word for “viola.”

The words came pretty quickly to me, and then I arranged it for string quartet.

Here are my friends, Casey, Mitchell, Dana, and Erin backing me up on my parody.