My cop show theme
In 1993 a left-hand keyboard exercise I came up with evolved into a full-fledged cop show theme, which I called "Theme from Gunnerman" because that sounded suitably unsubtle for a 70s cop show. I got to play it with the band (Cafe de los Muertos), which was great--I really enjoyed hearing it all fleshed out--but we never recorded it. So that was the first thing I worked on when I started playing around with ACID and VST plugins a few years ago. It was great fun scoring all the parts, adding a horn section, cheesy sound effects, drum fills, cowbell, etc. I never got it near a professional-sounding state, but you can probably tell what I was aiming for in the last mix I did before moving on to another interest: