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I think I erased most the music on this site when trying to update it. Plop. Most of my stuff is on my youtube channel or streaming. Sorry about this

                    Beethoven,

        Sonata in C minor, op. 111               

                     (excerpt)

Beethoven op. 111 (excerpt) -
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This is me playing in a recital in high school. This show I played this sonata, Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, some original stuff, and sang some Burt Bacharach. 

Barbeque Man Dance

(Broken Instrument Version)

The Barbeque Dance (Broken instrument version -
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I made a version of the BBQ Man Dance with broken instruments

                    Danzig's Mother 

             (Swing/big band remix)

Mother - Swing remix - Danzig (Paul Swartzel remix)
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I altered the original vocals of the heavy metal classic to swing rhythms and reharmonized/orchestrated it. 

              Barbeque Man Unleashed:

The Greatest Professional Wrestling Work of All Time  

                            (Excerpt from 1st movement)

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BBQ Man Unleashed (1st movement excerpt) - Paul Swartzel
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This is an excerpt from my doctoral dissertation piano concerto/ballet, detailing Barbeque Man Jr's first match with Baron Banks Gentry. This part depicts their shoves/tie-ups, leading to BBQ Man Jr slamming Gentry's head ten times into the turnbuckle.  

My Father Knew Colonel Sanders,

but I know You

My Father Knew Colonel Sanders - Paul Swartzel
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Pop instrumental in odd meter

Honky Tonk Toccata (2009)
Honky Tonk Toccata - Paul Swartzel
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Solo piano piece I wrote. I'm playing on this recording, but pianist Lisa Moore played it much better. I'll post her recording soon. 

   Ballet of the Hatching Rattlesnakes

    for prepared piano 3 percussionists (2007)

Ballet of the Hatching Rattlesnakes - Paul Swartzel
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                    Bird Fair

Bird Fair - Paul Swartzel
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I decided to go to a bird fair one Saturday morning in North Carolina and wrote a song about the adventure.

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              Barbeque Man Unleashed:

The Greatest Professional Wrestling Work of All Time  

           (Excerpt from 2nd movement - The Rematch)

BBQ Man Unleashed - 2nd movement excerpt - Paul Swartzel
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Excerpt from the beginning of the rematch, leading to Baron Banks Gentry power slamming Barbeque Man Jr. to the canvas. 

I never saw the Tom Cruise movie The Last Samurai, but I wrote a song on what it's probably about

Truest Haiku

Truest Haiku - Paul Swartzel
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Was a little boy in Japan
(And this is true)
It was hard times, Pre-World War 2
Pre-Kamikazes comin down from the sky
when Tom Cruise ruled as The Last Samurai
.....and he was a tyrant

Threw the boy's mama in the Slam
Cause she blew
Outlawed Tunes on the Japanese Flute
meaning Dance Hall Days, Wang Chung cover band,
Boy got in his truck, went down to jail, and made demands:

"Hey Cruise, I'm here to do three things:
Get my mama
Kick some ass
and play some Japanese flute music....
Looks like I'm almost outta flute, MANE, gimme my mama."


Cruise told him to beat it and scram,
"Disperse!
Wait, ya want ya mama, ya better gimme a verse
bout something sacred to your kin."

Boy said a curse
The F word, the worst,
and on a whim
boy said with a grin

[oh, jus look at that grin]

"You want a haiku?
You can't handle a haiku

A Few Good Men 2"

The Director said "Cut!
We're gonna make a billion bucks!
Make a trailer that goes...
Weeeouuuooooewwwww"


And they did. 

Because

The Industrial Revolution
Has Been a Disaster
For The Human Race





 

Snake Bite Memorial

Snake Bite Memorial
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Good day to you, and you, and you

and a Good Day Everybody, Hey!

That’s not how we do things in Indianapolis

 

Oh, No thanks to you and you and you

That's not how we do things!

That’s NOT how we do things in Indianapolis.

 

"The Snake Bite Memorial 

Takes up all the land with 

Names of those killed by snakes..

...lot bigger than our Vietnam...

and it’s shaped like a Snake,

One that swallowed an egg,

well, with no more room you gotta go up

with bigger font for the wealthy dead

 

Some parts an names removed,

now some soldier's souvenir

'Oh, we’ll get them back!'

That's what they say

at least election year... 

 

But not today

Not today.

 

Everybody sayin':

“Get rid of the snakes

Get rid of the snakes

Get rid of the snakes!

Get rid of em , rid of em......"

But that's not how we things in 

IN-DI-ANA-AP-PO-LIS

THAT'S not how we do things

No, we don't.

That’s NOT how we do things in Indianapolis

 

We got room to build.

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