Broken Noons I’m so happy to share with you the trailer for my first film score, Broken Noons. Broken Noons is a short film written and directed by Guillermo L. Vázquez, and stars actress Josi Lage. The score was written and recorded by (yours truly) Evan […]

The Last of Us Part 2 To introduce The Last of Us Part 2 at the E3 gaming convention, Gustavo Santaolalla performed this song from soundtrack. It was a great performance, and we can figure that it must be the new title theme for The […]

13 Reasons Why Although I haven’t watched 13 Reasons Why — all of my teenage guitar students are talking about it, and it keeps popping up in my social news feeds. I figured if THIS MANY people are interested, I should probably check out the music. The […]

Opening If you’ve been a reading my blog for any length of time, it’s not hard to figure out that I’m a Gustavo Santaolalla superfan. It all started with the Brokeback Mountain score: acoustic guitar, empty space, minimalism. I had never heard anything like it.  […]

I Kill Giants I haven’t seen the movie yet, but the music by composer, Laurent Perez Del Mar, really resonated with me. Specifically the title theme, I Kill Giants. What beautiful piece of music. I lengthened the title theme, and added little ending riff. Lately, I’ve […]

Smile Into Eyes Free MP3 Download on SoundCloud. This song is also available wherever you get your music, including Apple Music and Spotify. I wrote this song while thinking about my son (who’s 3 at the moment). I get to work early each morning on […]

Starry Night Very rarely do I pick up the guitar and gain inspiration out of thin air. I need an image or thought (unrelated to music) to jump start my creativity. Sometimes, while I’m researching content for this blog, I’ll watch a movie trailer (on […]

The Disaster Artist The Disaster Artist is the true-story of aspiring filmmaker and odd-ball Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau (James Franco). Wiseau directed, and is the principle actor in, The Room. Known as a true disasterpiece, The Room, became a cult classic film, where the acting […]

Lady Bird The Lady Bird soundtrack is from multi-instrumentalist composer Jon Brion. Brion’s niche is in creating “unsentimental” scores that fit hand in glove with indie drama/comedies. The music bounces along — like a Beatles song without vocals — never interfering with the scene. Contrast […]

The First Noel I love Christmas and holiday music. For The First Noel I wanted to reimagine it in the vibe of Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah. I capoed the 5th fret as Buckley does, and I also added a few other parts — an intro and […]

Billie Eilish Billie Eilish is a 16 year-old Los Angeles based singer/songwriter. Her older brother, Finneas O’Connell, is Billie’s songwriting partner and producer. Her song, ocean eyes, is just beginning to hit with my young guitar students. I’ve taught this song a dozen times already […]

Kiss I’m still luxuriating in Benjamin Wallfisch’s score for IT. I have several of these pieces that I’d like to arrange for guitar — so stay tuned. ‘Kiss’ is a very short little tune that I felt would be perfect for beginner guitar players. It’s […]