Unsolved Mysteries Unsolved Mysteries is a mystery documentary television show — documenting cold cases and paranormal phenomena. The series has been revamped on Netflix and it’s enthralling. The first episode, Mystery on the Rooftop is totally bizarre. There’s 6 episodes in total. Each one is […]

Reclaimed Memories Reclaimed Memories is pretty little guitar piece from The Last of Us Part II soundtrack by Gustavo Santaolalla. The signature of this score is Santaolalla’s use of a 6 string guitar banjo. It was very easy to transfer this song to guitar — […]

Longing This arrangement combines both Longing and Longing (Redemptions) from The Last of Us Part II soundtrack. The latter of which is played on a Ronroco (a tiny, 5 string Andean guitar) that Gustavo Santaolalla employs throughout his soundtracks. Both pieces comprise his trademark minimalism; […]

Anna I wrote this song in 2016 as part of a (rough draft) score for a short-film entitled, Broken Noons, by Guillermo L. Vázquez. I loved working with Guillermo, and that was my first opportunity scoring anything. The film went on to become the Official […]

Unbroken It took me all of two seconds to recognize that Unbroken occupies the same emotional space as The Choice from the first game — that same quiet, aching poignancy that Gustavo Santaolalla does better than anyone. It also appears to great effect in Episode […]

Rue’s Farewell Rue’s Farewell is one of my favorites from James Newton Howard. I created my own arrangement; adding the orchestration – in addition to the actual guitar part from the original piece. The Hunger Games were a great series of movies, and the music […]

Paint It Black (iconic riff starts at 0:23) While playing around with the Paint It Black riff — my guitar (with a mind of it’s own) — decided to toss in The Night King by Ramin Djawadi, and a little bit of the James Bond […]

Joga With her unique blend of electronic, and experimental music — Iceland’s Björk, has consistently pushed the boundaries of music and art for decades. Her 1997 album “Homogenic” is an alternative music classic, that showcases her avant-garde vocal phrasing and fearless experimentation. Joga was the […]

The Choice Although I haven’t played The Last of Us game, I think the HBO series is amazing. The Choice has long been one of my favorite pieces of music by composer, Gustavo Santaolalla. He truly has a knack for the “major lift” which is […]

No Time for Caution This music is from one of the more intense scenes of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar — as they attempt a perilous docking maneuver that is incredibly intricate and fraught with danger. The Endurance and Endurance B (piloted by Cooper and Dr. Brand) […]

Joaillerie By 1998, Gustavo Santaolalla was already an iconic musician and producer in the Latin alternative rock scene. His album, Ronroco, launched his reinvention as a film composer. The song, Iguazu, was used to great effect in, The Insider. Following 1998’s Ronroco, Camino is a […]

Finding the Master “At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man (Robert Johnson) made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard-core, more than anything I had ever heard. After a few […]