Classical Guitar Music

Robert Persig wrote a book called “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” that was very important in my artistic development. My song Chasing The Ultimate, Lateral to me means striving for perfection thru inspiration and simulation and never, ever giving up on the chase. This is a philosiphy that I took directly from Zen and the Art [...]

Right hand guitar tapping technique was popularized in the late 70's by Edward Van Halen when he literally turned the guitar playing world upside down with his miraculous fretwork. It may be considered an extended technique, in that guitar tapping technique  is executed by using the fingers of one hand to 'tap' the strings against [...]

Autumn
Acoustic 12 string guitar with violin lead and cello accompaniment. Recorded August 2004. Originally recorded for Catharsis Infinity (Watson&Company - 2003). Darren Uses a 1973 Martin D Series in standard tuning.
This is my favorite pure song on this record. “Autumn” was originally intended as a vocal song. Both hope and melancholy permeate this epic. A [...]

This Stratocaster with acoustic guitar accompaniment is a rich and soulful as acoustic music gets. Written originally for Watson and Company, the violin guitar duo that brought Darren to this style of music, the song broadens the frontier of acoustic music by the unlikely combination of the two families of guitar, electric and acoustic. Darren [...]