MMOM 004 - Funk

Making My Own Music (Inside Video Game Music) by Tom Snively

Episode notes

Originally released on April 22, 2012

My composition “Funk (for solo piano)” was composed at Penn State for a composition class. We had to write a piece using a lot of perfect fourths. I created this piece for solo piano for that exercise.

Below is a link to a PDF of the sheet music. You can click on it to view, or right click to download it to your computer:

Funk (for solo piano) sheet music

“Funk” refers to the rhythms. In my jazz bands, we played a number of funk songs that had a lot of 16th note beats, and a lot of syncopation.