Line Dance At The Blues Bar

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I wrote this track as the final track in my Americana inspired collection of songs. This track uses handjive-style groove (made popular by Bo Diddley) along slide guitar, drums, B3 organ, and horn section to capture the vibe of a line-dance in a rock’n blues bar.

Line Dance At the Blues Bar – by Jim Pfeifer – ASCAP 2022

Tripping In Zambia

I worked on this track for a publisher who was looking songs that sounded like early 70’s Zamrock music playing from a well-worn vinyl LP. Zamrock is a genre that was popular in Zambia in the early 70s that blended influences of hard rock, psychedelic music, funk, and African rhythms. I spent some time working on this track to capture some of the elements into to a piece that sounded cohesive (fuzzed out guitar, wah guitar, congas, organ, etc.) I even had to add some treatment to make the recording sound less hi-fi to fit the era, including static from the old LP. This song has been licensed exclusively to Epitome Music.

Broken Radiator In Amarillo

This track is part of a collection of Americana tracks that I’m working on. This uses elements of Country, Bluegrass, and classic Spaghetti-Western sounds for a depict an desperate isolated mood like you would feel if your car overheated on the highway somewhere on a lonely stretch of road in the desert.

Broken Radiator In Amarillo – Jim Pfeifer 2022 ASCAP

Hopping The Train

This is a track I’ve put together for an album of Americana inspired songs. This track draws on influences of Rockabilly and classic Country from musicians such as Scotty Moore (Elvis’s original guitar player on his Sun recordings) and Johnny Cash. For this track I also included lapsteel to provide a bit more of the train vibe to the sound.

Hopping The Train – Jim Pfeifer ASCAP 2022

Neon Motel Boogie

I wrote this track as part of an album of Americana tracks that I’m working on, drawing influences of Rockabilly, Boogie Woogie, Western Swing, and Honky Tonk. For this track I even used a lapsteel guitar in C6 tuning to get that classic sound. I thought that it worked well against the Gretsch as a call & answer type of sequence with the main melody, like something you would have heard late 50s dance band.

Neon Motel Boogie – Jim Pfeifer ASCAP

Mandolin Serenade

I wrote this track at the request from a publisher looking for “chill” mandolin instrumental tracks. When I was writing this piece I was thinking of our new grandbaby LucyMae and tried to write something that sounded like a lullaby like the instrumental music we would play for our girls when they were babies, holding them while we rocked them to sleep. I was thrilled to hear back from the publisher who accepted my track for their exclusive library.

Calm Mandolin Serenade – by Jim Pfeifer, licensed to Epitome Music

Swaying Hawaiian Breeze

One of the libraries I’m working with was asking for some relaxing Ukulele music to add into their catalog. I came up with this piece using several Ukulele tracks and acoustic guitar. There are two versions below. The first version was the original track I came up with. The publisher asked me to make it more “chill” and so I dropped the tempo and re-recorded the track with just a single Ukulele part. This remix version is the one that the publisher ultimately liked the best and licensed for their catalog. This track has been licensed exclusively to Epitome Music.

Swaying Hawaiian Breeze – Version1 – by Jim Pfeifer
Swaying Hawaiian Breeze – Remix – by Jim Pfeifer

The Forest

This is an orchestral piece using a simple piano motif is the main theme building in layers from that. It builds from a solo piano and oboe to a full orchestra. The piece was originally inspired from dealing with the death of a family member. As I worked out the arrangement it took on a more cinematic direction.

The Forest by Jim Pfeifer

Hero’s Story – Movie Trailer Theme

I’ve always loved the music that is used behind movie trailers. It has a way of catapulting you into the story for 2 minutes to get you excited about seeing an upcoming movie. I wrote this piece hybrid orchestral piece to be used a movie trailer soundtrack, combining orchestral sounds, synth textures, organic sounds, and sound design for the transitions and hit points. The piece is written in three sections, which is typical in a movie trailer format. The first section is used as underscore to set the scene of the story and the main character. The second section introduces all of the obstacles and conflict within the story, and the last section provides a build up montage of key points in the movie, with a dramatic ending.

Hero’s Story – by Jim Pfeifer copyright 2020