just for fun: musical spoofs and goofs

Sometimes music can get too stuffy. Occasionally I like to break free from that stuffiness & create humor through music. 

​Below you'll find a collection of things I've created, either completely anew (plucked from my own brain-grapes), or based on existing material. There is no shortage of funny stuff out there, so I'll be sure to be periodically adding more to this page.

So click some things below, and check back in occasionally for new stuff!
BLOG POST: "The Comedy and Music of Hans Groiner"
  • May 2015
BLOG GRAPHIC​: "Music on TV" (Kimmy Schmidt vs. Gilmore Girls)
  • August 2015
TRANSCRIPTION: "Duet for French Horn and Chair" (PNG)
TRANSCRIPTION & ARRANGEMENT: A "Little Thing" in "5/4" (PDF)
  • Based on a mind-melting (and totally hilarious) Expert Village video
  • I spent way too much time on this. It was actually incredibly difficult to transcribe, because what the guy plays makes such little musical/mathematical sense.
  • August 2016
BLOG POST: "Musical Driving"
  • December 2016
VIDEO: "How to Play Piano During the Winter"
  • A re-upload from years past. Share it with your chilly-piano-playing friends.
  • December 2016
VIDEO: Key & Peele's sketch comedy song "My Best Friend" w/ piano
  • By the magic of technology, I was able to accompany Jordan Peele's hilarious song about friendship.
  • August 2017 (Reddit link here)
  • Media mentions: The A.V. Club | The Awesomer
VIDEO: Arrested Development's "Fire Sale" scene w/ piano
  • Process: Melodyne software helped me ascertain pitches and approximate rhythms. I then took that and cleaned it up quite a bit, added harmonies that made sense to the drama of the scene, and practiced the HECK out of it. (Full disclosure: I split the video into 3 chunks, so it's 3 takes of piano cut together for the final product.)
  • October 2017 (Reddit link here)
  • Sheet music PDF of my arrangement (lead sheet) **Note: It's VERY messy in appearance. The purpose of the lead sheet was to give me enough information to create the video; visual-tidiness of the sheet was not a high priority on this one.
VIDEO: "Oh Hi Mark" w/ piano from 'The Room'
  • ​8-second video
  • Extended (21-second) remix version
  • If you aren't familiar with 'The Room,' you are likely pretty confused. I can't effectively explain it in the space here... (Google it!)
VIDEO: "Fred Armisen plays Blackbird" - Transcribed​
VIDEO: Arrested Development's "Here comes John Wayne" scene w/ piano
VIDEO: Maria Bamford's "Anxiety Song"  w/ piano