Derek Jacketta Portfolio - Projects

## Adrift

Adrift came along as a sort of spur-of-the-moment idea. I was in late highschool working on a progression for my music theory class. The 1-minute song came about from experimenting over a simple progression. The melody (or solo depending on how you look at it) felt as if it was writing itself at the time, I could hear it and just had to write down the notes so it was tangible.

## Bringing Up the Sun

Bringing Up the Sun was created for the Dixie State University guitar ensemble class, which I was heavily involved with at the time. I wanted to have an output for my composition motivations and ended up writing a few different tracks that were specifically for a guitar ensemble setting. The awful name comes from the fact that nearly all of the songs we were performing had terrible names such as "In a Garden Green". I wanted to match that taste of awful when it came to the name for my own guitar ensemble piece.

## More to come soon...