Music Theory – Piano Chords #2
Last time we learned about Building Chords. The chords we learned were: Major, Minor, Augmented, & Diminished. Hopefully you’ve been practicing these and have them down well now because the chords we’re going to learn today are the same chords, there’s just an extra note tacked onto the end of them. The extension note to these chords are called a 7th. There are 5 common types of seventh chords: Major 7th, Minor 7th, Dominant 7th, Diminished 7th, & Half-Diminished 7th. Seventh chords make any chord sound jazzy and sophisticated. A seventh is exactly Continue reading
Instrumental: It’s Alright
A new and fresh Hip-Hop Instrumental track has just been released by JeFF ZaBorski, called: It’s Alright
The track features some dark grunge to build suspense and then it relieves it with some mellow chimes to signify that Continue reading
Music Theory – Piano Chords #1
Now that we understand progressions and how they move based off the chart, we can build chords instead of single notes at each position. A chord is a combination of notes that harmonize together. When notes are played in certain combinations, they create more complex wavelengths. The interesting part about this, is that certain chords have the same wavelength of specific emotional vocal patterns. And when people display emotions, people subconsciously pick up on them and feel them. That’s just human psychology. If I were to play a Dm6, it would invoke a sad emotion and if I were to play Cmaj, it would invoke a happy good feeling. That’s because those wavelengths mimic the tonal quality of Continue reading
Skyrim Modding
Fortress in Blackreach
**This is old. See the mod’s permanent official page.
by: Marc29
Welcome! If your here, then you’re looking for some lore-friendly virtual real-estate in Skyrim. Luckily for you, an underground castle is available in Blackreach with all the essentials. Now your thinking, thats a dangerous place for a home. Don’t worry, plenty of defenses have been put in to keep the creatures of Blackreach out of your home. The castle has an interesting layout & is beautifully constructed. Everything is lore-friendly. You may Download the Mod file from Skyrim Nexus.
ZaBorski feat. on Internet Radio
ZaBorski was featured on the Internet Radio Show, ‘The Honest Hour‘. He was asked to be a guest on the show after composing the intro music for their podcast. He talked a little bit about music theory and his musical background. The Honest Hour is a show with open conversation with a variety of topics. The best part is that the show is un-edited, so you know get the Honest Truth.
The Instrumental track that Zaborski made for their intro, is a laid back, chill beat, with jazzy elements. The song was originally sampled from RJD2, Ghost Rider. Even though it was sampled, Zaborski’s track sounds almost nothing like the original. But the original essence, or mood and feel, is captured and projected throughout the song.
If anyone needs a song or music intro for their podcast, show, business, or whatever; Send me an email and we’ll discuss it. I do all genres and styles of music.
Music Theory Lesson – Progressions #2
Last week we discussed labeling the keys in each repeating section and labeled them 1-7. We followed that crazy chart. But hopefully you figured it out and created some really interesting chord progressions. If not, please don’t hesitate to ask questions.
So you remember in the last lesson, you start on number one and from there it’s a wild card. You can go to any number you want. After that, depending on which number your on, you have to obey which numbers you are allowed to go to next. And the idea is to get Continue reading
Dark Mystics by JeFF ZaBorski
JeFF ZaBorski is really excited to release his first soundtrack. He started working on these sinister compositions a year prior to this album’s release and started playing piano 6 months prior to that.
Each track was designed to envoke a specific emotion or feeling. Each tonal note strategically placed. Chords converted into color, applied color theory rules, then converted back to have music theory rules applied to them. These tracks are very musically correct and tell an amazing story through the wavelength of the chord and the character of the instruments voice.
This music is currently all free. ZaBorski just wants people to listen and enjoy! And hopefully they will envision and feel what he felt when he composed them.
Music Theory Lesson – Progressions #1
Today I’m going to teach you the very basic starting point of Music Chord Theory & Chord Progressions. Don’t worry, it’s easy as cake. I use a piano to play music and will be teaching my knowledge through it. This Music Theory can be applied to any instrument, but it’s the easiest to visualize on the piano. All you need is a piano, two hands, and a desire to learn.
So as you’ve noticed, the piano has many white & black keys with repeating sections. And if you count them, there are 12 keys in-between each repeat. Thats 7 white keys & 5 black keys. I call this region The Main Playing Field. What determines what note you start on, is what key your playing in. In the picture here, The Main Playing Field starts on C, because we are in the key of Continue reading