New Project: Old Dock

Haunted-Docks-Modeled-By-Marc-Zirin

This next project is going to be an old dock with rickety shacks and waves crashing in against the shore. I have the base model finished with a good idea how the scene is going to look. The only things missing from the scene would be a ground, water, sky, and a few ornaments on the buildings. As I convert the models from blocky low-poly to rickety jagged edges, the scene will start to show it’s true age. Continue reading

Diminished Chord Theory Bands

Diminished Chord Bands

In previous lessons we learned how to play a diminished chord. What defines a diminished, is a minor chord with a flatted fifth. Diminished chords are probably my favorite kind to play because they all carry a special link. The way they are set up creates these diminished bands. When you add a 7th to a diminished chord, you get four equidistant notes. If you play any three of the four notes, you will get a diminished chord of the same caliber. There are only four combinations, so there’s four chords to a band. There are twelve musical tones, so with a little math, we get three bands of four chords in total. Continue reading