High Waves

I wonder how it sounds when I try to play Portrait of Tracy?

Portrait Of Tracy (Jaco Pastorius Cover)

The figure is simple. 
One measure of Cmaj, One measure of Dmaj, Two measures of BbMaj.
Then transpose the figure up a perfect 4th - Fmaj, Gmaj, EbMaj.
Keep transposing the figure until you've made it all the way around to C again. 
Every chord is a key change! Try soloing over it!

Soloing Exercise

Completely by chance, I happened upon the most awesome rhythmic figure ever, and now I can't stop playing with it. 

Title is irrelevant, shameless clickbait.

8-Bit Trump Tower Taco Bowl

Completely by chance, I happened upon the most awesome rhythmic figure ever, and now I can't stop playing with it.

Title is irrelevant, shameless clickbait.

Trump Tower Taco Bowl

The developer of http://aberoth.com/ is looking for a composer. I felt I had a sort of ambient fanfare to offer as an overworld theme. It's not the most original fantasy theme by any metric, but walk outside those castle walls and tell me if those strings don't make you feel the gentle Spring air blow across your face, and tell me if the brass doesn't make your heart yearn for adventure.

Update - The music is now in the game!

Aberoth; Overworld Theme

Music for Aberoth's castle/Tavelor's bar area. It's now in the game!

Aberoth; Tavelor's Inn

Music I wrote for Aberoth's Orc Caves that is in the game!

Aberoth; Orc Caves

Music I wrote for the Desert in Aberoth, and is now in the game!

Aberoth; Brooding Sun (Desert Theme)

Anyone else have crazy nostalgic memories of playing at your first tabletop with old friends? Yeah. This song is that emotion.

The Old Tabletop

I'm a music composer for http://aberoth.com/ !!!

I perform some; I can competently play Bass, Guitar, Drums, Trombone, and Piano, possibly vocals if I ever write lyrics... lyrics are dumb.

I focus more on composition of pieces to be performed by other, more dexterous people with more effective recording equipment. Most of my works only exist now in the form of programs synthesized by computer. I hope to happen upon like-minded people who will offer to give flesh to my artificial concepts. 

As for genre... I don't know, I don't know how to categorize music; at least, the traditional idea of categorizing music is wrong. What separates one genre from another is mostly timbre. Remove a guitar voice and add a saxophone, and suddenly a rock piece mysteriously becomes Jazz. Or trade out the saxophone for a slide guitar to get Country. There's a pretty awesome YouTube channel that demonstrates this concept by converting all sorts of different Pop, Prog Rock, and epic movie soundtracks into Bluegrass, simply by playing the melody on a banjo or fiddle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDwnMHFhjLw 

Timbre is a flimsy way to define music, and I don't really work that way. For me, what mostly defines a piece of music is its chord progression and melody. I write a melody and harmonization to be voiced by any instrument, I don't necessarily aim for it to be Rock or Orchestral. For instance, listen to "Outside" and you'll see the traditional method of categorization fail. I mean, what the hell is that, it's got strings, piano, electric bass, acoustic guitar, synthesizers, orchestral percussion, what do you call that? I guess the other possibility of this paragraph could be to say "I don't really know what I'm doing."

If I had my way, I'd categorize music simply by "Secular" or "Sacred." Secular music is meant for background, fun and for dancing. Sacred music is meant for focused listening and reception to the expression of ideas. 

For the sake of understanding though, I tend to float around Rock, Progressive, Jazz, and Orchestral. I like to play with software for video game music, too!

Benjamin Burnham

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