Composition Challenge #3 "Chord Fun"

Antique_Guitars

Greetings people of the Fretboard! We are back for round 3 of the Fretboard Challenge competitions.

The competition:

(Revised Specs Please Read) (After careful thought we have now decided to modify the challenge to be every 2 months instead of 3.)

Every 2 months there will be a competition, it revolves around individuals or groups of forum members composing or covering songs based on a set of rules or guidelines laid out for that particular competition.

For full rules please read here: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/8029/fretboard-challenge-rules#latest


Submission Details

All recordings will need to be sent via email to fretboardchallenge AT gmail.com

All songs will then be upload to the Fretboard Challenge YouTube channel. http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0plkfV_eKHP2QBs76v3Ixw
as well as the SoundCloud page

Songs must be submitted in an MP3 format with an accompanying Image (this will be then used to create a WMV to be uploaded to youtube) or you can submit your own WMV file and create a proper video if you wish.

FRETBOARD CHALLENGE #3

Fretboard Challenge #3 starts 1st June 2014 - Submission deadline Midnight 15th July 2014

Voting starts 17th July 2014 - Voting ends 11.30pm 31st July 2014

A new voting system will be in place for this challenge, voters can pick their top 3 favourite entries.

First choice gets 5 points - Second choice gets 3 points - Third choice gets 1 point

Entry with the most points wins.

Winner will be announced just before midnight 31st July 2014

Guidelines

Create an audio track a minium of 1 minute in length and a maximum of 2 minutes in length using only the chords Bmaj7, Gmaj and Esus4 and the notes within them. You can use the chords in any sequence you like.

1 note extensions to the chords are allowed as long as they remain in their original scales.

Bmaj7 has B - A# - D# - F#

Gmaj has B - D - G

Esus4 has A - B - E

You can therfore use the folling notes:

A - B - D - E - G

A# - D# - F#

You can produce a track in any style that you want.

Any number or combination of instruments can be used as long as they all play parts which stick within the notes of the chords mentioned above.

You can however use as many different Drum, Percussion and Ambient Samples/Noises as you wish.

You Do Not have to use guitars if you don't want to.

Deadline

Midnight (UK time) 15th July 2014.

Prize

The prize for this competition will be a brand new Belcat 503 Delay worth about £30

I shall provide the prize, however If you would like to make a donation to the prize fund please let me know.

Questions

Let me know.

Antique_Guitars

I shall update the youtube with new vids sometime later tonight (Sunday) I am sleepy now.

Fretwired

Like the new voting structure and the challenge. Thanks for organising this ....

daveww

Sheldon, are we limited to just using the notes from those chords or are we free to play over those chords using fitting modes, scales and key changes?

steamabacus

It says "using only the chords Bmaj7, Amin7 and D7 and the notes within them"
- by my reckoning, that's every note except C#.

Surely that's enough notes for you? It's a few too many for my tastes.

EricTheWeary

C# is my favourite! I'm out! (

not_the_dj

I really like C# ;-)

daveww

Me too Ha! I guess that's what it literally says...  but I meant are we limited to a particular chord arpeggios over the being played.

Antique_Guitars

Ha ha lol I didn't really check that through but yeah bugger it if your playing chords you can only use the three specified and the the motes within them to do little runs and fills. As @steamabacus says that gives you plenty of scope.

But yeah the only chords you can use are the ones specified.

Antique_Guitars

It would be good if people could use the chords to a fair percentage and not just noodle there way through a whole song.

Antique_Guitars

daveww;255455" said:

Sheldon, are we limited to just using the notes from those chords or are we free to play over those chords using fitting modes, scales and key changes?

Yep only those chords and the notes within them. If you need a c# for a scale of afraid you will have to leave it at home :-)

Antique_Guitars

We will have a team of music theory experts checking for breaches of the rules not really but we will get some to check the submissions to make dire everyone plays fair.

steamabacus

Just realised - no G# either
:-<

Kerpunk

I love A string routed m7 chords. Bring on the funk!

steamabacus

F is out! Rapidly running out of notes here!
:-O

(Actually, makes it a bit easier - they're still not three chords I'd naturally stick together, though)

Cacofonix

Or Bb.

It's limited to 8 notes out of the 13 possible.

A B C D D# E F# G

steamabacus

A# is in Bmaj7

daveww

What about chromatic runs, slides and grace notes  )

Antique_Guitars

Glad we got a few less notes now :P

Fazer

i think it would be better to make the challenge that you can only use C# and no other notes

Antique_Guitars

Fazer;255553" said:

i think it would be better to make the challenge that you can only use C# and no other notes

I like it

:P

Actually we could do a Terry Riley style in C challenge at some stage