RotM #1 - Voting

Antique_Guitars

Welcome to the voting thread for Riff of the Month #1

Voting closes on the 31st of August at 11.50 pm.

Feel free to vote and comment in this thread.

Same deal as the main Fretboard Challenge, vote for your top 3 entries!

1st choice gets 5 points

2nd choice gets 3 points

3rd choice gets 1 point

You can find all the entries here https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard

Only vote for entries marked 2014 08 at the front.

Have fun!

thomasross20

Bugger, I'm not back until 1st September, I haven't listened to the last two late entries and the WiFi in the hotel is crap! Will try and find a way..

PolarityMan

oh pants...didnt submit anything

Oh well better get listening for voting

Antique_Guitars

PolarityMan said:

oh pants...didnt submit anything

Oh well better get listening for voting

lol don't wory next competition is only 1 week away!

digitalscream

OK, then...since my modesty won't let me vote for myself...

1 - Antique_Guitars - Nice and funky. Sounds like it needs a bit less gain and some neck pickup lovin', but very nice

2 - TTony - Cheating slightly 'cos there are two riffs there, but sounds like it'd make an excellent start to a song if drums and bass came in at 0:20.

3 - littlegreenman - Moody. Me likey.

horse

Not easy to pick 3 is it? Particularly with the variety in recordings.

I'm going for:

1: TTony - for what sounds to me like a particularly vicious re-imagination of the Born to be Wild theme. Liked the guitar tone too

2. SteamAbacus - riff was inventive, very distinctive & different, but still memorable and hooky - I find it's easy to lose the latter when you have the former

3. LittleGreenMan - I liked how the effects / arrangement / trem dip etc help create a 'riff' that is bigger than just the notes played on the guitar

Also really liked the timing on Basher's and enjoyed listening to the rest too.

PolarityMan

Ok so top place for me goes to Steam Abacus

Close 2nd is digital scream

And although it's not really a riff my third place goes to LittleGreenMan...if it was chord progression or arpeggios of the week this one would have been the winner

equalsql

1st Horse -Alright Then

2nd digitalscream - God Help Me

3rd - Mazza G

Fazer

1 - antique guitars, for the widdlies
2 - littlegreenman, for the proggies
3 - ttony, for the introness that promises more

steamabacus

1st - @Antique_Guitars

2nd - @digitalscream

3rd - @TTony

daveww

As usual some great playing and recording.

1 Basher - 5 bar booger

2 Horse - All right then

3 MazzaG

Some ruled out as they're not really riffs

Basher

1st @Horse
2nd @Antique_Guitars
3rd @steamabacus

Grunfeld

5 points  LGM
3 points  Steam Abacus
1 points  Digitalscream

Cool beans.  Hugs to all who entered.  :-)

thomasross20

Guys I'm really sorry but I can't listen to the last two submissions... So for now I'll stick with my previous vote:

TTony
Robkay
Steamabacus

Looks like I need to work on my riffage, bugger lol

johnnyurq

Once again a great showing from all entrants and thusly tough to call, but her are the votes from the surreal nutters jury.

Nary a fag papers width separated my top 3.

1st and 5 points = @Horse

2nd and 3 points = @digitalscream

3rd and 1 point = @Antique_Guitars

Fretwired

Very hard to choose but I give:

1st and 5 points = digitalscream

2nd and 3 points = littlegreenman

3rd and 1 point = robkay

TTony

Just back from holsies and able to listen to these properly.  Brilliant.  We're good!

1st & 5 points - Horse

2nd & 3 points - Antique_Guitars

3rd & 1 points - Daveww

No points for @ThomasRoss20  but I'd like to hear that riff with some slightly better recording quality to it - I think it would sound much, much better.

ftumch

Wish I'd seen this and had a go, never mind.
1st - @digitalscream Clearly the winner to my mind, well rounded and sounds complete if that makes any sense. Great rifferyness.

2nd - @antique_guitars some really great choice of notes in there, good work.

3rd- @robkay nice playing, is it a riff or a chord progression? Don't care I like it

TTony

ftumch said:

Wish I'd seen this and had a go, never mind.

@ftumch - it's happening every month, so have a go next month.

ftumch

I did one a few months ago but haven't been around for a while, next month for sure.

thomasross20

Cheers, Tony. I used to do it work traktion but no time these days - mic'd up. Bummer, thought my riff was ace lol. Yours was very musical, liked it a lot.