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Fretboard Challenge #6 starts NOW! - Submission deadline - Midnight 15th January 2015
Voting starts 17th January 2015 - Voting ends 11.30pm 31st January 2015
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 January 2015
Guidelines
In recognition of the centenary of World War I, this competition requires the entrants to compose a piece of music that reflects the words in celebrated war poet Sigfried Sassoon's "The Rank Stench of Those Bodies Haunts Me Still" (words below). This poem is a stark reminder of the horrors of war.Midnight (UK time) 15th January 2015.
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“The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still”
The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still
And I remember things I'd best forget.
For now we've marched to a green, trenchless land
Twelve miles from battering guns: along the grass
Brown lines of tents are hives for snoring men;
Wide, radiant water sways the floating sky
Below dark, shivering trees. And living-clean
Comes back with thoughts of home and hours of sleep.
To-night I smell the battle; miles away
Gun-thunder leaps and thuds along the ridge;
The spouting shells dig pits in fields of death,
And wounded men, are moaning in the woods.
If any friend be there whom I have loved,
God speed him safe to England with a gash.
It's sundown in the camp; some youngster laughs,
Lifting his mug and drinking health to all
Who come unscathed from that unpitying waste:
(Terror and ruin lurk behind his gaze.)
Another sits with tranquil, musing face,
Puffing bis pipe and dreaming of the girl
Whose last scrawled letter lies upon his knee.
The sunlight falls, low-ruddy from the west,
Upon their heads. Last week they might have died
And now they stretch their limbs in tired content.
One says 'The bloody Bosche has got the knock;
'And soon they'll crumple up and chuck their games.
'We've got the beggars on the run at last!'
Then I remembered someone that I'd seen
Dead in a squalid, miserable ditch,
Heedless of toiling feet that trod him down.
He was a Prussian with a decent face,
Young, fresh, and pleasant, so 1 dare to say.
No doubt he loathed the war and longed for peace,
And cursed our souls because we'd killed bis friends.
One night he yawned along a haIf-dug trench
Midnight; and then the British guns began
With heavy shrapnel bursting low, and 'hows'
Whistling to cut the wire with blinding din.
He didn't move; the digging still went on;
Men stooped and shovelled; someone gave a grunt,
And moaned and died with agony in the sludge.
Then the long hiss of shells lifted and stopped.
He stared into the gloom; a rocket curved,
And rifles rattled angrily on the left
Down by the wood, and there was noise of bombs.
Then the damned English loomed in scrambling haste
Out of the dark and struggled through the wire,
And there were shouts and eurses; someone screamed
And men began to blunder down the trench
Without their rifles. It was time to go:
He grabbed his coat; stood up, gulping some bread;
Then clutched his head and fell.
I found him there
In the gray morning when the place was held.
His face was in the mud; one arm flung out
As when he crumpled up; his sturdy legs
Were bent beneath bis trunk; heels to the skye
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Apologies to anyone that might feel that this is a bit depressing but I think its important for people to remember the horrors of war.
For some reason this springs to mind .. excellent track from Ginger Baker Trio ..
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
I've ruled out a grime rap cadenza, and probably not yodelling either. Probably.
Excited to try something out of my usual style, and to not rip off any other existing songs this time (as I have done every other time...)
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I'm in
Vintage v400mh mahogany topped dreadnought acoustic FS - £100
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Vintage v400mh mahogany topped dreadnought acoustic FS - £100
these are the times where i wish i knew how to use recording software and program drum beats etc...
sadly my entry will just be an iphone recording of a guitar track...everyone would have to imagine the drums and vocals on top of it!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Over the next few challenges I got some help and advice from other contributors with regards recording other instruments and scoring drum tracks, VST's, etc. Soon becomes less daunting so feel free to quiz away. It may say "competition" up at the top, but we all know it's really not, just a chance to do something new and spread your musical wings as it were.