Composition Challenge #13 - (3 Months Long)

Antique_Guitars

Hola Amigos! Time for round 13 of the Fretboard Challenge competition!

The competition:

Every 3 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 SoundCloud page here - https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard

Songs must be submitted in an MP3 format and you need to provide a picture for your track

FRETBOARD CHALLENGE #13

Fretboard Challenge #13 starts NOW! - Submission deadline -  Midnight 15th May 2016

Voting starts 17th May 2016 - Voting ends 11.30pm 31st May 2016

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 May 2016

Guidelines

You have been asked to make a song exactly 2 and a half minutes long for the opening credits of a biographical film called:

David Cameron - Pigs or Parliament? My ultimate sacrifice

Make it happen.


Deadline

Midnight (UK time) 15th May 2016.

Prizes

The prize for this competition will be a brand new Electro Harmonix - Lumberjack Log Overdrive pedal!

Fretwired

WTF?


I'm getting a Pink Floyd vibe .. :-)

steamabacus

Errrrr? 

I'm getting more Bonzo Dog. Oh dear.
:@)

fnpt

Don't know why but I was convinced this was going to be a Bowie tribute.

kin

The groundhogs jamming with George Clinton covering Eton rifles , that should do it....nothing too ambitious

thecolourbox

fnpt said:

Don't know why but I was convinced this was going to be a Bowie tribute.

No no that would be fiiiiiiive yearrrrrrrrs not three months

Fretwired

An interesting spin on pigs and Parliament .. greedy MPs .. African style ..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22522846

thecolourbox

I think I'm going to have quite a battle on for this one, as to whether I'll be really ironic and sarcastic about it, or just mildly ironic and sarcastic...

xSkarloey

Hmmm.

Although I detest Cameron with an unhealthy verve, I am oddly inspired by this.

Consider me IN.

You have been warned.

stratman3142

The guideline reminds me of the Black Mirror episode "The National Anthem".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Anthem_(Black_Mirror)

But probably best not to go there.

steamabacus

Anyone getting anywhere with this yet?

So far I've listened through my 'Best of the Bonzo Dog Band' CD and watched a Viv Stanshell documentary on YouTube - very enjoyable but hasn't really got me anywhere with this challenge. I'd kind of like to do a 'tip of the hat' towards trad jazz but don't really know where to start - it wasn't exactly a guitar-centric style.
:-??

Fretwired

I have the intro and the basic layout ... there's going to be plenty of sampling and guitar on the go ... I thought of asking this guy to do the vocal

WARNING NOT WORK SAFE:

steamabacus

Hahaha! Not seen that.

Can I add some Jonathan Pie?  (NOT SAFE FOR WORK EITHER)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w230hyek5Bc

TTony

Fretwired said:

I have the intro and the basic layout ... there's going to be plenty of sampling and guitar on the go ... I thought of asking this guy to do the vocal

WARNING NOT WORK SAFE:

And it's near enough 2mins 30 too.  

So, we're all going for 2nd place ...

thecolourbox

Everywhere there's lots of piggies, living piggy lives. You can see them out for diner, with their piggy wives

Clutching forks and knives, to eat theiirrrrrrr baaaacooooonnnn

No I've not got anywhere just yet either as my sense of humour has deserted me of late

stratman3142

Posted mine

steamabacus

One of benefits (er, hang on ... the benefit?) of being semi-crippled by my back at the moment is that I've had time to switch on the computer and start up a recording project for this one.

I've had a few ideas swirling around and have assembled a few samples but hadn't actually put down any concrete musical ideas - well, I now have a rudimentary drum beat and a couple of woodwind samples playing a simple musical idea. It's a start!

I have some great ideas but actually manifesting an actual listenable tune (without hiring a whole trad jazz band) is going to be a challenge. I'm well out of my comfort zone on this one! Let's see where it ends up.
X_X

thecolourbox

I'm starting to have vague ideas but it's out of my comfort zone to do something that is deliberately trying to be a bit amusing. 

I do keep singing George Harrison's masterpiece Piggies though when trying to think of anything musical and pig related

steamabacus

I've been considerably less crippled by my back today and managed to have a lengthy session on my tune. It's mututed a bit.

I spent about an hour trying to work out how to get a vst sample player loaded up with some brass and woodwind multi-samples that I got from Computer Music (or some magazine) years ago. Slow going and after about an hour I gave up as it wasn't sounding too realistic and I needed a LOT more time before I'd be able to get anything musical out of it. So I decided to stick to what I know - guitar.

Since I've only got three usable notes in the samples I've got, they've taken a more background role and the idea to do something a bit trad jazz has fallen by the wayside.

What I've got now is a basic backing track for the whole tune - drums, programmed bass and synth, a couple of horn samples and a scratch rhythm guitar track - and a pretty good idea of how the arrangement and lead melody is going to go. And it seems to have developed a serious dose of ska!

Next step will be to record some proper bass and guitar tracks.

Antique_Guitars

Less than two weeks left until submission time good people

steamabacus

Antique_Guitars said:

Less than two weeks left until submission time good people

:-O


I better get cracking with actually recording some guitar tracks (at least I know the arrangement that needs to be recorded at this point).



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