Composition Challenge #17 - This is Sealand!

Antique_Guitars

Hello Beautiful People of Earth!!!! Time for round 17 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 #17

Fretboard Challenge #17 starts NOW! - Submission deadline -  Midnight 15th May 2017

Voting starts 17th May 2017 - Voting ends 11.30pm 31st May 2017

A new voting system will be in place for this challenge, voters can pick their top 3 favorite 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 31stMay 2017

Guidelines 

This is Sealand!

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The Principality of Sealand needs your help! They need a  better national anthem lets help them by writing a few ideas!

Unofficial lyrics here
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Oh Sealand, Sealand, home of the damp
Two concrete pillars topped by a lamp
That shines o'er the waves in storm and in calm
Protecting our glorious concrete from harm

We stand before God, independent and free
Our Nation alone sitting in the North Sea
Our people so proud, our armies so mighty
Seven point fives miles away from old Blighty

(chorus)
Sealand oh SEA-land, oh land on the sea
In Sealand we see land that sees us at sea
The seals and the sea and the Sealanders see
That Sealand, my Sealand will always be free.
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No Limits of any kind!

Deadline

Midnight (UK time) 15th May 2017.

No prize this time other than this lovely picture to look at :-)

Fretwired

This task is seriously left-field ... great challenge. We don't need prizes .. :-)

Grunfeld

My son is a Lord of Sealand.  Bestowed by the Prince of Sealand himself.*



* For a few of our British pounds!

Fretwired

Er @Antique_Guitars ; .. there's a problem with this challenge .. Sealand already has a national anthem ... :-)

Antique_Guitars

Ha ha well we just need to make a better one then B-) 

Grunfeld

Antique_Guitars said:

Ha ha well we just need to make a better one then B-) 

Or we need our own sovereign nation state with it's own anthem!
We even have an Emperor!  @Emp_Fab
 

stratman3142

It crossed my mind to do a Hendrix style (Star Spangled Banner) take on the existing anthem.

Emp_Fab

Oh shush...  I'm far too calm and shy to be a head of state <blushes>.

I'll write some lyrics though...

Oh Sealand, Sealand, home of the damp
Two concrete pillars topped by a lamp
That shines o'er the waves in storm and in calm
Protecting our glorious concrete from harm

We stand before God, independent and free
Our Nation alone sitting in the North Sea
Our people so proud, our armies so mighty
Seven point fives miles away from old Blighty

(chorus)
Sealand oh SEA-land, oh land on the sea
In Sealand we see land that sees us at sea
The seals and the sea and the Sealanders see
That Sealand, my Sealand will always be free.

kin

Excellent @Emp_Fab , can't wait to hear it.
Great idea @Antique_Guitars should be a really interesting challenge.

Sporky

@Emp_Fab - dude, you have outdone yourself there. I am genuinely impressed.

I have a hankering to do a sort of djentstep meets Cardiacs affair.

steamabacus

My immediate thought is to do something with subsonic pitches audible only to whales.

Emp_Fab

I wrote that in the bath just now in two minutes.  Rather apt place.

Thanks for the compliments :-)  I've always found lyrics really easy to write - it's music that screws me.  Whatever I write, I always always fall into a clichéd pattern.  I could have been the next Bernie Winters - I just never found my Elton John. 

Grunfeld

PS, There's a great little book about all this "Principality of Sealand" which, I dunno, something really appeals to me about it.  I used to listen to Radio Caroline in my teens and other than John Peel it was the only place you'd get decent music.  It seems incomprehensible now.  But listening to stoned DJs playing Iron Butterfly and The White Noise from the middle of the North Sea was, and still is, somehow cool.

Fretwired

Emp_Fab said:

Oh shush...  I'm far too calm and shy to be a head of state <blushes>.

I'll write some lyrics though...

Oh Sealand, Sealand, home of the damp
Two concrete pillars topped by a lamp
That shines o'er the waves in storm and in calm
Protecting our glorious concrete from harm

We stand before God, independent and free
Our Nation alone sitting in the North Sea
Our people so proud, our armies so mighty
Seven point fives miles away from old Blighty

(chorus)
Sealand oh SEA-land, oh land on the sea
In Sealand we see land that sees us at sea
The seals and the sea and the Sealanders see
That Sealand, my Sealand will always be free.

@Emp_Fab ; .. genius .. :-)

Antique_Guitars

I've edited it a bit and added @Emp_Fab amazing lyrics to the spec for inspiration 

stratman3142

Emp_Fab said:

I wrote that in the bath just now in two minutes.  Rather apt place.

Thanks for the compliments :-)  I've always found lyrics really easy to write - it's music that screws me.  Whatever I write, I always always fall into a clichéd pattern.  I could have been the next Bernie Winters - I just never found my Elton John. 

Amazing that you can come up with those lyrics so quickly.

It gives me a dilemma because I can't sing. I think maybe I'll need a bit of help from http://www.plogue.com/products/alterego/

**There's a clip at the link below**
https://app.box.com/s/ri6wvnrre20r02kleact4jhwidgm6wys

btw. this isn't my entry

Grunfeld

stratman3142 said:

It gives me a dilemma because I can't sing....

My take on it is that a composition doesn't necessarily need to have singing on it. 
You could just do the music and let the listener do the singing!

RocknRollDave

Grunfeld said:

stratman3142 said:

It gives me a dilemma because I can't sing....

My take on it is that a composition doesn't necessarily need to have singing on it. 
You could just do the music and let the listener do the singing!

Justin Bieber take note

thecolourbox

Are the people of Sealand called Seamen?

stratman3142

Still struggling with this one.

I'm using Kontakt and I've got a bad feeling that I might get hit with issues relating to the W10 creators update sometime soon.
https://www.native-instruments.com/forum/threads/kontakt-w10-creators-edition.315469/#post-1568287

That last big W10 update knobbled Addictive Drums, until I eventually found a fix.

Grunfeld

I'm enjoying it so far....



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