Hi Everyone, I'm posting this on behalf of
@Antique_GuitarsThis is the 20th Fretboard Composition Challenge and is a Special End Of The Year Challenge 2017, with prizes (see later)
Thanks to all that entered the competition.
Please use this thread to cast your votes and comment on the entries.
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Voting System - voters can pick their top 3 favourite entries.
First choice gets 5 points - Second choice gets 3 points - Third choice gets 1 point
The entry with the most points wins.
Simply post in this thread your top three choices in order, 1st choice first etc etc.
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(Note for Entrants of the competition: Self Voting is NOT Allowed)
Voting will be open until 11.30pm on 11th December, and the winners will be announced shortly after.
(you can edit your vote up to the time voting closes)
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A reminder of the competition Guidelines:
"What I'd like to hear when I open a Christmas Card".Inspired by those wonderfully "tasteful" cards that play a tune when you open them, but it might equally be what's playing on the radio at the time, or whatever musical accompaniment you might choose to have when you open Christmas cards.
The composition can be as simple or a complex as you choose to make it, but there's a time limit of 90 seconds (otherwise the battery in the card will run out), and please submit in mp3 format.
Below is a link to the entries. Thanks to
@steamabacus for the playlist picture.
https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sets/end-of-year-special-2017 There are the following entrants which are in the order that the tracks were received
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@Jtaylor ;;;;
02
@kriszuki ;;;;
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@DulcetJones ;;;;
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@stratman3142 ;;;;
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@BRISTOL86 ;;;;
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@TTBZ ;;;;
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@steamabacus ;;;;
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@Bellycaster ;;;;
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@kin ;;;;
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@Fretwired ;;;;
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@Winny_Pooh ;;;;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here's a reminder of the prizes thanks to the generosity of some of our business members.
- Donated by @TheGuitarWeasel ;;;;;;;
£50 off any set of Oil City pickups (costing over £100).
Pretty much all of us know Ash and his products, and many of us already have the benefit of his pickups in our guitars.
But if you've somehow not stumbled across them yet, take a look at: http://www.oilcitypickups.co.uk/index.html
- Donated by the Major @ThorpyFX ;;;;;;;
A CHAIN HOME Tremelo pedal.
I might just have saved the best-til-last with this one!
For all the detail on this - and all his other pedals - check the website (and read some of the recommendations) at https://thorpyfx.com/
It's not a competition.
Comments
Bear with me while I get it sorted. I've not done it before.
Excellent work, all.
My vote as follows
1) @DulcetJones ;;
2) @stratman3142 ;;
3) @Fretwired
Edited, just realised i tagged the wrong guy!!
2nd-@steamabacus beautiful piece.
3rd-@TTBZ I’d love to hear that coming out of a Christmas card
5 points @Bellycaster
3 points @kriszuki
1 point @DulcetJones
@BRISTOL86 - 5 mince pies - clear winner .. quiet intro followed by full bore rock out over the turkey .. even grandma digs this ..
@DulcetJones - 3 mince pies - Django and the Quintette du Hot Club de Fretboard .. grandma got hot under the collar to this ..
@kriszuki - 1 mince pie - grandma was up dancing to this Greek influenced Crimbo piece ..
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
@steamabacus - 3 mince pies - That's how I want to feel at Christmas
@Jtaylor - 1 mince pie - Chrstmas 1984!
@TTBZ- 5 mince pies - I would like to give you all my pies, you summed up christmas for me.
@steamabacus
3 mince pie - At Christmas I would like to feel like your card sounds
@Jtaylor
1 mince pie - Christmas 1984!
5 Points - @kriszuki - Very creative, great playing.
3 Points - @BRISTOL86 - Nice subtle intro, great "push the needle" effect into rock out.
1 Point - @Winny_Pooh - Great cool jazz approach.
“Theory is something that is written down after the music has been made so we can explain it to others”– Levi Clay
So, the other tunes I'd like to hear when I open a Christmas Card are as follows:
5 Points @Winny_Pooh
3 Points @kin
1 Point @steamabacus
2. @BRISTOL86
3. @kriszuki
1 @Jtaylor
2 @Fretwired
3 @BRISTOL86
Get your votes in. It's pretty close at the top, with 4 clear front runners at the moment.