INTROTime for round #23 of the Fretboard Composition Challenge, courtesy of me and
@TTony
Every few months there'll be a composition challenge. It revolves around individuals or groups of forum members composing and recording music based on a set of rules or guidelines laid out for that particular challenge.
No prizes for this challenge. It's just for fun, a spur to creating, sharing, discussing music/recording and learning. Plus a way of testing the water with your creations and getting some feedback.
GUIDELINES -THEME
The theme for this challenge is "Sounds Of The Summer".
Interpret the theme as you wish. For example (as a couple of pointers), it could be summery sounding piece of music or you could include sounds related to the summer. The main thing is to get as many entrants as possible, so don't get too hung up on the theme if it's giving you problems. You might get a few more votes if your piece has some sort of link to the theme, but I think most people vote for the music anyway.
Picture: In addition to the music, try to create your own picture that relates to your selected theme/title. This isn't mandatory but, as a small incentive, those that provide a picture will be awarded a free point to add to their voting score. Note the picture can be anything from a hand drawn sketch, photo, photo edit or something generated in a graphics package.
DATES AND VOTING
Fretboard Challenge #23 starts NOW! - Submission deadline - Midnight 31st August 2018
Voting will start soon after the submission deadline with each voter selecting their 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice.
First choice gets 5 points - Second choice gets 3 points - Third choice gets 1 point
The entry with the most points wins.
Voting will start just after the deadline and run for about two weeks.
The order and scores of the three people with the most votes will be announced soon after the voting ends.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
All recordings and pictures need to be sent via email to Compositions@theFB.co.uk
Songs to be submitted in mp3 format.
Pictures to be in jpg or png format.
It's not a competition.
Comments
After trying for ages to get a clean Seagull recording for the previous challenge, the bloody things are going crazy at the moment and being really noisy. Yesterday they were going mad swooping and mobbing what appeared to be a Kestrel.
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Then we didn't get a typical UK summer.
I've since worked out my second idea and just need the time to record it
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I wasn't aware that you could still get Kestrel. It's all artisan craft beer around my way...
1st one in.
I need to get going on my entry. Submission deadline is midnight 31st August 2018.
In theory mine's complete. But I'll come back to it with fresh ears to decide if any further tweaks are needed.
On the plus side it's only vocals and piano, maybe bit of organ and xylophone but let's not get too carried away..
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youtube.com/@TheColourboxMusic
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“Theory is something that is written down after the music has been made so we can explain it to others”– Levi Clay
That makes two entries and mine's nearly done.
Also, am I allowed to use the F word? I'm trying to find an alternative but using "bloody" or "flipping" sounds lame Haha
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I'm sure it's for perfectly artistic reasons.
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I apologise now for the musical theatre sounding dirge...
soundcloud.com/thecolourbox-1
youtube.com/@TheColourboxMusic
soundcloud.com/thecolourbox-1
youtube.com/@TheColourboxMusic