Composition Challenge #10 - Greece

Antique_Guitars

Hail Legends of Zelda! time for round 10 of the Fretboard Challenge competition!

The competition:

Every 2 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/fretboard-challenge

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

FRETBOARD CHALLENGE #10

Fretboard Challenge #10 starts NOW! - Submission deadline -  Midnight 15th September 2015

Voting starts 17th September 2015 - Voting ends 11.30pm 30th September 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 30th September 2015

Guidelines

Greece

Maximum time limit 2 mins 15 secs

Deadline

Midnight (UK time) 15th September 2015.

Prizes

The prize for this competition will be a brand new

ROLAND RH5 STEREO HEADPHONES

supplied by @Antique_Guitars

If you have any questions please let me know.

steamabacus

Blimey!

Have you been reading my mind? 


I've only today been working on a piece on precisely this subject!  

Unfortunately  ..... it's about 4 min 15 sec.  And I don't think it'll work cut down.  

PolarityMan

I've got chills........

Fretwired

I'm thinking Rammstein .. Sonne .. German EU might .... here comes the sun ...

steamabacus

@Fretwired ; That's the only Rammstein track I've heard (I've seen that vid before) - it's great. I really should check out more. Could you recommend a CD to buy?

Fretwired

steamabacus said:

@Fretwired ; That's the only Rammstein track I've heard (I've seen that vid before) - it's great. I really should check out more. Could you recommend a CD to buy?

@steamabacus .. I'd get Mutter (which has Sonne) - great album. Rosenrot is excellent as well.

steamabacus

This is the 'cover pic' for the track I was working on today (it includes a Vera Lynn sample among many others).....

Fretwired

steamabacus said:

This is the 'cover pic' for the track I was working on today (it includes a Vera Lynn sample among many others).....

@steamabacus .. you have 5 points for that alone.

steamabacus

Fretwired said:

steamabacus said:

This is the 'cover pic' for the track I was working on today (it includes a Vera Lynn sample among many others).....

@steamabacus .. you have 5 points for that alone.

Yeah, but it'll be disqualified for being 2 minutes too long. I might just enter it as a kind of Olympic 'demonstration' event where no one gets any medals.

thecolourbox

Well you over run by 2 minutes, the Greeks are over running by months!

I might write and sing in German for this one

bingefeller

Play a variation on the riff to Money and solo over it.  

steamabacus

Well, I've finished Market Forces Sweetheart (it's up on my SC page) and it's 4'20" long.

I reckon, in the spirit of the remit and with a bit of creative accountancy, I could make it look more like 2'04" in order to meet the entry criteria. No one will ever find out, will they? What could go wrong?

Fretwired

@steamabacus ... genius .... :-) ... maybe end it with some classic Greek plate smashing ...

steamabacus

@Fretwired ; It already has a rather ejaculatory ending.

steamabacus

Entry submitted.

I decided I had to enter 'Market Forces Sweetheart' as it is - it just won't take any more cuts!  I fully expect to be disqualified on a technicality and end up exiled in a holiday villa with Yannis Varoufakis.

Fretwired

I've actually started under the working title Blues for Greece .... I have an intro with some wailing women .. oh yes. I feel a Greek (music) tragedy coming on.

hobbio

I'm really struggling with this, every idea I've had so far has been terribly clichéd.

thecolourbox

hobbio;732592" said:

I'm really struggling with this, every idea I've had so far has been terribly clichéd.

It's all Greek to me. I won one a couple of challenges back with quite a clichéd sound so you should not discount your ideas

Plus, anything would sound good with a mangled bouzouki sample in the back ground so maybe that might help

steamabacus

hobbio said:

I'm really struggling with this, every idea I've had so far has been terribly clichéd.

Over thinking it, maybe? One man's clichéd is another's iconic. I mean, the whole of the Blues idiom might be considered clichéd. It's what you do with it that counts.

Fretwired

I've actually started under the working title Blues for Greece ....

hobbio said:

I'm really struggling with this, every idea I've had so far has been terribly clichéd.

I thought of sampling plates breaking ...

horse

I was thinking of doing something mythology based, but came up with a random riff this week and have gone in a very different direction. Doesn't 'sound greek' as such though