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#latestSubmission DetailsAll 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!
DeadlineMidnight (UK time) 15th May 2017.
No prize this time other than this lovely picture to look at
:-)
Comments
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
* For a few of our British pounds!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
We even have an Emperor! @Emp_Fab
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.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
Great idea @Antique_Guitars should be a really interesting challenge.
I have a hankering to do a sort of djentstep meets Cardiacs affair.
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.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
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
You could just do the music and let the listener do the singing!
soundcloud.com/thecolourbox-1
youtube.com/@TheColourboxMusic
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.
MEETS
surf and storm