This is the combined Voting and Discussion thread.
Thanks to all that entered the competition.
Please use this thread to cast your votes for your favourite entries to Fretboard Challenge #21
VOTING AND DATES
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 for winner in order, 1st choice first etc etc.
(Note for Entrants of the competition: Self Voting is NOT Allowed)
Voting ends 11.30pm 14th March 2018, and the top three will be announced shortly after.
REMINDER OF GUIDELINES
The theme for this music composition challenge was as follows:
It's not a competition.
Comments
Good to see so many getting involved. Now I've got to find time to listen to them properly.
@DeeplyDazzled
@frank1985
@Bezzer
@stratman3142
@fnpt
@flying_pie
@mistercharlie
@steamabacus
@spark240
@Fretwired
Yes great to see so many involved. I'm too new to the forum to know whether it's a record.
Seriously good stuff this month and I'm only half way through! Going to listen to the rest then again properly at home on decent speakers before picking my faves though.
Yes please feel free post comment on how you interpreted the theme, how you recorded the track, how your picture relates to the theme etc. It all makes things more interesting.
btw. clicking on the icon to the left of each track should bring up a bigger view of the picture. Everyone provided a picture so everyone will get one point added for that.
Is that a mobile thing? I get sent to SoundCloud if i click on the image. You can expand the image if you click on it within SoundCloud.
My idea was to take an old song and radically cover it in a more modern style. I chose "Oh What A Beautiful Mornin" from the musical Oklahoma which was first performed in 1943. I think that qualifies as old.
As it's one of the happiest songs ever written I decide to turn it into a German industrial metal number to make it sinister. The concept became :
What if Rogers & Hammerstein were actually the Neue Deutsche Härte band HammRstein. The album cover artwork should be self explanatory.
3/4 and major key was changed into 4/4 and minor. There's a bit of the original chorus melody transposed into minor as a lead part but the rest is newly written riffs rather than a simple major to minor transposition.
Oh, and I growled it in German and rewrote some of the lyrics for the amusement of any German speakers who are familiar with the original source material! (note to others - don't sing in German. It's really hard to do and virtually impossible to layer vocals due to the harsh vowel sounds)
There you go. So now the W in WTF can be Why instead of What!
certainly shows off some improved recording skills anyhow !
https://www.studiowear.co.uk/ -
https://twitter.com/spark240
Facebook - m.me/studiowear.co.uk
Reddit r/newmusicreview
5 points @Bezzer - I've got to go with a fellow metal cover and that scream at 2.35 was top notch commitment to one's art
3 points @frank1985 - Awesome dreamscape
1 point @spark240 - I couldn't stop smiling while listening to it. This could go down very well especially given the weather outside (I'm now wondering if you're actually Ming The Merciless playing with the Earth's weather to rig the result)
5 Points - @stratman3142 ;;;
Really nice uplifting track - reminds me of something from Satriani’s ‘The Extremist’ during some parts. Have listened 3 times already.
3 Points - @Spark240
Another cheerful track, simple but effective.
1 Point - @Flying_pie
Loving the industrial influence in this one...KMFDM fan?
@Bezzer .. 5 points
@stratman3142 .. 3 points
@Flying_pie .. 1 point
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
After this is became more difficult, amazing work by everyone and the production levels were fantastic throughout. Ended up as I usually do by focusing on sounds that really grabbed me.
3 points : @stratman3142 - interesting crossover, like the steel drums. Again really nice fuzz synth and smooth lead tone. Breakdown at 2:05 is great.
1 point : @Fretwired - Now I was not expecting this from you, and I don't know why but I wasn't. Loved it though, there's something about the sounds used that just feels right to me ... even the more mechanical sounds at the fade out which aren't normally my thing at all. Felt like an outtake from NIN Ghost sessions ... liked it a lot.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
3 points - FNPT - sounds great and lovely ooohs
1 point - Stratman - production arrangement playing
I enjoyed them all.
Roll on the next challenge
That will start right after the voting is finished and the winners are declared for this one, which will be shortly after the 14th March - assuming I can get a decent internet connection after I move house next week.