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 #22
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
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 June 2018, and the top three will be announced shortly after.
REMINDER OF GUIDELINES
For this challenge, entrants need to decide on their own theme and reflect that theme in the title of their composition. Having said that, I think it's best if entrants post on this thread to elaborate on their theme and also provide any other info they'd like to share.
Below is a playlist of the tracks
https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sets/comp_challenge_22-2018-05
It's not a competition.
Comments
That's obviously a very Satchy theme ... so then I decided to try and sound as much like Satch as possible. So that's the "sub theme"
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
“Theory is something that is written down after the music has been made so we can explain it to others”– Levi Clay
I had some difficulty in getting a decent recording of a seagull and ended up with quite a collection that also included barking dogs, lawn mowers, traffic and bawling kids. I eventually got lucky when I had my phone on record and a seagull landed on the beach next to another one that wasn't very happy. Then I had to chop up the WAV file in Reaper to attempt to create a rhythmic sound that was roughly in time.
I had no idea of how to approach it until @steamabacus mentioned the Adrian Belew seagull imitations on Youtube. This gave me the idea of using a slide and the germ of a concept that I could develop.
This is the theme music for my BBC prime time guitar-based family-friendly light entertainment show - The Flying Pie Show. I had a large enough budget to commission Green Day to record it but they were unable to do it before the deadline due to touring commitments so I had to do it myself instead.
The idea was to make a lighthearted, irritatingly catchy bubblegum/pop-punk number in their style, hence the prominent bass, lively drums and attempt at nasal vocals. And I made sure to get a seagull reference in just for stratman.
I recorded everything through using a Boss GT 100 including the vocals with a SM58 into a clean amp preamp. I really should get around to buying a condenser and proper interface at some point
Now to find some time to listen to them all
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
I love riffs and solos, particularly on the heavier side of things, where the guitar compliments the arrangement and vocals (using vocals will always have a good chance of scoring well with me). I also like classical music.
That has influenced my scoring:
5 points @DeeplyDazzled - love the idea, love the execution and love the increasingly drunk sounding vocals. I also like Pernod but won't hold that against you.
3 points @oaf in my day job as Russian Internet troll we listen to good strong heterosexual Russian classical music like Tchaikovsky while we tell English people that Jacob Rees-Mogg is sensible man. This is good strong Russian music like bear is strong symbol of powerful heterosexual Russian men like Mr Putin. Nazdorovya
1 point @stratman3142 brilliantly done and very humorous
The words hark back to my teenage years and my memories of the tastes of exotic sounding top shelf liquor.
Advocaat Pernod Cointreau Poitin
Advocaat
Once you've drunk Advocaat
Then you can say
That you've drunk
Advocaat once
Only once
never again
never again
Pernod
Once you've drunk Pernod
Then you can say
That you've drunk
Pernod once
never again
never again
Cointreau
PoitinOnce you've drunk Cointreau
Then you can say
That you've drunk Cointreau
Once
Once or twice
Twice or thrice
Thrice is nice
Cointreau
Once you've drunk Poitin
Then you can say
You've had a drink from hell
“Theory is something that is written down after the music has been made so we can explain it to others”– Levi Clay
While we're at it I'll publish mine for those who aren't used to Scottish accents:
My Own Theme (The Flying Pie Show)
Hey what's that in the sky?
Is it that Icarus guy?
Is it a seagull that's high?
No.
It's the flying_pie
He's a disaster with a Telecaster
He'll never master arpeggios 'cos he doesn't practice (balls)
Fixed bridge or tremolo
Grab your axe let's go go go
Sit back relax and unwind
It's the Flying Pie Show
Beware you might lose your mind
It's the Flying Pie Show
Fixed bridge or tremolo
Grab your axe lets go go go
Sit back relax and unwind
It's the Flying Pie Show
No better way to spend your time
Than the Flying Pie Show
Beware you might lose your mind
It's the Flying Pie Show
Sit back relax and unwind
It's the Flying Pie Show