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 #24
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 midnight 24th December 2018, and the top three will be announced shortly after.
REMINDER OF GUIDELINES
The theme of this challenge was to write a Christmas related tune or song.
PLAYLIST
Below is the playlist of entries:
Each entrant has also provided a picture, which becomes a bit bigger if you click on the individual track in the Soundcloud playlist.
https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sets/composition-challenge-24-2018-12
It's not a competition.
Comments
My entry is more of a cover/mash-up than an original composition. So maybe I shouldn't get any votes. I'll let you be the jury.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
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It's meant to be a tongue in cheek homage to Chas (rest his soul) & Dave if they were to do a grumpy Christmas song. Little bit Flanders and Swann seemed to sneak in as well but with some terrible puns and a bit of "oooh matron"
Recorded the banking using my keyboard as a midi controller which enabled me to quantise my normally "flexible" timing. Piano & bass are free Kontakt instruments, drums are Drum Lab (Kontakt again). The bells were just the standard midi sounds in cubase.
Vocals are pretty basic, recorded dry (had to be quick as my computer wouldn't play along Wednesday night so no time to correct the flat bits) then just a bit of compression added in cubase. I didn't have time to do the harmony manually so I debuted the Eventide harmony plugin I got cheap on Black Friday on the choruses.
soundcloud.com/thecolourbox-1
youtube.com/@TheColourboxMusic
soundcloud.com/thecolourbox-1
youtube.com/@TheColourboxMusic
5 points @thecolourbox : A proper Christmas song and a clear winner for me. I could imagine Eric Idle writing something like this.
Since we don't have much time and my mobile recording setup only takes 2 inputs everything is very much ghetto recorded and we often fuck up (like on this one I'm pretty sure the guitars were accidentally recorded through the drum overheads instead of the close mics).
We often heavily plagiarise other songs..in this case the snowman theme obviously. The "insult to Zeus" solo was supposed to be a Robert Plant homage and the bit at the end was our version of an Opeth-Deliverance style ending.
The chorus was a pretty shoddy attempt at some INXS influence.
I was thinking of making the theme of the next composition challenge as "Music For A Superhero Film". Or maybe "Music for a David Attenborough Documentary". Or maybe "Imagine You're Hans Zimmer".
Unless anyone has any better ideas.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
5 points to Polarity Man. Brilliant, nutty as a fruitcake
3 points to DeeplyDazzled. I like the idea of Bing and Bowie moshing to some Zappa
1 point to Fretwired. Reminds me in a good way of the music they play at the spa during massages, and the queen's voice on the can only improve the experience
On another day maybe Stratman3142 and FlyingPie would have got points though as all were brilliant in their own way. Very much enjoyed the anti Christmas theme. For me to sound the most Christmassy is quite remarkable
soundcloud.com/thecolourbox-1
youtube.com/@TheColourboxMusic