This is the combined Voting and Discussion thread.
Please use this thread to cast your votes for your favourite entries to Fretboard Composition Challenge
REMINDER OF THE THEME/GUIDELINES
The alliterative theme for this one is: Murder Mystery Movie Music.
Interpret the theme as you wish. To encourage entries the theme isn't mandatory, but you might get more votes if you do something that's in some way linked to the theme. That depends on how individuals choose to vote.
Compose a tune, or recycle something you've composed previously.
Picture: In addition to the music, try to create your own picture that relates to your selected theme/title. This isn't mandatory.
VOTING AND DATES
Voting System - voters can pick their 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 midnight 14th November 2022, and the results will be announced shortly after.
No prizes, it's just for fun.
THE ENTRIES
It's not a competition.
Comments
Blues noodling
I'm going to try and pull my finger out and enter next time, the entries on this one are great!
Or a song where your voice mimics every instrument - basically acapella, with beatboxing in place of the drums . Instead of beatboxing you can record the drum parts separately and arrange patterns in your sequencer (snare - "dsh", kick - "boom", hats - "tsh", shaker - "tss" etc. etc.)
Or a combination of the two above...
Another idea for a theme could be to write a National anthem for a fictional place. Another could be to write your entry for Eurovision 2023. Another could be to write a new song for a defunct act - Beatles/Skynyrd/etc
The national anthem idea has already been done. Below is a blast from the past:
https://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/104079/voting-composition-challenge-17-this-is-sealand#latest
3pts - @Springywheel
1pt - @stratman3142
Entries thin on the ground this time, enjoyed them all though.
Theme for next time - Blaxploitation. I'm thinking Shaft, Superfly, something like that?
@Habanero well, briefly, I'm not a fan of the update plan... I owned loads of their plugins and it got to the point where I was being charged extortionate amounts just to make the plugins functional. The installation system is a mess as well.
3 points @Stratman3142 - MMMMurder. Ostinato strings well used to underscore the piece and fit well with the genre, possibly a bit "machine gun" though (hearing the same samples repeating a lot, but that can happen with even the best libraries). Guitar tone sounded very good, could have been a bit higher in the mix? Slight Bond vibe. I liked the return of the piano idea at the end, would have enjoyed hearing more of it in the middle of the piece perhaps.
Murder mystery - yeah, tenuous! Notice the horns in the final section - they were intended to have a nod to the Bond theme/Goldfinger theme, but, hmmm.... a bit wide of the mark, ha!
This time I was lazy and just paid a very small amount for an image from CGTrader. Mostly I use Blender. Occasionally I use Inkscape and on rare occasions, if I'm editing a photo, I might use Gimp. I think I'll ask the same question over on poopot's Cover challenge thread.
This one's seems to be popular. I think I'll call it music for a remake of a Shaft or Superfly style film. I'm not sure of the political correctness of the term and I don't want to get cancelled
But I like the idea of 70s New York/San Francisco cop/gang/drug dealer vibe. All funk and sleaze, wah and flute. Or summat!