Composition Challenge #1 - Voting

Antique_Guitars · March 2014

Hi Everyone,

Please use this thread to cast your vote for your favourite entry to Fretboard Challenge #1.

Every registered forum member is allowed to vote ONCE, simply post in this thread your choice for winner.

Please do not post anything else other than your vote in the thread, please use the other discussion thread HERE to talk about the entries.

The winner will be announced just before midnight on the 31st March, this thread will be locked and voting closed at 11.30pm on that day.
(you can edit your vote up to the time the thread is locked)

A reminder of the competition Guidlines: To create a track at least 2 minutes in length in a Malian Desert Blues/Folk style. Think Ali Farka Toure, Tinariwen etc etc.

Entries: (in no particular order) (Entrants - please contact me if there are any mistakes with your uploads)

steamabacus - Desert Soul

daveww - Blue Malianishi

littlegreenman - Ship of the Desert

branshen - Fretboard Desert Blues

jazzlemming - Mali Medley

Fretwired · March 2014

I like daveww's the best, although they're all good.

guitargeek62 · March 2014

Jazzlemming's edges it for me.

xSkarloey · March 2014

Jazzlemming. Really liked the sound on that. A good listen.

steamabacus · March 2014

As I'd consider it very bad form to vote for my own (mine's the first one, under my real name) but I'd still like to exercise my democratic rights ...

... my vote would be Jezzlemming - nicely played.

(with an honourable mention for Branshen's tap-dancing camel percussion and excellent photo)

daveww · March 2014

I'd like to vote as well. Annoyingly

I'll have to go with Jezzlemming as well...... I like it at around 40 sec's where it does sort of capture the Malian desert blues sound. The others are good too but I think Jezzlemming gets a bit more of the right mood.

spark240 · March 2014

LittleGreenMan gets my vote...took me a minute to get into it, nice chord structures.

littlegreenman · March 2014

First up, congrats to everyone who managed to get something together to contribute to this, if you're not used to strange random genres and deadlines it can be a bit daunting! So regardless of who wins, well done chaps

Like them all, but only get one, so...

My vote is going to steamabacus, really nice percussive looped bits with some very nice single lines on top.

RocknRollDave · March 2014

My vote is for the piece by daveww.

Impressed that all the entries captured the mood of a pretty tricky genre.. I wouldn't have known where to even begin!

Lev · March 2014

Great job by everyone but my vote goes to littlegreenman

johnnyurq · March 2014

All entries have good things going for them and it was hard to pick a favourite.

But my vote is for littlegreenman's choon.

thumpingrug · March 2014

Very impressed by all these but my boat is floated the most by

littlegreenman

jazzlemming · March 2014

Thanks guys! I reckon daveww has the most Malian feel going on.

Antique_Guitars · March 2014

My vote goes to steamabacus - Desert Soul

We done to everyone all great tunes!

mellowsun · March 2014

steamabacus' riff sounded the most authentic to me, you can feel the grit of the desert sand! So steamabacus gets my vote on this one. All good entries though.

ThePrettyDamned · March 2014

Daveww

Though it's a close call!

Drew_TNBD · March 2014

steamabacus gets my vote!

xHymnal · March 2014

jazzlemming for me closely followed by steamabacus. JL sounded more authentic.

Grunfeld · March 2014

Firstly, hasn't home recording come a along way? I mean seriously, all of these are way better recorded than anything bands I was in managed to get done in small recording studios of old.

Listened to 'em all a couple of times while faffing about.

Steamabacus +1

Bellycaster · March 2014

That was tough to decide, but my choice is:

jazzlemming.

TTony · March 2014

Wow.

IMHO, none of these would be out of place on a "proper" commercial recording. Impressive work, all.

Quality of jazzlemmings playing is stunning, but daveww gets my vote for being more like most of the Malian style stuff that I've heard, as well as being a brilliant piece in its own right.