Composition Challenge #4 - Excerpt from Night of the Living Dead 1968

Antique_Guitars · July 2014

Greetings people of the Fretboard! We are back for round 4 of the Fretboard Challenge competitions.

The competition:

Every 2 months there will be a competition, it revolves around individuals or groups of forum members composing or covering songs based on a set of rules or guidelines laid out for that particular competition.

For full rules please read here: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/8029/fretboard-challenge-rules#latest

Submission Details

All recordings will need to be sent via email to fretboardchallenge AT gmail.com

All songs will then be upload to the Fretboard Challenge YouTube channel - http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0plkfV_eKHP2QBs76v3Ixw
as well as the SoundCloud page here - https://soundcloud.com/fretboard-challenge

Songs must be submitted in an MP3 format (no need for an image for this challenge)

FRETBOARD CHALLENGE #4

Fretboard Challenge #4 starts 1st August 2014 - Submission deadline - Midnight 15th Spetember 2014

Voting starts 17th Spetember 2014 - Voting ends 11.30pm 30th September 2014

A new voting system will be in place for this challenge, 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.

Winner will be announced just before midnight 30th September 2014

Guidelines

Compose a piece of music to accompany an excerpt from the Zombie Car Chase / Attack scene from George A Romero's - Night of the Living Dead (1968). (Don't worry it is in the public domain and is no longer under copyright)

A video of the scene with the orginal audio can be found here:

A video of the scene without the original audio can be found here:

You can use any instuments or samples you wish, there are no musical rules to this challenge. You can make the composition as full or sparse as you like and you are welcome to add in the minimal sound effects from the scene that have been removed if you wish.

Deadline

Midnight (UK time) 15th Spetember 2014.

Prizes

The prizes for this competition will be a brand new Pickmaster Plectrum Cutter supplied very kindly by @monquixote and a brand new Belcat DST-501 Distortion Pedal supplied by @Antique_Guitars

If you have any questions please let me know.

PolarityMan · August 2014

This one looks like fun. Tough but fun.

steamabacus · August 2014

Hmmm....interesting but challenging (I guess that's the idea).

I believe my version of Cubase is capable of handling video for doing this kind of thing but I've never been there with it - time to RTFM, I think.
B-)

Antique_Guitars · August 2014

You don't need to do anything with the video other than use it for a guide to your track. I can combine the tracks with the video after submission.

Fretwired · August 2014

To be recorded around midnight in a thunderstorm ... this will be a challenge [and a half] ... ;-)

Antique_Guitars · August 2014

I want someone to do some comical clown, fair ground stuff for it

Antique_Guitars · August 2014

Or like music to a Benny Hill sketch

PolarityMan · August 2014

Antique_Guitars said:

I want someone to do some comical clown, fair ground stuff for it

I had that exact thought, did you know that "clown music song" you always think about is called "Entry of the Gladiators".

daveww · August 2014

ooh Scary challenge - in more ways than one :-)

not_the_dj · August 2014

Hmmm, before I watched the clip I was thinking I'd go all atmospheric and creepy, but it's quite fast paced so I'm not sure that'd work.

Antique_Guitars · August 2014

not_the_dj;309387" said:
Hmmm, before I watched the clip I was thinking I'd go all atmospheric and creepy, but it's quite fast paced so I'm not sure that'd work.

Clown music! It's the way forward I tell you.

steamabacus · August 2014

My mate's old punk band from Wales used to dress up as (scary) clowns - they were called Not The Only Clown In The Village.

:O)

xSkarloey · August 2014

Fretwired said:

To be recorded around midnight in a thunderstorm ... this will be a challenge [and a half] ... ;-)

I have visions now of some poor soul coming a cropper after playing his Knopfler style Dobro in the middle of a field during a storm.

PolarityMan · August 2014

PolarityMan said:

Antique_Guitars said:

I want someone to do some comical clown, fair ground stuff for it

I had that exact thought, did you know that "clown music song" you always think about is called "Entry of the Gladiators".

you lazy fuckers this one:

I cant beleive no one else finds that funny

thecolourbox · August 2014

I am genuinely stoked for this one

thomasross20 · August 2014

I just e-mailed in my entry and image. It's acoustic only, no layering. I did it in 30 minutes (admittedly it did take 5-6 takes as I got red light fever!). Since I'm off on holiday I didn't go overboard in terms of production/nailing it but to be honest, even if I wasn't going on holiday, I probably still would have done it raw like this!

OK... it's e-mailed in , anyway.

Antique_Guitars · August 2014

thomasross20 said:

I just e-mailed in my entry and image. It's acoustic only, no layering. I did it in 30 minutes (admittedly it did take 5-6 takes as I got red light fever!). Since I'm off on holiday I didn't go overboard in terms of production/nailing it but to be honest, even if I wasn't going on holiday, I probably still would have done it raw like this!

OK... it's e-mailed in , anyway.

Wow never had an entry that quickly before, great playing!

thomasross20 · August 2014

Thanks! I look forward to hearing the other entries when I get back from holiday

steamabacus · August 2014

I've not got around to doing anything towards this yet but last night, while lying in the bath, I had an 'idea'!

All I have to do now is get around to manifesting this into actual musical sound.

thecolourbox · August 2014

I'm also still to get much more than an idea, though i am thinking i might debut something ive long held as a potentially original sounding thing...hopefully it works

so stoked for this challenge

Fretwired · August 2014

PolarityMan said:

PolarityMan said:

Antique_Guitars said:

I want someone to do some comical clown, fair ground stuff for it

I had that exact thought, did you know that "clown music song" you always think about is called "Entry of the Gladiators".

you lazy fuckers this one:

I cant beleive no one else finds that funny

If his surname ended in a t instead of a k it would be hilarious ...

thecolourbox · August 2014

Lol, had an amusing moment with this earlier, jamming over this video with my girlfriend, Minnie Riperton's classic, "lovvvvving youuuu, is easy cos you're beautiful" etc etc

thomasross20 · August 2014

Crikey... I think I made my entry way too early lol..

Lev · September 2014

I just submitted my entry, I quite enjoyed adding all the sound effects but searching for 'woman screaming' or 'woman panting' while in work can get you into all sorts of trouble.

daveww · September 2014

Must get on with mine. Got some ideas but a lot of work still required. Not sure I'm ever going to be happy with it. Quite a challenge.

Grunfeld · September 2014

Submitted mine over a week ago. @Antique_Guitars Did it come through okay Sheldon? I may have made a bit of a stuff up with the original submission but then sent again.

Antique_Guitars · September 2014

Yeah got it both times, did you get my pm reply to about it the other week?

Grunfeld · September 2014

Nope, just checked and no PM there. Glad it came through though.

Antique_Guitars · September 2014

Oh sorry about that I did reply a few days afterwards I'll check again

Chairs · September 2014

I’m retroactively amending all my comments for privacy’s sake. I know they’re cached in places, but this is still a best attempts effort. Mods - if any rules have been broken, please revert this post.

thecolourbox · September 2014

I've unfortunately missed my deadline to do this which has pissed me off a lot as its such an awesome challenge, wont have time to enter now but just as excited to hear others efforts

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