Composition Challenge #36

stratman3142 · June 2022

Time for round #36 of the Fretboard Composition Challenge.

Every few months there'll be a composition challenge. It revolves around individuals or groups of forum members composing and recording music.

No prizes for this challenge. It's just for fun, a spur to creating, sharing, discussing music/recording and learning. Plus a way of testing the water with your creations and getting some feedback.

GUIDELINES -THEME

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.

DATES AND VOTING

The submission deadline is midnight 31st October (Edit 31.08.22 : extended from 30th Sept to 31st October)

Voting will start soon after the submission deadline and run for about two weeks, with each voter selecting their 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice.

First choice gets 5 points - Second choice gets 3 points - Third choice gets 1 point

The entry with the most points wins.

The order and scores of the three people with the most votes will be announced soon after the voting ends.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

All recordings and pictures need to be sent via email to Compositions@theFB.co.uk

Songs to be submitted in mp3 format.

Pictures to be in jpg or png format.

ENTRY PLAYLIST

Entries will be posted in a playlist below as they arrive.

https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sets/composition-challenge-36?si=9c3ba394a82b4ac58a76b5813772389d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

stratman3142 · August 2022

Just a reminder that there's still a composition challenge. Hopefully there's enough interest to keep this going.

dindude · August 2022

I will try something, really wanting to get involved but the last two being soundtrack stuff hasn’t inspired, would be good to change it up for a more musical genre theme next time maybe.

stratman3142 · August 2022

dindude said:

I will try something, really wanting to get involved but the last two being soundtrack stuff hasn’t inspired, would be good to change it up for a more musical genre theme next time maybe.

OK. I'll try that next time. Any suggestions for a genre?

stratman3142 · August 2022

Just to note that (as stated in the original post) the theme isn't mandatory. You can submit any composition.

Habanero · August 2022

stratman3142 said:

Just to note that (as stated in the original post) the theme isn't mandatory. You can submit any composition.

That's a good point actually. I think maybe the round with scoring the video clip might have confused that a little.

Springywheel · August 2022

I've been working on something...it started off as a standard murder mystery score but slowly developed into more of a sci fi murder mystery

stratman3142 · August 2022

Springywheel said:

I've been working on something...it started off as a standard murder mystery score but slowly developed into more of a sci fi murder mystery

I'm glad someone's on it. I'll make a start soon.

Snap · August 2022

I'd love to be involved, but work/life has been so full on over the last few months I've not had the time to do much music at all, barely even picked up a bass/guitar even. I'll give this a go though, will do my best to get something in, even if it's a bit duff!

stratman3142 · August 2022

Snap said:

....will do my best to get something in...

That's good to hear.

@Snap and @Springywheel, I was planning to extend the deadline for this another month to 31st October, if that's OK with you.

I'm a bit pushed because I'm learning songs for a band, listening to songs for theFretboard jam at the beginning of October, plus I'm away two weeks inbetween.

Springywheel · August 2022

Yeah that's fine to extend another month

MagicPigDetective · August 2022

If I can beat procrastination and finish what I’m working on, I’ll enter

stratman3142 · August 2022

MagicPigDetective said:

If I can beat procrastination and finish what I’m working on, I’ll enter

Good. I've extended the deadline to 31st October.

oaf · September 2022

I'm working on something... trying out my new Cubase 12 Pro install!

stratman3142 · September 2022

One from @Springywheel in the playlist.

Snap · September 2022

Well, on Saturday I got three minutes of something recorded. Sounding promising. So, come what may, I will get something in for this one. Hopefully I get it to somewhere near finished too. Whether it is "on theme" though is a bit debatable..!

stratman3142 · September 2022

The theme is open to very flexible interpretation, or you could just ignore it

stratman3142 · October 2022

Nearly done. I think. I'll listen to it tomorrow. How's everyone else getting on?

Snap · October 2022

Average - I'll have something done, but whether it's finished as I'd like is another thing!

stratman3142 · October 2022

Mine's in the playlist. That makes two.

Entry closes at midnight 31st October.

oaf · October 2022

That's mine sent in! Weeks ago I read the competition posting and then I (mis)remembered it as being for a TV theme rather than for film; but I guess something is better than nothing and it's close enough

I was going for a fairly light-hearted TV show mystery/drama vibe, so nothing too spooky or heavy!

stratman3142 · October 2022

oaf said:

That's mine sent in! ...

It's in the playlist.

stratman3142 · October 2022

Snap said:

Well, on Saturday I got three minutes of something recorded. Sounding promising. So, come what may, I will get something in for this one....

@Snap do you think you can do it by midnight tonight? If you're close I could extend the deadline a bit if it's OK with everyone else.

Snap · November 2022

ah shine on, I forgot mate, sorry! Don't hang around for me, that's not fair on everyone else.

stratman3142 · November 2022

Snap said:

ah shine on, I forgot mate, sorry! Don't hang around for me, that's not fair on everyone else.

I'm starting the voting soon. You can submit whle the voting is underway. There's just a risk that you might miss out on votes if someone's already cast their votes by the time you submit.

Snap · November 2022

stratman3142 said:

Snap said:

ah shine on, I forgot mate, sorry! Don't hang around for me, that's not fair on everyone else.

I'm starting the voting soon. You can submit whle the voting is underway. There's just a risk that you might miss out on votes if someone's already cast their votes by the time you submit.

I'll get a quick mix out later this afternoon. Thanks. I totally forgot about this yesterday!

monquixote · November 2022

I actually have a track that would probably be appropriate, but it's also being used for a Elektronauts competition where the voting is anonymous so I'm not sure if I should share it.

stratman3142 · November 2022

Happy to take any other entries, even though the deadline has passed. I'll probably start the voting thread tomorrow, as I'm a bit busy today.

Snap · November 2022

Sent in! Not entirely pleased with it, very quick mix and master, but there you go, it's sort of murder mystery, though I was thinking more spy film.
Will try to work more quickly next time
J

stratman3142 · November 2022

monquixote said:

I actually have a track that would probably be appropriate, but it's also being used for a Elektronauts competition where the voting is anonymous so I'm not sure if I should share it.

Have you got a link to that competition. It sounds interesting?

stratman3142 · November 2022

Snap said:

Sent in

It's in the playlist.

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