Poopots's Cover Challenge #21 - the letter H

flying_pie · October 2022

Welcome to the 21st Poopot's Cover Challenge

The winner of our last challenge @2003amxl has spoken and chosen our track for the letter H

Heartbreaker by Mariah Carey

That's right. Seeing as no other famous guitar based band has ever recorded a song called Heartbreaker it obviously has to be Maria ft Jay-Z

If that's not your bag then you can record any track starting with the letter H

But… if you cover the chosen track you will automatically receive a bonus 5pts as a head stat

* RULES:

Entries to be sent in mp3 format to the following Email address:

covers@thefretboard.co.uk

Please comment in the thread when you've sent an entry.

You may wish to submit artwork to go with your entry. It brightens up the playlist and might subliminally get you more votes but it's not mandatory.

Entries close at 11.30pm on Friday 23rd December 2022... get onto it!!!!

A playlist of all the entries will also be posted below.

https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sets/poopots-cover-challenge-h

Vote for your top 3 with 5 points awarded for first place, 3 points for second place and 1 point for third place. Entrants obviously aren't allowed to vote for their own entry. The winner has the honour of choosing the next track

Good luck!

fnpt · October 2022

FFS

CMW335 · October 2022

I will start if permitted, this is a cover of Hallelujah performed not by me but my wife on vocals and then @thecolourbox on keys/instruments. I put out a help wanted ad for this track back in Dec 2020 and Stuart duly responded. It was my first conversation with him and we went onto become good friends albeit never met in person sadly. He was always encouraging me to get involved so feels right to submit this one here

https://on.soundcloud.com/LBmCZ5TcQfXt7kZo7

flying_pie · October 2022

@CNW335 it's great to have that but can either yourself or @thecolourbox please emailm an mp3 and the photo to covers@thefretboard.co.uk ?

CMW335 · October 2022

@flying_pie sure thing, I will dig this out later

Habanero · October 2022

I swore I’d never go back the day I hung up the wig and tight dress and quit the Mariah tribute act.

Luckily I have a backup plan for the H round.

IMC1980 · October 2022

Sent mine in. Been waiting for the opportunity to show off my Jay Z skillz!

flying_pie · October 2022

Fantastic. @IMC1980 in da playlist

(and I had a day off yesterday so managed to record a track too)

CMW335 · October 2022

flying_pie said:

@CNW335 it's great to have that but can either yourself or @thecolourbox please emailm an mp3 and the photo to covers@thefretboard.co.uk ?

Mp3 now sent

flying_pie · October 2022

@CMW335 in the playlist too. Off to a cracking start

thecolourbox · October 2022

In an unexpected turn of events, I've managed to knock out two covers today (albeit one of them I'd done some of the midi stuff some time ago, so not entirely today

)

Although that does now mean I'm now on three entries (as i'm the piano on CMW335's entry), hopefully that's ok and makes up for all the ones I've missed before

flying_pie · October 2022

@thecolourbox in the playlist. Good effort, chief!

thecolourbox · October 2022

Thank you @flying_pie ;
Did you get the second one as well?

flying_pie · October 2022

#2 for @thecolourbox in the playlist

horse · October 2022

Just emailed mine over

flying_pie · October 2022

@horse in the playlist

westford · October 2022

Walking over to my friend's house in the dark last night, I caught sight of a scrap of paper in the glow of a streetlamp bearing the word "POOPOTS". I thought it was a sign that I should record something for this contest. On closer inspection it was the packaging for cakes/doughnut-ty things called "POPDOTS", but I'll try to get something done anyway. (Also, I just googled the singular popdot and that is something quite different, lol!)

fnpt · October 2022

I've feel into the same conundrum again. I've recorded all the parts for my entry, I am fairly happy with the results, however...I can't sing it. I just don't have the range.

So my options at the moment are:

1) leave it as it is, a kind of instrumental backing track (not really something I particularly like);

2) Replace the vocals with a guitar track (again, not my cup of tea);

3) Ask for someone's collaboration for the vocals

Would 3) be a breach of the rules? And if not, would any of you be interested in providing the vocals?

mrkb · October 2022

fnpt said:

I've feel into the same conundrum again. I've recorded all the parts for my entry, I am fairly happy with the results, however...I can't sing it. I just don't have the range.

So my options at the moment are:
1) leave it as it is, a kind of instrumental backing track (not really something I particularly like);
2) Replace the vocals with a guitar track (again, not my cup of tea);
3) Ask for someone's collaboration for the vocals

Would 3) be a breach of the rules? And if not, would any of you be interested in providing the vocals?

Other tracks have had guest singers on (Halleluyja is one).

Ping me what the song is and i'll see if i could do it justice.

flying_pie · October 2022

Collaborations are absolutely fine. I would very much encourage it if it results in a better track.

The only rule is that if you contribute to someone else's track then you can't vote for it

flying_pie · October 2022

@fnpt in the playlist

flying_pie · October 2022

And @fnpt ; featuring @mrkb in the playlist

stratman3142 · October 2022

Sent mine in.

Habanero · October 2022

That'll be 9 already and there's still nearly 2 months to go. Following my recent health problems, I think I may even be improved enough to start my own attempt this week.

Bezzer · October 2022

Sent one in. I've had no time at all, and I'm going to have even less over the next two months so had to fart something out tonight ... but I feel guilty if I skip one so in it goes.

It'll be really weird on judgement night but that kind of makes me smile too ... not that its intended to be "a competitor" like Rocky, more "filler"

flying_pie · October 2022

@stratman3142 and @Bezzer in the playlist

https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sets/poopots-cover-challenge-h

flying_pie · November 2022

And I'll make that 11 now. For everyone who always wished for a Lionel Ritchie classic as a mash up of Green Day songs it's now in the playlist

stratman3142 · November 2022

I've just asked this question over on the Composition Challenge. I'm curious about how people generate their artwork for these challenges.

@flying_pie hopefully I won't derail the thread.

Mostly I use Blender, which I did this time. Occasionally I use Inkscape and on rare occasions, if I'm editing a photo, I might use Gimp. Occcasionaly I might spend a small amount on an image from somewhere like CGTrader or a model from Turbosquid and edit it in Blender.

flying_pie · November 2022

I use a variety of approaches @stratman3142 ;:

I might just use a photo of my own with app on my phone like Logo Maker Plus, or Snapseed if it's just a photo

I might use Krita (similar to GIMP) for more complicated stuff. I generally can't be bothered drawing from scratch. In the case of Ghostbusters I intentionally made my masking really rough for comedy effect

Lastly I might just borrow images off the net under fair use as it's non-commercial and usually parody

Habanero · November 2022

Mine are either free svg clipart manipulated or assembled in Inkscape, or free photos retouched with GImp. My 'Goldfinger' entry was however based on an x-ray of my own left hand.

IMC1980 · November 2022

Great topic @stratman3142! I either use https://www.pexels.com/ for royalty free stuff or an AI art generator like this one: https://www.wombo.art/create, the cover for this challenge came from Pexels and the cover for "G" was AI generated.

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