Post by Rob W on Sept 8, 2014 17:41:52 GMT
Hi All
I am in the eye of the storm at the moment!! We are in the process of moving home and tomorrow I pack up my editing computer in readiness for the move (timeframe in-exact at the moment.)
What I'm trying to say is that October's 'write a theme tune using a supplied video' task will need to happen in the new year. So my suggestion would be that we use one of the ideas that has already been mooted and that is...
...a limited instrument month.
This will hopefully help those who have a less sophisticated set up. So the rules (which are open for discussion) would be
a) A maximum of five instruments (including a vocal) can be used.
b) The instruments cannot be multi-layered. If a guitar plays a solo, it doesn't play backing chords. If a guitar has a riff, it has to be able to be played in one take, ie no harmonies. The same applies to keyboards; choose one sound and stick with it (unless you're forfeiting for eg a guitar in which case you can use two keyboard sounds and if guitarists are forfeiting a keyboard, you can use two guitars.) Vocals are solo, no harmonies (unless you're making ALL the instruments vocals.)
I suppose the spirit of what I'm saying is that you have to imagine sitting in a rehearsal room and being able to play your song with four other musicians.
I'll put this onto the forum but I wanted to make sure you all got the message in case you're not checking that part of the forum.
Regards
Rob
I am in the eye of the storm at the moment!! We are in the process of moving home and tomorrow I pack up my editing computer in readiness for the move (timeframe in-exact at the moment.)
What I'm trying to say is that October's 'write a theme tune using a supplied video' task will need to happen in the new year. So my suggestion would be that we use one of the ideas that has already been mooted and that is...
...a limited instrument month.
This will hopefully help those who have a less sophisticated set up. So the rules (which are open for discussion) would be
a) A maximum of five instruments (including a vocal) can be used.
b) The instruments cannot be multi-layered. If a guitar plays a solo, it doesn't play backing chords. If a guitar has a riff, it has to be able to be played in one take, ie no harmonies. The same applies to keyboards; choose one sound and stick with it (unless you're forfeiting for eg a guitar in which case you can use two keyboard sounds and if guitarists are forfeiting a keyboard, you can use two guitars.) Vocals are solo, no harmonies (unless you're making ALL the instruments vocals.)
I suppose the spirit of what I'm saying is that you have to imagine sitting in a rehearsal room and being able to play your song with four other musicians.
I'll put this onto the forum but I wanted to make sure you all got the message in case you're not checking that part of the forum.
Regards
Rob
