Basically, my idea was to have musicians on this board participate in making an album. It won't be cohesive, because I'm sure everyone has different styles they like.
But Vincent, I don't have any musical skill whatsoever, can I still participate? Some skill is preferred, but only creativity is expected. I want to have a good mix of talented musicians and just people dicking around on this. So if you really want to submit that chiptune thingy or beat you made in fruity loops, go ahead.
Who will judge what goes on the album and what not? In an ideal situation every user that's submitted will be on there with at least one of his tracks. If I really feel that this user just submitted for 'lulz' or some other dumb thing though, he or she probably won't be on it.
Can it really be anything I want? Yes. And no. It has to be a completely original track made by you. If it has samples, that's okay. Covers are not allowed, unless I feel you have done something really original with an already existing song. Even then, if it's a corny classic please don't. Remixes are allowed but not encouraged, just don't submit a dubstep remix of Nyan Cat or ANYTHING in that trend.
And what about comedic tracks? That's allowed, as long as it's done in a quirky way and it HAS to be about board 8. If you write a serious song it can be about anything, but 'joke' tracks should be related to board 8. What's NOT okay is to completely bully/flame another user in those tracks. Even if I hate the user myself, I won't allow it on this record. Don't want any stupid board 8 drama seeping through on this. If it's one line about a user in your song that's not so kind it's okay, but don't make a track completely dissing someone.
Can I collaborate with another user on here? Yes. It's not only possible, but encouraged. I think it will spark some creativity here. I would be glad to collaborate with someone on here myself, too.
For example: One could make a beat, another user could rap over it. It could also just be a folky duo, a DJ duo, a rock duo, whatever.
It could even be a collaboration with multiple users. The POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS
Can it be any genre? Yes. Even things I hate. As long as other people like it (I will always ask around on board8chat and even this thread for opinions), it will be on there.
How many tracks can I submit? Let's say two is the limit. If you collaborate with another user, that limit will increase to a whopping four. So you can have two tracks of your own submitted and two tracks with other users.
How big will this thing be? It could be a single album of ten tracks if there's not much people. It could also be a double/triple/quadruple album. I don't care, as long as the tracks are good or quirky enough.
Will you be on this? Yes. I am not the one who has the say all on everything though. To be fair, I will only put one track of mine on there, and one or two collaborations if people are up to it.
So who's in? Everyone's allowed, even if I think you're a douche. As long as that douchiness doesn't find its way to your tracks you're okay!
purge on b8 is dumb, this board isn't even that active and yet things get deleted after one day of inactivity, I kind of considered bumping it but I really didn't think it was going to be deleted
Submissions in: TWO by Liquid Wind. GET TO IT GUYS!
ps covers are kind of allowed now but keep in mind that if there are like 20 cover submissions for example, I will only accept about 5 to 10 of them depending on how big this thing is etc. Just saying!
It would be interesting if each user could select one of his or her topics to stay active (but be pushed back like normal). And they could toggle the anti-purge feature if they wanted a different topic to stay active.
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Post to say while I am not particularly musically inclined myself I support this endeavor.
I have a bit of experience with musical software and quite a lot of experience with the sound equipment at my church, but in terms of actually creating material I'm next to worthless :(
There's no rules in music (well there are but shut up you know what I mean) and plenty of unskilled musicians get by anyway so try it, maybe I will like it! There's no harm in trying
I'm still trying to think of what instrument I should use but I do have a question: If I write the music can I get my friends that can actually play instruments (I don't have much experience) to play it?
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From: catastrophy15 | #016 I'm still trying to think of what instrument I should use but I do have a question: If I write the music can I get my friends that can actually play instruments (I don't have much experience) to play it?
Okay I'll probably have something either played by me on a keyboard or I'll have my friends that are in my school's marching band play it but it won't be for some time though.
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I did some recording today. The quality isn't too good since I just recorded it on my iPhone, and I added like 3 layers (mandolin + rhythm, conga, some extra keyboard percussion, and the synth), so it really brought the quality down. Just a (very) rough draft to see what you guys think.
I posted this yesterday, but took it down. I think I'll just go ahead and post it again.
I did some recording today. The quality isn't too good since I just recorded it on my iPhone, and I added like 3 layers (mandolin + rhythm, conga, some extra keyboard percussion, and the synth), so it really brought the quality down. Just a (very) rough draft to see what you guys think of the idea. I have some other ideas for it, so it isn't going to seem like it drags on when it's finished (hopefully), but it won't be any longer -- that's for sure.
Lockes Ragnarok posted... I posted this yesterday, but took it down. I think I'll just go ahead and post it again.
I did some recording today. The quality isn't too good since I just recorded it on my iPhone, and I added like 3 layers (mandolin + rhythm, conga, some extra keyboard percussion, and the synth), so it really brought the quality down. Just a (very) rough draft to see what you guys think of the idea. I have some other ideas for it, so it isn't going to seem like it drags on when it's finished (hopefully), but it won't be any longer -- that's for sure.
sounds cool! the recording quality is left to be desired but I guess that's expected of an iPhone mic. Will you be recording it better for the finished version?
Seems kind of a very pumped up track. Planning on doing vocals or not? I could see this working as a kind of abrasive (in a good way if that makes any sense at all), punkish indie pop song
Ace_Killjoy posted... Nice! Hey, that brings up something I was curious about. When we finally do get a song made, how do you want us to submit it?
I just uploaded to mediafire and PM'd him the links
not sure if it's accurate but the second song says it hasn't been downloaded, I deleted it because I think I might want to do something different anyway...
From: Liquid Wind | #027 Ace_Killjoy posted... Nice! Hey, that brings up something I was curious about. When we finally do get a song made, how do you want us to submit it?
I just uploaded to mediafire and PM'd him the links
not sure if it's accurate but the second song says it hasn't been downloaded, I deleted it because I think I might want to do something different anyway...
Hadn't downloaded it yet! I guess I won't now haha
come do JHC on tuesday nights! I'd recommend LLCompo too but the site freaks out and the chat breaks when a lot of people show up and it usually has like 2x as many entrants...compoing is a great way to just **** out some ideas and not care about how ****y they are since there's minimal time invested and half the songs are jokeish entries, might be the thing some of you need to get the ball rolling :)
I'm not saying it would be good, I'm just saying it would actually get done ! I might wind up using something from that though, this chiptune has infected my brain and given me half a dozen ideas of things I want to do with it...