The Challenge April 2011

Renesongs

Emotional Music
Following on from PeteM's challenge which was broad enough to encourage lots of entries, I'd like to keep things open-ended enough to encourage plenty of people to record something, but at the same time I'd like to have a slightly more specific goal.

The theme for this month is to get some emotional content into your music. So, rather than just sitting and noodling or basing everything around a rigid scale or chord progression, try and get the way you're feeling onto your fretboard.

I want to hear raw anger in those power chords, or a broken heart in those arpeggios. Or maybe things are going your way? Express some happiness and light in some chimey major chords!

To keep things a bit limited and more challenging, you can choose from the following four rough categories:

- Defiant frustration
- Wistful longing
- Forbidden lust
- Cheery mischief

Hopefully something about at least one of the above has some resonance with you, so take the core feeling and run with it. Your goal is to make your listener feel what you're feeling, but solely through your music!

It can be as complex or simple as you want, but the more emotive the better!

PS: don't state which option you've based your entry on, let us listeners try and figure it out. ?
Entries must be in by 22 April 2011

chris77

Cool...

Squonk

You Wally ?

raithza

oooh interesting, challenging ?

Bob-Dubery

Oh very well done. Music is at it's best when it's communicating something.

Jacquesg4j

I always feel the emotion in Gregorian Music! And the emotion, sometimes, also changes through the song... My question... Can the emotion change through the song?? (I know a minute is quite short for this but it is possible)... For example: It starts off as Wistful Longing and then it changes to Forbidden Lust??

Warren

Jacquesg4j wrote: I always feel the emotion in Gregorian Music! And the emotion, sometimes, also changes through the song... My question... Can the emotion change through the song?? (I know a minute is quite short for this but it is possible)... For example: It starts off as Wistful Longing and then it changes to Forbidden Lust??

Yeah, that would actually be great ?

I was listening to some piano-based jazz tunes last night and the music was very free and flowing, moving from a "searching" or "seeking" kind of feeling to a brief "resolution", and somehow then falling a bit back into "tension". I was thinking about how I had no idea if that was how the player was feeling, but it was certainly moving me as I listened to it and I thought it would be a good idea to get some of that into my own playing, so this will be a big challenge for me too!

chris77

From wistful longing to forbidden lust in under hey? Ja, can be done. But the tune has to allready be drunk by the time the minute starts...

costafonix

Cooool!! 8) ?

Jacquesg4j

I think the guys with the e-bows can experiment nicely here!

RobK

Hmmm, I think I can do this one. No matter what I play I'll have you all in tears, whether from laughing to0 hard or from the pain of having to listen to me playing :roflmao:

Seventhson

So I can do a little riff that emotes my anger with everything?

Awesome >☹ ?

[deleted]

That's a cool one Warren!

Schmorglebot

"D minor is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it, and I don't know why."
Nigel Tufnel - Spinal Tap

I may just watch This is Spinal Tap again for some inspiration.

FruitarGeek

Great theme.

mity88

So I'm gonna try this thing out for once,I hope I can pull it off!!!let the emos run wild

Warren

mity88 wrote: So I'm gonna try this thing out for once,I hope I can pull it off!!!let the emos run wild

I actually realised, after sending the topic, that I'm effectively asking for emo music ? Oops.

deefstes

Excellent theme! I'm looking forward to playing around with it and I'm looking forward to hearing all the entries.

Renesongs

I actually realised, after sending the topic, that I'm effectively asking for emo music Oops.

I hope that doesn't cause too much Panic at the Disco in a Tokyo Hotel otherwise you may become the Fallout Boy har har!

Kalcium

ooooooooo this is exciting! I've already got 90% of my tune worked out ? started off as an improv solo over a riff i wrote for a song ages ago and its turning out really nicely ?