Chat Challenge 10/11/2008 Voting

Renesongs

[u][b]The Times They Are A-Changin[/b][/u] Write any song in any time signature other than the usual 4/4. It can be 3/4 for an easy way out, but try to challenge yourself to play something short and sweet in 4/5, 5/4, 7/8 or any other unusual time sig.

Yes it's time to vote in the Chat Challenge again.

[quote author=Alan Ratcliffe link=action=profile;u=10 date=1226392715] OK. My entry is an experiment in polyrhythm - the rhythm section is in 7/16, while the two guitars play a simple motif in 6/16 (with a twist). This means that the ones only align every seven bars of 7/16.

The "twist" is the second guitar plays an 8/16 version of the motif every eight bars, which displaces the subsequent 6/16 bars against the first guitar. This happens three times, with the third bringing the two back together, wheupon they proceed to play together happily until the next time they converge with the drums, when it stops for fear of being silly. :D

While the individual parts are easy to play, keeping the accents in the right places is a real cow.

http://ratcliffe.co.za/music/alan_7-16.mp3 [/quote]

[quote author=dylan link=action=profile;u=332 date=1226493245] Hi Rene,

Heres my entry for this week

http://gfsa.s3.amazonaws.com/332/dylan%2010112008.mp3

Thanks :) [/quote]

[quote author=sepheritoh link=action=profile;u=24 date=1226496397] Not sure if it is alowed to enter the contest if I chose the the theme, but I will send in an entry for the fun, just to show that I did not chose that theme to give everybody else a hard time!!

http://www.dog-on-blues.co.za/mp3/2008/08_11-Sepheritoh-the_times_a_changing.mp3 [/quote]

[quote author=Norio link=action=profile;u=1 date=1226591885] Here's mine... http://gfsa.s3.amazonaws.com/1/g54.mp3 [/quote]

[quote author=Renesongs link=action=profile;u=36 date=1226616046] Seeing that I have submitted this thing so late I thought I would give myself a double handicap. Yes folks, not only is this saucy little piece of Metal Be-Bop in a strange time it also contains bazaar key changes so I present to you "A tone and a half in time and a quarter". No let's see you dance to this one. :D

http://gfsa.s3.amazonaws.com/36/Rene54.mp3 [/quote]

(old forum) Poll Results: Who's Time thing did you like the most?

Alan: 4
Dylan: 9
Sepheritoh: 0
Norio: 1
Rene: 3

Martyr

nice guys....some really good entries...the one that stood out to me the most was Dylan's entry,WELDONE dude ?

Heath

ye dylan got my vote as well ... well done actually was very difficult to pick one this week

Spyke

Trust Alan to take this to a whole new OCD inspired level! hehehe! ?

NorioDS

I call mine a pentatonic mess in G minor ? Was late to enter so I slapped it together in 30 minutes. Literally just me messing around, can't say I like it much but I didn't wanna disappoint Rene by not using his backing track!

sepheritoh

Brialliant guys.

It is so unfair to only have one vote to cast.

Alan, as usual, your recording is brialliant clear and your playing so on the dot.

Dylan, brilliant playing and a great recording quality.

Noria, Brialliant. I love the Jazzy blues. When your song was playing somebody who walked in ask if it was Earl Klugh playing. If you are not familiar with his work, please have a listen to it. You've nailed that style.

Rene, this is just as brilliant. Great Jazzy / blues tone. I love it.

Considdering all the brialliance around I found it difficult to vote, but eventually Norio had to take the vote.

Well done!!!!

Spyke

Norio wrote I call mine a pentatonic mess in G minor ? Was late to enter so I slapped it together in 30 minutes. Literally just me messing around, can't say I like it much but I didn't wanna disappoint Rene by not using his backing track!

I tried, but came up with nothing, nada, zilch... Gm pentatonic (which I had to refer to still) sounded like the biggest mess since I first started playing. Norio, yours sounds like a symphonic composition in comparison.

Squonk

Good stuff guys
Very difficult to vote.

NorioDS

Wow Seph, Spyke! Thanks!!! I thought mine stank ? Awesomeness! Thank you thank you thank you. You've made me a lot more confident in my noodling ?

dyllels

Awesome entries this week, I enjoyed listening to them a lot :) Thanks Wezz, Tailon and Seph, Much appreciated :) In the end i decided to go with Alan on this one. The polyrhythm and guitar composition is really good. Nothing better than a bit of mathematical music :) I was trying to go for the same type of thing. I remember someone asking in the last thread for more info on the tracks. So I've added the tab for the song that i wrote and has a few timing explanations and such. But basically the song is in 7/8 until the end section which changes according to the lead run. With recording: Recorded straight into BOSS BR-864, transferred the files to my PC where i added the drums to it on CUBASE. Hope the little bit of info and tab is useful. :) https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/attachments.guitartalk/e820a45f1dfc7b95282d10b6087e11c0-chat%20challenge%20dylan.gp5

Renesongs

Dylan has won this weeks chat challenge again, well done Dylan, You now have the dubious honour of choosing next weeks challenge. Please PM me ASAP. All entrance have been kama-ed for their effort ? (except me *sniff*)

I am pleased with the level of of entries in these challenges thus far what doesn't inspire me much is the pathetic voting response - please people the entrants work their butts off submitting an entry show your appreciation by making the effort to listen to the submissions and vote. ☹

dyllels

? Thanks Rene,

Going to think up a theme and PM it to you this evening.

sepheritoh

Congrats Dylan!!!!

AlanRatcliffe

Well done Dylan!

I've never been accused of "mathematical music" before Dylan - LOL! To hear this kind of thing done properly and a lot more musically, listen to King Crimson's Discipline.

I liked the standard of playing - everyone's entry was great ('specially mine ?).

@ Rene - karma'd (I hate seeing a grown man cry) ?

Riaan

Congrats Dylan and well done.

Alan: the sound of your lead in your entry was really cool and it definitely is one of the sounds I'm after...was it done with GR3? You gonna share the secret of that tone with us?

@ Rene - karma'd (I hate seeing a grown man cry)

-same here!

Riaan

We do have a couple of hundred members now right? Only 16 votes?

Maybe the majority access the site from work where it might raise some eyebrows if a couple of riffs suddenly disturb the orderly office atmosphere? ???

Squonk

good stuff Dylan. Pick a good theme for this week!

Renesongs

Thanks for the karma guys - I didn't get my blue belt in my karate grading yesterday so I was feeling a bit miffed but knowing I have friends in cyberspace (my dot comrades) makes it me feel all warm and fuzzy again ?

@ squonk - Dylan has mailed me the theme for next week give you a clue, his name sake was famous for this in his early years.

dyllels

Squonk, i picked an interesting theme for this week ? dunno if its good.

Squonk

Rene what non SAB beer are we talking about?