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Thanks Meron, I'm trying to find any excuse to play slide these days.

Yeti: Good solid blues track and playing. Thoroughly enjoyed the witty one-liners, very clever. Uncomfortably true.

V8: Catchy riffage, very cool tone and crisp playing, worth exploring. Loved the mix but theoretically that's 6 chords? ?

Nice one guys.

studmissile theoretically that's 6 chords?

Guilty as charged.... ? But the min->maj modulation sounded too good to pass up...so let's call it a 2x3chord song. Though even worse....after recording and mixing I realized I only play a actual chord once...1m:01s coming out the little moshy bit. ?

But I'm sticking that one into the bank if I ever need a bubblegum song - can see that being fun to play with the right vocals.

    ok chaps, this is probably one of the toughest votes i've EVER had to make.

    i have to say my favourite is, quite simply, 'mouse.' just love the simplicity, the vocals are a nice touch - my style abso-freakin-lootly.

    'blues in em' is a great little track and the comments so far, well, there's not much i can add. same for 'why i failed.'

    as for who i voted for; we'll have to wait n see. great contributions all round...

    well done to all y'all!
    dh|

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    guidothepimmp Thanks, standard tuning . Haven't got my head around alternate tuning yet.
    I recall reading somewhere Duane Allman also used mostly standard tuning so I'm in good company. ?

    V8 Great riffs, lots of possibilities.

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        Golllyyyy - 6 votes a pice and we are drawn - seldom happens...but I think it's a worthy result all round!

        I thought @Yeti had a more listenable song with the clever lyrics, but @studmissile's use of slide to get every gram of chordy goodness outta his tune swung it for me (we are a guitar forum...sometimes...?)

        What's next? I think I'm gonna try and open it up to suggerstions on that whatsapp group - failing that,@Yeti and @studmissile can debate (again) what we can try. It's worked so far!

        Thanks @V8. A draw is a surprisingly satisfying result here. ?
        Got to agree with you though, this is a guitar forum, so my vote is very firmly for Stud. I really enjoyed that slide playing... going to have to give it a try some time.

        Nicely played gentlemen.

        V8 good idea regarding the whatsapp group.

        My 5 cents: I was thinking along the lines of another showcase to see what people are up too or working on, band participation included?

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            studmissile good idea regarding the whatsapp group.

            We'll see...yesterday there were a few ideas - shreddy challenge from @guidothepimmp, @Yeti was thinking a group collaboration. We'd agree to genre & tempo and let the creativity flow from there

            I'm not against a group collaboration (or even two going head to head). One holdup would be someone mixing and kinda producing the efforts. Though, Instead of one person mixing - maybe we use a online daw like bandlab or soundnation - there'll be limitations - but it'll be a interesting experiment?

              What I had in mind was more of collaboration than a challenge per se. I quite like the idea of each contributing some the components and then seeing how the different people put them together to make a song.

              That said, a group challenge could be a very cool idea.

              8 days later

              Had a thought for a future theme... folk songs.
              So I'm thinking folk songs from any tradition redone in a different genre... metal, country, jazz, whatever.
              Inspired by the Thin Lizzy and Metallica versions Whisky in the Jar.

              Yeti Had a thought for a future theme... folk songs.

              Happy to run - though I'll probably sit that one out, dunno any folk songs!

              I did think about starting a bandlab collaboration for us to mess around on, but the riffs I thought of need some work, been struggling to get a decent feel this week - not enough practice!

                  10 days later

                  Wellll, we ain't got many idea's for the next one...

                  Had a thought - how about leveraging learning(s) by 'Cover something in the style of you' - using the garage day's list as a start?

                  Garage Days Song list (https://community.guitartalk.co.za/d/27074-garage-days-5-garage-days-vs-predator/29)

                  Ain't no Rest for the Wicked - Cage the Elephant

                  Plush - Stone Temple Pilot
Running Wild - Airbourne
                  Slow Cheetah - RHCP
                  Eyes of the Panther - Steel Panther
                  Hells Bells - ACDC
                  Holiday - Green Day
                  Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams
                  Give Me One Reason - Tracy Chapman
                  Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
                  
Just Got Paid - ZZ Top/Joe Bonamassa
                  
Down in a Hole (Unplugged) - Alice In Chains

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