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Thanks to @guidothepimmp for this month's Challenge topic..."Christmas Mall Music"

The challenge quite simply is.. put together a tune in the line of what YOU would like to hear in a retail center whilst on holiday and perhaps while doing your last minute festivity shopping. You will get cred points if it is Holiday/Christmas related. Think Boney M repeats ad nauseum.. except your version.

And there's prizes! A big thank you to @guidothepimmp for offering up his Raru voucher won last month and to @warrenpridgeon for putting up his R100 Raru voucher he won with the cover challenge last month. So I reckon we combine the two for the single main prize of 2xR100 Raru vouchers. Before it becomes running jest, let's make this the last rollover - either blow it on strings 'n things or we can organize a donation to a charity?

? Entries Close: Sunday, 24th November, 23:59PM

?Rules: We'll have two groups this month, Originals and Covers. Covers are done at your own risk - that is, if it isn't a a song in the Public Domain, you might run into issues on uploading to Soundcloud.

Entries to be no longer than four (4) minutes in length. Any genre, any instruments and collaborations are encouraged.

⁉How To Enter: Record your entry, sign up or log in to SoundCloud, post it there. Then grab the SoundCloud link and reply here with the link pasted in your reply.

?Prizes: 2xR100 Raru vouchers, courtesy of @guidotheimmp and @warrenpridgeon. The fame and glory of winning a GuitarTalk Challenge. And the ever increasingly dubious distinction of selecting the next challenge topic. Not sure how one could ask for more!!!

Anyone can enter this competition. You just need a guitar and a phone. But any other recording equipment is fine too. Collaborations with fellow members or anyone you can recruit is encouraged!

Oof - If I used a song not in public domain and did everything my own way other than lyrics, I could get soundcloud issues?

Better pick something else lol

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    ScottyDogg I seriously doubt you'll have any issues - the one entry (Dave's) got pinged a few months back in a cover challenge, but he had a long sample of a SOAD song. Not a showstopper, we just hosted his entry on box.net ? .

      V8 So literally I'd be doing everything completely from scratch and my own arrangement (other than the lyrics) so I wonder if that (not monetized) would count as fair use? Probably not though seeing as Jared Dines got demonitized for humming the smoke on the water riff

      Maybe safer to just put together a public domain song arrangement

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          ScottyDogg I'm no lawyer - but we've had a goood few chats around here on copyright.

          From what I understand - parody should mostly be fine, anything else can be questioned. From what I've observed - There's only issues when a human notices and claims DCMA - which won't happen if you arn't getting loooads of plays.

          Whats going down on YT with music educators is inexplicable. But 10yrs ago tabs were "illegal" i.t.o copyright. They're still finding a middle ground on YT - streaming is big corporate business and I reckon we're seeing them fighting over market share.

          So if you plan on releasing it on streaming services - I wouldn't. If you are doing it just for personal (and our) enjoyment - probably fine. I've got a handful of tunes with samples on SC for 6yrs, +/- 2k plays and 0 issues.

            Nice challenge. Hope I find some time as I now work two jobs since last week.
            I have the perfect Christmas song I would like to cover. I don't want to give too much away, but it comes form a game and has always been stuck in my head.....

            klaasvakie amp stealer is somehow worse than girlfriend stealer

            There's one worse, dude whop nicks your speakers replaces with his own blown out ones...happens more often than you'd think!

            klaasvakie I started off as a repugnant individual (Warlock), graduated to total douchebag (superstrat & Headless Steinberger), then found my rightful place as a Brother from another Mother (strat) ?

                V8 wow ?????🧐

                For the record.. i own and play a tele ?.. everything else though ?

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                    guidothepimmp For the record.. i own and play a tele ?

                    Wait...whhaaaattt??? You crossed over to the single coil side? ?

                    I occasionally yearn for my douchebag days - nothing like a good pinch harmonic ?

                      V8 haha.. yeh you should sit down then.. cos i have a strat too.. with 3 single coils ?

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                          Close... very close.. the go to is a HS fiddle ?

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                            guidothepimmp ?, it's all you need really - if there isn't a floyd then we can apparently trust you with the band $$$...

                              Guess im trustworthy then. Its a hardtail.. no trem in sight?

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                              To help stir the creative juices, here's a Xmas song that doesn't suck...(hattip to @studmissile