Oneironaut
04-05-2008, 09:04 AM
It's time to cast in your votes again!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v675/DjTenacity/MarioRock.gif
Credit for this week's challenge goes to Tornado Joe, since it was his idea:
Someone supply a drum track, participants write a guitar part for it. The upside: everyone is constrained within the same tempo and rhythm structure. The downside: it would require participants to be able to layer tracks.
I supplied the drum track, which I made with Fruity Loops. Here it is, in its entirety.
http://media.putfile.com/Sample-Drum-Track-2-for-GW-Week-7
We had some really creative submissions this week, so here they are! Don't just listen! Support your fellow DV members and VOTE!!!!!
(Remember: As always, all contestants must vote for themselves, so as not to offset voting!!)
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Oneiro's entry:
Okay.. I've come to the point where I feel I can't do much more with this, without stripping it right out and redoing the drum track, and rearranging the verse, chorus and middle eight.. in fact, redoing it from scratch.
It's very much a work in progress, and I resisted the impulse to do any soloing.
The bass sounds horrible because it is a six-string with the pitch altered.
Guitar is an Indie FDL Special > GK 250ML > PC. Mike is an EV N/D767a.
So.. FWIW, here it is:
http://media.putfile.com/Telephone-Lover-Funk-G-Wars
Tornado Joe's entry:
Alright, here's my entry for this challenge - I call it "Sidewalk Shuffle" (http://www.boomp3.com/m/c49f89f5dcc8/dv-guitar-wars-drum-challenge) (didn't know what to call it, but I picture someone shuffling down a street or something when I listen to it). I didn't get as much time as had originally hoped, I had an afterwork event I forgot about so I just decided to use the drum track I had already downloaded. For this piece I literally sat down, played the beat, and took whatever first riff came out naturally. As you can tell it was pretty simple, so I just used other parts to add some interest.
I chose to add one other personal challenge since I was short on time; to do each part in one take, whatever happens, happens. While I'm not that enthusiastic of the piece itself, I am happy with what I did under those limitations. There was a lead part I wanted to put in, but I had a long day and it's time for BED!!
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Oneironaut's entry:
This (http://media.putfile.com/GW-Week-7---Practice-Run) is basically what I'm working with, right now. It's a practice run, because the lead guitar part is just improv, one take. The final product will be pretty much the same, except the lead guitar will be just a little different, because I don't have any really set pattern down. I just have to adjust some volume levels and whatnot, and try to make as few mistakes as I can, on my next run.
[Edit: Originally, I had planned on taking another crack at improving through it, but it turned out I really liked the arrangement, and I didn't have too much time to pick and choose which parts I wanted to try to duplicate, by playing over. I really only missed two notes (I think), and they weren't really all that bad, so I decided to keep this one as my final run.
Hope ya like it!]
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v675/DjTenacity/MarioRock.gif
Credit for this week's challenge goes to Tornado Joe, since it was his idea:
Someone supply a drum track, participants write a guitar part for it. The upside: everyone is constrained within the same tempo and rhythm structure. The downside: it would require participants to be able to layer tracks.
I supplied the drum track, which I made with Fruity Loops. Here it is, in its entirety.
http://media.putfile.com/Sample-Drum-Track-2-for-GW-Week-7
We had some really creative submissions this week, so here they are! Don't just listen! Support your fellow DV members and VOTE!!!!!
(Remember: As always, all contestants must vote for themselves, so as not to offset voting!!)
=============================================
Oneiro's entry:
Okay.. I've come to the point where I feel I can't do much more with this, without stripping it right out and redoing the drum track, and rearranging the verse, chorus and middle eight.. in fact, redoing it from scratch.
It's very much a work in progress, and I resisted the impulse to do any soloing.
The bass sounds horrible because it is a six-string with the pitch altered.
Guitar is an Indie FDL Special > GK 250ML > PC. Mike is an EV N/D767a.
So.. FWIW, here it is:
http://media.putfile.com/Telephone-Lover-Funk-G-Wars
Tornado Joe's entry:
Alright, here's my entry for this challenge - I call it "Sidewalk Shuffle" (http://www.boomp3.com/m/c49f89f5dcc8/dv-guitar-wars-drum-challenge) (didn't know what to call it, but I picture someone shuffling down a street or something when I listen to it). I didn't get as much time as had originally hoped, I had an afterwork event I forgot about so I just decided to use the drum track I had already downloaded. For this piece I literally sat down, played the beat, and took whatever first riff came out naturally. As you can tell it was pretty simple, so I just used other parts to add some interest.
I chose to add one other personal challenge since I was short on time; to do each part in one take, whatever happens, happens. While I'm not that enthusiastic of the piece itself, I am happy with what I did under those limitations. There was a lead part I wanted to put in, but I had a long day and it's time for BED!!
----------:cactus:---------------------------------:dreaming:
Oneironaut's entry:
This (http://media.putfile.com/GW-Week-7---Practice-Run) is basically what I'm working with, right now. It's a practice run, because the lead guitar part is just improv, one take. The final product will be pretty much the same, except the lead guitar will be just a little different, because I don't have any really set pattern down. I just have to adjust some volume levels and whatnot, and try to make as few mistakes as I can, on my next run.
[Edit: Originally, I had planned on taking another crack at improving through it, but it turned out I really liked the arrangement, and I didn't have too much time to pick and choose which parts I wanted to try to duplicate, by playing over. I really only missed two notes (I think), and they weren't really all that bad, so I decided to keep this one as my final run.
Hope ya like it!]