Basically, my idea was to have musicians on this board participate in making an album. It won't be cohesive, because I'm sure everyone has different styles they like.
But Vincent, I don't have any musical skill whatsoever, can I still participate? Some skill is preferred, but only creativity is expected. I want to have a good mix of talented musicians and just people dicking around on this. So if you really want to submit that chiptune thingy or beat you made in fruity loops, go ahead.
Who will judge what goes on the album and what not? In an ideal situation every user that's submitted will be on there with at least one of his tracks. If I really feel that this user just submitted for 'lulz' or some other dumb thing though, he or she probably won't be on it.
Can it really be anything I want? Yes. And no. It has to be a completely original track made by you. If it has samples, that's okay. Covers are not allowed, unless I feel you have done something really original with an already existing song. Even then, if it's a corny classic please don't. Remixes are allowed but not encouraged, just don't submit a dubstep remix of Nyan Cat or ANYTHING in that trend.
And what about comedic tracks? That's allowed, as long as it's done in a quirky way and it HAS to be about board 8. If you write a serious song it can be about anything, but 'joke' tracks should be related to board 8. What's NOT okay is to completely bully/flame another user in those tracks. Even if I hate the user myself, I won't allow it on this record. Don't want any stupid board 8 drama seeping through on this. If it's one line about a user in your song that's not so kind it's okay, but don't make a track completely dissing someone.
Can I collaborate with another user on here? Yes. It's not only possible, but encouraged. I think it will spark some creativity here. I would be glad to collaborate with someone on here myself, too.
For example: One could make a beat, another user could rap over it. It could also just be a folky duo, a DJ duo, a rock duo, whatever.
It could even be a collaboration with multiple users. The POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS
Can it be any genre? Yes. Even things I hate. As long as other people like it (I will always ask around on board8chat and even this thread for opinions), it will be on there.
How many tracks can I submit? Let's say two is the limit. If you collaborate with another user, that limit will increase to a whopping four. So you can have two tracks of your own submitted and two tracks with other users.
How big will this thing be? It could be a single album of ten tracks if there's not much people. It could also be a double/triple/quadruple album. I don't care, as long as the tracks are good or quirky enough.
Will you be on this? Yes. I am not the one who has the say all on everything though. To be fair, I will only put one track of mine on there, and one or two collaborations if people are up to it.
So who's in? Everyone's allowed, even if I think you're a douche. As long as that douchiness doesn't find its way to your tracks you're okay!
Submissions in: TWO by Liquid Wind. GET TO IT GUYS!
ps covers are kind of allowed now but keep in mind that if there are like 20 cover submissions for example, I will only accept about 5 to 10 of them depending on how big this thing is etc. Just saying!
I think I'm going to try and do an entire album in the month of may(kind of cheating because one song I wrote recently will probably make it on the album, it fits the concept I have perfectly, but w/e)
I'm literally going to finish an album before 20 b8ers collectively can x_x
I remember this topic on the M&S board, did you ever find any good resources for learning piano? I have a keyboard I play around with to help me come up with ideas, but I can never just record it because I'm awful <_< I tried doing a little soloing on a song I did today, took like 2 minutes to do a few takes, like 10 minutes cleaning it up afterward LOL
sounds like me except I'm too dumb to do things like practice with a metronome more often, I just play around, accidentally figure out how to play the tetris music, and continue having awful timing forever <_<
I have never practiced with a metronome in my life and I get by fine (my brother's a drummer though and we jam alot). I do have some timing issues when recording so it's probably not the smartest thing but hey!
I have to wonder if maybe I have some latency issue in addition to being bad, I'd swear I'm REACTING to it sometimes and the recording still starts getting ahead of the count...but then again I've had that issue with playing fighting games too where I anticipate too strongly and react to things that haven't actually happened
I'm going to have to try it, I found out doing LLCompo yesterday that even as bad as I am it's still faster to just record and clean up the recording than trying to mouse or program everything in, and that's even while being hilariously bad
I guess I could come up with an instrumental piano piece if you're desperately looking for submissions (and/or if the style fits), but you definitely don't want me writing lyrics (or worse, singing *shudders*).
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I guess I could come up with an instrumental piano piece if you're desperately looking for submissions (and/or if the style fits), but you definitely don't want me writing lyrics (or worse, singing *shudders*).
Anything goes! Submit it and it'll probably get on there unless it's horrible or something (and even then)
I think things are going slow right now partially because of the school year/quarter/whatever. At least I know that's the case with me. In about three weeks, I'll have more time to work on stuff. But I've really lost my creativity, so I'm aggressively trying to get it back.
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