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[MUSIC ON] Cover contest! This week: Songs about the Devil
Evil Multifarious
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There's a number of musicians in D&D, and a number of us have enough recording equipment to put our stuff on the internets. Thus, I propose we have a little fun with it.
How it works
This thread is a cover contest. Each week or so, a song will be picked that everyone has to cover. The song can be any style, any artist, etc, and the cover can be any style that you want to do. It can be an instrumental or an acapella or even a percussion-only track. Doesn't matter. In fact, the weirder the better.
Post your covers in the thread, for people to listen to and critique and enjoy. This is also your chance to get some advice on how to improve your musicking. The OP will be updated with websites where you can upload your tracks, although any site that lets you link your files should work. I use Google's page creator: http://pages.google.com - feel free to suggest the ones that you use or find particularly useful.
I'm leaning towards the idea of having everyone vote for their favourite cover at the end of the week, and having the winner pick the next song. Of course, this means that the winner has to be reasonable with their pick. This means something you can link on youtube, and which is somewhat conducive to being covered.
I will update the OP with current and/or recent covers in the running, as well as the youtube for the song to be covered, each week. Hopefully I can get this turned into a poll when people start contributing.
Who can participate
Everyone! If you're horrible at music, we can laugh at you. If you only play one instrument, you can just do an instrumental with it. Just make sure that you listen to the tracks each week so that people's effort isn't wasted. I'm hoping that we get plenty of people who have the right equipment and talent so that we have a fair number of covers.
Multiple forumers can collaborate to do a cover, in addition to their individual entries, if they so desire. In fact, you can collaborate with people who aren't on the forum if you want, like friends who play other instruments or bandmates who aren't nerdy enough to crawl around on forums.
You can also retract your entry and replace it with a new one as often as you want up to the week's end deadline, but you might want to PM me to make sure I catch it.
how i maek musac?
To get your stuff on the computer, you'll need the appropriate instruments and physical devices, like a microphone or an input. I'm using the Rock Band USB microphone right now, and it works okay. For recording, I use Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ It's free and it gives you multi track recording, sound reduction, some effects, etc.
I plan to update this section as people leave suggestions for programs and such as well. Maybe I'll just have a resources section at the bottom of the OP.
What's happening this week:
Last week's winner was APZonerunner, who won with his cover of Frog's Theme from Chrono Trigger.
This week, theme songs. Our winner has stipulated that the theme chosen must be the main theme of a given work; you can't do the Imperial March, only the Star Wars main theme, for example. This is open to anything from game shows to TV shows to movies to video games to commercial jingles, as far as I'm concerned.
The deadline is next Sunday, October 12th, at midnight.
Judging procedure
Because not everyone has time to listen to all the songs, it's hard to get people to actually vote, so we're going to try a panel of judges this week.
Judges have yet to be selected; PM me or post in the thread if you're interested in being a judge! Judges, obviously, cannot participate, although they can post an entry in the thread for shits and giggles.
The system I am thinking is that each judge will rate each song out of 10, providing a brief justification for their score, and the songs will be ranked by highest total score. The winner is of course the poster with the highest total score. That poster chooses the next song or theme for the week. If he's not around on the Tuesday after judging is complete within a reasonable time, the next highest score gets that honour, and so on.
This Week's Contenders
Bedlam - Ch-Check it Out (Beastie Boys) 7.5 + 5 + 0 = 12.5
Mullitt the Wise - (Just Like) Starting Over (John Lennon) 9 + 7.5 + 7 = 23.5
Evil Multifarious - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (The Tokens) 10 + 8.5 + 10 = 28.5 Winner!
Amphetamine - Sex and Candy (Marcy Playground) 5 + 6.5 + 5 = 16.5
Simon Moon - Champagne Supernova (Oasis) 4 + 8+ 3 = 15
Past Contenders
Mullitt the Wise - All the Same 6/7/10 = 23
mntorankusu - Maverick Boss Theme (Mega Man X) 1/5/7 = 13
mntorankusu - Mysterious Woods (Link's Awakening) 4/2/5 = 11
romanqwerty & syndalis - Estranged 5/4/6 = 15
syndalis, James, Evil Multifarious - You Oughta Know 7/8/8 = 23
Bedlam - The Man Who Sold the World 5/2/4 = 11
Simon Moon - Waiting For a Superman 10/7.8/9 = 26.8 WINNER!
VisibleHowl - Jeopardy! 15
romanqwerty - The Godfather theme 21
mntorankusu - Beverly Hills Cop theme 25 - Winner!
Bedlam - Spongebob theme 13
Inquisitor, Mishra, romanqwerty - Lady Writer
Bedlam - Teenagers
Simon Moon - Consequence (The Notwist)
Amphetamine - Hybrid Moments (The Misfits)
Amphetamine - Sorrow (Bad Religion)
Amphetamine - Give My Love to Rose (Johnny Cash)
NargorothRiP (and his band) - I Love My Computer (Bad Religion)
Mullitt the Wise - Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me (Mel Carter)
APZoneRunner (and his band) - Frog's Theme (Chrono Trigger) WINNER!
APZoneRunner (and his band again) - Aerith's Theme (Final Fantasy VII)
Jokerman - Never Gonna Give You Up (Rick Astley)
Jokerman - Across the Universe (The Beatles)
Evil Multifarious - No Diggity
Evil Multifarious - Hey Ya
Simon Moon - Hey Ya
How it works
This thread is a cover contest. Each week or so, a song will be picked that everyone has to cover. The song can be any style, any artist, etc, and the cover can be any style that you want to do. It can be an instrumental or an acapella or even a percussion-only track. Doesn't matter. In fact, the weirder the better.
Post your covers in the thread, for people to listen to and critique and enjoy. This is also your chance to get some advice on how to improve your musicking. The OP will be updated with websites where you can upload your tracks, although any site that lets you link your files should work. I use Google's page creator: http://pages.google.com - feel free to suggest the ones that you use or find particularly useful.
I'm leaning towards the idea of having everyone vote for their favourite cover at the end of the week, and having the winner pick the next song. Of course, this means that the winner has to be reasonable with their pick. This means something you can link on youtube, and which is somewhat conducive to being covered.
I will update the OP with current and/or recent covers in the running, as well as the youtube for the song to be covered, each week. Hopefully I can get this turned into a poll when people start contributing.
Who can participate
Everyone! If you're horrible at music, we can laugh at you. If you only play one instrument, you can just do an instrumental with it. Just make sure that you listen to the tracks each week so that people's effort isn't wasted. I'm hoping that we get plenty of people who have the right equipment and talent so that we have a fair number of covers.
Multiple forumers can collaborate to do a cover, in addition to their individual entries, if they so desire. In fact, you can collaborate with people who aren't on the forum if you want, like friends who play other instruments or bandmates who aren't nerdy enough to crawl around on forums.
You can also retract your entry and replace it with a new one as often as you want up to the week's end deadline, but you might want to PM me to make sure I catch it.
how i maek musac?
To get your stuff on the computer, you'll need the appropriate instruments and physical devices, like a microphone or an input. I'm using the Rock Band USB microphone right now, and it works okay. For recording, I use Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ It's free and it gives you multi track recording, sound reduction, some effects, etc.
I plan to update this section as people leave suggestions for programs and such as well. Maybe I'll just have a resources section at the bottom of the OP.
What's happening this week:
Last week's winner was APZonerunner, who won with his cover of Frog's Theme from Chrono Trigger.
This week, theme songs. Our winner has stipulated that the theme chosen must be the main theme of a given work; you can't do the Imperial March, only the Star Wars main theme, for example. This is open to anything from game shows to TV shows to movies to video games to commercial jingles, as far as I'm concerned.
The deadline is next Sunday, October 12th, at midnight.
Judging procedure
Because not everyone has time to listen to all the songs, it's hard to get people to actually vote, so we're going to try a panel of judges this week.
Judges have yet to be selected; PM me or post in the thread if you're interested in being a judge! Judges, obviously, cannot participate, although they can post an entry in the thread for shits and giggles.
The system I am thinking is that each judge will rate each song out of 10, providing a brief justification for their score, and the songs will be ranked by highest total score. The winner is of course the poster with the highest total score. That poster chooses the next song or theme for the week. If he's not around on the Tuesday after judging is complete within a reasonable time, the next highest score gets that honour, and so on.
This Week's Contenders
Bedlam - Ch-Check it Out (Beastie Boys) 7.5 + 5 + 0 = 12.5
Mullitt the Wise - (Just Like) Starting Over (John Lennon) 9 + 7.5 + 7 = 23.5
Evil Multifarious - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (The Tokens) 10 + 8.5 + 10 = 28.5 Winner!
Amphetamine - Sex and Candy (Marcy Playground) 5 + 6.5 + 5 = 16.5
Simon Moon - Champagne Supernova (Oasis) 4 + 8+ 3 = 15
Past Contenders
Mullitt the Wise - All the Same 6/7/10 = 23
mntorankusu - Maverick Boss Theme (Mega Man X) 1/5/7 = 13
mntorankusu - Mysterious Woods (Link's Awakening) 4/2/5 = 11
romanqwerty & syndalis - Estranged 5/4/6 = 15
syndalis, James, Evil Multifarious - You Oughta Know 7/8/8 = 23
Bedlam - The Man Who Sold the World 5/2/4 = 11
Simon Moon - Waiting For a Superman 10/7.8/9 = 26.8 WINNER!
VisibleHowl - Jeopardy! 15
romanqwerty - The Godfather theme 21
mntorankusu - Beverly Hills Cop theme 25 - Winner!
Bedlam - Spongebob theme 13
Inquisitor, Mishra, romanqwerty - Lady Writer
Bedlam - Teenagers
Simon Moon - Consequence (The Notwist)
Amphetamine - Hybrid Moments (The Misfits)
Amphetamine - Sorrow (Bad Religion)
Amphetamine - Give My Love to Rose (Johnny Cash)
NargorothRiP (and his band) - I Love My Computer (Bad Religion)
Mullitt the Wise - Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me (Mel Carter)
APZoneRunner (and his band) - Frog's Theme (Chrono Trigger) WINNER!
APZoneRunner (and his band again) - Aerith's Theme (Final Fantasy VII)
Jokerman - Never Gonna Give You Up (Rick Astley)
Jokerman - Across the Universe (The Beatles)
Evil Multifarious - No Diggity
Evil Multifarious - Hey Ya
Simon Moon - Hey Ya
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Yes, I forgot about this.
Multiple forumers can collaborate on a cover, and you can do that in addition to your own individual cover if you have the inclination and the time to do so.
Being only able to play bass and lacking the ability so sing or anything else means collaborating is probably the way to go for me. Listening to just a bass track is only so exciting.
Part of the fun is that the song to be covered can be terrible, like No Diggity. No Diggity is really badgood.
I like your cover of Hey Ya, EM. You've set the bar pretty high right away.
Good thing that no matter how hard I try I can't play anything ever, so I'll just enjoy the music and vote.
Maybe next week for me.
Well, first time for everything I guess. I'll dick around some.
I do like Hey Ya, for the record.
I think I can make Hey Ya work, but I have a feeling it'll be like when Alanis Morrisette covered My Humps.
I did too, in that weird, ironic sort of way. But then again, I love her.
Besides, who doesnt love some NIN...
I will be contributing to this most supulescentifilously.
EDIT: Dang, EM, your stuff is intimidatingly good. :P
I'm not gonna lie, part of the reason I like this idea is that it's very nice to hear people enjoying my music.
Good to see that there's a solid amount of interest!
Clarification: can we collaborate with non-forumers? For instance, could I make a cover with my roommate's girlfriend playing the guitar?
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Sure thing!
If someone's in a band, they can do a cover with their whole band. If someone's in an orchestra they could even use the whole group, if they can convince them.
This might be unfair if you are friends with, say, Slash, or Buckethead.
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(Your No Diggity cover isn't loading for me)
PS2
FF X replay
PS3
God of War 1&2 HD
Rachet and Clank Future
MGS 4
Prince of Persia
360
Bayonetta
Fable 3
DS
FF: 4 heroes of light
Whoops, I had some extra slashes in there. My bad. Link fixed!
PS2
FF X replay
PS3
God of War 1&2 HD
Rachet and Clank Future
MGS 4
Prince of Persia
360
Bayonetta
Fable 3
DS
FF: 4 heroes of light
that's a tough call. sounds like it would be more appropriate to the flute, but the banjo would make it a much more distinctly interesting sound.
PS2
FF X replay
PS3
God of War 1&2 HD
Rachet and Clank Future
MGS 4
Prince of Persia
360
Bayonetta
Fable 3
DS
FF: 4 heroes of light
If you can get a googlepages account going, it's a great hosting service.
Worse comes to worst, use yousendit.com or similar file transfer services that hold your file online for a week, which is the perfect duration.
http://www.babulous.com/home.jhtml is also a music sharing site, which happens to have a plugin app on Facebook.
mediafire and rapidshare are also fairly common.
Edit: okay, I tried changing the levels in the control panel while it was recording, and the level now defaults to that level when I hit the record button. Not an optimal solution, but I suppose it'll work for now.
The problem I'm facing now is that I still have the lead section, and because I've already used the acoustic guitar for the baseline I can't use it for that; there's not enough differentiation. I could use editing software and apply some sort of effects or synth, but ... I'd rather tackle this with the "one girl and a half-dozen instruments" approach if at all possible. I have an electric guitar somewhere, I might be able to get a different-enough sound out of that. Otherwise, I have a piano, but ... I'd probably switch something else into the baseline, and free up the acoustic, if all else fails.
The harmonica is also sort of troublesome, in that it's not a very strong instrument for repetitive riffs as opposed to more open-ended (and brief) soloing. I'm going to be recording it from a distance, probably, to try and cut as much of the characteristic 'fuzz' as possible and get clearer tones.
I composed the baseline on guitar and already have that recorded, it sounds true-to-tale. This makes me happy.
One solution is to use an actual, physical mixer with the program. Other than that, I don't really know, I'm not experienced with the program.
You sound way better on the No Diggity track than you do on the Hey Ya track. That thing you're doing with the reverb? It makes it sound like you're singing in your bathroom. I realize you were probably just messing around with it, but really, the whole point of doing studio tracks (and the reason they sound so much better than live tracks) is so that you can cut out crap like the reverb.
Also, you should turn down your guitar a bit, and bring the vocals more to the forefront. You're singing kind of quietly, and being overpowered by the guitar; if this means moving your mic some, I would do that.
Otherwise, you sound pretty good.
Also, songs for the next round potentially: Little Red Corvette and All Things Must Pass (DOOOO EEEEEET)?
Yeah, the Hey Ya cover is fairly old and reverby. It was a way to mask certain background sounds at the time, I believe.
I really need to get a mic stand to bring the vocals up, you're right. I am literally using the analog sticks on a 360 controller to support my Rock Band mic when I record, since my other mic bit the dust. :P
Hippie: I've done both, but I tend to do singing and playing simultaneously if it's a really complicated or tricky rhythm, to keep everything in time - but only if I don't mind just doing all one track. If it's anything with more than just the two instruments, I always multi track, since concentrating on one task makes for better results most of the time. This means putting on headphones and listening to one of the other tracks while recording the next, usually.