Riff of the Month (RotM) #42 - Chat

stratman3142

Here's the 42nd Riff of the Month (RotM) Challenge, being run by @stratman3142 and @TTony.

The challenge is now open, and remains open for submissions until 11:30pm on 23rd April 2018

All you have to do is ...

Write a riff. You can include whatever else you want in the mix, but the main focus must be on the riff. Most entries will probably be guitar based riffs, but they don't have to be.

Keep it to a maximum of 50 seconds. This is about riffs, not songs.

Send your entry (as an mp3) to riffs@theFB.co.uk

Include your forum name in the email.

Voting will start soon after the submission deadline of 23rd April 2018, with each voter selecting their 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice.

First choice gets 5 points - Second choice gets 3 points - Third choice gets 1 point

Voting will end on 11.30pm 30th April 2018

The order and scores of the top three entries will be announced soon after the voting ends. If there are 8 or more entries, then the order and scores of those in the top half will be announced.

No prizes. It's just for fun.

As people submit their entries, I'll post them below to hopefully promote some discussion on approaches used.

https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sets/rotm42-2018-04

bingefeller

Sent this one also so I did.

poopot

mine makes two!

stratman3142

bingefeller said:

Sent this one also so I did.

poopot said:

mine makes two!

 Two entries so far, which are now in the playlist in the original post.

IMC1980

Sent one in, short and to the point....

stratman3142

IMC1980 said:

Sent one in, short and to the point....

Added to playlist in the original post. That makes 3 so far.

poopot

IMC1980 said:

Sent one in, short and to the point....

What are you using for the drums?

IMC1980

poopot said:

IMC1980 said:

Sent one in, short and to the point....

What are you using for the drums?

It is BFD3, I use the Technical Metal preset with a few tweaks and the samples are from Groove Monkee's Metal 2 pack.

flying_pie

Sent.

stratman3142

flying_pie said:

Sent.

Added to playlist. 4 entries so far.

stratman3142

Mine's in the playlist which now makes 5 entries.

I was somewhat influenced by something else, and the title is a nod towards that.

flying_pie

stratman3142 said:

Mine's in the playlist which now makes 5 entries.

I was somewhat influenced by something else, and the title is a nod towards that.

I was expecting Down In Tube Station At Midnight... I guess it was a nod in the opposite direction

stratman3142

flying_pie said:

stratman3142 said:

Mine's in the playlist which now makes 5 entries.

I was somewhat influenced by something else, and the title is a nod towards that.

I was expecting Down In Tube Station At Midnight... I guess it was a nod in the opposite direction

It was influenced by a track by Mr J Beck on the Blow By Blow album. Anyone like to hazard a guess.

flying_pie

stratman3142 said:

It was influenced by a track by Mr J Beck on the Blow By Blow album. Anyone like to hazard a guess.

flying_pie

Weird...

Anyway I'll let others guess as I'm not familiar enough with Mr Beck and won't just Google the album in order to guess. 

FWIW my influence was my young daughter. She has been asking repeatedly to hear the final draft of my current composition challenge after I played it in the car to reference it through different speakers. She likes it even though it has "loud" guitars. That gave me the idea of introducing her to heavier genres by writing riffs/songs and telling her they're about unicorns.

It worked!

I played it to her yesterday and she's since listened loads of times because of the unicorn link. She is now subliminally being drawn to whatever progressive/sludge genre that riff would fit in. 

I'm already wondering about what to do for next month...  a thrash metal riff about mermaids? Post punk hardcore Barbie?

hobbio

I really must get my recording set up back together and get back into these competitions.

stratman3142

Just got one from @TTony so there are 6 entries in the playlist now.

TTony

stratman3142 said:

Just got one from @TTony so there are 6 entries in the playlist now.

That was quick.  I think it was still sending over my mega-slow internet connection, and its already on the playlist!

It's another pretty quicky from me I'm afraid.  I probsbly spent more time playing around with the EQ levels on the different tracks than I did actually playing.

Still trying to learn about mixing, etc.

DulcetJones

Sent.

stratman3142

DulcetJones said:

Sent.

7 entries now in the playlist.

stratman3142

Submission deadline is 11:30pm on Monday 23rd April 2018, so this is the last weekend to submit your entries.