RotM #4 - Chat

TTony

Right then, all you riffers ...

Here's the 4th Riff of the Month (RotM) Challenge, being run by @Antique_Guitars and @TTony.

The challenge is now open, and remains open for submissions until 24th November.

All you have to do is ...

• Write a guitar riff.  You can include whatever else yo want in the mix, but the main focus must be on the riff.
• Keep it to 30 seconds.  This is about riffs, not songs.
• Challenge opens on the 1st of every month, and closes on the 24th of the month.
• Voting opens on the 25th of the month, and closes on the last day of the month, when the winner will be announced.

Send your tracks to riffs@theFB.co.uk

The tracks will be uploaded to our SoundCloud account and saved in a playlist that will be linked below (just as soon as we've had some submissions!).

The winners board to date is;

RotM#1  @Horse  (11 entries submitted)

RotM#2  @Antique_Guitars  (13 entries submitted)

RotM#3  @Horse  (7 entries submitted)

Get riffing peeps ....

ThePrettyDamned

Where is says entries submitted... We are allowed to submit several?

Or is it just one per month?

TTony

One per month, Mr Greedy.

ThePrettyDamned

TTony said:

One per month, Mr Greedy.

Just wondering, I'm assuming the 'entries submitted' thing is how many entered in total that month. 

Makes more sense I'll record mine now.

ThePrettyDamned

Sod it, I'll use one I recorded hastily the other day.  Just getting it onto Soundcloud.

steamabacus

ThePrettyDamned said:

Sod it, I'll use one I recorded hastily the other day.  Just getting it onto Soundcloud.

That's the spirit - 'hastily recorded' is de rigeur, I believe.




(Although Horse has managed some excellent recordings, I must say).

ThePrettyDamned

steamabacus said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

Sod it, I'll use one I recorded hastily the other day.  Just getting it onto Soundcloud.

That's the spirit - 'hastily recorded' is de rigeur, I believe.




(Although Horse has managed some excellent recordings, I must say).

Yeah man, he makes me feel like such an amateur! This is one I recorded the other day after a few  beers, hastily double tracked complete with minor mistimings.

You should get the idea though

TTony

You've got until 24th November.  No need for haste.  And send it to the email addy so we can put it on theFB's playlist.

ThePrettyDamned

TTony;402377" said:

You've got until 24th November.  No need for haste.  And send it to the email addy so we can put it on theFB's playlist.

Already put it there.

Most of the stuff I'm working on for me at the moment is funk based, which doesn't tend to lend itself to a good riff as such. If I come up with one, there is always next time, but the other night I felt like having tons of digital distortion and that riff happened, so why not

Antique_Guitars

ThePrettyDamned said:

TTony;402377" said:

You've got until 24th November.  No need for haste.  And send it to the email addy so we can put it on theFB's playlist.

Already put it there.

Most of the stuff I'm working on for me at the moment is funk based, which doesn't tend to lend itself to a good riff as such. If I come up with one, there is always next time, but the other night I felt like having tons of digital distortion and that riff happened, so why not

Thanks your track is uploaded and a new playlist has been created!

Come on other people start entering!

TTony

I'll be entering.

I can (just about) manage 30secs of riffing once a month!

samzadgan

My entry is in...and this time I'm not doing anything weird...

Antique_Guitars

Yep yours is uploaded sex machine

ThePrettyDamned

Ooo how exciting.

samzadgan

@theprettydamned
I like that riff man...very tight!

ThePrettyDamned

Cheers bro. It's quite shockingly double tracked, but I was a bit tipsy when I recorded it. And the pinch harmonics are... Meh. I might rerecord though because I really like it, and it's something that's easily workable into a song.

Just heard yours, doooooooom. I don't have anything that can get that "wall of sound" type of thing sadly.

samzadgan

I actually liked that PH...thought it was subtle and under-done. I'd like to hear that riff as part of a full song...would be pretty cool.

 

As for the wall of sound...its just a good way of hiding bad technique! But to be honest, 30s is a very short time for me....that riff would take up about 5 minutes of a song! (acoustic part about 2 mins, and distorted about 3mins)

ThePrettyDamned

samzadgan;403398" said:

I actually liked that PH...thought it was subtle and under-done. I'd like to hear that riff as part of a full song...would be pretty cool. As for the wall of sound...its just a good way of hiding bad technique! But to be honest, 30s is a very short time for me....that riff would take up about 5 minutes of a song! (acoustic part about 2 mins, and distorted about 3mins)

I just had a play with my fuzz box, and I got it mega squishy and compressed but it's just too toppy for that sound.

It does do a nice ripping velcro sound at the lead position though

steamabacus

Entry submitted.

I've gone for something a bit mellower this time.

horse

I'm in. Tried to capture some sparkle this time.

PolarityMan

I have sent some more metal stuff at you