Let me have your thoughts on this ...
A lot of the submissions to the challenges is - IMHO - of just about professional standard.
The composition challenges also have the extra interest of different interpretations on a theme, and often an explanation from those taking part about their thinking, recording process and equipment.
I'd like to get some of that content out to a wider audience - firstly because I think the compositions deserve to be heard more widely, and secondly because I'd hope that the extra exposure might encourage more people to participate.
Mark / Jooky (remember him?) is currently publishing a couple of music-related "things". One is the guitar quarterly hardback book and the second is his weekly 4:52am e-magazine.
4:52am, being an e-mag, incorporates a lot of rich media rather than just pictures and words. Talking to Mark, he'd be very happy to feature some of the music-making challenges that we've done here.
Win for him - gives him some different content that would build into a regular series.
Win for us - gives us more exposure as a forum generally and to the composition challenge specifically.
(Obviously, someone may get offered a mega-£m recording contract when their composition gets heard, but please don't hold your breath waiting for that).
GuitarQuarterly:
https://www.guitarquarterly.co.uk/4-52am/Current 4:52am:
https://www.452am.co.uk/features/magazine/What are your thoughts on this generally, and would anyone specifically
not like for their work to be included?
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Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
It's also good to hear some info and back story relating to the compositions. I'm always interested in how others approach things. I think my method is quite mundane and scientific and I could learn from the more artistic approach of others like @steamabacus
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youEveryone who takes part is very supportive.
@Legionreturns Don't be intimidated. we're a supportive bunch and, in my experience, people are usually a lot more creative than they give themselves credit for. I'd love to hear your songs - it's not all about widdly solos! In fact, for the composition challenges you don't even have to use a guitar.
Of course, if anyone does get offered a £m recording contract once the compositions have been heard by a wider audience, I'll be round for my 20%.
@Legionreturns - the "challenge" element in all of these is not so much the challenge to "win", but more it's the personal challenge to actually get something, anything, recorded and submitted.
It's also a great way to develop, and your learn (well, I did) all sorts of stuff from the mere process of recording and submitting a track. As you do that month-by-month you suddenly find that you've learned a whole load of stuff and developed completely new skills, that you wouldn't have done without the discipline of actually recording and submitting something.
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I miss recording. My recording computer ist kaput.
I didn't realise how much I recorded till I can't do it any more.
“Theory is something that is written down after the music has been made so we can explain it to others”– Levi Clay
Thanks for the encouraging replies. As you can see, they've helped!
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