Let's make an Exquisite Corpse!

[Rig]

WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN, you ask.

Basically, we're going to collab and make a song without knowing what the rest of the song sounds like. Here are the rules:

- 130 BPM
- In the key of C minor
- 36 bars long
- First two bars are intro, last two bars are outro

Use whatever instrument you want - piano, drums, your voice, WHATEVER! The chord progressions and rhythms are of your own choosing, as long as it's in C minor and 130 BPM.

Upload your track as an .mp3 to www.mediafire.com and PM me a link. DON'T POST IT IN THE THREAD

On Monday, I'll take all the tracks you guys sent me and combine them. I won't alter anything except the volume, so they mix together well.

THIS OUGHT TO BE FUN

[AlexCo]

oooo.

[InvisibleObserver]

At 4/8/10 03:37 PM, Rig wrote: Here are the rules:

- 130 BPM
- In the key of C minor
- 36 bars long
- First two bars are intro, last two bars are outro

2/9.5 time sig, right?

[Rig]

At 4/8/10 03:40 PM, InvisibleObserver wrote:

At 4/8/10 03:37 PM, Rig wrote: Here are the rules:

- 130 BPM
- In the key of C minor
- 36 bars long
- First two bars are intro, last two bars are outro

2/9.5 time sig, right?

Lol, forgot to mention that. It's good ol' 4/4 time signature.
By the way, send me only ONE track of ONE instrument.

[Rig]

At 4/8/10 03:43 PM, LaForge wrote: I think this project will produce something vile and unappealing. Just mashing random riffs together ain't makin' a quality song.

That's pretty much the whole point.

[Mich]

At 4/8/10 03:43 PM, LaForge wrote: I think this project will produce something vile and unappealing. Just mashing random riffs together ain't makin' a quality song.

The thing is, they won't be random, as they're all in the same key. That and Rig knows what he's doing.
I'll churn out something.

[Pure-Metal-UTA]

I'll take part as a guitarist.
Anything you're going towards genre-wise?

[Rucklo]

hey you should lock down the AF-lounge and promote this as a "weekend battle"thing. :D

[AlexCo]

I totally would participate but the tune I'm making right now is in A.

:/

[eatmeatleet]

one instrument only? wtf?

[InvisibleObserver]

I'll be doing some percussion for this.

[Mich]

At 4/8/10 05:02 PM, eatmeatleet wrote: one instrument only? wtf?

The idea is that it sort of gets mashed together, so if everyone would use multiple instruments, it'd get kind of ridiculous to do.

[Rig]

At 4/8/10 04:31 PM, AlexCo wrote: I totally would participate but the tune I'm making right now is in A.

/

It doesn't have to be perfect. Just one instrument playing something for 36 bars. Or two bars. You could have 30 bars of silence and just screaming for the last 6.

At 4/8/10 04:12 PM, Rucklo wrote: hey you should lock down the AF-lounge and promote this as a "weekend battle"thing. :D

Good idea. I'll lock it Saturday morning.

[SolusLunes]

Sounds very interesting.

I'll have to get on this. :D

[AlexCo]

I opened an old project and messed with it, check your Inbox Rig :)

[Quarl]

At 4/8/10 04:31 PM, AlexCo wrote: I totally would participate but the tune I'm making right now is in A.

/

Start a new one in c minor right now. Your other song file isn't going anywhere. The deadline for this little ditty is monday and it's only 36 bars. Also, it's not like your committed to this project once you start something. Start working on a melody and if you don't like it in five minutes, go back to your other project. Start working on a melody tonight/ tomorrow morning/ whenever before monday. You don't have to impress anyone. Worry more about improving your song writing abilities then whether or not what you do is any good.

Story time... I used to spend months working on say one song at a time. Sometimes I'd get lucky though and pound out a really great track in a day. I came to the conclusion that if I started something new everyday instead of fondling around with the same track for weeks at a time, productivity would go up. I was damn fucking right. I've never been more productive.

Now for the scary part of the story... if I'm not happy with a song file by the end of the day I started working on it... I delete it :O

[Rig]

At 4/8/10 05:47 PM, AlexCo wrote: I opened an old project and messed with it, check your Inbox Rig :)

A reminder: ONE INSTRUMENT ONLY GUYS LOOLLOOLOL

[Quarl]

At 4/8/10 05:47 PM, AlexCo wrote: I opened an old project and messed with it, check your Inbox Rig :)

damn, I took too long typing my shit up, sorry :P

fo rizzle though, your initial excuse for not participating was lame >:(

[AlexCo]

At 4/8/10 06:00 PM, Rig wrote:

At 4/8/10 05:47 PM, AlexCo wrote: I opened an old project and messed with it, check your Inbox Rig :)

A reminder: ONE INSTRUMENT ONLY GUYS LOOLLOOLOL

AEHAEHAEHAEHAEHAEHAEHEAH.

Oops.

[loansindi]

i might just have to do something for this sonic mess

[Rig]

I have three tracks already, and it's sounding interesting.

[Back-From-Purgatory]

Count me in... Lets make a mess!

[Back-From-Purgatory]

Actually... one question... can the single instrument be multitrack? I.E. do it's own harmony? Or should it be a mono type feel to avoid clashing with the other stuff?

[Back-From-Purgatory]

At 4/8/10 08:26 PM, LaForge wrote: I swear if I knew what C minor was I'd contribute. Maybe someone could explain it to me?

C minor includes the notes:

C, D, E%u266D, F, G, A%u266D, B%u266D, C

[Back-From-Purgatory]

At 4/8/10 08:28 PM, Back-From-Purgatory wrote:

At 4/8/10 08:26 PM, LaForge wrote: I swear if I knew what C minor was I'd contribute. Maybe someone could explain it to me?

C minor includes the notes:

C, D, E%u266D, F, G, A%u266D, B%u266D, C

Errr... copy/paste fail... that should be:

C, D, E flat, F, G, A flat, B flat, C

[Rig]

At 4/8/10 08:24 PM, Back-From-Purgatory wrote: Actually... one question... can the single instrument be multitrack? I.E. do it's own harmony? Or should it be a mono type feel to avoid clashing with the other stuff?

Yeah, someone sent me a piano. It's fine.

As a side note, guys, not EVERY instrument has to have a melody. There's always room for a basic pad or chord progression.

[Mich]

At 4/8/10 08:33 PM, Rig wrote: Yeah, someone sent me a piano. It's fine.

That would be me.

I'm really interested as to how it'll sound.

[jarrydn]

I have a massively phat pad I programmed into one of my devices, and I have absolutely no use for it. Or at least, that's what I thought ;)

[Rig]

At 4/8/10 08:54 PM, Mich wrote: I'm really interested as to how it'll sound.

It's turning out surprisingly coherent so far. The chord progressions people are choosing are eerily similar.

[InvisibleObserver]

At 4/9/10 12:33 AM, Rig wrote:

At 4/8/10 08:54 PM, Mich wrote: I'm really interested as to how it'll sound.

It's turning out surprisingly coherent so far. The chord progressions people are choosing are eerily similar.

You are mixing this to help it make sense, right?