1 Feb
2010
1 Feb
'10
6:34 p.m.
frank pirrone wrote:
I should have mentioned this earlier when we announced
it on the show.
Anyways, one of our listeners came up with the idea for something we are
calling Tunestorm. The idea is to have a small set of rules that must be
adhered to for a musical composition and have see what sorts of
interesting interpretations you get out of the group of participating
musicians.
For Tunestorm #1 the rule is a descending major scale bass line where
each note is held for a full measure. To clarify with an example in the
key of C would be C B A G F E D C. There is NO other limit. You are free
to choose any key, tempo, chords, time signature etc.
Submissions must be in by the 6th of febuary 12:00 pm UTC.
I know it's short notice but the compositions don't need to be long just
enough to get an idea of your interpretations.
More info can be found here.
http://opensourcemusician.com/index.php/Tunestorm01
We will play all the submissions on the show with proper attribution and
a plug for whatever you want.
Daniel Worth
Host
Open Source Musician Podcast.
mailto:contributions@opensourcemusician.com
LOL! Well, it's not particularly later tonight as I promised in my last
message to my RPM2010 mates, but after I saw this Tunestorm message I
grabbed my trusty Strat and stepped on my rusty looper and in a few
minutes had the chord progression (and a rough melody) to fit within
the rules of this challenge. Then, sitting down at GEdit for about a
half-hour came up with the lyrics.
It's sappy, but hey...it's a song, AND it qualifies for both Tunestorm
#1 and RPM2010. My next one will have more (larger) balls, I promise.
I should be able to bang out a completed demo (it's bluesy-country)
later tonight and will upload it to our Packet-In server for your
consideration, and submit it to Tunestorm, but am attaching the song
sheet generated from the source file by the program Chord, using:
chord -t14 -c12 -G Never > Never.ps
ps2pdf Never.ps
Frank