I sent mine kind of late - 11:45 or so Eastern time - and did not get a confirmation - I hope I am okay!

The New Ugly by Ross Durand (y en Espanol por Carlo Bruno) Well you open up your mouth and your brain falls out And we all get to hear what you’ve been thinking about And we don’t like it - not at all And then you say that this country’s free So you can say what you want to, but so can we And this ...

Email sent - I believe I am in Nur Ein!!!! EDIT: Sampled bass and snare drums, banged guitar case, a random sampling of coffee cups-a beer bottle-and a mandolin tailpiece cover that were sitting on a random shelf in my recording space, guiro sticks, tambourine, backwards tambourine, voice. Apparentl...

A long as JonEric is clarifying - I am also assuming that informal percussion is also ok - pounding on boxes - stuff like that.

Ross Durand: at first I wasn't really sold by the canned sounding sounds (and I still think these sounds could be improved on) but when the guitars come in at about 1 minute I'm into it. being included on your list gives me the slightest hope of moving on :-) As you know, this isn't my usual approa...

I assume you're kidding about the explosions, they wouldn't fit the definition above, clearly a wind instrument it seems to me. :-) Hmm, good point. Which section were the cannons in for the 1812 Overture? :-P Just saying, the sound doesn't come from striking the cannonball. Now if you want to play...

Glennny, i disagree with you about the spirit seeming to be non -pitched. Look again at this quote from JonEric... At first I thought we just wanted to rule out using "pitched" percussion, but a majority of the judges argued in favor of struck idiophones such as the xylophone or marimba. A...

I assume you're kidding about the explosions, they wouldn't fit the definition above, clearly a wind instrument it seems to me.

I read the spirit that way, too, MG. Just looking for reinforcement to be sure we all understand it the same way.

Marimba, vibraphone, xylophone, other pitched percussion ok? Just not piano?

My 10-year old played ukelele - she's kind of in love with it and has even written a few one-chord songs. Both of my daughters added chorus backing vocals.

Watertight (y en Espanol por Carlo Bruno) by Ross Durand Ukelele (the middle bit and the end bit) and consultation on “cool sounds” by Sierra Durand Additional crowd vocals on chorus by Sydney Durand and Sierra Durand We’re all afloat on a musical boat Gonna ride the wave away to anywhere that it go...

My entry is in. Like many others, this was not an especially advantageous week for getting this done... Is it bad to be knocking wood for four defaults?

Nur Ein!!!

Generic wrote: Ross Durand
Weren't you one of the ones complaining about the interpretation of the challenge? You pretty much did exactly what we were thinking of, with your third verse.

Never complained. Offered an alternative interpretation, asked for clarification. Clarification helped.

Mothers day out of town weekend, absolutely do not have seven days.

Interesting, I seem to have been the one judge that did not put that song in the bottom 2.

(On the other hand, Sid Dennison (which was Caravan Ray's nom de guerre a few years ago) once incorporated the challenge by recontextualizing the source material into a brief opening sketch and then doing a two-minute punk song about how he doesn't like rules. He didn't survive that round. I still ...

Caravan Ray wrote: The verses are in Am (using chords Am Dm E)

The E major chord worked good, yeah?

Generic wrote:a general call for the participants to lobby on their own behalves.

Pick me! Pick me!

Well, not for disqualification - for something good!

The third verse of my song is in the relative minor (em) compared to the key of the first two verses (G major).

Stop (You're Killing Me) - also en espanol por Carlo Bruno by Ross Durand -The third verse is in the relative minor compared to verses one and two.- Verse 1 - The Ant Hey Kid, put that thing away Just been crawling down here all day I'm pretty sure I never did nothin to you Then you get that piece o...

Ugh, i got nothing on this so far....

EDIT: Nevermind, I have something now.

Nur ein!!