Shhhhhh. It's just a pre-fight thread.

Post by **Spud** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:09 am

Baby, Be Quiet
Due: Monday 10/15/07 9:59am pdt

Billy's Little Trip · Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:34 am

Answer - What my "lovely" wife will be saying as I record this song.
Nice, a week and a weekend.

adamadamant · Post by **adamadamant** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:20 pm

There's been some great titles recently and this one is excellent. I've already written a song actually (I'm a lazy student), but I might try and eek out all the goodness I can from it as I have a while before the deadline. I just have to learn how to sing and it'll be perfect.

jeff robertson · Post by **jeff robertson** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:05 pm

Because of various family stuff, I will not be able to finish this between now and the deadline.

However, I'm willing to donate tab for what I had come up with:

Code: Select all

12/8 time, 120 bpm


Play any combination of these, for 8 measures


   Dm                 G        Am
E----------------------------------------
B----------------------------------------
G----------------------------------------
D----------------------------------------
A---------------------5--------7--5------
D--0--5--7--0--5--7------7--5--------7---


   Dm                 G        Am
E----------------------------------------
B--------3--------3---------0--------1---
G-----2--------2---------0--------2------
D--0--------0---------0--------2---------
A----------------------------------------
D----------------------------------------



   Dm                 G        Am
E--2--2--2--2--2--2---3--3--3--5--5--5---
B--3--3--3--3--3--3---3--3--3--5--5--5---
G--2--2--2--2--2--2---4--4--4--5--5--5---
D--0--0--0--0--0--0---5--5--5--7--7--7---
A----------------------------------------
D----------------------------------------



melody:

  D   G Am  D   G Am  D   G Am  D   G Am 
E---------|---------|---------|----------
B---------|---------|---------|----------
G---------|---------|-7---4---|-5--------
D-3---5---|-7-------|---------|----------
A---------|---------|---------|----------
D---------|---------|---------|----------


  D   G Am  D   G Am  D   G Am  D   G Am 
E---------|---------|---------|----------
B---------|---------|---------|----------
G---------|---------|---------|----------
D-3---5---|-7-------|-3---3---|----------
A---------|---------|---------|-5--------
D---------|---------|---------|----------

veGetar Ianra Ge · Post by **veGetar Ianra Ge** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:44 pm

Billy's Little Trip wrote:Answer - What my "lovely" wife will be saying as I record this song.
Nice, a week and a weekend.

Answer - What I'll be telling my lovely girlfriend when she complains about me working on this song.

This is a good title, I think. Better than the last one anyway. I think I'll break out the acoustic on this. I finally changed my strings, the old ones were a health risk they were so rusty.

EmbersOfAutumn · Post by **EmbersOfAutumn** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:04 am

*Is too busy playing his new Nintendo DS to remember to do a fight this week...*

Hell Biscuit · Post by **Hell Biscuit** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:11 am

sweet title. the nature of my lyrics will probably vary only slightly from most of the other submissions. still worth it for how much fun it was to write. now to record.....

Märk · Post by **Märk** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:21 pm

I think if I were to record what I have in mind, I'd be ostracized from this community.

Hint: it involves violence against babies.

[quick edit] Hey WreckdoM! Wanna collab?

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:40 pm

I got inspired by the new Radiohead album. My lyrics don't have much to do with the title but they were inspired by it and that's all that matters.

bz£ · Post by **bz£** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:01 am

Sven wrote:violence against babies

Actually I remember a news story a few months back about a woman who tried using packing tape to keep her baby's pacifier in its mouth. If you decide to search your favorite news outlet for the details (for inspiration!) keep an eye open for the technical term "involuntary manslaughter."

Is it a problem that this is the first thing that came to my mind?

big crouton · Post by **big crouton** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:33 pm

Well folks, it looks like I'm gonna be in on this one. I have only to write my lyrics, record everything (except the scratch tracks which I've already done, and the drums which are being done by none other than Jolly Roger), mix it, master it, and then I'm done.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:06 am

Mine is in, woo.

(I don't think my track would benefit from being polished all the way until Monday morning and so I figure there's no harm in submitting it earlier. Unless fightmaster loses the email or something.)

wages · Post by **wages** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 10:37 am

I'm working on it...but I can't post a demo because my email/ftp/website are down.

Anyone interested in collab on a hard rock tune for this (drums or all instrumentation, as always!), PM immediately with your email and I'll try to email you my demo through Gmail. Peace!

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 1:18 pm

The Lord is in.

Maybe with this done, I'll have time for some reviews today.

Pierre · Post by **Pierre** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 5:01 pm

Deux Freres will be entering this week.

Post by jb » Sat Oct 13, 2007 6:00 pm

fluffy wrote:Mine is in, woo.

(I don't think my track would benefit from being polished all the way until Monday morning and so I figure there's no harm in submitting it earlier. Unless fightmaster loses the email or something.)

what email?

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 6:21 pm

The one that's sitting right there in the inbox.

Hell Biscuit · Post by **Hell Biscuit** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:57 pm

just sent mine in.

disclaimer: my vocals are probably too loud. the mix sounded good on the multitrack, then i got it on the mac and i hope it's just my crappy laptop speakers - hope it's not too overbearing for everybody else.

i dunno, probably not a winner to begin with, but i like it (aside from the use of the drum machine - but hey, it fits in my apartment and my real drums don't)...(and, of course, how much louder the vocals sounded on my computer... not that i'm a big fan of the way my voice sounds anyway, but i try)...

wages · Post by **wages** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:12 pm

I just sent mine in. I tried a slightly different approach to recording this time. Rather than trying to record "the entire rhythm guitar in a single take", I hit record and started playing. When I screwed up, I stopped, erased back to the screw-up, then started at that point. PLUS, I recorded the vocals and guitar separately, and I also did the vocals the same way I did the guitar. It really seems to speed up my time in the recording phase, and I got less frustrated as it didn't have to done in a single take. Less frustration should eventually lead to better production values.

And better production values should lead to more votes...

hopefully.

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:10 pm

Hell Biscuit wrote:just sent mine in.

disclaimer: my vocals are probably too loud. the mix sounded good on the multitrack, then i got it on the mac and i hope it's just my crappy laptop speakers - hope it's not too overbearing for everybody else.

i dunno, probably not a winner to begin with, but i like it (aside from the use of the drum machine - but hey, it fits in my apartment and my real drums don't)...(and, of course, how much louder the vocals sounded on my computer... not that i'm a big fan of the way my voice sounds anyway, but i try)...

Laptop speakers almost always seriously lack bass response. If you turn it up to where you can hear it, it will probably accentuate the vocals. My PC happens to have a pair of speakers hooked up to it that really emphasizes the frequencies of bass guitar. Weird? Yeah. I listen to SF songs on at least five different systems before I vote or review. I'll let you know how yours sounds when I hear it.

big crouton · Post by **big crouton** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:10 pm

Wages wrote:I just sent mine in. I tried a slightly different approach to recording this time. Rather than trying to record "the entire rhythm guitar in a single take", I hit record and started playing. When I screwed up, I stopped, erased back to the screw-up, then started at that point. PLUS, I recorded the vocals and guitar separately, and I also did the vocals the same way I did the guitar. It really seems to speed up my time in the recording phase, and I got less frustrated as it didn't have to done in a single take. Less frustration should eventually lead to better production values. And better production values should lead to more votes...

hopefully.

interestingly enough, I'm in the opposite position from you, in that I usually break my recordings up into several small chunks in order to get that magic take of each section, but for this song I just took a couple takes all the way through until I found that magic take of the whole song. It just felt right for this song.

That said, I'm all done and entered. I'm also quite happy with how things turned out. It's certainly not perfect, but it's got a great feel to it, so I was quite happy to enter it without re-recording until perfection. Also, my auto-tune was acting up on me, so I had to do without. I guess that's the occasional cost of pirating plug-ins.

Steve Durand · Post by **Steve Durand** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:42 pm

big crouton wrote: That said, I'm all done and entered.

Will there be massive guitar shredding?

Steve