The Song Fight Bulletin Board

The 18th edition of the Nur Ein starts now!

Submit an original song by May 28 at 11:59 PM (EDT) that fits the following criteria

Title: Sink or Swim

Challenge: Lyrics about the changing seasons.

Send your MP3 to nurein.sidefight@gmail.com

Good luck!

I can't believe it, I have a working demo! going to start laying down tracks tonight, because the temptation is to get cocky and rest on my laurels until like Friday. why no convo over here, is everyone on the Discord? *forgot Discord existed until just now*

Oh heck - I've been so caught up in stuff that I almost missed this!

I'm pedalling now, something is taking shape... eeep!!

gizo wrote: ↑

Fri May 26, 2023 6:10 am

Oh heck - I've been so caught up in stuff that I almost missed this!

I'm pedalling now, something is taking shape... eeep!!

Yay, glad you made it! Guys I am seriously shocked that there's no chat this year. Big bummer - much like I recently realized about the open mics, half the reason I participate is for the community.

(The other half is for those sweet, sweet reviews )

We've already got a #nurein channel in the Song Fight Slack and there's plenty of room for one in the Song Fight Discord.

Lunkhead wrote: ↑

Sat May 27, 2023 12:36 pm

We've already got a #nurein channel in the Song Fight Slack and there's plenty of room for one in the Song Fight Discord.

last year the Nur Ein chat on the Discord was in the #monkeybusiness channel. I think it deserves its own channel!

son of a bitch, triple post!

ETA: might as well use it! Welp, I am struggling as per usual. I started out using one of my Omni's cheesy built in drum sounds for rhythm, in a (clearly vain) attempt to keep myself on beat, and then today I attempted to record actual real drums to replace it. Well, turns out I have some kind of weird drum Tourette's where I randomly hit beats that have nothing to do with the song, so that's fun for me. Trying to edit them out, haha hee heee. Thank God this is only Round 0, is all I can say!

Lunkhead wrote: ↑

Sat May 27, 2023 12:36 pm

We've already got a #nurein channel in the Song Fight Slack and there's plenty of room for one in the Song Fight Discord.

how do I get on the Song Fight Slack?

sent my track in, barely got it finished in time, but it's in! nur ein!

Just did what I needed to do to get my foot in the door on this one. But I'm in.

BenKrieger wrote: ↑

Sun May 28, 2023 4:35 pm

Just did what I needed to do to get my foot in the door on this one. But I'm in.

YAY BEN!!!! Can't wait to hear it

PS I'm in.

PPS well I think I'm in. gotta go downstairs and check with hubs that he received it.

I’m in with a solo entry this year! I’m curious to see how far I can make it with my limited instrumental abilities.

arby wrote: ↑

Sun May 28, 2023 3:25 pm

Lunkhead wrote: ↑

Sat May 27, 2023 12:36 pm

We've already got a #nurein channel in the Song Fight Slack and there's plenty of room for one in the Song Fight Discord.

how do I get on the Song Fight Slack?

Hopefully the info here still works. If not I can bug JB about it.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11905

Slack link no longer active

gizo wrote: ↑

Sun May 28, 2023 9:13 pm

Slack link no longer active

I bugged JB and he got an updated link to join the Slack and I updated the post on the boards with the new link. Here it is also:

https://join.slack.com/t/songfight/shar ... N3eDPWxcmg

Also thanks to @Lunkhead for adding the #nurein channel to Discord.

I am also in so it’ll be interesting to see how long the “instruments but can’t sing” thing will last haha

I didn't get my song recorded in time to actually enter, but it got me writing again for the first time in months so I'm happy! Maybe I should have started writing more than half an hour before the deadline. In any case, I sent in my shadow under Crown Shy and will try to keep shadowing as much as possible.

/me is now trying to figure out who's who in the entries...

ujnhunter wrote: ↑

Mon May 29, 2023 11:15 am

/me is now trying to figure out who's who in the entries...

I've got it (with a little help from Nivs):
chewmeupandspitmeout is The Serviettes
Ellipsis is Mo
Jimmy Pesto is Ben Krieger
Slimeparty is Caravan Ray

mo wrote: ↑

Mon May 29, 2023 10:49 am

I am also in so it’ll be interesting to see how long the “instruments but can’t sing” thing will last haha

Well, I can’t sing or play guitar, so I’m sure you’ll be fine.