Speaking of borrowed compositions, what does Stacking Theory remind me of this round? I’ve been wracking my brain trying to figure it out.

The intention is to give perspective from at least two different time periods significantly apart and weave them into a coherent song. Whether it’s fictional or not doesn’t matter so long as you aren’t so off-the-rails that it’s not recognizable as being different time periods. The original suggesti...

Welp, this is one of those rounds where as soon as I start listening to everyone else's songs, I immediately kick myself for not googling the most basic thing - how to fucken pronounce deified. I just assumed it was DAY-ified with a long "a" (like it is in Latin - Deus Ex Machina), but ha...

No ABBCBBA (7 notes, 3 tones)? I guess that's too similar to just being ABCBA. I’d give that a strong “depends” how well it’s done. If it feels like ABCBA with an awkward addition that doesn’t really belong there, not a huge fan. That said, I won’t be strongly indexing on the challenge as a penalty.

I can’t speak for the other judges. I will accept any phrase that contains at least 3 distinct tones and is at least 6 notes in total length. In other words, I think the minimum phrases follow the forms ABCCBA (6 notes, 3 tones), ABCDCBA (7 notes, 4 tones), ABACABA (7 notes, 3 tones).

I’ll also be pretty liberal in my judging, so don’t toss out whatever you were doing. Just saying, I’ll judge harder if it’s obviously part of another phrase. Because then I don’t consider it a phrase in and of itself, which means it doesn’t follow the text of the challenge “palindromic musical phra...

Any instrument or track. However, I will be looking for a complete phrase. For example: an 8 beat melody with 6 notes palindromic and 2 completing the phrase does *not* qualify.

Edit: removed the use of “measure”

At the risk of pissing everyone off, I figure I owe you all some thoughts. I listened to the songs multiple times and had different front-runners at different times. The things I looked for were: * execution - technically how well you composed, performed, engineered, produced * concept - how well th...

This pairing, in retrospect, screams Gregorian chant to me. To be clear, Gregorian chant should be chanted - not screamed.

The website has Round 0 up. I have a forum post in the moderation queue. Sorry for the bumpy start, folks.

Submit an original song by May 22 at 11:59 PM (EDT) that fits the following criteria

Title: Friday the 13th
Challenge: write a feel-good song with happy lyrics and upbeat music

Send your MP3 to nurein.sidefight@gmail.com

Good luck!

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I'll judge. I won't be able to do much else.

C4D929B2-364C-436A-BAB7-4E406F948367.gif Yawn. If I’d known you didn’t know what you wanted I might have had time to make a better song. Instead, I bugged the heck out of Cybronica for her educated opinion on music theory. I knew I would get panned for only having 2 hours to record. I considered no...

However, you establish the key of C and then go up to Gm in both chords and melody. That's an upward modulation in my book. When you bike up and down a hill, and someone asks “did you bike down that hill?” do you say “no! I only biked up!”? I don’t really anticipate making it through this round for...

Challenge: My verse is in C and my chorus is in Gm. The transition back to C involves Adim -> D7 -> C. Which is downward. I hope you didn’t mean to specify something else that isn’t a technical definition of modulation! Verse After years of repeating the same mistakes You’re convinced there is no es...

Thanks, judges, furrypedro, Tommy G, and everyone else who's shared their reaction to this song. I had no idea it would catch on. My wife has been singing "NEIN! WE ROW!" all week. At first I was going to do some lame Penny Lane inspired song and toss in some foreign lyrics - probably Fren...

omg. I read that whole thread and it was hilarious. Mean as hell but the insults were pretty funny. Haven’t read it in years… wow, that was hilarious! …in retrospect. Y’know, new people come around and think these forums can be heated… but today it’s mostly friendly jabs compared to back then. We’v...

JonPorobil wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 07, 2021 12:04 pm

And I don't mind telling you guys, if I'd been a judge that year, I'd have made the same call.

Oh good, I was concerned I wouldn’t have a reason to bring up the villanelle incident this year.

furrypedro wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 06, 2021 11:55 pm

Oh no, this is gonna be Cassettes all over again. Please let Grumpy Mike through or we'll never hear the end of it

9 years ago! That’s crazy!

Featuring Cybronica on the Germanphone Verse 1 i don’t want another coffee don’t want any dessert don’t want to see a movie don’t want to sit and flirt don’t want to be inside gazing in each others’ eyes i don’t want to see a show i just want you in my boat Chorus Aber es ist zu heiss! (But it is to...

Well, that's adorable. You never said 1890s! I love subpar Bertolt Brecht pastiches and you nailed it. I don't know if this is sarcasm or not, but I sincerely thank you for having more than "I forgot to listen to this song and now I forgot I listened to this song". FWIW I did have a post-...