Nur Ein XVIII Round One "Blind Spot"

[Niveous]

How will you handle Round One?

Submit an original song by June 4th at 11:59 PM (EDT) that fits the following criteria

Title: Blind Spot

Challenge: Use of hand percussion

Send your MP3 to nurein.sidefight@gmail.com

Good luck!

[BoffoYux]

Round 1 LP will be delayed until about 10pm on Monday 6/5 - I have a meeting that night so I'll rush back but might be delayed from the original time. See you there!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx8q3D7Z7OI

[lichenthroat]

I'm in already. I'm traveling the rest of this week, so I had to get this one done quickly.

[arby]

ughhhhhh struggling again... I have a few vague ideas and have recorded NOTHING!! starting to panic

[thirdcatmusic]

finished lyrics and most of melody/song structure but still have to actually record most of it. feeling pretty good about it so far though. hoping to be able to spend quite a bit of time tomorrow and sunday to get it down. the good thing about nur ein is this deadline, I need to start giving myself deadlines on other projects I think.

[glennny]

I hear Moss Palace is restricted to only Vibra-Slap for percussion.

[Lunkhead]

I don't know about "only".

Would a judge please confirm, there will only be one elimination this round, correct?

[ujnhunter]

Yes. Only One. NUR EIN!

Also... please don't "ONLY" use hand percussion. Include hand percussion.

[Caravan Ray]

But it does specify percussion using only one hand right?

Nur Ein!

[iVeg]

I completely forgot about Nur Ein this year. I remembered as I was walking home from work today. Oh well.

[Niveous]

I completely forgot about Nur Ein this year. I remembered as I was walking home from work today. Oh well.

Hopefully, we can have some shadows from you.

[Caravan Ray]

..and done. Complete with the sound of one hand clapping.

Final recording and mixing done in the Singapore Qantas Club lounge. Back in Toowoomba tomorrow.

[thirdcatmusic]

Sending in now. Has quite a bit of hand percussion in there but mostly in the chorus.

[gizo]

Oh yeah, mine’s done, with wringing of hands. And percussions. Sure.

[SquirrelProof]

Hi all - I got mine in

I hope cajon counts as hand percussion?

[Cybronica]

I'm in, with generous use of tambourine!

[noma]

I'm in. I was running out of time, so my song has no drums apart from the hand percussion (djembe, bongos, tambourine) I used. It sounds a bit unfinished to me. But I am very proud of my vocal harmony.

[Niveous]

So, let me tell you about the Last Minotaur...

Vom Vorton put in a shadow. I said to him that him doing it made me want to do one. He said I should. I went about my day. Then at about 10:15, I said to Brookes that I should do a shadow and she dared me to make one by midnight. I did (basically).

[owl]

Also... please don't "ONLY" use hand percussion. Include hand percussion.

Whoops. You're only going to get horrible amounts of tambourine and guiro from me. No drums

I wrote and recorded a shadow last minute today again. I started this with this zither my dad mailed me recently (we bought it on vacation in Hungary 20+ years ago and it's just been at his house since then) but it's not really tuned to anything, it's currently apparently somewhere between B and Bb, so I had to retune the other pitched instruments I added (bass and ukulele) to match it, and had to forgo keyboards, guitar (because I was tired of retuning) and Melodyne. So, uh, sorry in advance to anyone who is bothered by sloppiness, between the 100% human hand percussion, rushed timeline and the many mysteries of pitch, you're probably going to have a rough time with this one.

[arby]

welp, I'm in. not feeling great about it but what are you gonna do, not compete?

clapping happened in the bridge and outro, but I put effects on it so it sounds weird. just because that was the mood I was in.

[Caravan Ray]

In Singapore, some taxis have little signs warning drivers about checking their blind spots. My partner pointed this out when I told her the title. So - warning about blind spots became my theme. But with handclaps instead of taxi signs.

[ujnhunter]

Also... please don't "ONLY" use hand percussion. Include hand percussion.

Whoops. You're only going to get horrible amounts of tambourine and guiro from me. No drums

I had to retune the other pitched instruments I added (bass and ukulele) to match it

Considering you just said you added bass and uke... I think you're fine. I just meant I didn't want to listen to a bunch of songs with JUST tamborine or something and singing. Hand percussion can be the only percussion if you'd like... I just wouldn't be able to "judge" 21 tamborine + vox songs is all.