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!!!!!! Winter Collaboration Challenge !!!!!!
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Dudnote
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The Collaboration Winter Challenge Needs You!!
Rui recently threw up a poll about what people might like to do for the next challenge. Good one Rui!! The results were as follows
I would like to compose my thing on a given palo 12
VS
I would like to play a given set of falsetas 6
Voting 8
VS
No Voting 2
My stuff on a collaborative track (record to a pulse/beat) 6
VS
Leave my stuff alone (record anyway you want) 4
On top of that, several people mentioned they wanted the palo to be bulerias, so bulerias it is.
After much rum, procrastination and idly mulling over Darwinian natural selection in my ever so slightly revolving brain, I hit on an idea that (I think) could cover most of those points, get people uploading more regularly and resurrect some of the energy and enthusiasm of the Cante Accompanyament Practice thread.
The challenge is open to everyone regardless of ability. The idea is to collaborate on a whole bunch of different tracks (actually several per entrant) for 2 months and at the end people vote for their favorite track. You can compose, play old trad stuff, collaborate, not collaborate, do what ever you want - just make sure that there is a good dose of cante, a tasteful dose of bottom spanking falsettas, plenty of regular uploading (so others can steal your material - if people don't upload it ain't going to work) and so much swing that your Granny is going to throw aside her Zimmer frame, snap her fingers and get up and dance.
Bear with me, here's how this is going to work...
1) There will be a Dropbox account set up just for the challenge. Each contestant will have a folder in which they keep the material they're working on (ideally they will have one sub-folder for each recording session that results in a new master tack - more of that below). So first step is to make a post below to say you're in and then send me an email address that works so I can invite you to the Dropbox folder.
2) The next thing you need to do is arm yourself with one or more unaccompanied cante tracks and / or palmas tracks. You can visit the Cante Accompanyament Practice thread, pull one off YouTube, record a bunch of mates knocking on a table or make one yourself. Don't worry about capo position at this stage because you can change any aspect of your track.
3) Once you've got your cante track throw it into your Dropbox folder so others can steel it, edit it, chop it up, extend it, fade it out and fuse it to something else in any way they like.
4) Now get recording. Your guitar, your palmas, cajon, jaleo, attempts at cante, your mate's better attempts at cante. Do what ever you feel bold enough to offer the community.
5) Multi-track recording is definitely indispensable here. Splice and mix as much as you need to. Steal from the others entrants freely. Let's say someone plays a blinding falsetta and you want it in your track you can either do the traditional thing of learn it and record your own version, or you can just go ahead and copy and paste it into your DAW and blend it in with your own material. How far you go with the editing in a DAW is entirely your decision, being a technophobe should not prevent you at least recording your playing and uploading that, but for this to be really collaborative the more people getting their hand dirty with the mixing the better.
6) When you finish each recording / editing session make a master track and save that and all the tracks that went into it into your Dropbox folder. These should be named as follows YOURNAME_MASTER_DATE.wav, YOURNAME_guitar1_DATE.wav, YOURNAME_guitar2_DATE.wav, YOURNAME_cante1_DATE.wav, etc. If you've edited a track of someone else acknowledge it by calling it something like THEIRNAME_YOURNAME_guitar1_DATE.wav
7) Finally upload your latest master track to this thread. Or if it is too big provide a link. It's really important to upload regularly, then others can take your work and try to improve it / incorporate it into their own work in any way they like.
8) As the challenge progresses you will accumulate a collection of a whole bunch of different master tracks to your name. A little before the 6th February indicate which one of your own master tracks you nominate as your favorite. We will then have a foro wide vote on which is the best track.
Right now I'm not in favour of pseudonymes because it would be cumbersome with the method of collaboration outlined here.
I hope that's clear. If you've any questions fire away. Constructive suggestions for improvement could be adopted over the next few days, but above all we do need to get this started otherwise it will never get started.
Don't delay. Sign up for the Foro Collaboration Winter Challenge now!!
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tú ahora no me conoces.
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Date Dec. 3 2015 4:06:14
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DavidRG
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Joined: Dec. 12 2015
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RE: !!!!!! Winter Collaboration Chal... (in reply to Dudnote)
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Hello, friends.
My name is David, I'm from Madrid, Spain.
I'm new here and I've never been a member of any forum, so please forgive me if I make some kind of mistake or if I need some time to learn how this works.
After reading this post, I've come up with a new collaborative idea.
Maybe we could choose one particular flamenco song (for example, "Caballo negro", by Manolo Sanlucar). Then we ask "who wants to do something collaborative with this?"
If we have, for example, 8 people, we split the song in 16 parts. We distribute the segments (2 per user). Each user has to record 2 different segments and upload it.
At the end, we paste all segments together and...it should work :)
I hope you'll like this idea, for this challenge or maybe for a future challenge.
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Best regards.
DavidRG
www.eltablaoflamenco.com
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