Dad3353

Here is my contribution to the June 2022 Basschat Composition Challenge, inspired by a picture chosen by the previous winner: Skank Del Var. The yellowing sky gave me the impression ofa storm brewing. A bucolic scene, but could be deceptive.Some heavy raindrops, a brief shower..? Maybe it'll turn out fine after all... Another collage of bits'n'bobs, with a Superior Drummer 'Tracker' experiment which seems to have worked. No treatment, other than my standard Reaper NY Glue on the Master tracks, as usual. Thanks for listening, if you already have; if you're about to, enjoy.

Here's a few 'hooks' for you...

Fellow of the Royal Society.

I'll not be playing much of that 👆 stuff; not much at all.

I hadn't noticed. I was listening to the music.

Both sound fine to me, although I preferred the first half. I think you're over-thinking it. (Disclaimer : I play tape-wound...)

Touché, and thanks.

Yeah, sure ... ...

Unpopular indeed; I'll take Schubert's symphonies every time over his leider.

And the winner is... @skankdelvar..! Here, then, is your Winner's Certificate (download and save as pdf file, then proudly print and frame...) ... BC_Chal_Cert_2022_05.pdf ... which looks like this (but bigger, of course..!)... BC_Chal_Cert_2022_05.pdf

Sorry, it's a 'No' from me. On the other hand, how many Fairport Convention songs can you sing the lyrics to..?

Contrast, compare and comment...

It's not black..! Savage woods ...

Not fussed. It makes no difference to me (I have fretted and fretless, but couldn't say what woods they are...). I just play 'em.

For those decades I was out playing in variety bands, and didn't listen to UK radio. I consider myself to be a (modest...) musician, and could name no bands from that era, either. On the other hand, I could reel off a list of certainly 50, maybe more, classical composers, most of whom I listen to and appreciate often. Not everyone attends clubs, discos, raves, parties and such. My own listening, at the time, was either my own, and my groups', compositions, or West Coast acid stuff, Brazilian sambas, 'typique' music from the West Indies and African tribal stuff. I cannot name one single Japanese band, either. The World is a very wide range of stuff, and UK 'indie' is only a speck of what's out there.

You did that on porpoise.

'Après moi le déluge.'

You've not heard me play guitar. ...

Did it..? If so, my apologies; I didn't (couldn't...) listen to it all the way through. I just skipped to every thirty seconds or so, and even then I found it long, very long.

I believe that this had some popularity...

My apologies; I offer as excuse a long 'phone call from Our Daughter, for which I left my keyboard. Upon my return, I simply posted, instead of following the topic, nor reading through my own text. Mea Culpa, and well spotted.

But that is the mistake, right there..! 'It's' is an abbreviation of 'It is'. 'Its' is a different word, and has no need of an apostrophe. It is a word indicating possesion