lurksalot Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 (edited) A welcome return to winning ways for @Leonard Smalls in January, who in his inimitable style has offered the following for our inspiration... "Here's a pic for next month entitled "Root Vegetables From South East London"" Simple rules ✔️ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded between now and the deadline. ✖️ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on ✖️ No Bagpipes/panpipes, everyone had the chance last month's last month, so there! ✖️ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you.. Deadline-wise, we will go for Midnight on the 23rd (but probably until breakfast on the 24th) A line or two of blurb as usual for the vote thread will be lovely. Good luck, Have fun Edited February 1 by lurksalot 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upside downer Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Excellent, now I can watch it again for the umpteenth time for inspiration! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Think I've got the bones of it sorted after a couple of hours today.... Laid down bass and bagpipes already! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 1 hour ago, Leonard Smalls said: Think I've got the bones of it sorted after a couple of hours today.... Laid down bass and bagpipes already! 'Laid down' as in 'surrendered them to relevant authority along with a life-long renouncement of their use', I hope..? ... Nah, who am I kidding..! Lennys don't change their spots. ... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurksalot Posted February 4 Author Share Posted February 4 10 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said: Think I've got the bones of it sorted after a couple of hours today.... Laid down bass and bagpipes already! Anarchists , the lot of you 😁 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 10 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said: Laid down bass and bagpipes already! And I've made a start on the bassoon, bouzouki and balafon, with beatboxing, bongos and banjo to add later. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgsjx Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 & here’s me just about to start with the pan pipes & penny whistle. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfram Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Hah, I had to do a Google reverse image lookup - didn't recognise the character, not seen the film. I hope to be in this time - away again next week but will hopefully have a little time to put something together between getting back and the deadline... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyTravis Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 (edited) Is that. Del. Preston? Edited February 9 by AndyTravis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Here's mine! I was tempted to defy the directive and do Putney Parsnip Dub... Then I nearly veered off north of the river to attempt Pimlico Parsnip or even Totenham Turnip Dub. However, because I always do what I'm told, here we have a dubwise celebration of South East London's finest root vegetables. Bass is the trusty Wal all done with first and only take, to basic rhythm track. Then more drums, percussion, melodica VST, strat and various funny noises liberally slathered in delay and FX all added later in a desperate attempt to gild the lily... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 This is a lily ... This is not a lily ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 2 minutes ago, Dad3353 said: This is not a lily ... As you can tell, I done a special bangin' EDM choon especially for you, Mr Doug, complete with rave horns and auto-tuned vocals... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 And I thought that we were friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 1 hour ago, Dad3353 said: And I thought that we were friends. 😁 S'not EDM at all! And there's no rave horns. Even better, there's no auto tuned vocals.bor any vox for that matter! Just plenty bass and lots of stereo FX... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 23 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said: 😁 S'not EDM at all! And there's no rave horns. Even better, there's no auto tuned vocals.bor any vox for that matter! Just plenty bass and lots of stereo FX... Reggae, EDM, Dub ... Whatever. T'ain't Chopin. ... ... ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurksalot Posted February 11 Author Share Posted February 11 Chopin? Whose aksin ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 1 hour ago, lurksalot said: Chopin? Whose aksin ? Careful with that, Eugene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Talking of Chopin, I did two lots today! Briefly played his cover of Manilow's "Could it be Magic" (as nicked by me many years ago in a composition compo), and nipped into Aldi for some Weissbier. Proper cultured! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Here is my contribution to the February 2024 Basschat Composition Challenge, illustrated with a picture chosen by Leonard Smalls. "I can hear the blood beating though my ear-lobes..! A faint whistling, and birds chirping..! I thought the room was silent, but the whole house emits creaks and groans, and there's a car going by..! Wow..! Silence never sounded so loud..! Far out, man; far out..!" Recorded using Reaper, with no mixing or treatment, so that the full benefit of the auditor's listening experience is as pure as possible. Good on headphones; better yet on a fully-spec'ed hi-fi system, so as to appreciate the Sound of Silence. Chemical enhancement is not required, nor advised; your move may vary. Thanks for listening, if you already have; if you're about to, enjoy. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 9 hours ago, Dad3353 said: Here is my contribution I though we didn't allow covers? It's a bit faster than Cage's original but otherwise virtually identical! 😁 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 (edited) 3 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said: I though we didn't allow covers? It's a bit faster than Cage's original but otherwise virtually identical! 😁 Note the timing, though, and no piano. Edited February 16 by Dad3353 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor J Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 Is it Withnail? I've never seen it so I just picked a root vegetable and went for it. The technical stuff: Yamaha drums through t-bone mics into a Behringer preamp, ESP 400 Series Jazz bass DI'd and an Ibanez RG tuned down to Ab or B, I think. I've no idea why I did this, into a Fryette amp which went into a Palmer speaker emulator. Smooshed together crudely and at speed in Protools 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyTravis Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 I’m working on band stuff at the moment, really want to get something in for this… is it not del preston then? if it’s withnail and I I have no reference as I only watched it once - well, it was on when I was absolutely off my knackers about 20 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurksalot Posted February 18 Author Share Posted February 18 1 hour ago, AndyTravis said: … if it’s withnail and I I have no reference as I only watched it once - well, it was on when I was absolutely off my knackers about 20 years ago. That’s probably a decent enough starting point 😁. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurksalot Posted February 18 Author Share Posted February 18 I have a riff and a rough drum track down, but I am tight on time so …cue the communal sighs of disappointment … the vocal accompaniment might not get done. I will of course try very, very hard to satisfy your craving for such , but don’t be afraid of voting for me if I fail. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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