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Post by Smurfie on Apr 13, 2023 23:15:31 GMT 1
I have an instrumental woodwind banger ready to go.
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Post by Smurfie on Apr 13, 2023 23:19:05 GMT 1
Though if you want an 8 rounder I would crack on with an interest thread pretty soon to be honest.
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 14, 2023 0:41:38 GMT 1
The plan is that Havenvision is nearly over, greendemon will post up Lingovision and I will start a "sign-up" for Instrumental Idol.
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Post by Panda on Apr 14, 2023 18:36:30 GMT 1
I would probably give that one a miss. I don't think I would have enough interest in it to enter a multi-round contest when my time is limited.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Apr 14, 2023 21:20:46 GMT 1
I announced Instrumental Idol a while ago. There will be a few rounds of instrumentals. I'm pretty certain I already said what I'm looking for: I'll have to check above: 1. Classical music (pre-1900 is considered classical). For this you must pick the link obviously of the orchestra / band playing it, and it must be instrumental, and be 6 minutes or shorter.. That is by the year the music was composed. 2. More modern orchestral music. (ie. orchestral but 20th century or 21st if there is any). 3. Brass or woodwind based. Brass bands, trumpets, saxophones etc 4. Twangy guitars. But not "Apache". Anything else. "Surf" instrumentals fit in here, as well as jazzy instrumental if the lead instrument is a guitar. 5. "Jangly" pianos 6. Synth based 7. Dance music (you interpret, but I'd generally expect some of rhythmic beats) 8. Anything goes. As well as "Apache", "Green Onions" will also be excluded after it did really well in Time Machine. Personally i would like a bit more freedom to decide what to enter with it being an instrumental competition two orchestra rounds is over kill to me and I've found 30 songs but most of them don't fit in any of the rounds The piano round and guitar round are good but specifically only jangly pianos and twangy guitars? shouldn't it be up to us which piano song to enter? we are already limited to 0.5% of songs with it being instrumental Dance yeah, Synth yea, anything goes yeah, I can see all them 3 rounds working, same with guitars and piano rounds if they are open to a wider number of genres I'm at a loss with brass or woodwind based round and both orchestra rounds though, got to remember this is meant to be fun too, not a chore listening to 15 of the same song until our ears bleed
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 14, 2023 21:41:04 GMT 1
Yes agreed I was put of a bit by some of the rounds , must be some more fun options? Or at least wider so we can actually pick music we like, some rounds are so narrow we may all pick the same things or not like our own entries.
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Post by o on Apr 14, 2023 21:44:53 GMT 1
Brass bands for that round Daz. Although I've gone for something else, jangly pianos, I just went piano. Only 2 banned songs, so we have to look at the positives, although maybe we should see a list of instrumental songs that have featured in Instrumentalvision as well?
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Post by Smurfie on Apr 14, 2023 21:47:16 GMT 1
Or Dance Vision so we don’t all submit Robert Miles or Darude.
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Post by greendemon on Apr 14, 2023 22:35:20 GMT 1
Friendly suggestion but why not a film score round? In place of either the modern orchestra or brass band round? That should be dead easy for people to find something for.
I'm not going to have a problem with many of these rounds but the woodwind one is throwing me a bit.
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Post by ManicKangaroo on Apr 14, 2023 22:50:22 GMT 1
Friendly suggestion but why not a film score round? In place of either the modern orchestra or brass band round? That should be dead easy for people to find something for. I had the same thought greendemon
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Post by o on Apr 14, 2023 23:13:12 GMT 1
Or Dance Vision so we don’t all submit Robert Miles or Darude. Bugger! And I've used film scores/TV themes in all the other rounds, so I'm sorted on film scores already
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 15, 2023 22:08:34 GMT 1
the pianos don't need to be jangly, and the guitars don't need to be twangy...
Richard Clayderman would work for the piano round, for example.
The classical round doesn't have to be orchestral. You can use a Bach tune played on a harpisord. It just has to be composed before 1900.
All the other rounds must be more modern except Anything Goes which can be any music of any style from any era as long as it is instrumental.
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Post by Panda on Apr 16, 2023 0:24:45 GMT 1
It just has to be composed before 1900. So Cliff Richard is eligible?
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 16, 2023 8:31:56 GMT 1
the pianos don't need to be jangly, and the guitars don't need to be twangy... Richard Clayderman would work for the piano round, for example. The classical round doesn't have to be orchestral. You can use a Bach tune played on a harpisord. It just has to be composed before 1900. All the other rounds must be more modern except Anything Goes which can be any music of any style from any era as long as it is instrumental. Are organs or other piano variations allowed? Also why are guitars limited. as long as it's an instrumental, also any guitar twangs so technically we could have a death metal instrumental if it was guitar based no?ok you addressed that cool. Oh what about a video game music round?
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Post by Earl Purple on Apr 16, 2023 10:34:08 GMT 1
If the lead instrument is a guitar and it's composed after 1900 it is eligible for the guitar round. I don't want to give specific examples.
I'm not sure there are enough video game tunes to go around but you could enter one in a round that works for it, possibly the synth round.
I'd probably be inclined to include organs with the synth round rather than the piano, just because it sounds more similar. Same way that I grouped the wind instruments together.
I think it should have its own topic, and there we can discuss the rounds.
In general to keep it simple, if it has any vocals with words it's not allowed, so "Hoots Mon" would be ruled out even though it's mostly instrumental with a few spoken words. An instrumental version of a song that is normally vocal would be permitted. A vocoder or synthesized animal noises would be permitted. If there are no actual words then it's ok and "na na na" is not considered words.
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Post by greendemon on Apr 16, 2023 10:41:02 GMT 1
No offence EP but we've moved on a bit since the days when all video game soundtracks were synth based ditties Nowadays many have big orchestral soundtracks like films. Of course many have vocals but not all. I have a couple in mind but they're all competing for the same slots.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 16, 2023 12:08:09 GMT 1
No offence EP but we've moved on a bit since the days when all video game soundtracks were synth based ditties Nowadays many have big orchestral soundtracks like films. Of course many have vocals but not all. I have a couple in mind but they're all competing for the same slots. Yep it’s a huge genre , it’s what my youngest listens to more than any other music.
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Post by Panda on Jun 18, 2023 15:45:23 GMT 1
As long as people are still interested, I'll open entries for Haven World Cup in the next few days and try and time it to start when Earl P's instrumental contest finishes.
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Post by greendemon on Jun 18, 2023 15:56:19 GMT 1
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Post by Shireblogger on Jun 18, 2023 16:16:31 GMT 1
We have Haven Factor Express pencilled in for August. But it is likely to take 8 weeks to run, and I'm away in September. Therefore I'd like to propose HFE runs in October & November, if no-one objects.
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