Thanks to @Elwood for the memory jog about the monthly challenges. With the holidays and some other late in December issues, I completely forgot about stirring the pot for a new theme for January's challenge. Honestly, after @Elwood opened the thread, there weren't a lot of suggestions, so I'm going with a (non)-Executive decision.
January's theme will be multiple choice (like we haven't done that before). This month's ideas were stolen from a Facebook post that continues to resurface about every six months and comes from the idea of naming a song title containing some pre-determined nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, etc. So for January here are the choices:
As always, The recording must feature you, preferably on guitar and/or vocals. However, piano, organ, congas, bongos, accordion, and banjo are also acceptable. Bagpipes will only be allowed if accompanied by a note from your psychiatrist or a sufficient bribe.
Extra credit will be given for using more than one suggestion in a song.
Blues is preferred, but anything vaguely resembling music will be accepted.
Recorded tracks can be as simple as a guitar and vocal or you can hire an entire symphony orchestra to back you up if you choose. Use of backing tracks is also acceptable. Background vocals performed by other people is perfectly OK, as long as it's not barbershop quartet harmony.
Please talk amongst yourselves and see what gems you can put together.
January's theme will be multiple choice (like we haven't done that before). This month's ideas were stolen from a Facebook post that continues to resurface about every six months and comes from the idea of naming a song title containing some pre-determined nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, etc. So for January here are the choices:
- A Number
- A color (other than blue... way too easy)
- A Girl’s Name
- A Boy’s Name
- A Profession
- A Place
- If you don't like these choices, you may ignore them and record any song you want.
As always, The recording must feature you, preferably on guitar and/or vocals. However, piano, organ, congas, bongos, accordion, and banjo are also acceptable. Bagpipes will only be allowed if accompanied by a note from your psychiatrist or a sufficient bribe.
Extra credit will be given for using more than one suggestion in a song.
Blues is preferred, but anything vaguely resembling music will be accepted.
Recorded tracks can be as simple as a guitar and vocal or you can hire an entire symphony orchestra to back you up if you choose. Use of backing tracks is also acceptable. Background vocals performed by other people is perfectly OK, as long as it's not barbershop quartet harmony.
Please talk amongst yourselves and see what gems you can put together.
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