Members rsadasiv Posted February 6, 2008 Members Share Posted February 6, 2008 Write a very short song - no submissions can be more than 2:00 in length. Songs should have at least a beginning, a middle and an end, although extra props for fitting in a full verse-chorus-bridge-solo structure. PM me your links by February 29th, and I will post all of the submissions on March 1st. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bluesway Posted February 6, 2008 Members Share Posted February 6, 2008 on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members eagle1 Posted February 6, 2008 Members Share Posted February 6, 2008 ditto... I think I'll base this one on a movie! heheheA funny one... though the song wont probably be funny at least it will tackle the "subject matter" of the film... I THINK... still don't know. Check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MattSkibaIsGOD Posted February 6, 2008 Members Share Posted February 6, 2008 I'm in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeveryHarper Posted February 6, 2008 Members Share Posted February 6, 2008 I don't know if I can write a song under 2:00 minutes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members eagle1 Posted February 7, 2008 Members Share Posted February 7, 2008 I think I just wrote 2... but that doesn't mean either one is any good! hehehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chicken Monkey Posted February 7, 2008 Members Share Posted February 7, 2008 I usually have to struggle to flesh them out past 2 minutes, so I might be in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted February 7, 2008 Members Share Posted February 7, 2008 Cool! I'll see what I can do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chicken Monkey Posted February 7, 2008 Members Share Posted February 7, 2008 Turns out the song I was working on just before this contest came up clocks in at 1:50 something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted February 8, 2008 Members Share Posted February 8, 2008 Write a very short song - no submissions can be more than 2:00 in length. Songs should have at least a beginning, a middle and an end, although extra props for fitting in a full verse-chorus-bridge-solo structure. Some of the greatest songs of the Great American Songbook (Gershwin, Porter, Kern, Berlin) use AABA ... and many, if just sung once through, run under two minutes. Just sayin' ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted February 8, 2008 Author Members Share Posted February 8, 2008 There is a great tradition of 32-64 bar songs. I was thinking of the Beatles "And Your Bird Can Sing" (which clocks in at 1:59), but, as you point out, there are many examples in the Great American Songbook as well. Many of the posters in this forum seem to be more familiar with the 3:30 rock tradition - I was hoping to expose people to the kinds of song structures where you do most of your work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bluesway Posted February 8, 2008 Members Share Posted February 8, 2008 Many of the posters in this forum seem to be more familiar with the 3:30 rock tradition - I was hoping to expose people to the kinds of song structures where you do most of your work.well, i just finished the bass, guitar and drum tracks on my 1:58 song yesterday, but now that you said that . . . hmmmmmm. i may be entering two this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members eeglug Posted February 8, 2008 Members Share Posted February 8, 2008 Since there's a time limit and I'm a man of little-to-no substance, I think I might try this challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted February 8, 2008 Members Share Posted February 8, 2008 There is a great tradition of 32-64 bar songs. I was thinking of the Beatles "And Your Bird Can Sing" (which clocks in at 1:59), but, as you point out, there are many examples in the Great American Songbook as well. Many of the posters in this forum seem to be more familiar with the 3:30 rock tradition - I was hoping to expose people to the kinds of song structures where you do most of your work. Speaking of the Beatles ... I Will (The White Album) is 1:45. So many of those Beatles tunes clock in at just over the two-minute mark: Yesterday (2:03), Norwegian Wood (2:05), Eleanor Rigby (2:07). They've got several in the two- to three-minute area. Later albums have more of the three plus minute tunes. I had some fun wiki'ing! Doesn't The White Stripes tune "Fell In Love With A Girl" clock around two mins? Edit ... yep! 1:50! One of my favorite bossa nova singers, Jo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chicken Monkey Posted February 8, 2008 Members Share Posted February 8, 2008 With a typical AABA song, the song is usually performed in its entirety, with any instrumental bits coming before or after the song proper. The song I'm working on, incidentally AABA with a refrain, I put an instrumental in over the first half of the last A section. When's the due date? My keyboard is in the shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted February 8, 2008 Members Share Posted February 8, 2008 With a typical AABA song, the song is usually performed in its entirety, with any instrumental bits coming before or after the song proper. Good point. Some ballads just play AABA with minimal intro and outro and no instrumental sections. I've got a version of Misty by Ella Fitzgerald where she performs it straight through with a pianist. I can't find the CD right now, but iirc it runs in the two- to three-minute range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted February 10, 2008 Author Members Share Posted February 10, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Eclepto Funk Posted February 10, 2008 Members Share Posted February 10, 2008 oh cool ... this sounds like something i could do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members macresto Posted February 10, 2008 Members Share Posted February 10, 2008 I am actually going to participate in this contest. I have been recording all evening and should have something ready before the deadline. Yeah...1:54 minutes...phew! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cjlinus Posted February 11, 2008 Members Share Posted February 11, 2008 I have just the ticket for this one. A band I was in back in 86 or 87 did a short uptempo that ran about 2:00. If I can get my computer working by the deadline I should have a submission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members macresto Posted February 11, 2008 Members Share Posted February 11, 2008 I think it's been very educational to do this competition piece. I have never ever written so short a piece before and I actually quite enjoy it. Must do that again sometime. No BS - just the song! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bluesway Posted February 11, 2008 Members Share Posted February 11, 2008 applause for rsad for actually taking the time to administer this and keep this idea afloat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members macresto Posted February 11, 2008 Members Share Posted February 11, 2008 I second that.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikeo Posted February 13, 2008 Members Share Posted February 13, 2008 I might be up for the challege. IMO here's one of the best under 2 min songs ever written, and it under minute and 15 secs. Features a few verses, chorus and even a bridge. So it can be done. There was a time in radio that songs got played pretty much on length, cause shorter meant more time for ad space. [YOUTUBE]FraPWO0Z4cc[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bluesway Posted February 16, 2008 Members Share Posted February 16, 2008 damnit! i'm having a hard time finishing the lyrics on this one. the prod's DONE, but {censored}! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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