What is a Music Competition?Well, a music competition, is a competition where music composers can compose and release their musical creations to compete for the ultimate priz, acceptance and recognition.
It's meant to be fun, no one should care about winning, but improving their own skill set. Or trying new things. Be creative!
Who is hosting it? And why is this back again?I'm hosting it, and the reason it's back, is to make it interesting again.
The main problems of the old tune competition, which explained the lack of entries, were:
1) Unclear deadlines.
2) Very strict themes.
3) Very strict rules.
THEME: LOVEDefinition of love
a :
(1) : strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties maternal love for a child
(2) : attraction based on sexual desire : affection and tenderness felt by lovers After all these years, they are still very much in love.
(3) : affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests love for his old schoolmates
b : an assurance of affection give her my love
a: A warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion love of the sea
a : the object of attachment, devotion, or admiration baseball was his first love
b :
(1) : a beloved person : darling —often used as a term of endearment
(2) : British —used as an informal term of address
a : unselfish loyal and benevolent (see benevolent 1a) concern for the good of another: such as
(1) : the fatherly concern of God for humankind
(2) : brotherly concern for others
b : a person's adoration of God
: A god (such as Cupid or Eros) or personification of love
: An amorous episode : love affair
: The sexual embrace : copulation
: A score of zero (as in tennis)
capitalized, Christian Science : god
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RULES:As long as it fits the theme (and that should be fairly broad), you can compose and post from at least one to x songs. You can even make an EP.
For example you can compose a hip-hop beat that samples the world LOVE and makes a pun as you hear a tennis crowd cheering at the end. You can do anything, as long as you can explain (if needed) how it does fit.
No limit on duration: -You wanna make 2 bars, make 2 bars.
No limit on genres: -Any genre goes, death metal love songs are fine.
No limit on covers: - You can cover an older composition of yours or someone else's, as long as the cover is obvious and you are being honest (aka posting the older song)
No limit on file type: - MIDIs are fine.
- OGGs are fine. (Preferably at 320kbps)
- WAV are fine.
- FLACs are fine.
- MP3s are fine. (Preferably at 320kbps CBR or V0 VBR)
For the lossy filetypes (mp3, ogg) above 128 CBR (Constant Bitrate) plz. Limit on the time deadline. -Entries that are delivered late, unless I'm notified before, won't be accepted, unless the entry is delivered within 24 hours after the deadline.
Deadline:The deadline is till the 30th of April, that is, because on May 1st I'll post another theme, while this competition goes on the voting part. Voting will be public, and can be done by anyone. We'll see more rules about it, when we get there.
There is over a month for this, because I want to get this started and yeah, normally it would take 30 days per theme, but you know, it isn't bad to have extra time.
Workshop:If you wanna do your entries, workshop style, that's highly advised. Going into detail, explaining your process, and how you work, if you want. No harm in sharing, people can input on that, but please do so in a respectable manner.
TL:DRTheme is LOVE.
Compose a song.
Deadline is April 30th.
