Welcome to the end of the year challenge 2017!

Record a piece of music and share it with the jammr community. The winner will be chosen by a vote. There are no prizes but participating is a fun experience.

This is a chance to practice your composition and recording skills. Show off what you learnt this year!

Battle rules:

1. Main chord progression: Em C G D (must be used in its entirety, other progressions can be added)
   
2. Instruments: your choice - keep it simple or have a full band
   
3. Tempo: your choice
   
4. Duration: at least 30 seconds
   
5. License: your submission must be CC BY-SA 3.0 licensed
   
6. Team submissions are allowed (drummers can team up with others!)
   

Deadline: December 23 2017
Voting: December 24-31 2017

How to get started?
If you have never recorded before, start with the free Audacity multi-track recording software for Windows, Mac, and Linux. There are many other free options if you want to experiment.

Post a link to your submission before the deadline. You can upload your submission to this forum as an MP3 file or post a link to Soundcloud, YouTube, etc.

This one one of all possibilities of progression?! “em c g d” ^^

Anyway, nice idea - only not my favorite of progressions….I'm already working on it.

talertim
This one one of all possibilities of progression?! “em c g d” ^^Anyway, nice idea - only not my favorite of progressions….I'm already working on it.

It's part of the challenge . Can you make it sound “different”?

I have an idea I started working on last night…

Here is my entry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lr-4-ObQAc

To make the chord progression more interesting I added color to the chords in the beginning of the piece.

Beginning: Em(add9) Cmaj7 Gmaj7 D
Bridge: Am | Cmaj7 | Am(add9) Am(maj7)(add9) | Cmaj7 C6 | D7 | D7
Outro: Em C G D and end with Cmaj7

I recorded several guitar tracks and bass with Ardour (DAW). The drums are Hydrogen with Calf Reverb.

The lead guitar tone is a Fender Twin Reverb model with an overdrive pedal and delay. The fingerpicked guitar is a clean Marshall model. The outro has double-tracked rhythm guitars, one through a dirty Fender Twin Reverb model and the other through a Tube Screamer through the Twin. I used a Line 6 James Tyler Variax JTV-69 on all guitar parts.

The bass was recorded through a compressor and DI.

Thanks for letting us know about the challenge Stefan. Maybe we should try it out live.

So Heres my Entry for the jammr Challenge
Took me about 1hr to complete im kinda lazy these days and im not trying to become the next big thing
lol
Decided to Start on the D and resolve on the G as this made more sense to me hope i didnt break the rules
of the challange ?

Hope you like it..

PS: Liked your track stef although it was a little short :)

Wow, nice records - both!

@HighAction: at first happy birthday afterwards - 2. …“at least 30 sec” I was happy about this

@Stefan: very nice track, though it sounds something sadly …?! I hope to meet your imagines about “sounds different”

I was “written” on my track 5 hours:
Rythm and Lead the same effect (Line 6 Floor POD “Custom”)..Guitar: Ibanez GAX30 “Low Budget”
Drums by YouTube BackingTrack Libary
finally modified to

em em em c g d

Hope to match the rules, too ^^.

HighAction
Decided to Start on the D and resolve on the G as this made more sense to me hope i didnt break the rulesof the challange ?

That's fine. Varying the timing, starting point, or adding notes to the chords makes it interesting.

I see you spared no expense in HighAction Studios and got the whole band together. I hear lead guitar, rhythm guitar, keyboard, bass, and drums! Cool!

talertim
I was “written” on my track 5 hours

Wow, good effort! The lead guitar sits well in the mix, the Ibanez GAX30 sounds fine.

talertim
finally modified to em em em c g d. Hope to match the rules, too ^^.

Yes, that's fine. How long each chord is played is up to you .

PettyVendetta
Maybe we should try it out live.

You're welcome to submit a recorded jam.

Composing and recording a track is a different experience from jamming live. I recommend trying it! I recorded around 3 takes of each part on average and chose the best ones. Playing all the instruments (rhythm guitar, lead guitar, bass, drums, etc) makes it necessary to think carefully about how they fit together.

Jamming live is still the most fun for me, but recording is a good challenge every once in a while .