Madmazda86
October 15th, 2004, 09:05 am
Here's the first bar below. Take turns to continue the piece! BUT there are some ground rules:
1) You can only add one bar at a time, and you can't add a new bar till someone else has posted one after you. However, you can do a bar for each staff - there's two at the moment, so you can add a bar each for both in one post. Don't worry if you can only do one bar (as in, you have a melody idea but not one for the bass line - I can fill in any gaps.)
2) Your bar must be posted as a screenshot, as not everybody has Finale to view it with. To do this, compose your bar on your program and press the Print Screen key (sometimes written as prt sc) on your keyboard. Now open an imaging program e.g. Paintbrush and press Control+V or rightclick the mouse and select paste. Crop the screencapture so it just shows your composition, and post it up!
3) I know we've got a lot of seasoned composers on here and having only two staffs to work with will drive you mad, so I will permit the addition of new staffs, but the new staff starts from your contribution only - it can't go back and be incorporated at the beginning of the piece. Try not to have too many staffs going, though, as it makes it harder for less experienced composers to keep everything flowing. You can also take out staffs as well, if the texture's getting too thick, but there must be a minimum of two staffs going on from there.
4) There could be arguments about different contributions - what's good and what's not, but remember the idea of this is to encourage spontaneous creativity, so please be nice to each other! I doubt anybody would post a really bad bar so fingers crossed everything will go smoothly :)
And off you go! Do what you like with dynamics, tempos, performance styles, accidentals and time changes. Once the piece starts getting to a decent length I'll put in a reminder post so we can start winding it up - once it's all done we can discuss instrumentation, and I'll assimilate the screenshots and post a MIDI of the finished piece - then we can start again! I might need the help of Noir7 or one of the other mods in pruning all the posts off once one piece is finished and we want to start another. I hope that this will be enjoyable for everybody and encourage some great contributions. Go go go! :D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v433/madmazda86/FirstBar.png
Edit: Ooops, I didn't think that it'd be a bit difficult to decide what to add without hearing the piece too, so here's a MIDI. I'll keep adding to it as we go along, that might be a bit easier :) **Updated with Al and Darren's contributions**
Round Robin Midi (http://www.geocities.com/madmazda86/RoundRobin.mid)
NOTE: The reason I have insisted on screenshots as opposed to the posting of midis is to prevent the editing of the contributions of other posters. This is because it offends the creativity of others and if I were to allow that I might as well just let one person compose the whole piece. The spirit of a round robin is to work alongside others to create something of a larger scale, which has everybody's personalities and styles in it. Please respect this spirit! If you want a midi to refer to while composing, please feel free to use the master midi here, but when you post your contribution make sure it's as a screenshot, not a midi :) Thankyou!
1) You can only add one bar at a time, and you can't add a new bar till someone else has posted one after you. However, you can do a bar for each staff - there's two at the moment, so you can add a bar each for both in one post. Don't worry if you can only do one bar (as in, you have a melody idea but not one for the bass line - I can fill in any gaps.)
2) Your bar must be posted as a screenshot, as not everybody has Finale to view it with. To do this, compose your bar on your program and press the Print Screen key (sometimes written as prt sc) on your keyboard. Now open an imaging program e.g. Paintbrush and press Control+V or rightclick the mouse and select paste. Crop the screencapture so it just shows your composition, and post it up!
3) I know we've got a lot of seasoned composers on here and having only two staffs to work with will drive you mad, so I will permit the addition of new staffs, but the new staff starts from your contribution only - it can't go back and be incorporated at the beginning of the piece. Try not to have too many staffs going, though, as it makes it harder for less experienced composers to keep everything flowing. You can also take out staffs as well, if the texture's getting too thick, but there must be a minimum of two staffs going on from there.
4) There could be arguments about different contributions - what's good and what's not, but remember the idea of this is to encourage spontaneous creativity, so please be nice to each other! I doubt anybody would post a really bad bar so fingers crossed everything will go smoothly :)
And off you go! Do what you like with dynamics, tempos, performance styles, accidentals and time changes. Once the piece starts getting to a decent length I'll put in a reminder post so we can start winding it up - once it's all done we can discuss instrumentation, and I'll assimilate the screenshots and post a MIDI of the finished piece - then we can start again! I might need the help of Noir7 or one of the other mods in pruning all the posts off once one piece is finished and we want to start another. I hope that this will be enjoyable for everybody and encourage some great contributions. Go go go! :D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v433/madmazda86/FirstBar.png
Edit: Ooops, I didn't think that it'd be a bit difficult to decide what to add without hearing the piece too, so here's a MIDI. I'll keep adding to it as we go along, that might be a bit easier :) **Updated with Al and Darren's contributions**
Round Robin Midi (http://www.geocities.com/madmazda86/RoundRobin.mid)
NOTE: The reason I have insisted on screenshots as opposed to the posting of midis is to prevent the editing of the contributions of other posters. This is because it offends the creativity of others and if I were to allow that I might as well just let one person compose the whole piece. The spirit of a round robin is to work alongside others to create something of a larger scale, which has everybody's personalities and styles in it. Please respect this spirit! If you want a midi to refer to while composing, please feel free to use the master midi here, but when you post your contribution make sure it's as a screenshot, not a midi :) Thankyou!