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Pass It On: The Group Remix Thread
Any interest in doing a collaborative track? It could be like the Postal Service for the Audiobus forum. I'm thinking one of us could provide a basis, say a drum beat or a bass line or whatever. Then they send the track to someone else, who adds another part - synth bit or something. And so on, until everyone had a turn. Beats, vocals, whatever.
We would have to figure out some things like what format to send tracks in and so on, but it could be fun.
One way to start might be to have a thread per collaboration, and have it open for signups for a week or something, that way we would have a list of people volunteering. Then we'd go down the list one at a time in order, with each person passing it on. For example:
- Ryan
- syrupcore
- gjcyrus
- jesse_ohio
- etc...
Could cap it at 10 or so contributors per track to be reasonable. After one is finished, then another one can start.
After a couple months we could release our own compilation album, haha
Any interest in this, or am I nuts? Thoughts? Comments? Donuts?
Comments
http://forum.audiob.us/discussion/461/a-game-of-telephone/p1
You picked the wrong person to lead off your song. We already know @Ryan doesn't play nicely with others. ;-)
@MrNezumi LOL So that's my rep now huh? You tell em it's a bad idea once and all of sudden I can't play well with others. hehe I dressed up like a woman and kissed a man once too, that's why i'm a gay cross dresser ;-) Anyhow, I also said in that thread that DJ's aren't musicians.. Then my opinion got changed and I ended up attempting to DJ some stuff myself. So all I'm saying is don't count me out.. I'm not set in stone. I'm happy to be proven wrong and I change my opinions a lot. Opinions I love to share with everyone. :-)
PS: Opinions are like assholes. There is not enough attention payed to mine. wait... what??
@Ryan - cross-dressing, man kissing, assholes. Too much personal information! And you forgot, I'm the guy who said you didn't remix/DJ the songs. ;-)
@MrNezumi I was the first person to say that. I just tried. I didn't say anything about succeeding. Golly sir, I didn't realize you thought I was such an awful person.. And here I was randomly sending you compliments. Tisk tisk.
;-)
@jesse_ohio Sounds like a fun idea...if the logistics and format can be decided upon
Well, @MrNezumi, the last guy that got in an argument on the forum with Ryan ended up making a sweet YouTube improv apology song. So here's hoping this escalates and then some beautiful music comes out of it!! ;-)
Maybe ya' both could take a turn on the group remix here?
All I have done is agreed with @Ryan. First that he failed at a "DJ" remix and then that he doesn't want to play in a multihead collab. And I'm not much for that either.
I would consider a collab with Ryan as long as the song doesn't mention his asshole and that we do it as a DJ mix. :-)
@MrNezumi hehe :-)) Here's your chance.
A little punky bass and drum song. 90bpm
verse goes D E D B D E - F# A D
Chorus goes C D A E C D A E C D A E - G
Use just the drums, just the bass, or both. Slice it up, redo it, whatever. :-)
Download the tracks here.. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/u16g4cvxsi45070/433VTOt3g3
@Hmtx What's the group improv? First I've heard of it.
I keep getting an Error (404) message from Dropbox. Never used it before. ??
I just found out that the problem is on my end. My "end" being China. Perhaps you could directly email me a highly chopped down version.
Never shared a folder before. I only have my iPad at the moment and it is being difficult. Give me a minute.. sorry.
EDIT: Oh okay. Sure, what's your email?
Hey Jesse, sorry just read your post. I dig the Postal Service (I once jammed with the drummer for Reolutionary Hydra in an old band I played in. RH was Ben's older band)
I'm busy this week but after a few guys do something, I'll add some parts down the line...
@Ryan - PM sent.
@Ryan Just wrote some words, got a melody and keyboard riff, will try and get something recorded and back to you this evening.
So @Ryan is that track you loaded for @MrNezumi only or for others to add to as well?
(cool bass line btw)
@jesse_ohio I was just throwing it out there for anyone to use. :-) I figured that was the easiest way to get it started. AlterEgo_uk might do something I love and you hate, you shouldn't have to opt out cause of that, so you can take the files and do something different, just an example. :-) Then after some people have done things we can talk closer about doing something from scratch as a "band" as we'll start to see who we'd have the most fun with. :-)
ahh ok cool. Well in that case maybe I'll do something with it too
@Ryan OK got my tracks exported as wavs from Cubasis onto my PC but you have only shared the link to your 'Audiobus This 90bpm' folder, not shared it so I can't upload to it - only download. You probably need my email address to share that folder with me so I will send you a message.
I will also upload a rough mix with my tracks added to yours on my Soundcloud.
Just a rough mix of tracks I added to the original bass and drum tracks.
)
Had a lot of fun doing it (it is meant to be tongue-in-cheek
Renamed it Nightmare on the Bus for reasons that will become clear when you listen to the lyrics!
Recorded in Cubasis on iPad 2 (original tracks imported via Audioshare).
Vocals sung into iPad microphone (effects in Cubasis)
Alto Sax in Cubasis
Synth strings - Magellan via Audiobus, controlled via Midi out from Alto Sax parts and recorded back into Cubasis.
Will upload individual tracks to Ryan's Dropbox folder once he has shared it.
But I won't be upset if none of my tracks are used in a final version 
Hope it doesn't spoil the original vibe too much
@AlterEgo_UK THat was really awesome! :-)) Hahah! It's so happy but yet not happy at all.. So awesome! I'm all smiles over here. :0) Great Job!
@AlterEgo_UK - that is great. I got a big laugh out of it. Well done.
@Ryan - I thought we had something special going on. ;-) My bad. My intention was to do a 1-on-1 collaboration with you, not some sort of ambiguous pile-on thing. Not looking for a "band", so I'm bowing out nicely. I guess I am the one who doesn't play well with others. ;-)
@AlterEgo_UK - I like it! Reminds me of Oingo Boingo.
@MrNezumi Awww I'm sorry man, I thought you were aware it was for anyone. I wouldn't have posted it all publicly if I knew it was just me and you. We can always do something else if you want. :-)
@Ryan - I'm slow. I thought you were publicly calling me out after I razzed you (all in fun). Maybe later, when I feel better and we can work out some kind of guidelines/format, we can do something.
@MrNezumi haha! Nope. I would've named the song after you if it was that way ;-) Sounds good man :-)
Great fun- brilliant lyrics! I may even be moved to make a contribution myself?
@MrNezumi Sorry for jumping in but there is still plenty of room for more track, effects, hooks and a solo!
Or why not do your own thing with the original bass and drum tracks? It would be cool to see what different styles and instrumentation different people come up with.
@AlterEgo_UK Don't worry about it. I was looking for a back-n-forth collab, not anything else. I already have a small stack of tracks of my own that need finishing. I'm glad other people are having fun with it. :-)
In case anyone fancies adding some extras to Nightmare on the Bus (like a solo etc.) here is a link to a Dropbox folder containing the original drum and bass tracks, plus my additional tracks (as wavs) and an m4a version of my rough mix and a PDF of the lyrics.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0f9dt2tzibfasbc/BfstSCC922
:-)