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Without rules, it's just anarchy - and that's fine if you're Sid Vicious, or maybe @Alex Kenivel, but for the rest of you, rules are necessary to have structure, boundaries and my morning coffee... well, maybe not that last part.
Since the 2023 Do Something Challenge was such a major hit, we're back for 2024!
Before we get too far down that road, let's recap @DrewJD82's original rules of the road:
Rule #1- All are welcomeTM
Stuff you're supposed to do-
Stuff you're NOT supposed to do-
Now that we've reiterated those, here's a few more things to keep in mind:
2024 Refinements and Clarifications:
Look for the first season to start... soon.
Don't start working on something now, in anticipation of the first 2024 season. Please wait.
In the meantime, feel free to post anything you have in the Director's Cut thread.
And, in the immortal words of the great philosopher Ronnie James Dio "Ride the tiger. You can see his stripes, but you know he's clean. Oh, don't you see what I mean?"
Since the 2023 Do Something Challenge was such a major hit, we're back for 2024!
Before we get too far down that road, let's recap @DrewJD82's original rules of the road:
Rule #1- All are welcomeTM
Stuff you're supposed to do-
- Play you're guitar! Or bass! Or drums! Or triangle! Or all of them!
- Write something, record it and upload it! "Something" can be anything you feel comfortable submitting. We may have future themed challenges.
- Cover something, record it and upload it! As long as the writer is given credit, all are welcomeTM.
- Solo over a backing track, record it and upload it!
- Submissions can come in any form; audio or video, Soundcloud, FractalCamp, Audius, YouTube, Dropbox, Yermomsbox, etc. If you want to just record a video of the audio playing in the background and you playing because recording in a DAW isn't you're thing, do it up.
- Tell us about it! What gear you used and your motivations, deepest desires and dirty secrets, you perv.
- Give your feller F'ers a high five for their efforts - it's tough out there and we all need encouragement from someone other than mom.
- Lather Rinse Repeat.
Stuff you're NOT supposed to do-
- Be a prick. The penalty will be doublefold for whatever the offense is. Being a prick consists of: negatively criticizing other's submissions, "telling it like it is". The easiest way to avoid this is to not offer suggestions unless the contributor asks for them. There's a vulnerability that comes along with submitting something and you'll never know how someone will take a suggestion or critique. If they don't ask for it, the best thing you can do is incorporate your advice into your own thing.
- Steal anyone's music.
- Reach into your archives and pull out the half-assed demo your bass player made when he got his first Tascam Portastudio in 1998 unless you're rerecording it. The submission has to have been started and completed within the season.
- Spam the threads with 50 improv solos you banged out in 5 minutes each. I don't think anyone currently here would do this, so this is for you oncoming F'ers.
- Use the same submission more than once
Now that we've reiterated those, here's a few more things to keep in mind:
2024 Refinements and Clarifications:
- All submissions equal 1 point
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- As stated above, all submissions must be something new, done within the Challenge Season. As much as we love your remix of the 1963 recording of your cat vomiting in time with the grandpa's rocking chair over the floorboards, the point is to DO SOMETHING, not DONE SOMETHING.
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- The challenge seasons will run for 8 weeks, points will be tallied and listed at the end of each week. Don't have time to submit in week one? Then submit it in week two or eight. The submission just has to be SOMETHING you DO inside the time frame of the season. Don't sweat the weekly part, just DO SOMETHING.
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- If you're the winner, you can screenshot it and send it to your wife, husband, best friends, random people on Twitter, wherever you want.
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- If someone has something they would like to submit to a winner; a pack of strings, some picks, a custom Funko Pop of me pissing behind a Circle K dumpster, a power supply, a pedal you don't use anymore but it's not worth selling, anything except items that violate hazmat regulations, feel free to submit it.
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- Overall, the point system is to act as a marker for your consistency. The challenge is to push yourself to do a little more than your normal thing, some of you will have to learn how to use a DAW, some of you will have to look at less used Epiphone's on OfferUp and play more guitar, some will need to spend less time posting about gear and more time using gear, some are going to have to feel some kind of 'structure' to remain consistent.
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- Whoever has the most points at the end will get crowned the TGF Do Something Season CHAMPION! and earn the coveted TGF Champion banner
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- All who submit something will earn the prestigious TGF Recording Artist banner. #Jelly
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- BoNuS BaNdMaTe ChAlLeNgE: Collaborate with another forum member on a song and get a
Whoever has the most the end of this season will be declared the TGF Do Something Season BANDMATE CHAMPION!
"But, @Iron1 when will the first challenge season start," you ask.
"Questions are the enemy of progress," I reply.
"Questions are the enemy of progress," I reply.
Look for the first season to start... soon.
Don't start working on something now, in anticipation of the first 2024 season. Please wait.
In the meantime, feel free to post anything you have in the Director's Cut thread.
And, in the immortal words of the great philosopher Ronnie James Dio "Ride the tiger. You can see his stripes, but you know he's clean. Oh, don't you see what I mean?"
