Summer Songs Challenge Part 1 : Starting

Summer Songs Challenge is a fun challenge to help all members, regardless of experience level from beginner to advanced, to practise completing more songs. If you take part, we will go through a 4-step guided process of starting, expanding, arranging, and completing your song in 4 weeks. If you join the challenge in both June and July, you'll have completed 2 more songs before school starts again!

Stages

  • Week 1: Starting
  • Week 2: Expanding
  • Week 3: Arranging
  • Week 4: Completing

Week 1: Starting

(1) receive a seed idea (e.g. "freedom" or "home" or "neighbourhood")
(2) decide how to express it (e.g. write a happy/sad tune, or use samples)
(3) record that first idea, and share it

(1) The Seed Idea

Choose from one of these ideas
  1. Twin Worlds
  2. Home Base
  3. Cyberpunk
  4. Omniverse

(2) Decide how to express it

Will you be writing
  • A song with lyrics and vocals?
  • An instrumental?
  • What key?
  • A soundscape?
  • With beats or without beats?
  • Using chopped up samples?
  • Is it happy or sad?
Our goals
"on average, those who excel in creative fields aren’t qualitatively better in their fields than their peers. What made them different is that they produced a lot more work"

Here's a reminder of 3 ways to get started

(3) Record your idea

  • Share it with the group
  • Keep it positive!
  • Let your friends develop their own artistic ideas, don't impose yours with 'friendly advice'
  • Congratulations - you got started!
  • What do you want to do next?

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