Vintage Club #20 with Richard | Let's Create A Holiday Song Together

Hello Community :wave:

:guitar: Join Richard as we go off-piste in this special Vintage Club session.

It will run from 7pm UTC on Monday December 2nd - Reserve your spot here!

In Vintage Club #19 (check the archive for a recording plus downloadable resources here) we looked at some of the many ways that multiple guitars can play together - with mention that the techniques can be used in adding layers and textures to songs.

Here we put that into practice - by aiming to compose and build the parts of a ‘holiday song’ for the festive season in real-time with input from the audience.

Your ideas and suggestions - taken from live chat - will inform the composition. We will arrive at decisions for chord progressions, tempo, and other elements that will go to composing a song - hopefully in two or more parts (time dependent) of intro / verse / chorus / bridge/ outro etc.

This is definitely a step into the unknown and has all the potential to be a risky venture as Richard will be creating, playing, recording and over-dubbing multiple parts on a looper (a Digitech Trio+ that can also add bass and drums) in front of a live audience! It may go pear-shaped. However … If we have fun, learn a little more about music and songs and playing guitar then we all come out as winners. :sunglasses: A number 1 festive song is perhaps a dream too far … but …

If you miss the session the recording will be available in the Clubs Archive along with any additional resources. Clubs Archive.
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Ah, but who gets the royalties? :joy:

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If you want in, you’ll have to contribute!!
:wink:

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Bring along the following optional ingredients …

smiles / shakers / bells / tambourines / guitars / capo conversion chart / capo / bah-humbug / festive cheer / tinsel / singing voices …

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Sounds like a Joycian ‘Here Comes Everybody’ from Finnegan’s Wake :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
I’ll await the outcome with anticipation (and possibly steal any ‘good bits’ for future projects :rofl:)

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I don’t know if that’s good or bad or other as I haven’t read Joyce … I know, for shame!

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I prefer listening to Joyce than reading him :smiley:
Lend your lugs to the inimitable Ronnie Drew singing The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly (or Humpty Dumpty) :rofl:

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Recommended read

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Hey!

Gordon has already raised the question of potenial problems re: sharing royalties.
Now you want to add to that by forcing us to seek legal recourse against the scourge of a plagiarist?
Gadzooks.
You bounder.