Scratch

Oh boy, this band will be almost as good as QP.

ElectricSparx wrote:

Actually, I was wondering how we're going to relay things back and forth.

By the way, do you have Steam?

I'm a bit confused about your query. 
And also, I don't have Steam sadly, but it's something I wouldn't mind looking into.

Hi, I've never been on a scratch band before, and I've no idea what you do or how it works, but anyway,
I play CLASSICAL guitar, so I do clever 'poncy spaniard' stuff (as my friends call it).
I also play alto sax (have fun transposing that if you ever want it-it's in Eb.)
I just happen to also have a weird little synthesizer just lying around that I use quite a bit.
I often record myself and arrange my own songs using audacity and a surprisingly good sound recorder in my phone. Surprised? I was. I also use patternmusic a lot (free from the app store, If you like composing, look it up) and other things that I have lying around to make coolish music. I often sound like I brought back the middle ages after introducing a knight of the round table to frankie goes to Hollywood.

You may have got by now-I have weird tastes. Nothing I've ever written has turned out anything like how imagined or wrote it (prepare yourself for surprises) and if you want me to join, YouTube
the bravery-the dandy 
garbage-I'm only happy when it rains
and dr feelgood- route 66.

If you can sit through that music, you can probably cope with me.
Some warnings-I've never been in a scratch band before, so I've no idea how you do everything
sometimes I take ages on something (up to a month)
others, I can do a piece of music in an afternoon.

I don't have soundcloud, but I do have sibellius.
If you don't know what those are, look them up. 

Can I join please? I might not be very useful, but I'm willingto try and join in 

And souncloud is generally easier and more convenient than steam. Sharing through scratch projects is easiest though. We(well,you) are a band on scratch after all. And sorry if I have just jumped in and started mucking around with stuff.
And my synthesizer keyboard may be needed- it is very old, so all the built in samples aren't very realistic. It can use them very well for very odd (not particulary useful, but sometimes very cool)noises.
And sorry, I do just reel off loads of posts in one go sometimes because I can't be bothered to edit. It's not spamming. I tend to try to only say useful stuff.

Also, now that pinni's filled up the classical/acoustic guitar spot, I think jji would, if he still wishes to sign up, have to go with bass guitar. That is unless, of course, he's recently gotten an electric guitar, in which case he could sign up for that. C:

Once one of us has a satisfactory take of their playing, they'll send it to you. There's various ways of obtaining the recording - one is for the member to put it on a Scratch project and you'd just export the file, or the member could similarly upload it to Soundcloud for you to obtain.

Songwriter. Cool.
Patternmusic has loads of weird instruments. I always create bases for my songs using that, whether I use the patternbases or not.
Patternmusic has a brilliant drumkit built in. If you don't have a drummer, we can use that. If anyone here has an ios device like an iPod, iPhone, or ipad, get patternmusic! If you like writing music, you will love it! I'm not an advertiser. It can be a bit of a hate it or love it app.
Anyway.
When shall we get started and what with? You don't need all of the instruments straight away. We can go fine with what we've got until more come along.
What genres do we play? I've never written anything for or in a definite genre or style before, so If we're doing a definite 'this this and only this' I'm not much help 

All right, in that case just classical guitar then. 

We're gonna start working on music as soon as we got madbunnygal's audition. Then, we can decide whether or not she would be a good drummer for the band. Even, if we don't have all members at that point, we can still mimick the sounds. For example, if we don't have drums we can use PatternMusic, if we don't have bass, my keyboard has a pretty realistic sound for that, and if we don't have a main guitarist, I can just handle those duties.

As far as genre, I'm planning to be an alternative/indie group that has a bit of experiment and outside-the-box tendencies to it. I wouldn't mind experimenting with varying genres as well, though, for example adding psychedelic and electronica elements to the music (easily done with my synth), and maybe exploring some jaded genres such as blues, jazz, and even Johnny Cash-style country. But first and foremost, we're an alternative band.

While we wait for madbunnygal's audition tape, I suggest we come up with a name for our band. I had a couple in mind but maybe you guys got something better:

Sphinx
Caged Birds
Stereotypes
The Rubber Band

Those are mine, anyway. You guys have any suggestions?

I can sing and do art. Not to boast, but a lot of times when someone hears me sing for the first time they say i have a nice voice. I can also do art with Photoshop, so that might be helpful for you, less time needed to give yo your collab. XD

Shall I audition?

Last edited by lundfamily3 (2013-04-05 17:47:22)

Band name suggestion:

Elite Breadstick

All4one wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

I can play guitar and bass. You remember me from the walruses 

Of course.   
And with that new guitar of yours coming along, it's all perfect timing.
I'll probably just stick with keyboards, now I think about it, and I can just leave acoustic guitar duties to you. Or you can do bass, which would be great, because bassists are pretty hard to find on Scratch.
Are you planning on taking both roles or just one of the two?

I can do both roles until a dedicated bassist comes along.

I can also do electric as well as acoustic.

How about something like

Policy Past
Policy Concept
Policy Pity

Ive wanted to use a name like that for a band for awhile

This is coming along well!