Cool Idea count me in ,me and Idisidi did a song together this last weekend . I dont know if he has uploaded here yet , but it was pretty cool. He did some real interesting vocals on it (Set the Pace ) let me know if he didnt upload it , and i'll do it !

Hmm, yes, sounds very interesting, especially this agreement rule before it comes to any release. Usually the singer or guitarist of a band enters session room, shouting "guys, I gotta new song!". He explains structure, chords and what everyone else has to do, and after a while they all found their part and say 'amen'. The only discussion might be about guitar solo length (32 bars as usual or 48 bars to better demonstrate that brandnew psychodelic distortion effect) and convincing the bass man that no bass solo (4 bars) is needed.
In our case this process is likely more difficult, because there's no special hierarchy, but it's nicely challenging though. I assume we'll have some primordial seeds (e.g. style, theme, lyrics) serving as inspiration and each member brainstorms and tells his ideas about how this concept could be interpreted and what could be done to sculpture a song of it.
Must admit I'm loving the group dynamics behind. Who is eager to see his samples embedded? Who draws back easily when majority doubts? How is everybody accepting and adapting new or uncommon suggestions? How can different strategies of music development be melted to result in a successful (art)work?
Anyway, I'm appreciating such kind of projects meaning worthwhile experiences for all of us.

The Jamsys Meeting area for the Jamacast Collective Project II is more or less ready for real time action. Keep an eye on the bulletin board posted on the site for meeting times and topics. The first meeting will be posted by myself or Asaguare and we will discuss the general direction for Project marketing theme and track styling. We will discuss how to go about time lines for WIP and file hierarchy management, where they go how they are named etc. We will also assign roles for everybody such as who is in charge of what. This is all trial and error guys so if it doesn't work out right the first few times, so what lets just make it happen, right.

Groove On!!!//

Since nobody (apart from IGTB) seems to have any inspirations what to do with Todd's theme, I started to work out some ideas about it. So far I did the following:
1. Analysis: Basics. It's in key G/Em, 140 BPM, built on repetitions of a 4-bar-pattern. In detail such a pattern consists of 2 bars in Em and 2 bars in Am (last 2 beats of second part can be seen as B7 alternatively for a better refeed to Em).
There's 3 progressing instrumental versions of the pattern: the first one is melody only, the second one is augmented with a simple bass line and hihat, the third one is augmented again with a deep trance synth bass line and kick/snare.
2. Analysis: Clip extraction from mp3. The 3 patterns mentioned above are available as WAV files, stored in the Collab File area in folder [Asaguare].
3. Analysis: Melody. Noted the melody as MIDI, a corresponding file (Todd.mid) has also been stored in the Collab File area in folder [Asaguare]. Knowing the specific melody notes might come handy if additional elements such as parallel melody lines or vocals have to be created/recorded.
4. Idea: Structural elements. The existing pattern could serve as verse-part. A bridge-part is needed to seperate different verse-parts.
5. Idea: Bridge/refrain. Found a nice clip of a little girl's laughing. Her laughter happens to consist of mainly 2 pitches, notes F and G, accent on G, which matches our key. Furthermore we could introduce several new chords to underlay the laughter and make this bridge/refrain sound different from the verse-part.
My idea is: G, Eb, C, F7 - two bars each.

I listened to your Todd_Laughter clip, haha very creative. This one is going to be interesting to see how it turns out. I guess the reason I tried messing with this particular tune is because this kind of music is very difficult for me to grasp onto creatively. I thought it would be a good challenge, totally out of my comfort zone here on this one. I too think the only way to compliment it or mess it up probably is to integrate some sound FX or vocal FX like you are trying to do. So far I like what you have chosen to integrate very unique as always with Asa, way to go we are off again to a start maybe. This way even Idisidi can play without feeling totally obligated on a time bases factor. This will give him and everybody more time to just inspire at their own pace and all.

Groove On!!!

OK for some reason I just can't get to grips on this 140 BPM version so I will probably be working on my slower 120 BPM version. The reason for this is I am hung up with a vocal part that keeps popping up in my head. I am working on a ghost theme for the lyrics also. Strange I know but it just keeps ending up this way. Every time I try to work on it I keep going back to my original idea. This is why I think it is important for all of us to just do our own thing with these WIPS and just use ideas and work from other people to inspire. For example I am using the laughter part as an intro to my WIP version. If it sucks I will hear about it when it's done and then maybe someone will take it to another angle who knows. I am all about experimenting with music, I'm sure we all are. Patterns that are not intentional but patterns still the same. Just keep it close from the heart that is true. Who knows though where this WIP will end up I might even replace it all with a guitar riff haha and just use the fabric of it's essence.

At least this is a good start with this WIP. It's enough to get a groove on!!! Now this is not to say that we won't be working on other things and song ideas. We might even end up creating track three before we even finish track one. I really don't care as long as we are all working on the Project and having fun with it. Speaking of another track, have you listened to DJskyhawks Save the World tune. We could use this as track two. I am thinking of ocillating between an octave change back and forth on his intro bass part with that one, Just a thought.

Groove On!!!