I just had the craziest idea, and I don't know how anyone could make it work.

My idea was that we get the musicians on the forums to make an album of their favorite songs. Anyone could be on it, and we could do any song.

For example: We could play Cygnus X-1 with a drummer on the forums playing the skins, a bassist playing the bass, and a guitarist playing guitar. Or for example Script for a Jester's Tear with a keyboardist, a guitarist, a bassist, a drummer, and a vocalist.

How we could do this is each person records his/her part using computer recording programs, then we could have one person combine all the different parts into one mix that could be a song.

sounds good to me...though I think we'd do better with something original (imagine an album of ProgArchives member collaborations! At the very least, an awesome racket ). And not just because I probably can't play any of the parts of Cygnus X-1.

As long as we kept the results as audio/ MIDI files they could be used in any software. Uploads and downloads would be tricky, though, as audio tends to make pretty big files and not everyone has a dedicated broadband storage site.

Everyone participating could offer a basic track or phrase to build on, which the others could then add to or alter and see how far the idea goes.

The Allan Holdsworth forum did the same thing, but they started with one member laying down a basic track and let each guy download it and solo over the base and returning it to the master. Trying to put together a scratch tune would be akin to a needle in a haystack.

Choose a tune and one guy would need to put together the basic track in a single key. Everyone would have to use similiar recording software, record their parts and forward it to the master.

Either Cert or James would be the logical choice. Due to my lack of talent, I could get my wife to lend her voice to verse and or chorus.

Start with something simple, eh?

Although I believe that this ProjeKt (can I call it that?) will most likely never occur, it would be a lot of fun. It would also allow for the musicians of the forum to hear everyone else's playing style.

James:

As for the racket thing... I wouldn't want to imagine the racket of a recording that we could make of the intro to Close to the Edge... that would be pure chaos!

Cygnus X-2 wrote: I just had the craziest idea, and I don't know how anyone could make it work. My idea was that we get the musicians on the forums to make an album of their favorite songs. Anyone could be on it, and we could do any song. For example: We could play Cygnus X-1 with a drummer on the forums playing the skins, a bassist playing the bass, and a guitarist playing guitar. Or for example Script for a Jester's Tear with a keyboardist, a guitarist, a bassist, a drummer, and a vocalist. How we could do this is each person records his/her part using computer recording programs, then we could have one person combine all the different parts into one mix that could be a song.

There are better songs to play, with regards to how much effort it would take to carry out your plan. Let's do The Gates of Delirium!!

Crimson Prince wrote: Cygnus X-2 wrote: I just had the craziest idea, and I don't know how anyone could make it work. My idea was that we get the musicians on the forums to make an album of their favorite songs. Anyone could be on it, and we could do any song. For example: We could play Cygnus X-1 with a drummer on the forums playing the skins, a bassist playing the bass, and a guitarist playing guitar. Or for example Script for a Jester's Tear with a keyboardist, a guitarist, a bassist, a drummer, and a vocalist. How we could do this is each person records his/her part using computer recording programs, then we could have one person combine all the different parts into one mix that could be a song. There are better songs to play, with regards to how much effort it would take to carry out your plan. Let's do The Gates of Delirium!!

As for those first songs, those were just examples (But Cygnus X-1 is just plain fun to play on guitar). And Gates of Delirium is a tricky song, I like to play Heart of the Sunrise, Delirium is tough. Maybe 2112?

Soulman wrote: Here's a good idea, it goes off track about what we're talking about here. What if we had solo competitions? People could vote to see which is better...I dunno

What do you mean by solo? Do you mean that we each do solo tracks, or solos on the instrument we play?

we could open the album with all of the sounds I have made into my computer combined to make a single death sound

It was a good idea...tho i think a little too ambitious for its own good.

I could contribute high-guality psychotic bellowings, if any are needed!

each person could render their own instrument's track as an mp3 so software incompatibilities would be avoided.

for instance: the drummer lays down the drum track on his software, renders the result as an mp3 and sends it on the bassist, who is able to load the mp3 track onto his software.  he then records his part and renders either the individual bass track or a combined bass/drum track as mp3 and sends it on to the guitarist....

so on and so forth.  it's quite possible.  we have the technology... we can rebuild him!

goose wrote: We wouldn't all have to use the same recording software - since I doubt everyone has the same software it'd be entirely possible although a bit more time consuming to export to an audio format. 2112 would be a good one although I seem to remember Cygnus X-2 plays bass too

Yes, in fact I do. I do a good slap version of the Roundabout main riff on bass, too...