....have my wicked way with yours. The idea here is very simple. Upload the backing track of something you've previously posted to MeFiMu (that's not strictly necessary I guess but it sort of closes the loop) and the challenge is for anyone who fancies it to have a go at writing and recording a new top line/melody and, if you want to go the whole hog, lyric. You could of course try to use the existing lyric but with a new melody - that's even more difficult and may cause the masochists in the community to become moist. Go right ahead and swap stems if you so desire, but that's not essential for this bit of fun. Stating the bleedin' obvious: upload the result when you're done. 'andsome! I'm currently finishing off a rewrite of a track I posted to MeFiMu recently which, on reflection, sucked a large, flaccid one. I was trying with increasing loss of enthusiasm to polish the turd when I decided to scrap what I had thought was the key part of the track, open a mic and just see what came out. It's actually completely transformed it - it's not a completely different thing in mood as well as melody - and just goes to show that when you think something's done if you just reach a little deeper you can pull something much better out...... And there's something too in the back of my mind - I think it's one of Eno's cards actually - about being brave enough to get rid of something that you think is absolutely key. Not explaining that very well, but it's an interesting approach I think.
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