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by colorado weeks
Mon Jan 08, 2024 11:31 CET
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC076 December 2023 - Winners announced
Replies: 112
Views: 56183

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC076 December 2023 - Winners announced

uh, wow. thank you all so much for the love and for your feedback! you all made such amazing tracks; it was an absolute joy listening through all the entries!

i'm interested in the MusicLab RealGuitar.

hope to see you all in the next one!
by colorado weeks
Sun Dec 31, 2023 02:29 CET
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC076 December 2023 - Winners announced
Replies: 112
Views: 56183

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC076 December 2023 - Voting until 03-JAN-2024 23:59 UTC+1/CET

great tracks everybody! congrats on making it to the end of the month! this month was extremely stacked, and voting on a top seven was no easy feat. my experience: compared to the last time i participated in SWC, this was a much trickier go. i generally start with a catchy chorus and try to fit the ...
by colorado weeks
Sat Dec 30, 2023 19:32 CET
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC076 December 2023 - Winners announced
Replies: 112
Views: 56183

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC076 December 2023 - Voting until 03-JAN-2024 23:59 UTC+1/CET

so normally i don't do replies to these things, but i feel like this needs to be said: 3:43 the word 'say' (it's a #D) is very low for a woman to sing, and maybe you should have rewritten instead of letting some kind of algorithm pitch down? (Or is it actually you singing?) yeah that's my voice! i'v...
by colorado weeks
Tue Dec 26, 2023 17:29 CET
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC076 December 2023 - Winners announced
Replies: 112
Views: 56183

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC076 December 2023 - Voting until 03-JAN-2024 23:59 UTC+1/CET

Hello guys! I just discovered that my submission sounds utterly strange (bad) if I connect my headphones directly to my laptop's output, instead of using the external soundcard the way I usually do. The strange thing is that I listened to four or five of your entries just before, and they sounded p...
by colorado weeks
Sun Dec 17, 2023 05:10 CET
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC076 December 2023 - Winners announced
Replies: 112
Views: 56183

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC076 December 2023 - Submissions until 24-DEC-2023 23:59 UTC+1/CET

hi everyone! here's my (WIP) track for this month's SWC. it's a little ditty called "LEDs." nothing like a little heartbreak for the holidays! https://coloradoweeks.io/music/SWC076__colorado%20weeks__LEDs.mp3 download (mp3) edit: adjusted vocal levels, bumped up drums, added a bit more del...
by colorado weeks
Thu Jan 05, 2023 10:58 CET
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC064 December 2022 - Winners announced
Replies: 43
Views: 24124

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC064 December 2022 - Winners announced

uhhh wow. this was a pleasant surprise to wake up to! thanks to everyone for their feedback. i had a great time doing SWC, and i hope the stars will align again in my schedule to allow me to do this again. you all are a great group of songwriters and i've learned so much in this past month from all ...
by colorado weeks
Fri Dec 30, 2022 20:22 CET
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC064 December 2022 - Winners announced
Replies: 43
Views: 24124

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC064 December 2022 - Voting until 03-JAN-2022 23:59 UTC+1/CET

votes: Dear David John becsei_gyorgy Olli H EKVelika KukoBass my experience: i come from a background of very strictly time limited songwriting composition competitions (as in “write a song in an hour,)” so having roughly 24 days to work on more than a verse and a chorus seems like an incredibly gen...
by colorado weeks
Fri Dec 23, 2022 00:13 CET
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC064 December 2022 - Winners announced
Replies: 43
Views: 24124

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC064 December 2022 - Submissions until 24-12-2022 23:59 UTC+1/CET

Then to comments. hey, thanks for all the detailed feedback, you and Mister Fox caught some things i couldn't quite put my finger on! as an aside, i'm incredibly lucky to have found a group of talented songwriters to learn from. (y'all are great!) i'm currently at my parents' place for the holidays...
by colorado weeks
Sun Dec 11, 2022 22:01 CET
Forum: Songwriting Competition
Topic: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC064 December 2022 - Winners announced
Replies: 43
Views: 24124

Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC064 December 2022 - Submissions until 24-12-2022 23:59 UTC+1/CET

Interesting picture has become the theme of the month. The first things that came to mind from the picture: quite dark, gloomy style, desolation, winter, loneliness, longing, hope, nostalgia, sentimentalism... love the direction you've taken with this. it's sultry, it's intimate, it's heartbreaking...