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August 2024 Challenge Response – Bruce D.

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Tagged: Intro, Jump Blues, songwriting

  • This topic has 25 replies, 26 voices, and was last updated 1 year, 1 month ago by Tom D.
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    • September 6, 2024 at 6:59 pm #377183
      Bruce D
      Participant

        OK, time for the August 2024 challenge!

        In our continuing series of becoming more and more creative, a venture into songwriting. This was a hard one. Create an intro to a song. Something I’d never even thought about.

        What makes an intro? Why does it work? I’m still not sure, but I know it when I hear it.

        Here’s a couple of bars of my version. Special treat at the end.

        Just focus on the notes you DID get right . . . Frank Vignola

      • September 6, 2024 at 7:55 pm #377199
        Michael L
        Participant

          Great retrospective of riffs Bruce. Thanks for putting this all together. And, your own wasn’t too bad either! I enjoyed it.

        • September 7, 2024 at 12:07 am #377271
          AndréM
          Participant

            Great list of intros.
            You played a nice one too.

            AndréM

            AndréM

          • September 7, 2024 at 6:07 am #377322
            Manfred M
            Participant

              Great introduction for the intro you created, Bruce. That was really interesting. And the credits…great! And by the way, I also liked your intro.

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            • September 7, 2024 at 6:33 am #377325
              JoeD1
              Participant

                Nice one Bruce.

                Joe

                The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sound,
                Or the strength of an Oak with roots deep in the ground.
                --Graeme Edge

              • September 7, 2024 at 7:33 am #377341
                John H
                Participant

                  Bruce
                  I enjoyed your riff… your overall production was smashing…. very creative and fun. Thanks for sharing.

                  JH

                • September 7, 2024 at 9:12 am #377362
                  Mark T
                  Participant

                    Great collection of iconic songs, Bruce 👍🎶😎

                  • September 7, 2024 at 12:03 pm #377410
                    Alan L
                    Participant

                      Works for me! Some great jump blues there.

                    • September 7, 2024 at 12:11 pm #377412
                      Mike W
                      Participant

                        Great stuff Bruce – I was wishing you’d put a few bars of a jump blues after your intro. Still the medley at the end was quite a wander down memory lane. Incidentally, on the Beatles’ version of “I want to be your man”, I think George Harrison introduced it with a single, bent note: seriously minimalist and it made “Hard Day’s Night” seem quite orchestral, by comparison.

                      • September 7, 2024 at 12:59 pm #377426
                        Don Patton jr
                        Participant

                          You nailed it Bruce !
                          Great examples of intros or songs with a hook ! I think the key is that it has to catch your attention, and yours and those examples do..🎶🎵🙂

                          Don P

                        • September 7, 2024 at 3:43 pm #377455
                          James B
                          Participant

                            Nice presentation of some of the great intros through the years Bruce. Yours was good too but you got upstaged at the end. 😂

                            James

                          • September 7, 2024 at 5:42 pm #377478
                            Bill
                            Participant

                              Nice one Bruce, can always count on you to jump! You are right about “Gimme Shelter”, iconic intro and used in so many movies about the 60s. Cool presentation all the way.

                            • September 7, 2024 at 7:03 pm #377486
                              sunjamr
                              Participant

                                Nice one, as usual, Bruce. Good fun!

                                Somewhere in my distant past I can remember a TV quiz show where the contestants had to start listening to a song, then the first person to guess the name of the song won that round. I usually got them right before the contestants did.

                                Sunjamr Steve

                              • September 7, 2024 at 9:49 pm #377534
                                sciencefiction
                                Participant

                                  That intro you came up with sounded great, Bruce! Started kinda slow, then loved how it descended interestingly, and then ended dead center on the chord. And the best thing, all your own!!
                                  Larry

                                • September 8, 2024 at 12:42 am #377538
                                  Werner
                                  Participant

                                    Thank you for this one. A very creative work and a blast for every music lover. Thank you for this entertaining contribution.

                                    Werner

                                  • September 8, 2024 at 1:38 am #377569
                                    Dieter
                                    Participant

                                      Great ideas – all of them grooves great as well.

                                      Dieter

                                    • September 8, 2024 at 3:05 am #377590
                                      Jennifer D
                                      Participant

                                        Oh that was a great video Bruce really enjoyed that and your jump blues was great too!

                                      • September 8, 2024 at 3:13 am #377595
                                        Gary W
                                        Participant

                                          I see what youre doing there Brusce – good idea you should take further – well played.

                                          Gary

                                        • September 8, 2024 at 6:10 am #377657
                                          charjo
                                          Moderator

                                            Love your enthusiasm and the great intro examples, Bruce. Cool intro you created. You probably stuck to the instructions more than any other member.
                                            John

                                          • September 8, 2024 at 8:21 am #377686
                                            Martin W
                                            Participant

                                              Very entertaining introduction Bruce , nice bluesy intro as well and one that could be developed further.
                                              Maybe music school lesson two 🤔🎸
                                              Cool ending with all those famous riffs .

                                              Martin

                                            • September 8, 2024 at 9:42 am #377730
                                              Paul S.
                                              Participant

                                                Cleverly crafted kickoff that went in an unexpected direction before winding up right where it should. I’m just sorry you didn’t keep going. Well done.

                                              • September 8, 2024 at 10:44 am #377754
                                                Juxi
                                                Participant

                                                  Music school? Challenge Response school! That was so cleverly presented. Liked your intro and loved your outro full of intros! That was fun! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

                                                  Bluesige Grüße
                                                  Juxi

                                                • September 8, 2024 at 5:47 pm #377890
                                                  Laurel C
                                                  Moderator

                                                    An enjoyable creative response with your unique style. It amazes me that of the colossal music library of riffs we have at our disposal, the Beatles ‘one strum’ can only be one song. There would be a lot of takers for an extended video.

                                                  • September 8, 2024 at 10:24 pm #377930
                                                    JoLa
                                                    Participant

                                                      Yeah, that’s it!

                                                      Great intro or … a micro song 🙂

                                                      🎸JoLa

                                                    • September 10, 2024 at 5:15 am #378052
                                                      Pap
                                                      Participant

                                                        Bruce, you knocked this challenge out of the ballpark! Really well done. I like the examples you gave….they were all really good examples and your hook was pretty solid too….you should work that into a song. Cheers. Pap

                                                      • September 10, 2024 at 5:57 pm #378132
                                                        Tom D
                                                        Participant

                                                          Loved your “introduction” Bruce. And it was good to hear you punctuate your list of great song intros with your own blues intro! Very cool sound. Tom

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