As I've stated several times, I am not trying to get a contest going. This is simply an exercise in composition and musicianship. The only times I said contest, I was attempting to enunciate the fact that it started as an idea for a contest, but was going to be more than this. You need to take into account that the forum's member base will be significantly lower if people cannot participate. My option allows for anyone who is interested to participate. However, performing covers cannot be done by everyone who might be interested in something of that nature, some people just do not have the means. There are no high standards, this is not a competition, this is something that everyone interested, and people from the outside, and even members of the forum who have very little to no experience in composing music to get into. Once again, I am not attempting to create a competition, only an exercise in composition and musicianship. People can, and just might come in just to show their ability at composing music. People can and just might come in to see more experienced musician's styles of writing to see how they can help themselves. Other people who have no basis in music may just come in to hear music that is written for the project, and maybe get themselves into composition. We could make it a contest to attract people who simply want to show off and try to be better than everyone else.
I know what you want to do with this, and that is to create a project that will bring people into this forum, and from what I can tell you're supporting doing covers for it, but you need to consider the angles. For one, doing covers, at least to me, is not pleasing to my artistic, creative side. Sometimes I just feel better writing something all by myself. Other people may be put off by the fact that they do not like the song or band that is being covered. Others simply may not know how to play that particular song. Many, however, will not even have the equipment necessary to record themselves playing the song. The idea for a creative project, where people compose their pieces, talk about their writing processes, and present them to other users for constructive criticism is open to anyone who has a computer, which, taking into account the fact that this is a website, is everyone who would be looking at the thread on a regular, daily basis. All it takes is a couple minutes at most for download, a few minutes to learn the program, and then a bit to compose the song, but never longer than it would have taken to learn how to play, record, produce and mix a cover, and a much simpler solution as well. We're attempting to achieve the same goal, get people interested and bring new people to the forum, but people will only be interested if they are able to participate. I believe effingawesome and my idea has a bigger opportunity to reach more people, and bring more people to the forum as a whole. The contest idea would only help, but as I've stated, and will continue repeating, there are no strict rules or guidelines, there are simply a number of limits to keep people from going overboard.
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