Arrangement contests - brainstorming topic

[Bespinben]

My guess is that the theme is "epically epic" (i.e. arrange a song you want as best as you can and the judging will be based on the quality of the arrangement)

[Cobraroll]

My original idea was that the judges decide and announce the criteria. If everybody arranged whatever they wanted, it would be hard to find a winner. The songs being arranged would need to meet a criteria, for example "gloomy", "scary", "jolly", etc, and people could fickle a little with them to put them into another category (for example, "take a scary song and make it happy", or "arrange an originally non-violin song for violin"). That would be narrow enough to base a judgment on, while wide enough to give people lots of choices.

I'd say it's up to the judges (UGC, Brassman and Dudeman, if I'm not mistaken) to get together and "build the framework". Then when we're ready, a topic is made. I'll send out PMs.

*starts to browse the Steam store, looking for ideas*

[Cobraroll]

Okay, now we've had a round of arrangement contest already, and seeing as we have this fine thread lying around for discussing arrangement contests, I'd like discussion of future contests to take place here. Fling out your ideas, critisism, and suggestions as to what to do better this time around. Hopefully, we'll get more attention on the second try.

[Bespinben]

I wouldn't mind doing another "mood reversal" contest, now that I thought of a song I want to do.

[SlowPokemon]

What about this odd competition: take a song in 4/4 time and arrange it into a waltz (3/4 time). Or all take a song from a certain game?

[MaestroUGC]

I like the idea of waltz-ifying a piece, it would brove enough of a challange to alter the rhythms to work as well serving to create a proper waltz.

[Clanker37]

What about this odd competition: take a song in 4/4 time and arrange it into a waltz (3/4 time).

I like it.

*Begins brewing idea cauldron*

[Olimar12345]

That sounds boring-It doesn't take much to just change the meter of a song...So far the mood reversal was my favorite idea...

[GoronsOrchestrated]

That sounds boring-

I think otherwise... It would be interesting!

[SlowPokemon]

That sounds boring-It doesn't take much to just change the meter of a song...So far the mood reversal was my favorite idea...

I actually thought the mood reversal was pretty awful. XD and I don't just mean changing the meter. I mean play with the melody and the tempo and the instrumentation to make it sound like a waltz. Eliminate some notes here and there, add a flourish, make it "bouncy".... I thought it sounded like a really fun idea.

[Olimar12345]

We should do something like, pick a style of music and make a vg tune fit that style. Essentially what you said with the waltz idea but more broad-say Pick a mario song and make it into a dixieland, or make a metroid tune into a march. Idk...

[MaestroUGC]

That would be too hard to critique though as it would create far too much variety with no control. By choosing one style to work with everyone can choose which ever piece they want and mold it to fit that style. Otherwise it would just be "Here's Zelda in jazz" against "The Metroid Tango", they may sound good, but how can you say which one conquered their respective styles better? Watlzes are a nice medium that can accomodate most VG Music and we have a wealth of watzes to which we can compare against to judge if it was done wonderfully or haphazardly.

[GoronsOrchestrated]

That would be too hard to critique though as it would create far too much variety with no control. By choosing one style to work with everyone can choose which ever piece they want and mold it to fit that style. Otherwise it would just be "Here's Zelda in jazz" against "The Metroid Tango", they may sound good, but how can you say which one conquered their respective styles better? Watlzes are a nice medium that can accomodate most VG Music and we have a wealth of watzes to which we can compare against to judge if it was done wonderfully or hapharzardly.

BIG WORDS ROCK!

[Jub3r7]

I'm guessing you've never met Mashi. d:

[Olimar12345]

That would be too hard to critique though as it would create far too much variety with no control. By choosing one style to work with everyone can choose which ever piece they want and mold it to fit that style. Otherwise it would just be "Here's Zelda in jazz" against "The Metroid Tango", they may sound good, but how can you say which one conquered their respective styles better? Watlzes are a nice medium that can accomodate most VG Music and we have a wealth of watzes to which we can compare against to judge if it was done wonderfully or haphazardly.

I meant have a fixed style and have the arranger choose the song.