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The People's Remix Competition 352 PRCv14-14 Hello everyone and Welcome to the People's Remix Competition! Welcome to round 352 of PRC. OneUp, the person who has won the most PRC's of everyone managed to get another win, leaving Trism behind with the last place wooden spoon. Since OneUp already picked 22 sources before he was out of ideas so he decided to look in the request forum to find a source. Source: Warsong - Player Phase 1 (GEN) MIDI Source Information ThaSauce link: Click here to submit This selection is based on the following request: To submit a song at the compo page you can use the ThaSauce page. If you use this, an account is required. If you don't want to use ThaSauce, please upload the song somewhere else and post a download link in this thread. I recommend Soundcloud, don't forget to allow downloads to enable me to upload the song at ThaSauce. I will keep using ThaSauce as the place where all songs are located. If you want to use ThaSauce, the following steps should be done. Click the ThaSauce Link. Click the 'You are not logged in' button in the upper right. Click on 'register' (at the bottom). Read the terms and click 'I agree to these terms'. If you don't agree with them, upload the song somewhere else and post a download link as mentioned above (by doing that, you allow me to upload the song at ThaSauce. Continue the process by filling in your information. You will get a question to confirm that you're not a robot. Here are some possible answers: Name a compo: PRC Who organizes One Hour Compo: Starla Name a ThaSauce subdomain: compo.thasauce.net Who created Mega Mans: Capcom A confirmation mail will be send. There might be some issues with it (meaning that you don't get it), if that is the case, upload the song somewhere else as described above. Once registered, login with your username and password, go to the mentioned page and submit the song. If you want submit two or more songs you can create multiple ThaSauce accounts or upload the song somewhere else and post the download link. After uploading your song, please check if your song plays and can be downloaded and played without problems. Only upload MP3 files. PRC instructions The deadline is Wednesday July 19th 2017 at 10:59 pm ThaSauce time (18:00 UTC, 19:00 GMT), check the ThaSauce page for the exact time left. Make sure that the song is uploaded to ThaSauce or that there’s a download link posted in this thread. Note that this is one week longer as usual. I'll be on vacation between 9 and 24 July so I don't know if I'm able to check the status of the round. If no songs are submitted, there will be a five day extension (new deadline will be Monday July 24th). I might not be able to edit it on ThaSauce so please post a song in this thread with a download link in that case. If one song is submitted, that song is the winner (even if it's a bonus). If two or more songs are submitted voting starts as planned. If there are only multiple bonus mixes started, there will be a voting stage, or the mixers may decide who gets to pick a source. PRC353 will start directly after the end of the remixing stage of this round (on July 19th). This is even the case when PRC352 has an extension. I'll schedule this round on ThaSauce already and I will also open an Ocremix thread at the end of this week (without revealing the source already). You may enter as many mixes as you like and work with as many people as you like on each mix. You are free to create a second ThaSauce account for that if you use ThaSauce, it's needed to be able to upload a second remix if you use ThaSauce. Of course you can also upload it somewhere else and put a download link in this thread. Do not make qualitative comments on an entry until the results of the vote have been posted in this thread. Mixers cannot vote for themselves but if they vote they receive a free first place vote added onto their score. The winner of this round may select the source for PRC354. The winner of PRC350, OneUp, can only participate by submitting a Bonus Mix. His vote is doubled in the voting stage. This time, @Estrang will also have a double vote since Estrang made the request. You can find the full rules list at this page as well. Note that the rules for deadlines and extensions are a bit different this time. GOOD LUCK! PRC ThaSauce Home Page!

The round is open. Estrang, if you vote I'll make it a double vote since you made the request and you're waiting 7 years already. Hopefully at least one song will be submitted.

Welcome to the voting stage The mixing stage is over. This round has 3 songs. The following people compete against each other: GCJ Hoboka Sggod89 (if you want a different color, let me know by replying or sending me a PM). To vote, do the following: · Visit the stated ThaSauce Page and listen to all the entries. · Scroll to the form at the bottom of the screen or click PM. · Fill in the entries from first to third in the ThaSauce form or fill in your top 3. · State a reasoning for it. · Participants are encouraged to vote and leave feedback. However, they may not vote for themselve, they get a free first place if they vote, so it might help. They should leave the third box empty. Non participants are encouraged to vote to decide the winner and leave comments. · Dex has a vote that counts twice. · Always look in this thread to find out who's the winner of the round after the voting stage instead of only looking at ThaSauce for the results. Especially since some people might vote by sending me a PM. You have until THIS Monday, July 3rd 10:59 AM ThaSauce time (18:00 UTC, 19:00 GMT) to vote. This is shorter as in the last rounds. If you vote by PM make sure that your top 3 (or top 2 for participants) is clear. I prefer something like this: (To) Bundeslang (if you follow the link you won’t have to add my name). (Subject) PRC ### Vote (Message): 1: (remixer A ) 2: (remixer B ) 3: (remixer C ) (reasoning) I will post the feedback given in the PM’s and the votes in this thread. The winner may choose the source tune for PRC353. I need to have the source on time since I'll go on vacation on July 9th. Check the ThaSauce Page to vote or click here to send a PM.

Haven't heard it all yet but so far this is absolutely kick ass stuff!

(That bump ) I chose the Player Phase 1 song as source for the PRC 352 competition The thread will probably be up soon in the Competition forum on this site.

I think that, besides the great things mentioned above it's also very important to have certain arranging techniques which are difficult to acquire by yourself. This of course depends on the genre of music you're writing, but a good knowledge of things like voice leading, instrumentation, reharmonization and similar things are generally very useful and help a lot with composing. Luckily, there are a lot of books about this. I'm personally not a big fan of books, but there are a few classics out there which in my opinion are a must have for every composer. Of course, it's a totally different thing whether you're writing for a string orchestra or for a rock band, so I can't really recommend anything as I don't know what your type of music and line up is. But, what I'm trying to say is that you don't have to do anything by yourself. There's a lot of people in the world that know a lot about composition and are sharing their knowledge in great detail for a small price. Just blindly listening to other people and constantly staying in a safe zone is of course also not the way. Absorbing information about things that interest you, and meanwhile experimenting with the things you're learning is in my opinion one of the richest and most fulfilling aspects of writing music. It's about the joy of discovering. Just playing around with chords on a piano for a few hours can be a very valuable and educational experience. This, in my experience, also brings the best results. Someone can tell you that the first inversion of a major chord sounds amazing, but hearing it yourself, and most importantly, stumbling on it by yourself when you're just messing around a bit, maybe accidentally adding a 9, has a lot more impact. First of all because it highly depends on the context, but also because that way it comes from yourself. This makes your music more you, and this authenticity and personality is what makes music so beautiful.