Heavensward Music Contest (NA) - Discussion Thread

[babas]

Thank you Dustytome, now I understand -_-

[Namou]

I have a submission I'd like to make, but I'm more an arranger than a performer so it's a digital piece. I don't have access to a good means of video recording and I've tried several screen recorders and all have failed my purposes. Is a video of the software playing back absolutely necessary? Would a still image work?

[dutyyaknow]

I just used a screen recording of my software playing back the arrangement. I hope that this is acceptable...
If not, then it would be a shame because I can't edit my entry

[Namou]

I was hoping to use a screen recorder, but each one I try fails my standards of audio quality. As a result, I was going to attempt to record the software playback and splice the audio from the fully exported/rendered arrangement, but I haven't had success on that front either but I can't seem to work with the videos saved using various screen recorders; my video rendering software can't seem to work with them. For this, this is more about the music and less the video, and I really don't want to be excluded from this contest because I'm not particularly sufficient at video work. I don't want just record the audio as is because it will dilute the quality and I want it to sound perfect.

[Zhexos]

Greetings,

We have an update regarding the sheet music. While we previously mentioned that we would like participants to play the song by ear, we have been receiving more requests from players for sheet music. Using these requests, we went back and discussed if it would be possible to release the sheet music. We are pleased to say that this will become available for a limited time from tomorrow, March 9th, until the date deadline for the entries. (We'll update this thread once the music sheet becomes available.)

We would like to thank all of you who have already submitted your entries by playing by ear! Since we're posting the sheet music, if you would like to submit another entry, we'll consider the new entry valid as well.

Also, even if you may not have experience in playing an instrument, you're more than welcome to sing, or hum the tunes, so we would like for everyone to give it a try!

We'll be looking forward to seeing your awesome entries!

[Zhexos]

Greetings,

We are happy to announce the sheet music for the song "Night in the Brume" is now available here. The sheet music shows the melody and the chords for this song.

With the availability of the sheet music we've updated the contest details page. We also received a comment from Sound Director Soken "Go ahead and cook this song anyway you want!", so you can perform as is, or make further arrangements to this to add your own flavor!

To accommodate this change, we will be extending the entry deadline by two weeks. We'll follow up with the new deadline date on the contest page, and through Lodestone topics, so please keep an eye out for it!

Again, we would like to thank all of you who have already submitted your entries by playing by ear! Since we have posted the sheet music, if you would like to submit another entry, we'll consider the new entry valid as well.

Good luck!

[Namou]

I'm having difficulty getting a video to record with good audio. Would I be able to submit a video of the song playing with a still image of the software with which I wrote the piece? I know the contest asks for a video, but I don't want to sacrifice sound quality for video, not when the music is much more important to me.

[Namou]

I'm having difficulty getting a video to record with good audio. Would I be able to submit a video of the song playing with a still image of the software with which I wrote the piece? I know the contest asks for a video, but I don't want to sacrifice sound quality for video, not when the music is much more important to me.

Please disregard this request. I was able to find a workable solution.

[OnpuSegawa]

Looking forward to the submissions on this one.

[LadyMonodicus]

I have a question regarding contest entries, if I may! Unfortunately, I can't play any musical instruments, so all I can do is sing. Is it possible to perform acapella for the contest??