Ok, guys,
Lets hear your suggestions for cool competition ideas, and also prize ideas.
I'll pick them out and edit them into a list in this post, and we will pick the best ones and use them! And I'll cross them off as we go along!
Competition Ideas1. TShirt Design Competition3. Super hard theory quiz
2. Lick of the day
4. Best GMC youtube advert/trailer
5. Theory Lesson
6. Motivational Competition
7. Band Quiz
8. Riff Of The Week
9. Best Composition
10. Head To Head Solo Tournament/League
11. Battle Of The Bands
12. Best Composition on an instrument you dont actually play
13. Guitar Design Competition
14. Speed test competition
15. Best Band Introduction
16. Riff Interpretation ContestMain Prize Ideas
1. Pocket Pod
2. 10 sets of strings of your choice
3. Pandora PX5D
4. Boss rc-2 loop pedal
5. Pandora PX4D
6. Lifetime Pick supply
7. CD/DVD Package
8. EBow
9. Webcam
10. Choice of effects Pedal
11. GMC Prize Pack
12. Free 3 month GMC Membership
13. Shredneck
14. Addictive Drums Software
15. Guitar pro
16. FL studio
17. Reaper
18. Electronic Drum Set ???
19. Acoustica Beatcraft
20. Battery Practice Amp
21. PC Sound card interfaces
22. Good Studio Headphone.
23. New pickups for your guitar.
24. Singing and or instrument microphones
25. Small tube amp.
Runners Up Prizes
1. Cirse/Muris/Dave Walliman CD
2. A GMC lesson of your Choice
3. Signed Photo
4. Lighpick
Keep 'em coming!
For a prize you could have a pack of 10 sets of strings of your choice possibly?
Hmm i may post back once i've thought of some more, kinda tired atm..
Competitions:
Super hard theory quiz
Best GMC youtube advert/trailer
Prizes:
Pandora Px5D
Boss rc-2 loop pedal
well, we are in need of wiki articles, so a wiki competition can be done!
This will make sure also people who aren't that good with the guitar yet, can win the prizes. I'd love to win a pocket pod, but for the Lick of the Day competition I just don't have any potention. Then a writing prize could be great. It's just to spread the winners a bit.
another suggestion, a theory lesson (text or video) competition or a motivation speech competition (that's a bit weird but possible )
succes, kaz
Deeproots and Kaznie - wow those are some unbelievably good suggestions, you should have my job!
We should definitely go for these suggestions!
+1 - Kris and i discussed some cool ideas, but these are all things that we hadn't thought of and will definitely make the list!
Matt Dahl
Maybe a competition for who can come up with the best competition suggestion?
do i win??
hmm matt dahl.......i think i know that guy......
I have been thinking to make a band quiz with questionsons about different bands this could be a fun competion
Ok here's some ideas:
Lick Of The Week
Riff Of The Week
Best Composition
Head To Head Solo Tournament/League
Battle Of The Bands(only can be done once the virtual bands get more active :x)
Hmm that's all for now
Best Composition on an instrument you dont actually play
Haha I think this would be fun and get some laughs
How about a competition for best thread to introduce a band or something? I found so many cool bands on GMC, i think it would work out well
It wouldnt actually, seeing as a lot of my threads didnt get answers or responses
But there have been so many awesome bands that ive found out about here (Creep Colony, Textures, Skindred, Rodrigo Y Gabriela). We could have people nominate there favorites, maybe pick a single band they found out about here or something?
It worked well when i was on the Trivium forums, so i thought it would be cool, since this isnt a major thing for GMC, you could make the prize candy or something
EDIT
Wait if i want to play to my strengths, could we have a competition for most threads in "Bands And Artists" forum
And the prize could be....
A JEM...
We need more prize suggestions!
Please suggest things in the price range up to $250
For our ongoing lick competition we could have two line 6 pocket pods as prizes - but that is the exact same as last time so it doesn't feel quite right... What do you say?
Pandora PX4D?
Maybe a set of picks a prices
Music CD's or DVD's or something could be cool prices
Maybe an Ebow? That would be an awesome prize.
An expensive web cam to aid people in recording their progress. That would be less than 250 dollars. Around 140 dollars for a good one.
Wah Pedals, Delay Pedals, Reverb Pedals, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser ect.
Any Pedal under $250
Some awesome suggestions here - keep them coming!
Just a suggestion but you could offer a "Prize Pack" (or whatever you choose to call it). By this I mean you could bundle all kinds of accesseries togther. IE: Picks, capos, slides, guitar care products, cables....even a metronome or GMC T-Shirt
As a price there could be free membership on GMC for maybe 3 months
Ok, got all those, thanks!
I think we still need more diffrent types of competitions, to spread the winners as I said earlier. So hmm... an new designer competition, Draw your own guitar, doens't have to be GMC team, but would be cool!
hmm. it's hard to think of none guitar things... But I think it's good to invest some time on that. Just as an example you could get Andrew winning all the guitar playing contests and get's rich due the prices, and Kris wins all the theory prizes (better turn those round ) .
hmmm....highest 16th triplet BMP! that would be great fun, with video.
BTW, those prices are letting the water flow in my mouth.. For a kid, a 150$ Pod is a huge price! Kris, you said the thingie about me and leedbreak should run the place, I'll do it for a Pod No, no joking I actually realy want to do more for the site, but I'll put that in another tread.
Best prizes:
1) Cirse CD (or any other instructors cd..)
2) A lesson of your choice
3) Photo with signature of favourite instructor...
pretty cheap solutions and one day, Pavels photo with signature could be worth a pretty big sum:D
A shredneck would also be a cool price
competition sugesstion:
Best Backing Track for an Instructors lesson
Best singing interpretation
Prizes suggestions:
Addictive Drums Software
Guitar pro
FL studio
Electronic drum set ( maybe Kyle can help us finding a good one for US$250)
^Great prize suggestions
Im gonna add "Acoustica Beatcraft" drums for prize suggestions, its a superior program and easy to use
Maybe one of those small battery practice amps? Then you can walk around the house playing, while its attatched to your belt.
Got it - thanks!
Edit Post: Wrong Topic Posted
How about a riff competiton?
We could have one for different styles of music, Blues, rock, metal ect.
riff competition looks good for me but I wouldn't split it:
Instead I'd say "today it's about the best metal riff" next week/month about best blue lick.
But mixed styles would make it hard to compare them i think
cheers
fire
maybe we could have a tab interpretation contest,
where an instructor plays a lick, and we tab it. Whoever's tab is
closest to the real thing will win.
Yes, I love the riff interpretation idea!
What about a best "hit" or song comp? Or maybe thats the same as "best composition" ?
You could just keep giving updates on who has posted an entry and maybe how close they got to being correct percentage wise.
Then we can have 2 categories,
only tab and only playing response,
depends of what you like.
so power/guitar pro tab or what? In ASCII u won't be able to tab out correct freakin rythms
I like the audio-reponse idea more:-P
for prices, I would stay by pre-amps / effectpedals, there are also cheper solutions than POD (Behringer f.e.)
cheers
Best explanation on a piece of music, I'll explain.
The GMC senior pick a piece of classic music and post it, then we should describe it. The one who makes the best description of his feelings wins the price!
Many classical music pieces have been transcribed already,it won't be fair competition imho,
I would stick to original licks.
as for a competition suggestion, you can put a backing track and tell everybody to add a lead guitar on it ( we can also add the key of the track so as even beginner can participate)
then member can vote for each others, leave comments and notes
and for rewards, instead of rewarding only the winner (wich is unfair, cause like this it will always be the same, specially if muris participate in the competition ) you pick a name randomly and he wins
We can win the brand bew Pod X3, and pod X3 Live or even the Spider Valve HD 100
you can also create competitions without any rewards, just so we can hear what others do, and have some cyber guitar friends
Jad
Runner up prize?
A free GMC t-shirt!
Prizes:
PC Sound card interfaces
Good Studio Headphone.
New pickups for your guitar.
Singing and or instrument microphones
Small tube amp.
What about songwriting competition? People could gang up in teams/or we could use virtual bands that already are and make it a team contest.. we could have several categories like.. most tricky solo, best lyrics, most headbanging riff... etc etc.. I can think it more if you will agree, its a good idea:)
I really want a new strap or case. maybe also new tubes for your amp if you have a tube amp. 10 free tune-ups for your guitar.
Edit:nevermind.
"The oddest way to break a string" for a competition.... i know... random
entries would be shown as a video?
how about a competition to see who can answer the most questions about KISS right. the prize could be an Epiphone Les Paul Standard.
What's the next compitition going to be!!?
yes same question when is the next competition
some gr88 ideas and prizes...
Man cant wait...
i like the theory lesson thing, we all learn a lot and we have some fun(as theory is boring for most of the ppl)
Hey everyone!
I was thinking maybe a "Best Unaccompanied Solo Competition". You know, just your guitar thats it...i bet it will be very interesting to see what people will come up with. What do you think
You should maybe hold a competition for a best creative idea that will make GMC even more better or something like that. Prize could be like 6 months free subscription or something
For 250 Dollars, you could get pretty much a lifetime of picks
Lesson suggestion: Crazyest sounding solo (effects competition).
Let's see who is the best follower of Tom Morello...
Prize suggestion: a 250 dollars Mandolin.
I always wanted to play this stuff...
How about a metal riffing competition?
yeah..that would be really great!
CANNON D FOR ALL
Shorter takes maybe, but sounds like fun.
We could have a competition which relates to the practice agendas in some way.
Perhaps just a competition that will reward the most popular practice agenda (there are bunch of ways we could measure that!)
By the way - the wiki competition is turning out to be a great one I think!
those prizes sound great , how about a camcorder so thatthey can make lessons.
The metal riffing competition sounds like a great idea, I'd definitely be up for it. Maybe an instructor could provide a few drum tracks and we have to base the riffing around them.
what about the best transcription of the lick of the week etc. To, let's say guitar pro or powertab.
THat thing where we leave clues on the site and other members have to follow it in order to finish tasks and be a winner is a good idea for the competition.
Yeah something like that. It could be fun and increase the forum participation I hope. Somebody already suggested the idea, don't exactly remember who, but the topic is somewhere around
BEST...AIR...GUITAR...VIDEO...PERFORMANCE!!!!
Heheh, I have drummer that is beyond every competition when it comes to air guitar
Why not just best compisition..
Or best rendition of some particular lesson.
I've seen many people doing their take on the "Larry Carlton style backing track" from www.bluesjamtracks.com on the world of YouTube, it would be cool to hear diffrent takes and solos on that one and make to make it in to a competition or something.
Just watch these links, you'll get the hang of what i mean.
Marco Sfoglis take: http://youtube.com/watch?v=f27P6_DB1vw&feature=related
Guthrie Govans take: http://youtube.com/watch?v=bUZK9dasP8s&feature=related
for those who don't want to pay for the backingtrack we can arrange the backingtrack ourselfs i think i can do it.
battle of the bands would be good
Pls do not do all these "best solo" or best "guitar player" things. They just lead to the same winners every time. These comepetitions are there to be won by everyone right? Not just advanced players.
haha solos like buckethead with a bunch of wierd effect for a mandolin...im in
I have a comp suggestion being as the new Guitar Hero game is coming out in a month or so.I thought it would be cool to have a comp split between instructors and students to see who is GMCs guitar Hero.Voted for by everyone once entrys are summited I will pick say 10 songs from the new GH4 setlist then people can either pick one of the songs or vote for which one they would like to use.what do you think I will list the songs below just encase you guys wanna go with it.
Remember though this is guitar hero so not just whos the best player its also about attitude I want outrageoues videos with windmills and duckwalking lol
Airbourne - Too Much Too Young
Dream Theater - Pull Me Under
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Joe Satriani - Satch Boogie
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
Korn - Freak On A Leash
Bon Jovi - Livin’ On A Prayer
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