Donkey Ball

Jonathan sings "The Silly Dance" by Joshua Holden

The Silly Dance

Your challenge today is to create groove in the genre of your choice, that utilizes a human whispering in it. 

Inspired by Billie Eilish rise to fame lately, I'm curious what kinds of motifs can be created with a whisper. 

You can go big or small, loud or soft, fast or slow. However you want to implement it.

The whisper can be in the form of singing, rapping, or just saying a phrase repeatedly. It can be an original lyric or something you found that's open source.

Come Back Alive

Your challenge today is to create a beat or groove that features a famous speech somewhere in it.

Shutdown

Your challenge today is to create a beat or groove that utilizes you riffing on an instrument you should have no business playing.

For instance, I have a recorder in my studio that I have no idea how to play. I'm going to bust it out and try and make some sounds with it. Record the recorder ... and manipulate away.

Do you have weird instrument at your house you could do this with? Maybe a kids toy or weird drum? Record it!

Unfamiliar Instruments

Slow & Heavy

Prompt:
Write a piece of music (a hook) that expresses an emotion you or someone you know has right now, with dealing with this Coronavirus and isolation. There are so many emotions and feelings people have, everything from fear to excitement to anger to the joy of having time off from work. 

Write a little about this in a music hook. 

Record your hook, using just 3 tracks. Voice, Instrument, and Small Percussion.

Focus on the melody hook and the emotion you're wanting to convey.

Recording:

My voice and gut string guitar via Voice Memos on my phone

Lyric:

Torso in a box
A head that talks
I get myself a taste of
Working in socks
Minding the tots
A good day for a BenGay rub
Wiping coffee spills
And I am still
Dreaming of a pay stub
But I am looking good 
Like I should
While living from the waist up

Living From The Waist Up

words by Wade Antonio Colwell
music by Jeb Alfresco Colwell

A nation of immigrants it’s not an accurate term
It’s like covering up history with a blanket of germs
Should we say nation or occupation?
And when we say immigrants, let's not be ambivalent.

Let’s ascertain here who truly came here
Who came from Spain here for fortune and fame here
The self-ordained here
European strain here flowing through the veins here
Powers to retain here

And they remained living the mundane
All the while praying Heaven to attain 
Crossed terrain and in that same
Some came in chains so inhumane
Africa drained, slavery campaigned
To farm the grains and track the trains across the plains
And those who gained popped the Champagne
And staked their claim

Now what’s so strange here
What’s not explained here
The profound change here
Of people’s domain here
Those who have been staying here
Through the sun and rain here
Leaders who have reigned here
Ancestors of Lame Deer

Fish and game, families sustained
Everything contained, harmony obtained
90 million names with homes on the range
It blows my brain, so many slain
Suffered so much pain, who’s to blame?
This is so insane can I not complain?
Nation of immigrants let’s reframe
Nican Tlaca, that’s what I’m saying

Nican Tlaca de nuestra abya yala

Nican Tlaca

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