What is Friendly Music Jam? 

It's a jam where you can make and share music, that is Friendly, Healthy, and Formative

Friendly

• Everyone can participate - from newcomers to professionals!
• Submit anything - Any genres, any length, any state of the art.
• Multiple themes to choose from - Technical (theory, synthesis, production etc.) and creative/funny (emotions, places, pictures etc.)
  

Healthy

• We promote a culture of constructive feedback. Let's help each other, grow.
• No toxic behaviour and destructive feedback.
• Be mindful of different experiences, backgrounds, tastes, and skills.

Formative

• The jam itself and the themes should push you to do something more.
• Negative feedback happens! It’s just an opportunity to do improve!
• Giving and providing feedback promotes growth.

The themes

Theme 1: Geomusic

Description: Make a song for a place.
The place is the one from the picture. It can be inside the train, outside, from a window in a building in the background - you choose!

Photo by Junchen Zhou from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/train-and-city-20349040/

Theme 2 - The Daily Instrument

Description: Each day you are working only on one instrument, and you cannot go back to it later.

A few notes: 

- You can subdivide your work as you prefer (doesn't have to be daily), but make sure to work in sequence: one instrument, then the next, etc.

- You can make adjustments during the mixing phase, but try not to redo stuff. The learning experience here is to accept what has been done, good or bad, not overthink and be more decisive.

- What does "instrument" mean here? Anything that sounds like one distinct musical element to you. All raisers in your track could be considered as an "instrument" for example. Maybe you consider all drums as one, or maybe you consider the snare as an instrument. Each approach has different challenges. Up to you!

- You can reuse sounds from another instrument (like resampling), as long as you don't change the original one.

- You can remove something if you really have to, but try not to overdo it.

- Consider sharing your step-by-step progresses on Discord, unless you want to surprise everyone!

For any other question, feel free to reach out.

Important!

You don't have to follow the themes, it's up to you.
It's also up to you to decide how strictly you want to follow it.
Consider describing your approach towards the themes in the description of the track.

Rules

Submit an audio file(s)  (mp3, wav or flac) and upload it on a streaming service.

A description of your work is optional, but it can help other people understand what you did and how to rate. Furthermore, we’re curious people, and we love to know more about the background and the process.  

A cover art is also optional.

Make sure you have the rights to submit all the material (more in the FAQ).

Submission:

In order to submit your project, you have to upload the above-mentioned files in a new itch.io project page. Follow these steps:

1. Top-right arrow
2. Upload new project
3. Provide the following info:
4. Title
5. Classification -> Soundtrack
6. Upload cover (optional) and any other image (DAW screenshot, your own instruments, your dog)
7. Click upload files
8. Upload the audio files (zipped if more than one)
9. Click “Save & View Page”
10. Click “Edit Project”
11. Visibility-> Public
12. Click “Save”
13. Go to the jam page (here) 
14. Click “submit project”
15. Select the project

For any doubt, feel free to reach us out on discord. 

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FAQ