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Hello Daring Freesounders

I read on an article online recently that 95% of musical projects are never finished. They just sit there gathering virtual dust on our hard-drives.
I don't have an official statistic about my own projects. If I was to take a guess I would say just over 50%. However, if I consider the projects where I explore different options and end up just progressing one of them... If I were to count the other branches as 'unfinished', then for sure we would be in >90% territory...

Whichever the way, any of you that make music on your computers will have A LOT of unfinished projects. Projects that you abandoned, forgot about and will never get finished.
Unless you get some help...

I challenge you to share one or two of your unfinished projects.
Either render each track as a stem and share everything. OR maybe you just want to share some selected parts and loops.
You are also challenged to take someone else's stems and create a music piece.

RULES:
- You can share a maximum of 2 unfinished projects as stems or loops.
- Group all related files (stems, loops) into a pack.
- Pease provide information about tempo, BPM and key. This could be on the pack description, but is best to put it in every sample uploaded.
- Tag your samples with "Dare2025-06B"
- Post here on this thread with a link to your sample pack.
- When you select someone else's stem pack to us, post here on the thread to let everyone know that you will be using that pack.
- When you finish your musical creation, upload it to an appropriate online platform (Soundcloud, CCMixter, Bandcamp, Alonetone, The Internet Archive, etc. DO NOT UPLOAD MUSICAL PIECES TO FREESOUND.
- Post here with a link to your musical piece
- ANYTHING NOT SPECIFICALLY FORBIDDEN BY THE RULES IS ALLOWED.
- ANYTHING NOT SPECIFICALLY REQUIRED BY THE RULES IS NOT MANDATORY.

Deadlines:
Uploading Stems / Loops by 26-Apr-2025
Submitting music pieces by 24-May-2025

(P.S. - Have a good idea for a dare? Send me a PM!)

Luckily, I started my music making on "pocket operators", they have 16 patterns, one project. So in order to not lose anything, I had to record my projects before movingonto another one! I learned to make one music at a time and not get suck into having one good loop but re-arranging it into a song that I could record onto my handy-recorder; before moving on.
I try to keep that spirit, even on my other grooveboxes or computer, no more than 3-5 projects at a time, otherwise finish an older-one into something I could share. I could always re-visit them later if they're really worth it

Anyhow, I have lot's of crappy songs, or 40s sketches with intro - main theme - outro. But they're all have a little structure, mixing, and all. Nothing amazing, but all finished

I highly recommend taking this approach to music making, even if it's finished quickly, do a bit of every-step, finish even if quickly, and move-on
You'l have lots of little things to share with people, experience from A-Z, and a better rough idea of what projects are worth revisiting in the future if they really deserve more time (spoiler, id rather make new music and it rarely happens)

Hey friends !
Personally, I followed the same approach as sadiquecat.
Currently, I’m not making music anymore, as I’m selling all my old music gears in order to buy a self-dedicated computer with Komplete Kontrol and Reaper (which appear to be accessible for blind quite recently, via a voice guidance) but when I made music with some hardware sequencers and synthesizers, I usually focused my mind on one project only, until it would be finished, at least in my opinion...

Wishing you all the best !

Kevin

Hello Sadiquecat and kevp888,

Lucky for you, if you are both so organized. - unlucky for the dare, though!

Of course, working with hardware that offers limited or no recall capability does force people to finish the work at hand, or lose it completely.
If you cannot contribute unfinished works, maybe you will be able to help others finish theirs

In any case, I think the musical dares are a bit more hit-and-miss as to who they appeal to - that is why there is another dare (hopefully with a broader appeal) running simultaneously.

Organized ? Well... Not so sure !
Anyway, I’m sure that many freesounders would be glad to fulfil the mission !

Wishing you all the best !

Kevin

Here's a project.
A collab that never flourished.
Just a melody to dress-up 85bpm A minor I think.
Without FX https://freesound.org/people/Sadiquecat/sounds/798663/
With FX https://freesound.org/people/Sadiquecat/sounds/798662/

There's a sync track to the left.

Almost the deadline (End of today 26), if anyone wants to share an unfinished project ^^

Sadiquecat wrote:
Almost the deadline (End of today 26), if anyone wants to share an unfinished project ^^

I was away this week. Just generating some stems... My submission will be up shortly.

I am also taking you up on your stems... Lets see what I can make...

Right folks....
making my stems submission and closing part 1 of the dare.

Part 2 starts now with a deadline of 24-May-2025.

My stem submissions:

Stems for a rock track
https://freesound.org/people/AlienXXX/packs/43337/

Stems for a chiptune track
https://freesound.org/people/AlienXXX/packs/43338/

Started working on something.
Glad with where it's going already

Edit, I finished
Not super proud of the mixing, but something's been done
https://soundcloud.com/sadiquecat/no-more-games?si=d38d23ebb1c941c181b0aacbde109d24&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Used this kick https://freesound.org/people/CassondraTarola/sounds/672652/
And this sample pack https://freesound.org/people/AlienXXX/packs/43338/

And here is my entry.....
https://soundcloud.com/alienxxx/po-computer-collab

Could not resist mixing up the order of the parts, but I have tried to stay within the spirit of Sadiquecat's original track.

I will try to find the time to do another version using hardware. Maybe even try to sync it with my daughter's own Pocket Operator.
But I work much slower with hardware than I do with software. So that track (if it ever comes to be) will probably be too late to be submitted to this dare.
We shall see.......

Holy!
I really love that!
1:13 that part really got me!

Thank you so much for making this!

This was really good fun!
I am glad you like it.

I like what you did with my stems also! And was nice to see those becoming a finished track.