First Jazz Guitar Members Festival - 2010

[btl]

Instead of just, day after day, talk about jazz (what is good) why not play a little, that is, to promote a festival as suggested by the title of this thread.
Each member could submit one mp3 jazz piece.
The jazz Guitar Forum would provide a place where the pieces could be stored and downloaded by the members (the judges)
The best piece would be choosed by members votes.
With this, we were motivating the forum members to try to create new things, and not just play old ones. Besides that we would have a lot of things to do here in the forum such as: to talk about the submitted compositions, to study them, to give feedback to the composers...

[Little Jay]

Nice suggestion!
+1

(although it will take a lot of server-space, if the Forum has to provide the space I suppose?!?)

[btl]

Little Jay good question...

If you have to store 10.000 jazz pieces and the size of each piece is 2.000 Bytes. You will need 2.000x10.000=20.000.000 Bytes or 20 GigaBytes.

at Amazon.com an external storage disk* of 1.000 GigaBytes, that can be plugged to the external usb port of your pc, can be bought by $105.

So with the $105 disk* we can store our 10.000 jazz pieces and will be left 1000-20 = 980 GigaBytes of free space to storage future
festival jazz pieces.

*Western Digital WD Elements 1 TeraByte (=1000 GigaBytes) USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive WDBAAU0010HBK-NESN
Buy new: $105.52

[dirkji]

Good idea.

Storage is not a problem. There's going to be a big update to the forum next month, that should make events like this easy.

[tezzz]

Good idea
Also are there any jazz guitar festivals where one could just listen to guitarists?

[btl]

I don´t know... Youtube is the answer for your question.
Other way is to access GarageBand.com : GarageBand.com. It was retired on July 15th, 2010, but there you can find directions to make your music available for streaming or download for free. Here in Brazil I am a member of a similar free site. Where i store every thing produced by a jazz band that i (papi) have with my daughter and my guitar teacher (tioArthur). A picture of the band you can see at Discografia/Outros Albuns in the album called Bruto accessing JuliaPapiTioArthur - Bandas de Garagem. If we have an idea we play and store there, even it is just a little piece. To give you an idea: The song A bailarina (see at Videos) although not a jazz piece was made just joining parts. I made the base guitar and my daugther the vocal in my house using a pc then we send to my teacher (by email) that put the solo guitar and the effects. Then my daughter made a cartoon video which was joined with the song using a mac and then it was publish on youtube. We are moving all the pieces to youtube because presently is the best way... If you decide for a youtube video don´t forget include in the video how other people could play in the same way you did.