What is it?

A new competition for high school students in year 9 and above.

Here’s your chance to take some or all of this year’s song and reinvent it.  Instrumental only, with lyrics, a cappella…it’s up to you.

Give us a hip hop or dance mix, a band version, reinterpret the song, arrange it in another style, compose an alternative chorus or verses, change the lyrics, write a rap.

How do you do it?

You’ve got options! You could:

• Download the stem files of your choice from the studio recording of ‘Come Play Your Part’.
  Bass
  Brass
  Drums
  Electric Guitars
  Vocal
  Wurlie
• Alternatively, download the ACID MP3 files, kindly created by Greg Thwaites, Head Teacher Performing Arts & Languages at Fairvale High School, NSW. Read Greg's notes here. Download the Recount ACID Project file.

Bass_ACID
Brass_ACID
Drums_ACID
Electric_Guitars_ACID
Vocal_ACID
Wurlie_ACID

• Also, Antony Hubmayer, Head of Performing Arts and Director of Music, Scotch College, SA has created a number of Apple loops for Garage Band and some 'how to' video clips:

Apple Loops
Clip 1
Clip 2

 

• Download the music notation here

Then what?

Complete the online submission form and upload your MP3 (4 minute maximum). Too easy.

All submissions will be reviewed by the Australian Youth Music Council as they come in. The best will be promoted on the site and reviewed by a national panel of judges.

Deadline

We’ll promote the best submissions as they come in, so get started as soon as you can. Submission deadline has now been extended 30th August 2010. Be quick!

Prizes

• 4 X Zoom R24 multi-track recording units, valued at $999 each! Featuring 24-track playback and 8-track simultaneous recording using SD memory cards, the R24 is the brand new digital multi-track recorder, audio interface, control surface and pad sampler combined.

 

• 6 x Zoom H1 handy recorders, valued at $199 each! Featuring Zoom's renowned recording technology and studio quality microphones in the easiest, most portable device ever. Upload audio to PC or MAC via USB, use with video cameras… the possibilities are endless!

 

• Winning submissions will also be featured during the Music: Count Us In webstreams which beam out to millions of viewers as part of the culminating broadcasts on Thursday 2^nd September 2010.

Shortlisting panel

Some of Australia's best and brightest new musicians, performers and producers will check out your work, as all submissions are assessed by our shortlisting panel from the Australian Youth Music Council.