Beat This! Beat This! Competition - December 18-19, 2024

Fade

The Beat Strangler
Administrator
illest o.g.
The next competition will be from December 18-19th! See the information below.

Signups

The signups will be on December 18th at 12pm ET/EST, and end around 8pm ET, or until we have enough contestants (whichever comes first - depending on the theme).
Voting will be for one day, on December 19th, where the results will be posted the same day.

Check out the Beat This! ranks: https://www.illmuzik.com/beat-battles/ranks/cat/bthis/

*Note: check out this site to find out the correct time difference for your timezone:

The Signup page is here (it will open up on the signup day)

Theme: CHRISTMAS
Time Limit: 2 minutes
*Vocal Track Allowed?: NO
**Vocal Snippets Allowed?: YES


  • You must make a Christmas style beat!
  • Sleigh bells are welcome!
  • Ho! Ho! Ho!

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* VOCAL TRACK ALLOWED? This means you can have a full vocal track with your beat (acapella, for example).
** VOCAL SNIPPETS ALLOWED? This means you can have vocal snippets in your beat (very short vocal parts, for example). This is where you can also have an intro with talking (like from a movie).
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Voting

If you are competing, you will be able to vote but not for yourself. DO NOT TRY TO CHEAT! I will be watching for cheaters. This means you cannot sign up under different names or get your friends and family to sign up either. If you are caught cheating you could be banned.

Voting Criteria

You can use whatever sounds you want, samples, synths, just remember to read the rules for the rest of the restrictions. What the judges will be looking for is originality, creativity, mixing skills and overall dopeness!

Beats

All the beats will now be displayed in a random order and without any names. All you will see is: Beat #001, Beat #002, etc. This is so that there is no favoritism when voting.

Rules

If you're not sure about the rules, read this thread.

If you have any comments, suggestions, or questions about the competition, please post them in here.

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Iron Keys

ILLIEN MBAPPÉ
ill o.g.
Battle Points: 695
My apologies, illienz.

Failed to get this one done.
Generally I decided Christmas theme is not for me. However, I decided I will go for it,
Had a real cool base idea, the Sleighs were slaying, the bells were jingling.
Didn't have much time to get to it, started trying to work some cool samples into it, wasn't working, lost a few hours,
Decided fuck the sample, couldn't find a kick drum, found a nice snare --- then my drum pads stopped triggering my DAW.
Closed DAW to try see if the restart fixes, fell asleep. Game over.

Just checked today, midi controller still fucked.

Well done and good luck to all who entered.
 

Dusty B

ILLIEN
Battle Points: 38
My apologies, illienz.

Failed to get this one done.
Generally I decided Christmas theme is not for me. However, I decided I will go for it,
Had a real cool base idea, the Sleighs were slaying, the bells were jingling.
Didn't have much time to get to it, started trying to work some cool samples into it, wasn't working, lost a few hours,
Decided fuck the sample, couldn't find a kick drum, found a nice snare --- then my drum pads stopped triggering my DAW.
Closed DAW to try see if the restart fixes, fell asleep. Game over.

Just checked today, midi controller still fucked.

Well done and good luck to all who entered.
How did you fuck up a midi controller? Do you slam that shit like a chimpanzee, or do you buy cheap shit?
 

Fade

The Beat Strangler
Administrator
illest o.g.
Congrats @K-waz! There was some nice ones in this. I was hoping for more of a sleigh bell vibe, maybe some movie samples like Elf or Die Hard would be interesting. I'm just saying that because I need to watch those this weekend.

I've been working on a PhD
Doctor of Beatanomics?
 

Dusty B

ILLIEN
Battle Points: 38
Congrats @K-waz! There was some nice ones in this. I was hoping for more of a sleigh bell vibe, maybe some movie samples like Elf or Die Hard would be interesting. I'm just saying that because I need to watch those this weekend.


Doctor of Beatanomics?
Economics. I hate everyone so I want to get paid to just research, write and avoid humanity.
 
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