Hey everyone, I'm travelling for work this week so it may take me a bit longer to get things published. Thanks for the interest this year!

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Thanks everyone for your patience. Here are 3 new tracks!!!! Thanks to the creators and for sharing here! You rock!

https://surfguitar101.com/downloads/category/2019-sg101-mp3-compilation/title/?page=2

11 - Eddie Katcher "The One I Love/R.E.M. cover"
12 - Lost Planet Shamen "Ray Bong"
13 - ldk "Three Days in the Saddle"

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Apologies (especially to Joelman), I have 2 songs in the queue, I will try to get those published tonight.

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New entry tonight!

14 - El Pablo "Laidback Larry Longboarding"

Joelman, please check your PM's!

And yes, I guess this thing ends on Saturday!

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Hi Art!

1) Anytime on Saturday is fine
2) Here's what DannySnyder said about mastering

Sandbug, no need to master it. Just do a good mix and post it. Mastering is for when you have a group of songs going onto a specific format.

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ArtS wrote:

Two questions:

1) Is deadline, midnight on 12/14/19? Jim and I are close, but it will be last minute!
2) Is everyone mastering their songs?

I was working on a arrangement for the cover so it won't sound the same as the original record, haven't even turned on my recording gear yet - I just could not get the free time to it yet. I will attempt recording on Friday the 13th LOL

Mastering will be hard for me being I have to read the manuals and drum machine programing etc, I should have a professional sounding recording if with all the stuff I have if get it done.

Now I'm too tired to play, goofing off on the net now.

Thank you Joelman!

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I don’t know if others feel this way, but I have a request for those who rate and comment on the submissions to the compilations.

I’d like to request that if you leave a star rating, then you also leave a comment supporting your rating. This will help the musicians who submitted improve their work. We’re doing this for fun, and I’m sure we’re all interested in doing better.

In a way, a 4- or 5-star rating might not need a comment, but what aspects of a 5-star track made you think it was great? For a 4-star rating, what did you like and what little thing was lacking that could have made it great? More reverb? Better balance in the mix?

For a 3-star rating, there must be something major lacking. What was it? Poor melody? Guitar out of tune? Tacky electronic drums? Not keeping the beat?

A 2-star rating must be a complete failure. What did you hate? Be constructive, though.

Be careful about giving a poor rating to a style of music you just don’t like. For this, you’re better off leaving a comment and not giving a star rating.

I have all the compilations downloaded and I’ve got them in my surf-music mix. Really great stuff in there. I appreciate everyone’s efforts and also Brian’s work having the compilations each year.

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ArtS wrote:

Idk,
Sure many of us want to get better, but that's not always the objective of a "fun" projects like this. To be honest with you, we (Jim and I) are putting a song together in about 2 days, so comments are not really going to help us "grow". We just want to put something up that people might enjoy, but other folks may want the comments.

So while I'm against a structured rating system, I will defer to the SG101 masses and their unparalleled wisdom.

Just to be clear, I'm not advocating for a structured rating system. I'm saying if you give a star rating, then also leave a comment to explain it.

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ldk wrote:

For a 3-star rating, there must be something major lacking.

However, on Netflix a 3 star rating means "liked it", 4 stars means "Liked it a lot" and 5 stars means "loved it." So on Netflix there's no major lack with 3 stars. If Netflix's meaning is not the standard meaning, there is no standard meaning.

Moreover, you know there are positive and negative feelings that SG101 members have about each other. Of course these influence ratings. Feelings about a music recording are obviously influenced by feelings about the musicians involved.

Personally I don't put "star" ratings on songs but I do leave comments on a few.

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Last edited: Dec 13, 2019 21:43:39