upside downer

This fits the bill.

Polska!

"Hands up! Nobody move! Hey, you! I'm Mrs D! Do a tune that has no chance of winning 'cus my fella won last month and now he's had the sweet taste of victory he wants more!" "Fair enough, but you don't have to wave a gun in my face for me to come up with something barely adequate and eminently beatable. I do mediocre most of the time" "Just get on with it, wiseguy" "Can I put my arms down, please? It's a little hard to play, otherwise" "Don't get smart, or you'll get this, capiche?" BANG! "Oi! You shot my bagpipes!" Gear - Spider cheapo brand bass, unbranded cheapo Strat-copy guitar, Epiphone guitar, Yamaha keys, Apogee Mic+, MT Drums, all mushed together with Ableton, Wavepad and Audacity.

Jah, Venezuela!

North African reggae from Algeria's Democratoz.

Off to the Netherlands (although the gig's in Italy) for this curio from Dutch footballing legend Ruud Gullit.

Been held up in Indonesia for the last 48 hours for, erm, 'customs irregularities' but, having stowed aboard a slow boat to Australia, happened upon this lot...

Heading over to Indonesia for this laid back tune.

One from Ukraine for today.

"We come from the land of the ice and snow...", Icelandic smooth groove from Hjálmar. This just gets better and better the more I hear it (and it was pretty good to start with!)

I've been through four different genres already but, finally, my muse has pulled something up from the seabed of song fragments wallowing upon the ocean floor and it's now time to set sail for Composition Island. Doesn't mean it'll be any good, but still, ahoy, me hearties!

Reggae road trip, innit? 😁

Turkish reggae? Of course Turkish reggae!

Bravo @NickD 👏 great tune up against some other belters 🙂

RIP Dickie.

The three I'd usually pump out were Don't Give Me No Lip Child by Sex Pistols, She Bangs the Drums by Stone Roses and Bug Powder Dust by Bomb the Bass.

In the spirit of getting it done early like some others have, here's mine with a week to spare 🙂 A late night cruise by two artificial Ferraris through the mean streets of Artificial City to an artificial electro-synthpop soundtrack. No strings were plucked in the making of this melodic, mood music. Recorded with Wavepad and Ableton, I used the MT Power Drum Kit and Ableton's extensive library of sounds for the bleeps, bloops and banging donks.

I'd offer my services but I guess you want to win again instead 😁

Bravo, @Wolfram, in with a bullet! Good stuff 👏

That's an Irish bouzouki. Flat back rather the round back of a Greek, and the Greek is tuned CFAD (one step below the high four of a guitar). The Irish has versatility with the option of a few tunings. GDAE for those with mandolin knowledge in mind but for accompaniment and drone notes GDAD and ADAD are more common. Then, there's the octave string argument, too. Some like the top two courses to be in octaves, others all the courses in unison. There are so many of these little variations (including scale length) that make these instruments so fascinating.